Another Anomaly in the Case Against Zacarias Moussaoui

Frank Levi - 18/04/2003

Zacarias Moussaoui was the first person indicted in the Sept. 11 attacks on America which killed nearly 3,300 people. It has recently become clear that someone was trying to stop any investigation into Moussaoui prior to the Sept 11^th attacks. This article will show another major anomaly in the case against Moussaoui which may also help to expose the major frame-up carried out against nineteen other innocent men.

Born in South West France in 1968 from a family of Moroccan origin, his primary language is French. He speaks English but not fluently – his mother has asked that he be provided with an interpreter during his court hearings.

Before reading the rest of this article – try imagining yourself in the following situation. You are in a foreign country, sitting in a class, attempting to learn a new skill whilst only having a limited knowledge of that country’s language. Your teacher happens to speak your language and attempts to start a conversation with you in your native tongue. How do you react?

Here are a number of links and excepts from mainstream sources on the Internet which reveal that the instructor at the flight school at which Moussaoui was learning to fly first became suspicious when he attempted to speak to Moussaoui in French and got a bizarre response:

http://www.startribune.com/stories/1576/913687.html

Moussaoui first raised eyebrows when, during a simple introductory exchange, he said he was from France, but then didn't seem to understand when the instructor spoke French to him.

Moussaoui then became belligerent and evasive about his background, Oberstar and other sources said. In addition, he seemed inept in basic flying procedures, while seeking expensive training on an advanced commercial jet simulator.

Oberstar said the flight instructor, a retired military pilot, grew suspicious after he began speaking French to Moussaoui. Oberstar said Moussaoui seemed not to understand, said he wasn't fluent in French, didn't live in France long and added: "I'm from the Middle East."

The instructor found it odd that Moussaoui said he was from the Middle East, rather than identifying a country, Oberstar said. When the instructor inquired further, Moussaoui grew belligerent, several sources said.

It was not clear whether Moussaoui, who was born in France and attended French schools as a youth, did not understand French or merely chose not to speak it.

Over the next three days, Moussaoui seemed to his instructor to be uncoordinated and showed little ability to follow the lessons, several sources said. The instructor "tried to tell him he was wasting his money," one source said, but Moussaoui persisted.

http://www.cnn.com/2001/US/12/27/inv.moussaoui.mother/

El Wafi, who was very emotional during the news conference, said that in the letter Zacarias told her, "Mama, I did not do anything. I can prove I did nothing. They have no proof."

She questioned whether he could get a fair trial in the United States and preferred that he be tried in France.

"I think it's better because he's French, he was born in France, he speaks in French, he was educated in France. I prefer he get his legal papers in French so he can understand why he's being accused," El Wafi said.

http://www.crimelynx.com/moussmom.html (originally from nytimes)

El-Wafi said her son spoke limited English but had not mastered the language and would need a French translator during his court hearings.

``His case should be translated into French, he was born in France, and he has the right to understand the accusations and what he's being reproached for. You can't accept or deny the accusations if you don't know what they are,'' she said.

Clearly the man the flight instructor spoke to was not the Moussaoui who was brought up in France and spoke French as his primary language. This is a different man. The man in the flight school clearly speaks English fairly well and doesn’t speak a word of French. From this we can conclude:

1. Someone was pretending to be Moussaoui with the intent of framing him as a pilot on 9-11.
2. This imposter was quickly removed from the scene when the instructor informed the FBI of his behavior and the real Moussaoui was arrested
3. Moussaoui may or may not have had real links to some terrorist organization – as reported by French intelligence (though anyone who remembers the sinking of the Rainbow Warrior will know that the French intelligence aren’t nice people and may be making up stories)
4. The same system was being used for the other “hijackers” – steal or forge passports and other IDs, use a similar looking imposter to visit flight schools, strip clubs and bars – generally get noticed and get associated with flying. Even the FBI has now admitted that some or all of the hijackers may have been using false IDs. Mohammed Atta’s father claims his son phoned him the day after the 9-11 attacks.
5. The whole idea was to create a skeleton of evidence to prove that the planes were flown by Arab hijackers with links to the Bin Laden network. As to whether any of these pretend hijackers were actually present on the planes when they crashed remains a mystery

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