those things than there ever were before. and since people come one by one, not in percentages, that is encouraging. the others thing is there are always revivals in this country. things aid and then some -- someone gives a good example and people start reading, or someone makes fine legislation and people start buying it. so it comes and those. and i think it packs a punch which is out of proportion to the number who do it. people who do it have some influence, not much, but it is not hopeless. ..

>> without further ado, this

book that you see, "triple cross," is the third book that i have done, for harpercollins. i started this series literally two days after 9/11. my son, christopher, went to high school two blocks above ground zero. in the day after, the night of when i knew he was safe i shortly thereafter find out that ronnie bucher, a fire marshal, and incredible hero that you will hear me talk about today, ronnie boca perished in the 78th floor. he died with his boots on. and because i had met ronnie several years earlier, that was my one personal connection to the trade center attacks of 9/11. and ideas have been writing fiction for about 10 years and i said, how did this happen and could it happen again. like any american i was asking these questions. and i just decided to go back and use the skills i had learned as an investigative reporter for abc news, and literally put 1 foot in front of the other and try and figure this out. this wasn't the greatest intelligence failure since pearl

harbor. as many people said. it was the greatest intelligence failure since the trojan horse. and how with a budget in america leading up to 9/11 did this happen. so there are five big intelligence agencies as you know. the cia, fbi, dia. national security intelligence and the state department has what. the old one that a citizen like me, a reporter without subpoena power could actually investigate look into was the fbi. and particularly, because the war on terror as we know it, with the exception of a few missiles that were fired into khartoum into the clinton years, the war on terror really was conducted as a legal case is, investigated by the two what we call bin laden offices of origin. the new york office of the fbi which i'll refer to repeatedly today, known as the n. y. oh, and the office of u.s. attorney for the southern district of new

york. and these incredibly, federal agencies, the bureau, this is the biggest outside of washington, the best of the best, the original joint terrorist task or was set up in his office and of course his house rudy giuliani, who later became a federal judge and fbi director and of course patrick fitzgerald, the gentleman who was probably the most successful and powerful federal prosecutor in america. we will talk about mr. fitzgerald in a minute. so this incredible office produced these people. we're not talking about the wichita office. we are talking about the best of the best. how was it that this al qaeda cell, which i proved in my work, basically set up an operation in new york as early as 1988 and were on the radar as early as 1989, 20 years ago as the week we are taping this event in july of 2009. how was it that these two

offices missed so many opportunities on the chart to indicate the al qaeda juggernaut, just raced towards ultimately 9/11. that's what i want to find out as a citizen. guess what? most americans still want to know the answer to that. because 9/11 as i began this book, i said 9/11 is a cold case. effectively the greatest mass murder in american history is still unsolved. osama bin laden has never been indicted. mohammed, the man fbi calls the mastermind was at least 183 times. you will never be brought to justice in any conventional sense of the word. so we still don't know, despite what the 9/11 commission did, and we will get into that, we still don't know. so i had stayed on this story through a lot of thick and thin, as you will hear in a few minutes. against some very difficult odds. in this book, "triple cross" is the third in a series. and it focuses on as you will see in the cover of the book the

mug shot is ali mohamed, the master spy of al qaeda. ali mahmood was an ex-egyptian army officer, part of the unit that actually killed anwar sadat. he succeeded in infiltrating the cia in 1984 and says that he was used as an asset. he went into a mosque in hamburg supposedly blew his cover, got put in a u.s. watch list, but he ended up getting on a twa flight into america. on the flight he meets a woman named linda sanchez who is coming back from greece from vacation. slightly older woman. ali is a stud. when he ended up in the u.s. army, he set a record for the 440 at fort jackson reportedly. we are talking push-ups on the fingertips kind of guy. he seduces her and they get married at a drive-through wedding chapel in reno nevada six weeks later. now he is in silicon valley. he sets up a sleeper cell, and he enlists in the u.s. army. this is a radical egyptian, ex-egyptian army commando so radical in his religious views

that president mubarak after the assassination of sadat through this guy out of the army. who was he adopted by? the number two guy in a kind and he approached the cia, gets into america and now he is that where? fort bragg north carolina, the john f. kennedy special warfare school with one of the most secure operations in the u.s. military were the top special forces and delta force officers trained. and on weekends he is coming up to new york, training the original world trade center comics out there, get to those details any minute. i also found astonishingly that from 1992 on he is an informant for the fbi on the west coast. that is why i call this book trip across. he is crossing the cia, the dia, and fbi. now, patrick fitzgerald, why is patrick fitzgerald part of this story? patrick fitzgerald as i said is one of the most successful and important prosecutors in

america. he recently as you know indicted governor blagojevich in illinois. he convicted governor ryan, the former governor. eight convicted billionaire conrad black. in new york when he was cohead and ultimately had organized crime and terror, he convicted a number responsible for many mobsters and terrorists are i upon all the good things that patrick fitzgerald has done. as i began to tell the story, i went back over his track record. i found some things about what patrick fitzgerald did in the southern district that were questionable. i try to interview him twice over the course of two books. he turned me down. when i reported "triple cross," when it came out in hardcover, and hardcover of "triple cross" looked a little bit different. the story, it said, how al qaeda master spy infiltrated the cia, fbi and the green beret. and how patrick fitzgerald fail to stop them. that became an important part of the story. the book came out in hard cover

and was relatively successful. 11 months later we were ready to put the paperback edition bookout when patrick fitzgerald since the first of four letters, as you will see on the screen. he sends ultimately 32 letters, 32 pages of threat letters to my publisher, harpercollins, over the next 20 months threatening to sue for libel. literally asking that the book be pulled, that the hardcover bead moved and destroyed in the paperback never see the light of day. signing these letters in his individual capacity, he had a p.o. box in chicago, but it was patrick fitzgerald, the u.s. attorney making these threats against me and my publisher. harpercollins, after the first letters in october of 2007, they rejected them. i had one minor factual error in this book that have to do with the miss the dating of an msnbc article, which even today is still misstated on their website. it was an inadvertent error. we told them we would correct a. that book at 604 pages.

32 pages of documentary appendices, fairly meticulously researched, and we said don't worry, we will make that change. and mr. fitzgerald, we reject you. harpercollins called my book import. undaunted, the man, the washington post called the relentless prosecutor said a second letter. this time 16 pages. look at the top of the letter. he was the fact is that from the u.s. attorney's office in chicago. as if to make it clear, even though he is doing it, there is no doubt in my mind that this was an effort to chill my publisher any. what is joe? a chilling effect that you will see later i did it before playboy. by the way, they do have articles in playboy. this is something i recently found out. and i did a piece published two weeks ago in playboy on playboy.com that basically is called the chilling effect. i have a law degree. i will talk a little bit about my background there. a chilling effect is an effort by particularly government official to make an action that

effectively intimidate the media, someone in the media. and i consider personally what mr. fitzgerald did by sending a second threat letter to harpercollins and attempt to chill me and my publisher. out of an abundance of caution, and because of who it was, we decided to go back and read that the entire book. not just the material and mr. fitzgerald. every single fact in this book was checked and reject. it took 14 months. strategically, it was a brilliant move for fitzgerald because he took the office toward. i was working on my fourth book in the series for harpercollins. i had to delay the book. the book is a year over do. my publisher decided of course the book was bulletproof, as it was in the beginning. and yet he sent another letter in september of 2008. and his fourth letter is recently as june 2, 2 weeks before the book is supposed to come out, and he actually said, i want you to understand. i want all this book up again. this book is so heavy you could use it to pressure sure.

it like three and a half pound. there are some pages that have 10 separate annotations on a. 32 pages of documentary. and many of these document appendices are fbi memos. they are material from the fbi files. there is even a six-page affirmation sworn by patrick fitzgerald. i am not just throwing cartoons at the end of this book you. patrick fitzgerald actually called this book, the entire book quote the deliberate lie masquerading as the terrific how could anyone conceive a book, even if you don't like peter lance or agree with my findings, how could you call a book like this the whole book of life. and he said if you publish this book and it defames me or hold me in a false light, harpercollins will be sued. and that's a pretty strong statement, as recently as june 2, 2 weeks before the book was due to come out. we publish the book. we had a press conference with the national press club. my daughter were there. they took this video. we had many first amendment

advocates and anti-censorship advocates, people on the left and right supported our right to publish this book. this week, this past week i wrote a piece for the huffington post, which you see on their homepage there, and basically what i'm saying in this is mr. fitzgerald, bring it. the book has been out for four weeks now. so, you know, where's the summons and complaint? where's your libel suit? my contention is that you didn't have a suit to begin with. you didn't have one then and you don't have one now. one of the things i will say today to give equal time is after, if you would come here, on c-span, meet me at any auditorium, any church, any public gathering and debate me and talk about this issue, i'm happy to do that with you at anytime. but to use the civil libel laws, which are as a government official to try and suppress the book, i find repugnant and something that is below you as a kind of prosecutor that you are. the great work that you have done for america.

