The Battle Over The $5 Million Reward For 20th Hijacker Moussaoui
Ok, so the State Department hands out a rare reward (to an American) and wants to keep the man’s name confidential due to security and privacy concerns for the man. But somehow the MSM got the guys name and is spreading it far and wide, citing “Unnamed Admin Officials” as the source for the name.
Screw them.
You won’t find his name here, I’ve X’d it out, because if anybody wants to target him for retaliation, they won’t find his name here, you can bet your ass on that.
Especially since he’s a vet.
Good news for him, though…his golden years will truly be just that. Thumbs up “X”!
WASHINGTON– The Bush administration paid a $5 million reward to a Coral Gables resident and former Minnesota flight instructor who provided authorities with information that led to the arrest and conviction of 9/11 conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui. Two colleagues questioned why he got the money.
The recipient, (Bash Here: I’m hiding name, I don’t know why the Hell AP is publishing it when even The State Dept won’t), was honored Thursday at a closed-door ceremony at the State Department, although the payout was secretly authorized last fall by Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and the Justice Department, U.S. officials told The Associated Press.
The reward from the State Department’s ”Rewards for Justice” program is the first and only one to date to a U.S. citizen related to the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, the officials said.
It is also unusual because Moussaoui, who was imprisoned at the time of the attacks, was never named as a wanted suspect by the program. The program mainly seeks information about perpetrators or planners of terrorist acts against U.S. interests and citizens abroad.
The State Department would not identify the recipient, citing privacy and security concerns.
Two administration officials (Bash Again: Fuck You, Admin Officials), however, said the reward went to XXXXXXXXXXXX, a key witness at Moussaoui’s trial who has previously spoken out about his involvement in the case. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly about the matter.
XXXXXXXXXXXXX is a former Navy pilot who later flew for Northwest Airlines and goes by his nickname “X” He was Moussaoui’s flight instructor at the Pan Am International Flight Academy outside Minneapolis.
No one answered at an apartment listed for XXXXXXXXXXX in a residential hotel in Coral Gables. Calls to a number listed to XXXXXXXXXXXX were not answered.
None of the immediate neighbors who were home Thursday evening recognized his name, but a hotel concierge who declined to give his name said he sometimes chatted with the Minnesota flight instructor. The concierge described him as XXXXXXXXXXX XXXXXXXXXX and said he never mentioned any involvement with the Moussaoui case.
XXXXXXXX was one of several people who worked at the flight school that Moussaoui attended in August 2001 and who alerted the FBI to his suspicious desire to pilot jumbo jets.
XXXXXXXXXXX said during the trial that he urged flight school officials to call the FBI and one day an agent showed up to ask him questions about Moussaoui.
XXXXXXXXX and others said they thought it was strange Moussaoui wanted to learn to fly a Boeing 747 despite the fact that he had little flying background.
After his arrest, Moussaoui sat in jail for 3 ½ weeks on an immigration violation, saying little to investigators before hijacked planes slammed into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon and crashed in a Pennsylvania field on Sept. 11.
The Minneapolis FBI agents who responded to the tips were unable to persuade their superiors in Washington to seek a national security warrant to search Moussaoui’s belongings and laptop computer.
Moussaoui later confessed to being the ”20th hijacker” and was sentenced to life in prison without parole in 2006 after a trial marked by numerous outbursts, conflicts with his lawyers and questions about his status, if any, within Osama bin Laden’s al Qaeda network.
He told jurors he was to have piloted a fifth plane on Sept. 11 and fly it into the White House.
But after the jury decided against sentencing him to death, Moussaoui recanted his testimony and denied any role in 9/11, saying he lied on the stand because he assumed he had no chance of getting a fair trial.
Rewards for Justice, which was created in 1984, has paid about $77 million in rewards to more than 50 people.
(AP)
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