This post at the Able Danger Blog describes how National Geographic entered into a contract with investigative journalist, Peter Lance, to produce a documentary based on his book, Triple Cross. But National Geographic reneged on the deal well into the project:
They took a documentary based entirely on my work which was highly critical of the negligence of (FBI) agents like Cloonan and former AUSA Patrick Fitzgerald - currently the U.S. Attorney for Chicago and Special Prosecutor in the CIA leak case - and make it appear that they were somehow on top of the Ali Mohamed scandal.
The Ali Mohamed scandal? What is that? I really didn't know. So I spent a few hours reading about him in the New York Times archives (subscription required). Sure enough, what Peter Lance has written about this terrorist, Ali S. Mohamed, is confirmed by several articles in the Times, going back many years. I was going to write a timeline of Mohamed's life, but I found an excellent one in the San Francisco Chronicle here. Here are just a few amazing facts about the life of Ali S. Mohamed: he was born in 1952, served as an officer in the Egyptian military, moved to the US, served in the US military at Fort Bragg, was a member of Al Qaeda and an FBI informant, surveilled the US African Embassy buildings and was a conspirator in the bombings of the embassies, trained Osama bin Laden's body guards, was involved with the terrorists who bombed the World Trade Center in 1993, and more. Unbelievably, there is no record at this time that this terrorist has been sentenced for his crimes.
Here's Wikipedia:
"While he was subpoenad in Rahman's trial, Ali Mohammed was not arrested until years later — on 10 September 1998, when he attempted to flee to Egypt after being subpoenaed in the aftermath of the embassy bombings in Nairobi and Tanzania. After eight months of imprisonment without trial, Ali Mohammed entered a guilty plea in May 1999. What happened after that is unclear. The trial proceeded, but there is no record of any sentencing or even a conviction. As late as February 20, 2002, CBS News reported that "Mohammad pleaded guilty and is awaiting sentencing."[2] There has been no further news of his whereabouts, his sentencing, or whether he was released."
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