so what i'm thank you, on this challenge this week, four weeks after publication you said if the book comes out and we will sue, we haven't heard from you. why don't you just either file a summons of complaint, or back off and apologize your and i am happy to accept your apology. all right. now, why would patrick fitzgerald date this is the introduction. you have to say to yourself and again 32 pages of letters, why would a man on the level of patrick fitzgerald, u.s. attorney for the northern district of illinois. you also special prosecutor in the cia leak case. he was the man responsible for getting new york times reporter judith miller jailed for 85 days. he also, patrick fitzgerald, subpoenaed her cell phone records and those of new york times reporter of ho chi minh and got the cell phone records and went up to the second circuit court of appeals. so to me this is his third encouragement. why would patrick fitzgerald care. if peter lance's book was meaningless or some crazy

conspiracy theory, why would a guy on his level bother? let me give you the story today, and at the end, and people in the audience who can ask question at the end and those people watching this at home, then you can maybe ask your self, you will have an answer or maybe why he didn't want this book to see the light of day. ali mohamed, there are few figures in the history of a rather cool islam to match olli mom and. okay. in my first book, well, before i get that let me just mention that in any great war, in any military combat, and we have a friend of mine who is a distinguished navy veteran, and my father was a navy chief i am proud to say. in any great war you need to think. unit operations and intelligence. okay. you need somebody on the ground blowing things up and you need spies to figure out what the other side knows so you can beat your enemy. the art of war. so olli mohammed filled the role

of the cheju, the intelligence tractor. but the g3, the operational director was filled ironically awkward initiate and he is a man i focus on my first book, "100 years for revenge." this is the first of these three books that i've done for harpercollins. in order for you to follow along, in the middle of the first book and now in the middle of "triple cross," this new addition, i have a 32 page illustrated timeline. i like to call it the little golden book of care. it begins with the murder of anwar sadat and take you all the way through to almost to the present day. some of this book is actually updated as recently as april in my analysis of the fbi. and his timeline which you can go to and get, peterlance.com, which is my name, one where. you can go there and download while this program, you are watching this program. what you're up book tv is not polyphasic, right? who would watch c-span and not be able to do two or three things at once?

go to your computer. go to peterlance.com and download my timeline so you kind of scroll through as we're going through this story. remember i told you the cheju director intelligence ali mohamed, this is as one poster. the man of many aliases. i called him the mozart of tear in my first book. beluga shon is an area the size of france across as afghanistan, iran and pakistan. it doesn't have its own defined border his uncle is a leachate mohamed, the man the fbi calls the mastermind of 9/11. this is the picture often known as the ron jeremy shot where he was captured in 2003, and as you know he was one of the high-value detainees down in guantánamo. he is the man that the fbi says is responsible for the 9/11 attacks. what i proven my book, "100 years for revenge," and i use a civil standard, preponderance of the evidence. i prove that yousef, the nephew,

this criminal genius in pakistan and in 94 and was perfecting it in manila in 1995. 2009 deaths, as i said 9/11 has become a cold case. collegian shaikh mohammed, as you can see at one point admitted to both involvement in the world trade center bombing and 9/11, but olli mohammed as they begin to tell this story, as i begin to fill in the dos over these books i began to say to myself you will see in a few minutes incredible apparent incompetence by the fbi, by the two of bin laden officers of origin. how could the best of the best make so many mistakes and then one morning i woke up because i mention all the briefly in my books, "100 years for revenge" and "cover up." i had an epiphany one day. and i said if i can go back and figure out who he was, maybe i can answer the question of how this thing happened. why should we care?

very important question to ask her the 9/11 commission. we have a sense that the americans did a great job and told us the truth and their book became nominated for national book award. guess what? my second book "cover up" went into this. half of the staff of the 9/11 commission was from the fbi cia, and the white house the very foxes that guard the chicken coop. and they decided early on in the commission they would not find anyone accountable. that's what they decided. why is that surprising? half of the staff were people that should have been held accountable. one of them was dietrich snell. that name will be very important as i tell the story. so i wrote my second book, half of it and analysis of the 9/11 commission. i had a source on the commission who i meet with like a deep throat once a week. he told me, the cherry picking the evidence. democrats and republicans. this isn't a political thing. they are pushing the analysis forward. they don't want to go back to

brooklyn in 1989. they don't want to get involved in any of that. they don't want to go back to the original world trade center bombing. the guy was ready to quit and i encouraged him to stay on the inside, and he was a very important source for before the book. the jersey girls, mindy kleinberg, paddock is as it, the four original jersey girls, and then monica gabrielle and laurie, just as an incredible woman, beverly who recently died tragically in a buffalo crash. these six women almost single-handedly got the 9/11 commission to come into being. those women took my book, gave it to governor k., and he is the one responsible for me testifying before the commission. now i go back to why should we care. you see that little bag? those of you have been delayed in santa barbara airport you can't take -- you cannot take sony liquids on a plane. do you know why that is?

that has nothing to do with richard reid, the shoe bomber. you wonder why any minute of the fact that you can't carry liquids on planes, the fact that you can't, you have to take your shoes off, use a. that's all going to be unfolded in this story. and a spiritual icon of the cell in new york responsible for both the trade center bombing in 93 and 9/11 was shaikh omar reichmann, the blind shake. he is the out islamic spiritual leader but he is also responsible for the 1993 -- excuse me, for what was called the day of the terror plot. the embassy bombings in 1988, he was considered one of the spiritual icons and motivators of that plot, even though he was in jail by 1993 himself. when bin laden issued his famous hotwire prior to the cold binder

to act as a go to the spilling of blood for your shake. this is how important shaikh reichmann is. literally within days of the 9/11 attack, the taliban offered to exchange blind shake for some christian missionaries that they were holding captive. this is how the blind shake works through the story like a hot circuit cable. reverb and the famous presidential daily briefing of august 62001 what president bush got in crawford texas? it mentions a plot to hijack a plane to free the blind shake. that's how important. you will hear tonight that the fbi got that information in 1996 from a mafia informant in a cell next to rumsey ustinov and they basically buried in. they discredited that evidence. it was considered so important that it showed up in a daily briefing to the president. ali mohamed. and even mentioned reference to ali mohamed in that same daily brief. now, i told you we will go back. you can't do the story, you can't tell the story nor could the 9/11 commission have fairly

judged the story without going back 20 years. we are now july of 2009. i take you back 20 years. that picture on the screen, in the upper left corner. that is a surveillance photo. on four weekends, in july of 1989, the special operations group of the fbi, another one black bag operation, black bag in it, the guys they got john gotti, they follow what they call in these which is middle eastern men. out to route 70 on long island especially. this is a half a mile -- a half-hour north of the hamptons in the middle of the summer season in long island. there is a big shooting range. it's like a sandbar. not a sandbar, but a sandpit, okay. and a lot of law enforcement guys use it. over four weekends, they photographed these guys firing automatic weapons, ak-47s, machine guns and other weapons, and they are all trained by ali

mohamed. who at that point was at fort bragg north carolina, and active duty u.s. army sergeant working for uncle sam who is coming up to new york on weekends and training these terrorists in all kinds of undercover commando techniques. now go back to the time i think we are now at a certain point further along in the time i. peterlance.com if you want to follow on this epic story because your job is going to stop dropping idly. i do want to be eric in here but i predict george oz will start lowering and lowering as we begin to tell the story. the story itself, the timeline begins with the murder of anwar sadat in 1981. anwar sadat had made peace with israel, had won the nobel prize. some radical egyptian army troops. they were having a true display. he was on a stage watching troops govan and his radical unit that ali mohamed was a member of what he happened to not be there that day. they jump off the truck and they shoot him down in cold blood.

the leader says i have killed the faroe. i have killed the federal. who ends up in jail for that crime? one of the several dozens and dozens of people locked up, doctor ayman al-zawahiri. when you see repeatedly these from al qaeda, video broadcast from al qaeda that keep showing up repeatedly with either bin laden, he is the number two man in al qaeda. a little guy with a beard, spectacles. is from an incredibly wealthy egyptian family. there is a street in cairo named after his family. one of his grandfathers was an ambassador to saudi arabia, the other one was president of the university, the oldest university in the arab world. he is a surgeon by training. he was ahead of what was called the egyptian islamic jihad. you see the picture of him talking? every night they would have a press conference because he spoke english he became the spokesman for the murders of sadat, if you will. he became a hero in egypt.

he then adopted this guy, ali mohamed. when all he bomber got thrown out of the egyptian military, ali mahmood becomes this guy comes in out of the warranty comes in looking for a guy who'll be a sky for the emerging radical movement and he adopts ali and he sends them first to work for egyptair. he gets a job at egyptair. what does he do their? studies all the counterterrorism measures of a measure under major airline. he learned all the tricks. then 1983 we had the bombing in the spring. like a truck bomb, almost mirrored what would happen five years later in tanzania and kenya. and then in october the tragic marine barracks bombing where these beautiful boys in the morning were destroyed on a sunday morning by a bomb. and in the kidnapping of the cia station chief in the region who

was mercilessly tortured. cia needs recruits. so ali mohamed approaches them. they sent him into a mosque in hamburg where he supposedly blows his cover as i told you, and he gets on the watchlist. gets on the twa flight. linda lee sanchez, beecher, ends up in santa clara. that's their own. he has a guy named another young egyptian he adopts. this story, i will get to it, egyptian, egyptian, egyptian. everyone around bin laden is a saudi leader is an egyptian in the story and all the key players are radical egyptians. so he becomes his kind of gopher and his sleeper cell that all the sets of. he has this beautiful house living with linda andy and list in the u.s. army and ends up at the john f. kennedy warfare school. his captain, anderson, later said, and we did an interview with them. i think you or i would have a better chance of winning the powerball lottery than an egyptian major in the unit

that's about when getting a visa, getting to california, getting in the army and getting assigned to special forces unit. that just doesn't happen. but it happened. and that was his commanding officer, okay? all right. at the time we were fighting this war in afghanistan. did anyone see charlie wilson's war, the movie? that was a good worker and the reagan years. we were fighting the evil empire. we were giving 3 billion covert aid to the freedom fighters. one of them was bin laden. one of them was also marred. out of the hobbit action left fort bragg and went over and fought and brought back to belts from soviet special forces that he claimed were work-release. while he was an active duty u.s. army sergeant in a war we are not supposed to be in. i agree, what army -- why wasn't he court-martialed, right? why wasn't he immediately -- okay. so that war, however, raised millions of dollars. look at this mask.

