Abdussattar Shaikh
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Abdussattar Shaikh'(born Abdussattar Chhipa) is an FBI informant who was called "The FBI's Best Chance to Uncover September 11th Before it Happened" by the Joint Congressional 9.11 Intelligence Committee.
In 2000, two of the September 11 hijackers, Nawaf Alhazmi and Khalid Almihdhar moved in with Abdussattar. However, he did not provide his FBI contact Steven Butler with any information about the two; Butler claims that the names "Nawaf and Khalid" were only mentioned in casual conversation as two students who had rented rooms from him, and that once Abdussattar had cut a phone call short stating that "Khalid's in the room".
Butler later asked Shaikh for their surnames, but was not given them. He was not told they were pursuing flight training, and that the students were non-political and have done nothing to arouse suspicion. The CIA had not provided names to the FBI which could have prevented 9-11.
The FBI has aroused suspicion of its own for claiming that he was a retired professor of English at San Diego State and Vice President for International Projects at American Commonwealth University. However it turned out that SDSU had no records of ever staffing him, and ACU was merely a scam-diploma mill similar to those seen in countless e-Mail forwards, though this one started by retired Air Force General William Lyon
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In 2000, two of the September 11 hijackers, Nawaf Alhazmi and Khalid Almihdhar moved in with Abdussattar. However, he did not provide his FBI contact Steven Butler with any information about the two; Butler claims that the names "Nawaf and Khalid" were only mentioned in casual conversation as two students who had rented rooms from him, and that once Abdussattar had cut a phone call short stating that "Khalid's in the room".
Butler later asked Shaikh for their surnames, but was not given them. He was not told they were pursuing flight training, and that the students were non-political and have done nothing to arouse suspicion. The CIA had not provided names to the FBI which could have prevented 9-11.
- "They were nice, but not what you call extroverted people" Shaikh told The San Diego Union-TribuneThe San Diego Union-Tribune-Predecessors:The predecessor newspapers of the Union-Tribune were:* San Diego Sun, founded 1861 and merged with the Evening Tribune in 1939.* San Diego Union, founded October 10, 1868.* Evening Tribune, founded December 2, 1895.-Ownership:...
after the attacks. Still, he told reporters he bonded with Alhazmi, helping him open a bank account and place a personal ad on the World Wide Web" "He told me that he wanted to marry a Mexican girl," Shaikh told the Los Angeles TimesLos Angeles TimesThe Los Angeles Times is a daily newspaper published in Los Angeles, California, since 1881. It was the second-largest metropolitan newspaper in circulation in the United States in 2008 and the fourth most widely distributed newspaper in the country....
. "The problem was that he didn't know any Spanish. So I taught him a few Spanish phrases."
The FBI has aroused suspicion of its own for claiming that he was a retired professor of English at San Diego State and Vice President for International Projects at American Commonwealth University. However it turned out that SDSU had no records of ever staffing him, and ACU was merely a scam-diploma mill similar to those seen in countless e-Mail forwards, though this one started by retired Air Force General William Lyon
William Lyon
William A. Lyon was an American film editor, from 1935 to 1971.He was born in Texas, and died in California. He was nominated for the Academy Award for Film Editing six times, and won twice, for From Here to Eternity and Picnic .-External links:...
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