{"id":1703,"date":"2012-10-10T12:12:06","date_gmt":"2012-10-10T19:12:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/peterlance.com\/?p=1703"},"modified":"2022-07-31T12:09:05","modified_gmt":"2022-07-31T19:09:05","slug":"ali-mohamedl-al-qaedas-master-spy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/?p=1703","title":{"rendered":"Ali Mohamed: al Qaeda Master Spy &#038; The Feds best kept secret"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\",\"StumbleUpon\",\"Digg\",\"Reddit\",\"Bebo\",\"Delicious\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"medium\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"Ali%20Mohamed%3A%20al%20Qaeda%20Master%20Spy%20%26%20The%20Feds%20best%20kept%20secret\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div><p><strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Ali-Mohamed-U.S.-passport1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright wp-image-1705\" title=\"Ali Mohamed U.S. passport\" src=\"http:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Ali-Mohamed-U.S.-passport1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"288\" height=\"177\" srcset=\"https:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Ali-Mohamed-U.S.-passport1.png 412w, https:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Ali-Mohamed-U.S.-passport1-300x184.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 288px) 100vw, 288px\" \/><\/a><\/strong><strong>The Spy of Many Names by Peter Lance<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In the years leading to the 9\/11 attacks, no single agent of al Qaeda was more successful in compromising the U.S. intelligence community than a former Egyptian army captain turned CIA operative, Special Forces advisor, and FBI informant named Ali Mohamed. Spying first for the Central Intelligence Agency and later the FBI, Mohamed even succeeded in penetrating the John F. Kennedy Special Warfare Center at Fort Bragg\u2014while simultaneously training the cell that blew up the World Trade Center in 1993. He went on to train Osama bin Laden\u2019s personal bodyguard, and photographed the U.S. embassy in Kenya taking the surveillance pictures bin Laden himself used to target the suicide truck bomb that killed 224 and injured thousands in 1998.<\/p>\n<p>Mohamed accomplished all that fully\u00a0nine years\u00a0after the FBI first photographed the cell he trained using automatic weapons at a firing range on Long Island. He lived the quiet life of a Silicon Valley computer executive while slipping off to Afghanistan and the Sudan to train some of al Qaeda\u2019s most lethal terrorists in bomb-making and assassination tradecraft. He was so trusted by bin Laden that Ali was given the job of moving the Saudi \u201cEmir\u201d from Afghanistan to Khartoum in 1991 and then back to Jalalabad in 1996\u2014much of that time maintaining his status as an FBI informant who worked his Bureau control agent like a mole.<\/p>\n<p>Mohamed twice played host to al Qaeda\u2019s second-in-command, Dr. Ayman al-Zawahiri, who traveled to the U.S. in the 1990s to raise money for the Jihad. He used his Army vacation to hunt down elite Soviet Spetsnaz commandos in Afghanistan, and later toyed with gullible special agents in New York and San Francisco while he learned the inner workings of the FBI\u2019s al Qaeda playbook.<\/p>\n<p>In the annals of espionage, few men have moved in an out of the deep black world between the hunters and the hunted with as much audacity as Ali Mohamed\u2014known to his al Qaeda brothers as\u00a0Ali Amiriki,\u00a0or \u201cAli the American.\u201d A deep-penetration al Qaeda sleeper, he succeeded as a triple agent, gaining access to the most sensitive intelligence in the U.S. counter-terrorism arsenal.<\/p>\n<p>Next to Ramzi Yousef, the bomb maker who plotted both attacks on The Twin Towers, Mohamed remains the greatest enigma in the war on terror. Brazenly slipping past watch lists, he moved in and out of the U.S. with impunity for years, marrying an American woman, becoming a naturalized citizen, seeking top secret security clearance from a Silicon Valley defense contractor and working for the FBI while servicing the top echelons of al Qaeda.<\/p>\n<p>The story of Ali Mohamed holds the key to the full truth about how bin Laden planned, financed, and executed the 9\/11 attacks. He\u2019s also a living witness to how the best and the brightest in the U.S. intelligence community were repeatedly outflanked for two decades, from the death of Egyptian president Anwar Sadat in 1981 through the attacks of September 11, 2001.<\/p>\n<p>My conclusion in\u00a0Cover Up\u00a0was that the FBI had buried key al Qaeda intelligence to avoid a scandal over tainted Mafia evidence. But as unbelievable as that story seemed, the investigation took on even stranger twists and turns when Ali Mohamed came into focus. For example, almost from the moment the Bureau \u201copened\u201d him as an informant back in 1992, Ali\u2019s main control agent on the West Coast became embroiled in a grisly triple murder case that distracted him from fully appreciating Mohamed\u2019s lethal dedication to stealing America\u2019s secrets for the jihad. Patrick Fitzgerald himself called Ali \u201cthe most dangerous man I ever met,\u201d and soon, as I began to fill in the blanks on him, I encountered evidence more astonishing than any fiction I had ever written.\u00a0\u00a0TO READ MORE ORDER TRIPLE CROSS from<a title=\"triple cross on amazon.com\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Triple-Cross-Ladens-Master-Penetrated\/dp\/0061189413\/ref=tmm_pap_title_0?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1357758266&amp;sr=8-2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> amazon.com<\/a>\u00a0or <a title=\"triple cross bn.com\" href=\"http:\/\/www.barnesandnoble.com\/w\/triple-cross-peter-lance\/1111738687?ean=9780061189418\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">barnes&amp;noble.com<\/a>\u00a0or GET A PERSONALLY SIGNED FIRST EDITION directly from <a title=\"PL signed first editions\" href=\"http:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=994\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Peter Lance<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\",\"StumbleUpon\",\"Digg\",\"Reddit\",\"Bebo\",\"Delicious\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"medium\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"Ali%20Mohamed%3A%20al%20Qaeda%20Master%20Spy%20%26%20The%20Feds%20best%20kept%20secret\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div><p>The Spy of Many Names by Peter Lance In the years leading to the 9\/11 attacks, no single agent of al Qaeda was more successful in compromising the U.S. intelligence community than a former Egyptian army captain turned CIA operative, Special Forces advisor, and FBI informant named Ali Mohamed. Spying first for the Central Intelligence [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1706,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15],"tags":[125,144,330,155,467,122,134,479,1223,400,478,165,151,391,132,137,483,372,383,114,172,1211,139,388,160,454,387,109,168,380,110,136,119,401,395,382,113,386,252,106,485,128,108,393,470,305,133,162,481,375,390,311,472,142,377,373,392,379,249,163,135,402,130,111,115,381,116,374,486,500,462,484,131,397,399,406,118,105,141,129,167,161,384,385,107,143,376,126,170,140,291,169,1219,1220,480,468,469,138,317,473,121,461,127,471,398,396,251,250,112,1214,1222,463,389,117,394,477,371,378,494,120,166,164],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1703"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1703"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1703\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15445,"href":"https:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1703\/revisions\/15445"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}