the blind shake had three mosque. this little third story mosque in jersey city, a mosque in brooklyn, that is the mosque they followed the guys from 20 years ago in atlantic avenue on four weekends in july. those other guys they photographed. look at these men. the men in the upper right corner, redheaded, and of those of you at home follow along in your program, your timeline. he is 6-foot two, still under stood out like a sore thumb. they made fun of him that he had crusaders blood, meaning he had christian blood because that is why he is redheaded. those guys were not only in calgary, they will show up multiple times on the chart. they have to build a bomb in 1993. they were convicted later in the world trade center. they are on the radar of the fbi. the second guy in from the bottom with the glasses, he

supplied the chemicals for the bomb, also convicted. this other guy, an american black muslim, he was convicted in this day of terror plot to blow up the bridges and tunnels. all of them were trained by ali mohamed coming up from fort bragg on the weekends. the first blood spilled by al qaeda on american soil was built by this guy. did i say egyptian? yes. he is working as a janitor in the court building across the street from the criminal court like the law and order courthouse that you see on tv. this is another one of the surveillance photos. he is shooting like a nickel plated, i think it's a 357 magna. i am not sure. photograph by the fbi, and as i say, egyptian, egyptian. the blind shake a rise in july of 1990. this is a year after the fbi has all of these guys on

surveillance. he has got very radical views. is the founder of the jewish defense league. he is so radical he is thrown out of the israeli knesset because he position be no israelis living in israel. but nobody deserves to die. certainly not at the hands of an assassin. he was posing as a wearing a yarmulke came into the marriott hotel in lexington avenue when he was giving a speech in november 51990 and gunned him down. that's a shot that i got from shannon taylor, an incredible guy who was literally an eyewitness there. very few people have that photo. two ambulances rushed -- they rushed at lexington avenue looking for the getaway car that the redheaded guy is supposed to be driving. it's not there. so he runs down lexington. there is a postal inspector. there is a gunbattle on lexington avenue and he is shot and two ambulances rushed to bellevue hospital.

the rabbi dies. he lives. that night, they are rested in his house at cliffside park, new jersey. they are the getaway driver's. the fbi brings 47 boxes of evidence out of that house, including pictures of the world trade center, arabic writing the talk about we have to take to the high world buildings, the pillar of their strength. there is a receipt for 1400 rounds of ammunition. if they had a red flashing neon light pointing at the world trade center, it couldn't have been more obvious. and also they find top secret memos from the joint chiefs of staff. take a look at this memo. this memo shows the location of every single navy seals and green beret unit worldwide on the summer fifth 1988. latitude and longitude. ali mohammed stole it and brought it up and gave it to his al qaeda brothers. that is his arabic writing on it. this is a memo to the joint chiefs of staff.

ali mohamed who doesn't even have security clearance is doing this stuff from fort bragg and getting into these terrorist in new york. guess what? they try him as a lone gunman. they let the others go the next day. the fbi shuffles the evidence back and forth between the nypd, the district attorney's office. ultimately there is no federal prosecution of this crime, which is clearly the first blood spilled by al qaeda on american soil. now, there's a guy in the mosque, another egyptian, egyptian, egyptian, egyptian. and i have nothing against people from egypt. i'm just talking about this focus. another egyptian, he has been at this mosque in brooklyn for years. and he is a cohort of the man who founded basically founded this network to fund raise for the regime. these names are complicated but if you go to peterlance.com and you download the little golden book of terror you can follow along.

he is a convert to islam. suddenly he is afraid. the blind sheik is threatening him now for reasons that are too propagated to mention. he is afraid. he called ali mohammed help me get out of the country. ali vomitus don't worry, i will take care of things that you will be protected. he is out in his apartment in brooklyn, i will go back to the apartment, see the apartment over on the right. he is not in his apartment. it's inevitable, the phones off. nowhere. is that patrick fitzgerald calling? because you look like fbi. if you're not, you should be. [laughter] >> so they find him bludgeoned to death. i mean, the guy is doubted, stabbed and bludgeoned. is dead, okay. suffice it to say, he has gone. and suddenly the blind sheik takes over that office, takes over all the money in the office and collects all the money. the fbi has just left the room, ladies and gentle and.

[laughter] >> he visits the killer of 1 acres on. where is the fbi, guys? where is the fbi and all of this wax i decided when i started this, there were 45000 pages of transcripts of the southern district, all of these cases. i started reading every one of those transcripts. i read every single book on the subject. i read all the open sources, articles on 9/11 and i created a database. it says 46 volumes. it's up to like 70 volumes today, 3 inches thick. my daughter has help me and the other daughter filed the. that body of work, i created a little file using filemaker pro, google and a mac and i began putting in every single radical name in any variation. i began to connect the dots. not a word by the way, we will

get to sinks trading in a minute that there is not a word on what i'm about to tell you about in the 9/11 report on sinks trading. in a second. okay so now all the mohamed is an informant for the fbi from 199(199)219-1992 on. ali vomitus to come up and give training sessions to the brothers in this mosque. they used to show the tapes from fort bragg. they used to teach them how to clean weapons and everything in his office. see the mosque? nancy floyd is one of the high road good people in this story. for all the billions i mentioned up to now and the negligence that you will hear about with the fbi, there were some heroic fbi agent. this little woman with the red hair from texas, a pistol of a woman if there ever one was. she is working russian foreign counterintelligence, you know, trying to get the guys in the

un, the russians and she was going around to hotels to see if they were behaving. and this is her mentor, a hero, a lasting, one of the first guys to get an fbi badge from j. edgar hoover. she goes one night to a hotel and recruits this could ask egyptian army officer. he is a truly patriot. is a naturalized u.s. citizen. he loves our country, unlike all the molyneux wants to bring our country down. and he has a desk clerk's job at a sleazy hotel. she meet him and he is making $500 a week. he finally does a few jobs work and he says there is a man in the city more dangerous than the worst kgb hood you will ever meet. and she said who? and he said the blind shake and write down. he is in new jersey city. that's what he calls this

mosque. so nancy floyd goes to her boss and asks them. is willing to risk his life, go undercover to infiltrate the cell for $500 a week, the salary he is making a. can we do it? they sure sure, give him a shot. he does it in today's. see this picture? that's a new york times photo with the blind sheikh. before you know what he is walking around with the blind sheikh. he is driving him to detroit in a white van supplied by the fbi. the fbi now has a guy, a real well as that inside this al qaeda cell in new york. now, you see how nancy has recruited this guy. and by the way, there are two guys that you will get to in a minute. the two agents that are supposed to be watching him are never around or so nancy meets him every night at tgi friday's and take down all the information, goes back to connecticut where she lives and comes back to work the next morning. she is doing like double duty. the plot that is going on at that point is called the 12 jewish locations plot.

he's got a cousin and celeb is going up there and meeting with them in the van thing like he is a terrace giving him like vogues fuses and meeting with the brothers so he can get in the cell. so hampton l. offers to supply bombs. the guy from survey of. john mably and blue mably and john avocet. nypd cop and a special agent, they are on the joint terrorist task. they are the ones who are supposed to be monitoring and controlling, meeting with them. when you don't wear a wire and your undercover you have to talk every night and downloaded this stuff or else you will forget it, right? so nancy is coming and meeting him at tgi friday's by the 26 federal plaza, and as i said doing double duty. she is typing up the reports that go into the file. carson dunbar shows up on the scene. carson dunbar, an ex-jersey

state trooper who has worked his way up in the fbi in new york office and he is the assistant director in charge, kind of like a paperback, the administrative guy. what do they make him the head of? joint terrorism task force. no terrorism expense whatsoever that he suddenly apparently is threatened by nancy floyd strength that he is threatened or ghastly calls him into his office and she says you can't do that. the guy is undercover. he is coming to my office. and he goes to the office and reportedly, according to sources, he has issues off, this guy has issues on. you do what the significance of as president bush found out. anyway, the point is he says you have to wear a wire. i am not wearing a wire. i am sleeping on the floor of these mosques with these guys. no way, that was not ardea. that's it. so he withdraws. now the fbi loses their eyes and ears inside this cell, and what does the blind sheik do.

rhonda youssef, a real bomber comes into new york. slips in with mohamed agca, a terrace. here's how they get into kennedy airport. september of 92 he has a suitcase full of bomb books, recipes. he has swedish bashed ports, his picture crudely taped over, meant to be busted. you start screaming and carrying on. he goes into a little interview session with a woman who is a great ins agent, do you know how many times women almost stopped all of the stuff from happening? this is another female ins agent. these guys came in in first class on pakistan airlines. this guy yousef claimed he is an iraqi refugee from saddam. the boss has a look, we just gave the last man to this other guy. i'm sorry. grant him a hearing.

