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| Families of 9/11 Victims: They never got the independent 911 Commission they were hoping for, and vital information was withheld from the commission they did get. (911 Families Campaign for an Independent 911 Commission - Candlelight Vigil. Oct 17 2002. - Photos by Elvert Barnes) |
The FBI had a mole inside al Qaeda who met with Osama bin Laden eight years prior to 9/11 and knew he planned to finance terror attacks, but the bureau declined to tell Congressional investigators or the 9/11 Commission about the mole, sources involved in the case told NBC News.
The
mole, NBC News has learned exclusively, was a Los Angeles-based “driver
and confidante” of the “Blind Sheikh,” Omar Abdel-Rahman, now in prison
for his role in planning the original 1993 terror attack on New York’s
World Trade Center. Information from the mole helped stop a bin
Laden-backed plot against a Masonic Lodge in L.A. in the mid-‘90s,
according to courtroom testimony by Ed Curran, who was the special agent
in charge of the FBI’s L.A. office at the time.
"It was the only source I
know in the bureau where we had a source right in al Qaeda, directly
involved," Curran told the court, according to excerpts of testimony published by the Washington Times. He also testified that the informant was “tight, close” with al Qaeda leadership.
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