{"id":2533,"date":"2013-07-14T11:39:43","date_gmt":"2013-07-14T18:39:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/peterlance.com\/?p=2533"},"modified":"2013-11-17T13:47:52","modified_gmt":"2013-11-17T20:47:52","slug":"u-k-daily-mail-exclusive-twa-800-downed-by-an-al-qaeda-bomb-fbi-had-prior-knowledge-via-greg-scarpa-jr-son-of-top-echelon-informant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/?p=2533","title":{"rendered":"U.K. Mail Exclusive: How 9\/11 mastermind revealed an al Qaeda plot to bring down airliner months before the TWA 800 crash and the FBI knew."},"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=\"U.K.%20Mail%20Exclusive%3A%20How%209%2F11%20mastermind%20revealed%20an%20al%20Qaeda%20plot%20to%20bring%20down%20airliner%20months%20before%20the%20TWA%20800%20crash%20and%20the%20FBI%20knew.\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div><div>\n<div>\n<div id=\"js-article-text\">\n<h1><\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li><span>Previously confidential documents prove FBI knew of Osama bin Laden\u2019s \u2018chief bomb maker\u2019s\u2019 plan to bring down a plane in 1996<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>Man believed to be true architect of 9\/11 attacks handed fellow prisoner a detailed description of the technique that would later be known as his \u2018unique signature\u2019<br \/>\n<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>Ramzi Yousef planned to derail his own terror trial with the bombing<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>Claims that mob informant was dismissed as a hoaxer to conceal the truth of the FBI\u2019s \u2018unholy alliance\u2019 with the Mafia<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>By <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/home\/search.html?s=&amp;authornamef=Laura+Collins\" rel=\"nofollow\">Laura Collins<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>PUBLISHED:<\/strong> 09:57 EST, 14 July 2013 | <strong>UPDATED:<\/strong> 13:06 EST, 14 July 2013<\/p>\n<p><span>The FBI had advance warning of an al-Qaeda plot to bring down a commercial airliner on American soil just weeks before the 1996 TWA 800 crash that claimed 230 civilian lives.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Now, a series of previously confidential FBI documents obtained by investigative journalist Peter Lance and seen by MailOnline, provide compelling evidence that the crash was an act of terror orchestrated by the man the man now believed by many to be the true architect of 9\/11.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Speaking to MailOnline Lance said: \u2018Who wants to have an act of terror on their watch especially an act of terror where an argument could be made that they could have stopped it?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u2018The FBI were warned from their own guy. What happened was exactly what he had predicted, exactly. All the dots were connected.\u2019<a title=\"UK Mail Online 7.14.13\" href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-2362820\/9-11-World-Trade-Center-bomber-Ramzi-Yousef-revealed-secrets-TWA-800-crash-mafia-boss-jail-cell.html\" target=\"_blank\">\u00a0<\/a>\u00a0<a title=\"UK Mail TWA 800\" href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-2362820\/9-11-World-Trade-Center-bomber-Ramzi-Yousef-revealed-secrets-TWA-800-crash-mafia-boss-jail-cell.html\">LINK TO FULL STORY<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Screen-shot-2013-07-14-at-11.29.44-AM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-2536\" title=\"Screen shot 2013-07-14 at 11.29.44 AM\" src=\"http:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Screen-shot-2013-07-14-at-11.29.44-AM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"237\" height=\"158\" srcset=\"https:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Screen-shot-2013-07-14-at-11.29.44-AM.png 338w, https:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Screen-shot-2013-07-14-at-11.29.44-AM-300x199.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 237px) 100vw, 237px\" \/><\/a><\/strong>Once confidential FBI 302 memo from March 5<sup>th<\/sup>, 1996 four \u00bd months before the crash of TWA 800 in which Yousef tells Scarpa Jr. in an FBI sting at the M.C.C. &#8212; federal jail in Lower Manhattan &#8212; that during his upcoming trial for the \u201cBojinka\u201d plot to smuggle bombs onto U.S.-bound airliners he would have his cohorts \u201cblow up a plane\u201d in order to get a mistrial.<\/p>\n<p>The morning after the crash of TWA 800 on July 17<sup>th<\/sup>, 1996 Yousef did just that; but Judge Kevin Duffy turned him down.<strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Yousef-Scarpa-bomb-3021.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2544\" title=\"Yousef Scarpa bomb 302\" src=\"http:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Yousef-Scarpa-bomb-3021.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"547\" height=\"265\" srcset=\"https:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Yousef-Scarpa-bomb-3021.png 547w, https:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Yousef-Scarpa-bomb-3021-300x145.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 547px) 100vw, 547px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Scarpa Jr. 302s\" href=\"http:\/\/peterlance.com\/PLfbi.htm\">LINK TO FBI 302 MEMOS<\/a> from Scarpa Jr. Yousef sting<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/peterlance.com\/PLfbi.htm\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-2539\" title=\"Screen shot 2013-07-14 at 11.33.48 AM\" src=\"http:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Screen-shot-2013-07-14-at-11.33.48-AM1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"499\" height=\"316\" srcset=\"https:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Screen-shot-2013-07-14-at-11.33.48-AM1.png 624w, https:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Screen-shot-2013-07-14-at-11.33.48-AM1-300x189.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 499px) 100vw, 499px\" \/><\/a> <a title=\"The Chilling Effect\" href=\"http:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/?p=66\" target=\"_blank\">LINK TO &#8220;THE CHILLING EFFECT,&#8221;<\/a> Peter Lance&#8217;s piece for playboy.com on how the Feds sought to discredit the treasure trove of al Qaeda-related intelligence gathered by Mafia capo Greg Scarpa Jr. from Ramzi Yousef and other terrorists in an eleven month \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0sting from 1996-97.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/?p=66\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-2540\" title=\"Screen shot 2013-07-14 at 11.35.48 AM\" src=\"http:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Screen-shot-2013-07-14-at-11.35.48-AM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"488\" height=\"451\" srcset=\"https:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Screen-shot-2013-07-14-at-11.35.48-AM.png 871w, https:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Screen-shot-2013-07-14-at-11.35.48-AM-300x277.png 300w, https:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Screen-shot-2013-07-14-at-11.35.48-AM-800x740.png 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 488px) 100vw, 488px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"U.K. Mail DWTD\" href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-2351795\/New-book-reveals-secret-relationship-FBI-mafia-capo-allowed-walk-away-26-murders.html\">LINK to Laura Collins <\/a><a title=\"U.K. Mail DWTD\" href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-2351795\/New-book-reveals-secret-relationship-FBI-mafia-capo-allowed-walk-away-26-murders.html\">U.K. \u00a0Daily Mail Online story<\/a> about Peter Lance&#8217;s new book DEAL WITH THE DEVIL\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-2351795\/New-book-reveals-secret-relationship-FBI-mafia-capo-allowed-walk-away-26-murders.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright  wp-image-2556\" title=\"Screen shot 2013-07-14 at 11.51.44 AM\" src=\"http:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Screen-shot-2013-07-14-at-11.51.44-AM1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"472\" height=\"335\" srcset=\"https:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Screen-shot-2013-07-14-at-11.51.44-AM1.png 655w, https:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Screen-shot-2013-07-14-at-11.51.44-AM1-300x212.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 472px) 100vw, 472px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; 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