but boss. grant him a hearing that she stands and rhonda youssef, the mozart of tear walks into the night, hails a cab at jfk. where does he go? the mosque in brooklyn, baby, what he gives with all these guys that are on, that were on the surveillance of the fbi in 1989. what do they find by the way with this guy? he is carrying a book and this is the basic rule on. no one ever translated that. you know what the basic rule meant? the base. al qaeda. and the name al qaeda comes from the fact that the database of all the guys that came to fight top it all their names down, guys from the philippines, south africa, and they dispersed after the war from the soviets and that database of brothers willing to die for allah became al qaeda. okay. understand? and this guy has a book that

says al qaeda, fbi, 1992. yousef is in jersey city. in a bomb factory. and he is building this fuel oil device. 1500-pound bomb to go a. he wants to knock our one into tower two. he wanted 250,000 people killed. at so they are building this thing. remember the good egyptian, the good guy? they weaned him. they gave him like a couple of months to find a new chapter they kept saying in the $500. he needs dancey at the subway shop, one of my favorite venues by the way when i am in manhattan, and he meet her there and she gives him the last $500 in the presence of another fbi agent and he says, nancy, somebody is in town, there is something going on. i had to back away from this. he told the brothers at the fbi was watching them.

that way they wouldn't suspect, right? what is it, says mitch. i am telling you there's something going on. just do me a favor and follow them. follow those two guys and they will lead you to whoever this is. nancy says you don't understand i have no credibility. he won't talk to me. look, i will pass it up the food chain but don't -- you know, nancy, he says the last thing he said were -- by the way, i want to remind you gisele, the photograph in 1989, arrested by them in 1990, they followed them. they used to joke that he would lead them to do hapless agents up into connecticut and just lose them on a wild goose chase. and actually subpoenaed these guys to come down to federal plaza right after youssef came into town, they were like bully these guys it's a pity guys are going like this to the fbi. yeah, sure.

he says, what does he say? if you do not follow these men, don't call me when the bombs, plural, go off. and what happened on february 26, 1993? by the way. before we get to that, i said that when i did this book i called lou and i said how come you didn't follow them how come you didn't follow them? he said as he got a war in search his house. understand what he is doing during this. he is making cell phone calls from the world trade center payphone, surveillance to a payphone on avenue right in front of the bomb factory. all the fbi had to do was get a title iii wiretap warrants who they had on the radar since 1989 and they've would have found youssef. i get to have visible these guys were. doucet was photographed at atms. he got little -- he had three

separate accidents. one time you thought gets in the hospital. he is ordering chemicals for the bomb from a bogus take heart, it and at&t from his hospital room. i can't say you have visible these guys were. what does he say to me? peter, we couldn't follow them because they bt to new jersey. i said what? yeah, they went to new jersey across the hudson river. wait a minute, don't you watch the sopranos, dude? you're telling me you can't go to jersey? that's absurd. and people close to nancy floyd, gets deployed, they had all kinds of off-site locations in jersey out of the new york office. it's a ridiculous excuse. what happened was that dunbar wouldn't approve the surveillance on these guys. you understand what i'm saying? and if dunbar had approved the surveillance they would've been right in the middle of the world trade center ami conspiracy. okay. i've already told you have visible these guys were. in fact, by the way, at one point he is up in federal prison

in eldersburg, new york. he gets on the phone from otis bergen he calls ramsay at the payphone and he says remember days and they are talking in the. remember all those bomb books you brought in, i need to refer to one of those, i am building a bomb. and he says i will make a motion to get the books, okay. he makes a motion to get these books and a federal judge grants the motion even though these are terrorist, you're on a. that's okay. and then finally because the books in the custody of the fbi office, they didn't widely go after the books. nonetheless, they talked about it. and why weren't they tapping their phone calls from the prison. you don't need a warrant to do that. living openly in new jersey with his wife and five kids in the same complex as a 6-foot to which brother. that's his brother, another redheaded egyptian. how many six for two redheaded egyptians could be in new jersey? it's like, where is waldo? is this not fairly easy?

this guy just before they did the bombing that morning, he types on his computer, they call it the fifth liberation army that took credit for the original, that's what they call the al qaeda cell, and they mailed these letters as they left the trade center that they. you will see how you set only by misplacing the bomb, not because of the power of the bomb, blew through four floors on the b2 level literally went down. if he had put a bomb against a 3-foot thick seawall that the trade centers at him, the entire hudson river would have interdicted lower manhattan. it would have made 9/11 look like a disney movie. and just from an act of god that he put the bomb in a wrong place. he was angry that he didn't put the bomb in the right place. that night, does the fbi locked an airport? no. they are saying serbian terrorist. that's what the fbi's theory is. so from the first class lounge, he calls and says i want you to do and you know. i want you to do a new threat

letter but i'm going to get the fire marshal in a minute. he goes in, that's a picture he took with his own camera. that is the edge of one of the b2 level with the rebar looking down into the pit. ramsay calls, this is a revelation i had in this book. very few other authors have this. within one week of the bombing finds this note on his computer in jersey city. our peculation's were not very accurate this time. however, we promise you that the next time it will be very precise and the trade center will be one of our targets. and the fbi had that within days of the trade center bombing in 1993. did you know about it? of course not because you are in the public. okay. and it takes investigative reporters like me to try and find the stuff below the surface because you will not get it in a press release from the department of justice. back to the timeline. peterlance.com, those of you who are still awake or not in shock

or not having your defibrillator to revive you at home, reading, following along. go back to the timeline now because i i will take this story. this is one of the most astonishing revelations that i have in trip across. i came across this because the member i told you i had a 45000 pages of transcript in the southern district cases? those are on disc. those are kind of easy because i could search them, but the case was tried by the manhattan d.a. i asked a work in office in law school. a great d.a. who is retiring this year. that office, i had to get three stenographers to cobble together the transcript. i am reading it and it says -- who has a mailbox store, he has a mailbox storage. kennedy boulevard? isn't that where the blind sheik's mosque is? yes. so that is not number one. on kennedy boulevard, a killer of a world figure, he has a mailbox there any fbi knows in

1990. .net or two, in 1994, patrick fitzgerald who will get back to in a minute and these two federal prosecutors, they are now trying what's called a day of terror case. i have to do a small image this year. the night of the trade center bombing, they are sitting in the office of jim fox, assistant director in charge of the new york office. mary jo white, the feisty little dish she will be the new u.s. attorney, short little lady very feisty. she is pacing back and forth. it's a month into clinton's presidency. a terrorist bomb has gone off in u.s. territory. what will we do? and she says what we have a guy -- what? she's not. let me to this. you had a guy inside the cell that you think is responsible for this? yeah, this guy. we had them inside. get him in here tomorrow. tonight. where is the? get him in your. you know, he's probably going to want a million bucks because we really did not treat this guy

will. i don't care what it costs. get him in your. guess what they paid him? $1.5 million to do what he was doing for 500 a week before the bombing. and in three months, he set up a sting on these guys in this quote day of terror plot and they wired a warehouse and they mailed the blind sheikh and 11 others. nine ultimately convicted in this plot. patrick fitzgerald was a prosecutor that's what i call them make a case for failing to stop youssef, the first time. and why is that important? you will find the significance of use of in this whole story. you understand why that case happened. now mccarthy and fitzgerald, they have a list of 172 unindicted co-conspirators. who is on the list? osama bin laden, all the mom and, the brother-in-law of bin laden. and ali mohamed who as i told you from 1992 is an fbi informant.

now, ollie mohammed's, if you will, control agent is a guy named john who was involved in a grisly like in cold blood like murder case involving the family, the kid on the extreme right, danny, literally hired a guide to kill his entire family in cold blood. his mother, father, ancestors. john is control officer under id with the police investigation and years later when he was on trial lederle was a character with his beard and in a court was convicted. he just missed getting the death penalty. he was guilty as sin. is fbi agent who is supposed to be controlling ali mohammed, his daughter is the fiancé of the killer, and he vouchers for the guy, as a character witness at trial. what kind of judgment does this guy have? that tells you something. is supposed to be making sure that all the mom is on the straight and narrow, okay. that is his daughter.

i didn't give you the whole payoff. let me go back so you understand the payoff when i get to a. on this list of unindicted co-conspirators, there is a name, you will see it in a minute. dot one is the fact that killed the rabbi, had a mailbox or. and 94, fitzgerald and mccarthy think about the collar is so important to put them on a list with al qaeda. i will get to the third dot in a minute. the system works. he is trying to bring this guy in from vancouver. the royal canadian mounted police, the great values, you know, they grab them. the system works. they put him in a room. this what him for like 12 hours. finally admit that he writes a note. call this guy. he gives them the full number of jobs it. he is okay and they let him go. where does he go? he goes to kenya where he starts to take the pictures for the african embassy bombings in 1993, where bin laden, the bombs

go off five years later. he wouldn't have been released from the custody of the mounties if the fbi control agent hadn't vouched for him. these questions are as old as watergate. what did the fbi know and when did they know it when it comes to bin laden and al-zawahiri? all the mom is such a key figure in this story, he moved bin laden's entire entourage from afghanistan to khartoum in 1991. okay. he lives in bin laden's house. e*trade's personal bodyguard in 1994. gives you an idea of how bin laden trust this guy. he writes and translates most of al qaeda's manual. that showed up in manchester, england. by 1994, when he is with bin laden in khartoum, there is a manila cell that is now beginning to plot three plots. they are going to -- first of all, they are going to try and

kill the pope. let me go forward here. the three plots. they will kill the pope who will be there in early january. they will put bombs on his parade route. there would've been thousands dead. there were like 50 people the. that was the first thought they were going to do. the second plot which i will get to any second, is called bulging to. that is like a words were like big noise. and youssef, his genius but criminal genius who went from building methods of master structure and comes up with this idea, we are going to plant little improvised explosive devices like little class and caste using a watch, we will get onboard the first leg of a two legged hopper like, letzig united flight leaving hong kong to singapore and will put the bombs to get on a flight. we will put it above the center fuel tank of the plane. we will use the bomb like a blasting cap to blow the plane apart with a fuel tanker and of course we will get off before that. is not a suicide bomb.

