Is The U.S. Govt. Infested With Terrorist Spies?
“The average Marine lance corporal has more security awareness than the nitwits charged with protecting us in Washington,” a senior U.S. military intelligence official told WND. “The FBI might as well put out a sign: ‘Double agents wanted, no experience necessary.’”
“She had big-time contacts with al-Qaida, including with people just once removed from bin Laden himself.”
Thanks to lax background checks, even after 9/11, the Hezbollah spy who managed to obtain sensitive jobs at the FBI and CIA is not the first terrorist supporter to infiltrate the U.S. government.
An alleged al-Qaida operative also infiltrated the Environmental Protection Agency, according to federal investigators and court documents obtained by WND.
The case, details of which are revealed here for the first time, involves Waheeda Tehseen, a Pakistani national who obtained a sensitive position with the EPA in Washington as a toxicologist even though she was not a U.S. citizen.
Like the Lebanese national suspected of passing secrets to Hezbollah, Tehseen lied about her citizenship on her government application, a falsehood that the government failed – in both cases – to catch in its security background investigation.
In hiring Tehseen in 1998, the EPA also missed another red flag in her file – her husband’s ties to Pakistani intelligence, which has a long history of clandestine support for both the Taliban and al-Qaida. Her husband served as a major in the Pakistani military specializing in intelligence.
FBI investigators say that while Tehseen had access to classified information as a toxicologist, she and her husband ran a charitable front for Osama bin Laden’s inner circle in Peshawar, Pakistan. She even got colleagues to donate to the front – called Help Orphans and Widows, or HOW – which, among other things, operated an orphanage and madrassa for more than 200 boys on the Pakistani-Afghan border.
Investigators say Tehseen, a “very devout” Muslim who wears a hijab, was really acting as a conduit for money funneled to bin Laden from the Missouri-based Islamic American Relief Agency, which the Treasury Department has blacklisted for helping fund bin Laden’s operations overseas. Treasury has frozen IARA’s assets, and the FBI has conducted raids on its offices.
Investigators also suspect the building she used for the orphanage doubled as a safehouse for al-Qaida.
“She had big-time contacts with al-Qaida, including with people just once removed from bin Laden himself,” said an FBI special agent familiar with the case.
The EPA bought Tehseen’s story that HOW was a legitimate charity. In 2002, her supervisors even presented her with the agency’s “Unsung Hero Award” to honor her charitable work, court records show.
The certificate, a copy of which was obtained by WND, reads: “For providing care, funds and needed articles through your own resources and contacts to isolated refugee camps often not reached by international aid groups.”
On top of her $90,000 salary, the agency awarded her six cash bonuses.
“She even got the EPA to pay for her many trips to Pakistan, claiming she was visiting sick relatives or orphans,” the FBI agent told WND. “It was a pack of lies.”
In 2004, federal agents arrested Tehseen as she was preparing to board a flight to Pakistan on behalf of her charity. They raided her half-million-dollar home in a leafy subdivision in Fairfax, Va. – located not far from Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas’ home – where they executed a search warrant for all documents and other items related to her charity.
Tehseen later pleaded guilty to federal charges of fraud, and was deported to Pakistan. Sources say her husband is now working for the Pakistani government in Islamabad.
It’s not clear if Tehseen, 49, stole classified information for al-Qaida, but investigators suspect espionage is probable, as she produced highly sensitive health-hazard documents for toxic compounds and chemical pesticides. Tehseen also was an expert in parasitology as it relates to public water systems, a terror target of al-Qaida.
“She’s a classic example of an al-Qaida sympathizer who infiltrated our government and our society, and worked and lived among us for years and years, and even started a family here,” the agent said of Tehseen, who had a fourth child while living in America for 17 years.
Former WND Washington bureau chief Paul Sperry was the first journalist to expose the threat of Islamist espionage in his bestselling 2005 book, “Infiltration: How Muslim Spies and Subversives Have Penetrated Washington.”
Full WND article here.
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I think some waterboarding is in order. Let’s find out what she knows.
November 21st, 2007 at 10:59 amWouldn’t shock me one damn bit, given the insanity of the politically correct society we live in. We need to start executing all traitors.
November 21st, 2007 at 11:03 amWhen your job is to collect your check at the end of the week, is it a wonder that they could care less the rest of the week.
November 21st, 2007 at 11:11 amI see that all the time. Thats not my job, you didn’t say to do that, I didn’t have time (so it wasn’t done at all),
I’m sure there were people who did suspect something but to get involved, (I might lose my job), or I told my boss but nothing happened.
Or as in this case, were looking into it, and SIX YEARS later because a book exposed it some action was taken.
D.C. is a sick place.
What with all this shit going on, seemingly all the time, It’s a wonder any of us are still free.
It sure instills a sense of security of our govt. (sarc)
November 21st, 2007 at 11:19 amShould’ve killed her too. What is it with us NOT executing traitors and spies?
November 21st, 2007 at 12:06 pmA.S.Wise.. I agree 100%. Start with murtha, reid and pelosi.
November 21st, 2007 at 1:03 pmNice to know our tax dollars are going to fund an islamicfascist war against us. I agree with A.S.Wise, 0311inOHio and Future0311 (the infidel).
“On top of her $90,000 salary, the agency awarded her six cash bonuses. She even got the EPA to pay for her many trips to Pakistan…They raided her half-million-dollar home in a leafy subdivision in Fairfax, Va.”
November 21st, 2007 at 1:28 pmFBI and CIA boy’s–
November 21st, 2007 at 2:23 pmDon’t forget to pick up your F*****G check this month—–thanks for staying on top of things for us small thinkers out here, who just don’t understand because we don’t have the “big picture”.
Yeah it sucks and it’s not new.
The Spy of Many Names
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—while simultaneously training the cell that blew up the World Trade Center in 1993. He went on to train Osama bin Laden’s 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.
Mohamed accomplished all that fully nine years after 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’s 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 “Emir” from Afghanistan to Khartoum in 1991 and then back to Jalalabad in 1996—much of that time maintaining his status as an FBI informant who worked his Bureau control agent like a mole.
Mohamed twice played host to al Qaeda’s 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’s al Qaeda playbook.
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—known to his al Qaeda brothers as Ali Amiriki, or “Ali the American.” 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.
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.
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’s 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.
My conclusion in Cover Up was 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 “opened” him as an informant back in 1992, Ali’s main control agent on the West Coast became embroiled in a grisly triple murder case that distracted him from fully appreciating Mohamed’s lethal dedication to stealing America’s secrets for the jihad. Patrick Fitzgerald himself called Ali “the most dangerous man I ever met,” and soon, as I began to fill in the blanks on him, I encountered evidence more astonishing than any fiction I had ever written.
Peter Lance
November 21st, 2007 at 2:59 pmDuh… do ya think the hijab might have been a clue?
Maybe we should keep an eye on this one….
But oh wait thats right she worked for the EPA, the left wing bastion, maybe even a sympathizer or two…
November 22nd, 2007 at 1:51 amTo answer the headline’s question;
“Is the U.S. government infested with terrorist spies?”
The answer is yes, they’re called DEMOCRATS.
November 22nd, 2007 at 8:05 am