over the pacific, times 12, these bombs will go off. the third plot was the 9/11 plot, okay. and juicy, in december, youssef action did what's called a web test. you see over here in the core use a picture of a casio watch that was seized in this bomb factory after they had a fire. the plot was addicted because they had this fire, but use of did a test on a philippine airlines flight, 434, and put the bomb -- again, this guy is a genius but his placement is an issue with him. remember in the world trade center, he put the bomb 3 feet below the fuel tank and gets off. now the flight is on the way to japan. then boom, over the china sea. blows a hole in the floor. tells the poor japanese national embassy, but now they know and the light is a road we landed by the filipino pilot. boudinot all you have to do is push it forward 3 feet and we can blow these planes.

now, the night of january 5, they are cooking chemicals in their bomb factory. who is in the crew? yousef, khalid shaikh mohammed, the uncle, and a fourth conspirator and they have this smoke incident in their factory. this woman, whenever i kept telling you how many times women almost interdicted this plot, this juggernaut of al qaeda? this woman is sleeping, she's a topic she is one of the most dedicated policemen and the bahamas only she is a woman. they sleep at night like the firefighters do. and she sees this no. seasons a young couple with a. he said they are just fine with firecrackers. no, we're going back because she knew the pope was coming. she knew there was some issues with islamic tears and the south. she is posing in front of the apartment showing me how marotta started to walk back and to get to the laptop. they grab and take him with a.

he starts to come out and he shoots the truck. the young cop bends down and a weaver stance like she is shown, takes a shot. shoot one right past his ear and she says he tripped over a root that was uprooted from a typhoon. if god had not had the typhoon, i love this woman. anyway, they grab him. they slammed him against the wall. he said i have 2000 amex in my socks. she said that as a years salary for many people in my country. what do you have upstairs? this is an honest woman. she goes up. her jaw dropped because she sees the bombs, pipe bombs, hair dye, contact lenses so they can pose as religious clerics in the pope plot. all these bombs. she freezes. half of the philippine national police show up at night. they grab him. juice up and his local car across the street and they withdraw and they escape to islam about where bromley is

captured a month later. this handsome devil guy, and he is a good looking guy, trained in four u.s. flight schools from 1991 to 1992. y., this is important, because he was going to be the lead pilot on the third plot. i told you about the pope, the third plot was 9/11, baby. it was conceived as hijack airliners flying into buildings. he was a commercial pilot. and he was captured and interrogated by this man, one of the most honest and heroic man i have ever met. he is the richard clarke of the philippines. i interviewed him in 19 -- 2002. i got from him the details. first they waterboarding him three days. waterboarding never works. you either give up her money or you go deeper. . .

read my time line, read my book. and now, i did know about the white house. but i found a guy named garcia who is the buildings of the philippines who is hired to dean. >> the laptop. i had two meetings and he told me believe made the seven target and everything i'm telling you is the guy who invented the

laptop. zacarias moussaoui, the 20th hijacker told everybody his target was the white house, how did they get him to intercept? match but covers, reward posters and south african track a dime in islamabad and a captive of the terrorists. what happened to his uncle? the fbi agents who took credit on 60 minutes -- two shot of the donna joseph apartments at the guesthouse in islamabad flayed and there is only 20 rooms in this guesthouse. they find bonds and toys he is going to smuggle on planes, like energizer bunny. he is in giving up and i grabbed him and they render him back in his building. a guy named to leave the ship hangs around long enough to be interviewed by israel for time magazine. i'm a that resolution 19 and i started screaming and i called security, i couldn't believe it. you're telling me that, and

given interviews to time magazine and call him that pakistan businessman hanging out long enough before the fbi shows up to it give an interview and then he is in the wind tracks the dow this is the mastermind of 9/11 and have an fbi agent he is surrounded by two america appear in get back to the time line, we aren't now 1995. bahamas in who went through this quickly, he is the brother-in-law of osama bin laden. this system work with the mounties in 1993. the system were two again hear this guy is coming up to see everson in northern california, he has apple products, that happen to love the apple products and he has a newton p.j. 11 per mason of the new york south, the manila sell. he is bin laden brother-in-law. and they are called at the terrace and a memo from a guy in the state department here though

but one of christopher's, the secretary of state and the deputy attorney general literally pushed this guy out of the country. the jordanians have him convicted of a murder case in absentia, what motives for him to talk in america? he has a death sentence, you want to keep him here, even if you argue that in 1994 there was and that was knowledge about bin laden. and he was heading back to manila with his travel documents and he has this fire in manila and this other stuff going on. >> the dots. warren christopher on behalf of the jordanians said reese to get rid of him and they basically move this guy out of the country, and should dive into jordan. a witness recants the cases this mess and ends up running a seafood restaurant and recently murdered. i wonder why the man who knew the secret. of pride after during this extradition jaime comes up with a famous wall mile which he

admitted was not legally necessary which separated the fbi agents investigating future acts of terror for the criminal agents tried to make cases, taking into parts of the brain of the fbi on al qaeda apart. and it was planned by fitzgerald and others after 9/11 for this. no mention by the way in the 9/11 report, does that surprise you perhaps does this surprise you not to mention? 1995, a couple more things that i will move toward their in 1995, this is an early picture of him. of is smuggled into america and does a tour of mosques to raise money. this is like in my opinion at the height of world war ii it heinrich himmler, if a german spy had smuggled heinrich himmler or joseph foibles where one of the 10 guys in the third reich on a tour of german churches in america at the

height of world war ii he did this. what a guy. i'm not trying to say i admire the guy, but how the hell does the fbi miss this? i am going to make quick, he is back in new york where they bring in a run back to new york in in a jail cell in lower manhattan could only happen in new york in the middle of the jail cell, this guy is the it wise guy and a crime family in colombia. bass are moving as back-and-forth the little holes in the wall and this is an fbi rio to memo documenting this. on my website peterlance.com i have dozens of these memos as you can download, peterlance.com. this is a schematic of the watch that they use, in the corner is what they later called the signature of the trial in august. of this is now made in this wise guy is getting this out to the

event, first they get a camera to photograph the nose and set up a phony mafia from companies of you can make outside calls and think it is the mob but is really the fbi living in. this is how serious the fbi to fess and it's all documented purpose of that is from the manila search of the contractor which shows you that we are talking about the same thing in know from greg with the fax number and the phone number for use of a that. in who is present and knows about this initiative? patrick was 02 is co-head of organized crime and terrorism in the southern district. the turks now is the coprosecutor of a youssef one of the guys that diplomatic security agents told me that the material for manila from kraemer from beaudry, went to the embassy and saw a dress from the fbi to the southern district, he clearly got to this evidence in

the opinion of this diplomatic security agents and this is an interesting name that will come up again. the running criminal cases and that is a district in brooklyn, they are all going into may's bride on a regular basis. all of his fbi free of to describe an active and al qaeda sali in new york, that before with this and have for people with a plot to blow up the plan. there is a link between al qaeda and the terrorist bombing, very imprisons evidence. i showed you a proper texas m'aam showed up at some point and the blind was. august 11th, remember the plot to blow up planes and the transatlantic airliner plot that now is the reason you can't carry, where is my bag of stuff you can't carry the planned. on each of these articles, "the new york times" articles threats and responses of the talk about a mirror image of this plot in a 06 that the brits covered on the

atlantic is in the mirror image and then talk about acetone peroxide and youssef has a memo talking about how to have a plan to blow up the plane and talk about in this memo acetone peroxided is an ingredient in the bomb 10 years later that the bin laden -- al qaeda were going to use. now, while mrs. going on and if you go to peterlance.com inouye click on the playboy bunny you'll see an article that i wrote this week that detail everything i'm telling you because it's complicated and i don't want to just give assurance strip and pretend you can just read the headlines here it is a complicated story but while this is going on with the good wise guy held in the country in between these two terrorists, his father, he is one of the most bothersome killers in the history of the mob.

his protege sat in a trial in 07 and stopped after a 50 homicide's brutal. he is the father and been an fbi informant says at least 1962. the only did 30 days in 30 years in prison because of the bureau gave him in a pass repeatedly. in this guy over here on the right is the lack keogh, they call him mr. organized crime, here is the senior fbi organized crime a zinc and, a key witness in rudy giuliani's commission case. he taught at quantico, he was a legend in the beryl and u.s. and the control agents. now, later it was during this time while the sun is suing on the terrace over here to come over year there are a lot of kids in brooklyn and all two things: the old man's testimony and it the testimony as an expert witness and will that make these mock cases over here if the is discredited.

this kid who is now hoping the government on the terrace is going to letter testified that my dad was a proper relationship and four fbi agents ravined him out. their own boss and i started into your internal affairs investigation. it is the size of a phone book and what does he do this spring fbi aged two, he took the fifth amendment and said he refuses a polygraph test. ledger at a trial after granted immunity he answers i don't recall 66 times. if you and i ever granted immunity and sat i don't recall, you'd go to jail for contempt, that's why the giving amenity for corporations of the fbi is over in the face of cases will go down if he talks about his father and this relationship that they in my opinion and this is underscored that, this is a memo from james calcium, this is the head of the new york office of fbi and he talks about how

that failure of the fbi to wrap this investigation up is casting a cloud over the new york office and running a series of cases in the eastern district in brooklyn and he is basically telling him the shutdown. and guess what happens? they shut it down, they lent pan am despite all of this incredible treasure trove of evidence i'm telling you on al qaeda, 11 months a treasure trove called a hoax and a scam. the fbi and the fed, but this or that is a fabrication, they've been getting it for 11 months and suddenly call it a scam. what motive would he have prexy and as three separate murder plots, where he give this to them and could a guy with a tenth of education to a schematic of a bum on backtracks know, this material is of authenticating. i have 2 inches thick sp 93 of two documented the that's the store they came up with and then

they buried it greg for years and the super max for a rico violations, not one murder. the sense that he killed 19 people, he got five years, he wasn't convicted of one murder of the time and i gave him 40 in the worst federal jail and buried him. he retires with the full pension, takes the fifth, i don't recall and patrick fitzgerald is head of organized crime and terrorism, he is the principle of official and the southern to assert that goes along with this discrediting of the evidence. in fact, if you look in in the appendix to this book which i hope some of you will buy today and not in this for books sales but because i've lived in this, you look in this book on page 590 of this book there is an appendix and you got it in your hand there, it is a six pages one affirmation under penalty of perjury by patrick fitzgerald in which he says we originally thought the scarpa material that they recall the genuine, but we

later found out ever fabrication and hugs and scam and a principal source. this is one of a penalty of perjury by patrick fitzgerald. under penalty of perjury. now he is saying that this is a hoax and a scam. here is the deal -- john is an ex camerino guy and happens to be on a tear with greg and junior, he started this thing and margin shows up in the summer of. i interviewed him from prison. it was hysterical because he said in bin laden and bojangles however when i asked him to you tell the fed that this was a hoax he said in no uncertain terms he said i asked been to live but when it came to ramsey he was doing risking his life 100 percent on. never told but added the airline. so patrick riss gerald, i am not saying he knew because i can't get into his mind but they did

event a fair call him the man with a mainframe computer in that patrick fitzgerald signed a this affirmation in 99 is pinning this that evidence. you get a little sense of why he might not to say this book see the light of day, why should we care coming back wrecks by 96 he is providing the embassy bombing pont. from january on his threat is gone i49, he read the of the looming tower, he talks about scott i49 a boy he doesn't tell prophesied. god bless them and some day maybe i want it pollster but it's i'm doubtful. anyway, lawrence wright tells half of the story of school and i've winning nine in his story is i'm critical of the squad, patrick fitzgerald is running, then colon, these guys coming easily agents in this climate and i told you he was extradited

to jordan. now he is trying to get with scott and i49 indictment of bin laden which is a valid purpose. in the fall of 19907 this guy there is no bridge serve him, that is an artist's rendering, you walked into an embassy in africa and he embezzled $100,000 from bin laden and bin laden says if a member to have to pay it off so he split the wanted to an embassy and gave himself up. remember the mosque in brooklyn, this guy with all the way back to the mosque in 1988, u.s. with the guy that was murdering. he takes the whole story back to brooklyn as how bin laden had the presenceç in europe so patrick fitzgerald knows that. patrick fitzgerald in komen, they debriefed him in '96. he said that the mosque in '87, he hides in afghanistan in 88

the fourth to spare from manila. of his horse and oath to a al qaeda, he is bin laden assistant in sudan in '93. he supports the embassy bombing plot, august 97 coleman, this lake agency searches the house in kenya and he finds ali mohamed evidence that some house b-1 is interacting with the south. the gao's and mes patrick fitzgerald who has been general and the war on tariff metaphorically speaking, use them across from the state house and says i love bin laden, he has a bunch of sleepers taken make operational and everytime and he walks out. the audacity of this guy and he turns to him and says he is the most dangerous man i've ever met, we cannot let this man on the street and that's exactly what he.com he left them on the street for 10 months to have the

bombs go off in a plot that not only began in 1993 but literally was one of the principled practitioners of. 224 dead and 4,000 injured, took a month to arrest ali mohamed. he is held under a john doe one. i think they wanted to keep him a secret and didn't want them to know. they finally cut a deal with patrick fitzgerald to avoid the death penalty, he is now in custodial witness protection summer person and nobody outside the federal government knows where this guy is, he is a one man living 9/11 commission. when you cut a deal with a win is to get something in return. he gets five years, he is a star witness in of a mock cases. ali mohamed is never called by patrick fitzgerald in the most important case of his career u.s. vs. bin laden em si gile, imagine if they had called the ali mohamed and does attorneys peeled back the layers the way i've done in this book three or five, how many months before

9/11. maybe some of you have connected the dots. one week after 9/11 he writes out and flies to newark and they bring him up from florida or he is saying and he says he rides up a whole plot. did he know, he had to know, he was in on this house training as a bodyguard he had to know the plot because how could he not appear to go the plot began in '94 and even if you take the 9/11 commission for the beginning he had to know. so how is it that he cut a deal with them arrested in 92 years before 9/11 and never got the plot out of him? that's a question of like to ask if patrick was show up at a forum on booktv or me anywhere. 9/11 reports. they have a very -- the embassy bombings as early as december 93 began a casing targets in

nairobi that levitt a former egyptian army officer who had moved to the u.s. in the mid '80s and became an instructor at fort bragg, providing guidance and training well, there's not much more about ali mohamed in the 9/11 report, none of what i told to another of his meeting with patrick fitzgerald is the brain that has all those years and none of that is in the 9/11 report. why should we care? was a preventable? they knew in '91, here is the point. remember the story as told to about the two dots and i'll give it third. in the new in 91 that there was the blind and shakes terror group. september of 1999, fire marshal who was not on the hero and a final permit who literally had his back broken in a rescue and could have retired within three

quarter pension but went back to us to the cannon fire marshal, and was in a military intelligence unit in the army reserve and was stationed in the analysis center of boeing aerospace where he had a top-secret clearance and he is done over the years wanting this fbi negligence and can't believe it so he is in the fine. work in terrorism and 99 when he finds out that there is a guy named -- the has ties to the blind shake. he isn't a fdny accountant -- he is literally -- is on the arm of the blind to shake acting as translator inter-island absolutely al qaeda. at a very high level in working as an accountant. he finds out 1999 that he gets the plans of the world trade center prior to the first on, up blueprints and he did not show

up that day. he goes up and tells them and the joint terrorism task force basically blows them off. not interested in 1999. whether the link had been pursued? remember i told you the trading was located in red below and egyptian, this is the shape mosque. this is a mosque and this is sphinx trading below. the same building. that is where he had a box, they do money transfers to the middle east. he has a box in 1990. this is a civic and of incorporation i'm kanan. it shows while the two names coming use in a close-up egyptians a: corporate riss, but in the mccarthy and patrick would still the and the day, and they chose millis 770 to unindicted co-conspirators.

130, they consider him important enough to put on inglis with ali mohamed and osama bin laden. that is the second got on the chart. where do think to of the 9/11 hijackers got that make idps? in july of 2,001. two months before 9/11 from sans trading with the had mailboxes and muhammed, these two guys who flew a 77 into the pentagon. this is a man arrested. the social club in little italy, the fbi monitored for seven years around the clock and then photographed every living sicilian american i came in and out of that place and well they should have and is a free times and finally on the fourth time that put a spike in the apartment and they got the teflon. good for the lens on not one but if they haven't put 10 percent

of the energy into busting the al qaeda and focusing and surveillance since training than they put on john fattah social club the towers would be standing in lower manhattan and have as my belief. you read my book and decide which you think. you may not agree but i'm telling you just to put a portion of a ngo put into going after them mafia into this al qaeda conspiracy and that would have the right in the middle of this plot to months before 9/11. nancy floyd, the woman who recruited them and, arguably the most important asset of this time, it is to get a corner office in the rebuilding and get rewarded? no, they opened an internal affairs investigation that went on for four years and to a suspended for two weeks and put on the street insubordination. one john miller wrote his famous book the cell and that abc used in part with their 9/11 in a series john miller former abc

correspondent who interviewed bin laden has a stellar accreditation, never mentions nancy floyd by name. that is like telling the story of paul revere without mentioning the worse. when floyd, the past was done and that one of the heroes and nancy is reduced to a role of an assistant. john miller is the lead character and where is he today? he is the tooth plaque with the fbi, the chief puerto rico man for the federal bureau of investigation. now, this memo, remember i told do the trick snell, patrick fitzgerald and valerie copernican were issued today? shea is the general counsel to the fbi in have lawyer to the fbi. these reports on to represent eliot spitzer and became a key agent and even given a sponsor after the whole fall of over the upper purvis and patrick fitzgerald is in the u.s. attorney's office in chicago sending letters to harpercollins to kill his book parent chapter

five all the evidence that brought to the 9/11 commission when i testified was reduced to this for a not -- the men and testified before a. a man who should have been a witness in front of the commission and he has a with a list conference room, no sonata for come on the recording equipment and as the mistress of him that i sent all the evidence i had to governor kean and ended up in the national archives that they reduce everything about the plot in manila in '94 to this footnote to and they cited as that the authority for when the plot started two years later, police said muhammed. that is asking david berkowitz when he did the samara and shake mohammed has been bothered born in manhattan at 83 times and complete and reliable. an nbc news, recently did a study with them one quarter of all for those in the 9/11 report referred to cia interrogations' of al qaeda operatives adapted

to tauscher russia interrogation techniques, there were tortured. one out of every four finance and the 9/11 report. this is the piece that process sorry on the base. this is my piece for playboy that to get on-line and go on my web site and then line and with the pitchers, but the chilling effects, that is what patrick this show is have to do and try to shove this put down all those months. ramzi yousef is the reason from 1996 and '94 that you can carry the goods on planes, he had a little coming in the batteries for the bomb on a plan in the heels of issues. i felt a complaint against him in the fifties with the justice upon and asking for this an internal affairs investigation, that is my right as a u.s. citizen. we will see if a justice of

carmen takes it seriously. patrick fitzgerald, censorship. one of my favorite quotes from alfred griswald of "the new york times", books won't stay man, they won't burn, ideas will go to jail. in the long run of history this sensor an inquisitor have all is lost. the only weapon against bad ideas is better ideas and justice louis brandeis said the sunlight is the best disinfectant. but in it in this country is a truth commission. ready to bring him out of hiding and put him in front of a joint senate-house intelligence committee beacon hill by the layers that decades of pathology in the southern district. he used to have the guts to face me in a form not try and simi for libel and came by boat from the the light of day, but to date made. let's answer some of these questions. you are a great man and a great public figure in republican official but she needs to be held accountable for your years of the southern district. that's basically my presentation

but before you clap i want to say to a quick things: ronnie ended up dying in south florida town of bad day. heroically when it found his remains he had taken off his coat and put it over people and to keep them from the flames. teeone said the years before when they was desperately trying to get people to the senate is about the crusades, we took their councils and will come back to take cars. i want to do this will last into walter cronkite. when i was in college i had the benefit to go spend the day and of cronkite news and i wrote this piece for my literary magazine for the college in boston of the stand that i went to and one of the most important seminal a sense of my life as a reporter was watching walter cronkite at close hand. dan rather so many years later on the cbs evening news and a bully pulpits that walter sat in that chair did to pieces on two consecutive nights reporting,

iraq and the first book of thousand years for revenge. god bless walter cronkite. thank you. [applause] so can we have a few, what is our overall time at this point? where almost two hours. are we ok? can we have some questions from the audience please? there is a microphone. >> [inaudible] >> talk loud and i will answer. >> [inaudible] -- i go with that. it sounds very credible. but what about the fact that according to richard clark

condoleezza rice was repeatedly warned immediately preceding the attack that this is going to happen and see sen be in and gave them the runaround. >> is in my book, i have that report and in my second book cover of which covers the 9/11 commission in did tell. i have been critical of the two bushbuck and in particular but also the clinton years because they happen to fall most of this time during the clinton administration. that is why people on the left and right have embraced my work. you're totally right about condi rice and also condi rice remember that on the white house under bush five giving the president told daily briefing revealing to the public. they repeatedly fought in the 9/11 commission is being conceived, they try to undo fun at the 9/11 commission. and phillipson account, the executive director who is one of the people cheered picking was a crony of condi rice of ended up working for her after words.

so believe me you make a valid point. >> it is hard for me to believe that it doesn't go deeper. that there wasn't deliberate involvement on the part of the administration. on and as evidence for that what about the fact that we had just coincidentally workings going on that involved u.s. jets, the jets that would have been scrambled that should have been scrambled that were diverted. that is quite a good incidents on all day is that to be happening that was happening on the morning of 9/11. >> right and, in fact, i went one step further in my book cover up for i found out that the 77 air wing of the new jersey national guard which was a comparable wayne to the otis air national guard base that was 130 miles away that showed a place that was summoned, this air wing had to fighter jets in the air doing maneuvers over the

pilot southern new jersey and could have easily gone to europe to intersect the second five even if a suicide bomb to the plan could have stopped it, if anybody in the white house had given issue down order, but when it comes to the inside job theory i am not saying -- i don't subscribe to and but i'm open to the truth and the point of view i saying and why didn't the tower seven clearly was imploded later in the day, i don't believe the two principal towers were but these are all important questions. governor k-9 quote in my book and out about this, it is 177 area and says in the record this is outrageous, not a word of the 9/11 commission. there is a brief reference to a deactivated your ad base as if because of the deactivated didn't have plans in the sky. i totally agree that every single one of these questions need to be read hansard and the 9/11 commission was an absolute lie wash. patrick fitzgerald tests the fund before the commission, one

of the last officials in june of 04. he devoted 2000 for a statement 10% two ali mohamed, not a word, i told you tonight about negligence. just about how he was and what is compelling spy he was so i totally agree with this man, we need that kind of information to come out in the into commission, not had an and the 9/11 commission, we need a commission poplin by scholars, journalists and a lot dictums families and guys like you, people that are concerned. and have subpoena power. that has anybody beyond a commission that has anything to do the intelligence community rating of two 9/11. next question please. i hope we get the microphone working. >> if mr. fitzgerald were to agree to you -- you've at subway in manhattan what would be the top questions you wouldn't ask him? >> wanted to leave ali mohamed on the street for 10 months?

after he told the when he is the most dangerous man, we can leave him on the street. why did you cut a deal with ali mohamed to avoid the death penalty and not have ali mohamed testify as a star witness of the trout? why did the southern district and i didn't mention this, amazingly important, remember how i shall they used wanted posters and there was a $2 million reward, the old-fashioned the wild west, wanted posters and a reward. a guy sees it and drop a dime, that's how they got in youssef, they kept secrecy the indictment of mahomet for years. and the first time the seven districts even mention his name the day ramsey was sentenced in january 2008, famous kneuer times front page story, i am a terrace and proud of its. barry on the inside of "the new york times" led the second to last paragraph and today the second district on a raft one against him and believed to be a relative. they bury this thing at the bottom of the story.

why did they keep the hunsicker? that is a really important question i'd like to ask patrick fitzgerald. of i have a theory but i think it is complicated and i wouldn't able to to a justice of the time remaining but you go to peterlance.com in debt that time line in the book, you will see and understand what i feel that way. >> have you read the new pearl harbor by dr. david ray griffin? >> have not only ready by dr. david ray griffin ask my permission to excerpt signaling in parts of my works that are in any given that book for the next one. so i am aware of david's work but as i said, i am not a subscriber of a inside job in theory because part of the problem with inside job theory is intense to invalidate the of the nt and al qaeda and the threat it poses to this country. that is not to say that elements

in this government, the cia, the fbi having held them hostage seen and read the bin laden peace that exists today, did not do things to protect guys like ali mohamed of the years in aid and abet and that's not to say they did into multiple access cover up in order to protect themselves from embarrassment. and all of the things i've documented my book, john shopping in math. there are enough to be terrified about when it comes to the risks that we remain at one of the most important thing is the reason i do these books, the fbi in my opinion this bill to reform, there are about 30 arab speaking areas at a 6,000 agents working in counter-terrorism. 30 speak arabic and none in senior management to my knowledge. the original case file system, the had a paper driven culture and one of excuses they gave it was we had all this on paper so they spend hundreds of millions of what is called the trilogy

produce a bank and do what i.com data mining. they spent and a scrap of that program several years after 9/11 and hired lockheed martin to do operationally the nicaea they said. so how is said that an fbi agent in the film with the blackberry can't in the name of a suspect and have it instantly go to the fbi files and phos-check? i suspect one of the reasons that they have been so reluctant is that no one too. >> the dots. they are afraid when snakes will come out and said actually are connecting the dots in their own file so i think that's from of a problem taking this law. >> uterine to get -- can i do think one of the the reasons for a lot of these

mistakes is that they have a common basie terrorists as a different to mobsters? that they think there is a competitive way to prosecute because surely they look at mobsters as everyone from the tops of a the bottom, but they seem to lead, you know, in connection go? command that is a billing question and then to say this of thank you. the fbi has been personal as a know who were denied a existence of the mob for many years. and that in this appellation meeting that took place in new york in 1937 of the mobsters to end at of the farmhouse, and finally the bureau took many years and then figure out how to best the mafia. the now, i ask one of my heroes, and of mine and the guy who wrote one of the most informal will journalism's own accounts to knowledge of organized crime and asked him one day, if you

added up all the collective ability of organized-crime in america from the time of the 20s in the must -- beats a murder incorporated in the five families in new york and their control of the garment industry and construction industry and the many murders of all that the mob is responsible for, the collective if you will impact on america, would it equal anything close to the damage done by al qaeda and 9/11? he said not even close, not even close. think about that. two of the greatest buildings in america brought down. the pentagon, the seat of our national security under attack. how many -- almost 3,000 americans dead and what is still an unsolved cold case and effective mass murder. think about that, think of a emphasis. the bureau's number one priority for many years was getting john gotti and they finally got him but what if they had taken 10 or

20% of energy and focus on the six trading? by the way you can't argue that somebody said there was still piping, there were different offices. patrick fitzgerald title was co-head and later head of organized crime and terrorism. u.s. of the guy in charge of both disciplines so what would have taken to direct some of those guys who were so brilliant at black bags civilians were to the guys on long island in 20 years might have taken to take them trade, with a have not been, less to said they found this guy is not think idps, that is where the condi rice material comes through. george tenet, a hair is on fire, the line is when you read, all this intelligence that was percolating that summer. you say that in conjunction with the fact that two guys are getting fake ids then you are connecting the dots who doesn't want to care whether he learns how to land a plane but just wants to fly into.

and harry the road kazin's pilot screaming at washington for a warrant coming but that together. don't you think things straight i have prompted some of the two say what unto this like this doing hitting ladies? do you have a question? >> de you think that the planes crashed into the twin towers in the manner that it was planned in? i heard recently that had the tower is tipped over and crashed into the buildings it would have been many times worse your final and that would have been feasible or if they tried it or if they just want to cash in down? >> on my son that subscribe to the theory that they were imploding intentionally, youssef

was tried in '96 and '97, for the world trade center second child. in that trial there was testimony about the event that the fireproof foam insulation, in order to put that power is up 110 stories they're constructed of white steel and there was an exception to the new york building code has said that all buildings with steel had to be encased in tile or concrete. so when the military plane and the empire state building it had hardly made any kind of an impact if you will. and the integrity of the building but these towers are fragile, depending on this funding from such a of steel on the outside and inside said they were supposed to -- i figure was and is in a half on insulation but ironically them on baghdad the contract or sprint this stuff on and he did not do its. he was later murdered in an unrelated incident but then found his body near the trade center, but he spring have the north tower and then twice as

much on the north tower in half so that is why the north tower was the first befell second. the south tower was a second of job offers. wasn't enough fireproof fan and the weight of the gasoline of the fuel, the intensity of the flames about the tower is down in the youssef heard all of this stuff in his style so i believe having got it wrong the first time and to think he might not went to the other, this is a brilliant way to employ of the towers. that is my theory. there is a lot of testimony in the compression of the fbi in one of the most chilling things is when they rented him back to the u.s., flew into steward air base and poughkeepsie, new york. they took him in down the hudson, a magic night in new york in the towers are leaving and i would have done the same thing. the circle the from the 50th floor, took his foot off and they said, they're still standing. there are three variations on the story but the one that i

believe is ramsey saying they're standing for now. one of my greatest privileges as a student at columbia university , one adviser, the great friend from the use to have a weekly seminar that was amazing and he introduced me to justice leonard hand, the tenth justice, and he said from a multiple of of tons comes the truth. that is, the hallmark of my work. i use the shoe leather, classic investigative journalism techniques, i'm open to the issue. anybody that has new information for me about anything i am wrong, i am happy to have it pointed out. and i think what the patrick fitzgerald did attempted to shut this book down was wrong for u.s. official. i'm happy to debate him any time and i would love somebody in the house or senate intelligence committee to pull ali mohamed

out of a custom deal with this protection in china in line on him and have him tell the truth of all those years the fbi was have done by al qaeda. thank you. [applause] two mad for more information on peter lance and his work, visit peterlance.com. will 41 and the making of modern american citizens, christopher, who is james montgomery flagg? >> james montgomery flagg is the man behind one of those simple and images in american politics, they uncle sam one wants to poster, he was a graphic artists working in new york in the 19

tens and right in that time after the war has started but before the u.s. was involved in the war he wanted americans to be more involved and he wants to come up with a provocative is kelly get americans into the military and he is the one i gave us the cement of the uncle sam wants to view, the figure pointing out. >> was he under contract to present that ms.? >> he was a bad time working for a magazine leslie illustratively plea which is a popular magazine of the day, and he was under a tight deadline to finish and, in fact, he did not have a lot of ids and so has the story as we know if particularly from his memoirs that he got an idea of coming up with a picture of himself working, looking from the mirror, looking into the mirror and adding a few years to the image, putting on a funny hat, and that gave him the magazine cover in the year so later the u.s. army picked up the image him into a recruiting

poster. >> at the time he created it was not a government and to the recruits all of us? packin was a popular image that ran under a headline: are you doing for preparedness meaning getting ready in case you were drawn into the european war. >> so was there a national average in 1916 to get into world war i? >> there vqs. some people actually wanted the u.s. to enter, especially people like theater roosevelt we really felt this was an international crisis and even humanitarian crisis of civilization on the u.s. had an obligation to be involved. others just one of the u.s. to be more prepared to commit to have a larger army and have my capabilities in case of the world events attract america into war and then there were those who felt this was a european problem and the u.s. should stay away from. >> but not a centralized government africa ricin. >> no, there was on a

centralized government after it and it woodrow wilson tried to avoid this as president because he worried that it was coming to an end up alienating voters on both sides can i then how did the u.s. into world war i? >> well, despite woodrow wilson's effort to keep america out of war he made a series of decisions that slowly back this into war. particularly by giving preference to britain by not trading with germany and then as the germans in the spring of 1917 launched a desperate last-minute gambit to win the war, knowing that they're going to guide americans into it, the germans thought that the americans didn't have a big army and a strong federal government and would never get into the war in time to make a difference. >> but prior to woodrow wilson's decisions, what were the grassroots semper deference that got us into world war i? >> well, among the people about one in the u.s. to be more

prepared in this movement was a group of people and most republicans and many disciples of theodore roosevelt who seventh of a volunteer military training camps and a big one in plattsburgh, new york called the movement and often of the elite college students of the day would send their summer's training to be military officers and many have become military officers and a pass after the war the rtc as we know today really traces its roots back to this massive movement. >> so was there and grassroots movement to get into the war? was of the war popular before the americans got into a? >> the were was popular with some people but i think one of the things most people forget about world war i was it was very divisive both entering the war and then how to fight the war after it started. lot of that division has been from dawn in the years since then the. >> where does your book, "uncle sam wants you", come from?

>> the book and to the senate found it puzzling group of people so in a footnote of another book i found a reference to what were called slacker rains in this locker was a bustling term in world war i for draft dodgers. slacker raids were carried out by a group of volunteers, mostly middle-aged men of overdraft aid to ago a man in cities and small towns and try to tie down the draft dodgers in the committees. i thought this is just unusual. people volunteering to enforce the draft, literally hundreds and perhaps 200,000 people are part of this group in american protective league so i saw the by researching them and became a bigger story about america and this federal government in this first world war. >> what was then fed on the federal government of world war i? >> it was enormously chance upon him and i think that historians have not enough attention because a lot of the

organizations that call large during the war got smaller after. said the army got much bigger and contracted and budget, the much bigger and enchanted but never went back to the small size it was before. that's an important turning point and then a mine says of a federal presence in everyday life where there for generations to come. so when you crises came whether the great depression and the first world war was a previous summit that others look that one diamond back at what should the federal government two. >> one was the previous image? >> it was an image of a voluntary association, a civil society and the turn of the century a time when people are active in clubs and lodges and tried to use the voluntary sense ability to mobilize the population, mobilize the nation at a time when the state itself may not actually be that big. >> so is value included the suffragists in this book? >> ideas. and i think that the war is a

crucial moment for women's organizations whether they were in suffrage organizations are not. first of all, time to find a place for themselves at a time when a man responsibilities are clearly stated. so women have to find their own place and intact again hundreds of thousands of the volunteers in various organizations on the home front particularly in areas that are marked as women's spheres of activity, thune, conservation and things in the home. >> why is it that there was a rise in anarchy, but a rise in domestic terrorism and instances of anarchists during this time? >> wealth, there have been a violence in labor for quite awhile before the war but were were one immerses a turning point and for me it has captured in the word pro german. which is a word that appears almost everywhere in the press during the first world war.

but it may not have anything to do with actual germans feared pretty much any activity or violence or strike to be labeled as pro german and so a lot of the labor radicals who had been around throughout the time of industrialization found themselves under the gone. >> the turn pro chairman, was used against people and was ineffective tool? >> it was used against pretty much anyone who is challenging the status quo, it was used against striking workers, it was used against african-americans who started to migrate from the rural south to the north, and it was a titanic in the marginalizing and silencing them. remarkable way is. >> christopher capozzola, "uncle sam wants you". >> thank you

we're at the 2009 book expo american booksellers convention in new york with a johnny temple, publisher from berlin -- book in new york. what you have coming out this fall? >> this fall one of the books we are most excited about is a graphic novel by the great black film maker melvin van peebles, it is actually a book that inspired a new film of his that will begin appearing in august and september of this year simultaneous with the publication of the book and he is the godfather of the black exploitation movement. we are very proud to be working with them and encourage late right about now we are publishing a new book by that after an activist mike farrell who is best known for the role be taken on the tv show mash, one of the greatest tv shows of

all time, ended this the book of fuel and man, this sort of a row the boat, and wrote a memoir, a ubavel memoir. we are putting him back on the road and and we're keeping him busy. >> one is akashic books and how long have you been publishing? >> we've been publishing since 1997. we published literary fiction and, the heart and soul of the company, we published a sort of outsider sensibility though some of our books are quite popular on our books often sort of is provocative in one way or another and we to in the low bids of nonfiction as well and political nonfiction, writers who publish in the nonfiction round included mike farrell, robert scheer, ron coverage, and others on a cultural heroes of the left. >> and not only the publisher but the founder of akashic books, how did you get into books and why did you decide to

serve a publishing house? >> i stumbled into it, it was never anything i intended to do. my previous life was a rock-and-roll musician and spend most of the 1990's during the world with my band, putting out albums into the things that rock'n'roll hours do and when i finally arrived at the thing that rock-and-roll to best making money after i made some money i published a book basically as an experiment and i found that i really enjoyed publishing the book. it was quite successful, and publish a second of began, it was a hobby, and after publishing three or four books i had the publishing budget. i started transitioning away from rock-and-roll and into book publishing. there was no looking back. >> now the publisher is based in brooklyn, you live in britain, in view of the founder of the brooklyn book festival -- can you tell us about that? >> the berglund book festival is hosted by brooklyn borough hall, new york city has one mayor but it has five boroughs and ease of the five boroughs as a borough

president and elected borough president. and britain's very popular borough president is marty markell let's and when he came into office five or six years ago or maybe seven years ago he always wanted to start giving up a book festival because berglund is the home of creators and has a literary tradition dating back to walt whitman, richard wright and in these days we have many best sellers living in brooklyn so it was a very natural place for a big book festival. i contacted the borough hall and was able to help them to realize this vision of a big book festival ended has quickly become this city's big -- best book vessel, this year so the september 13th will be the fourth daniel bricklin oppressive all. we will have over 150 office of participating in programs, 150 exhibitors publishers of a literary magazines, letters to organizations. is very ctt