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Intimidated by FBI, Witnesses Claim 911 ''Coverup in Progress'' In Florida
December 10--Venice, Florida
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their time in Florida.
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FBI agents harassed and intimidated witnesses to the 9/11 terrorist conspiracy’s activities in Florida, issuing warnings
to avoid talking with reporters, say current and former residents in Venice, Florida.
At least one eyewitness, who knew Mohamed Atta because he lived next door for a time, received regular visits for over
six months after the attack from FBI agents eager to ensure she continued to remain silent. Several said they felt
unfairly singled out because what they saw and heard is at considerable variance with the official story of the
terrorist cadre’s time in Florida.
An American girl named Amanda Keller, for example, briefly lived with Mohamed Atta in Venice, according to both local
news reports and numerous eyewitnesses.
She possessed presumably ‘scorching-hot’ details of life with a terrorist ringleader. But we never saw her being
interviewed by Diane Sawyer.
The FBI had other ideas.
A total blackout on information
With reporters literally camped at her doorstep, Keller told us she had been so intimidated into silence by the FBI that
she spoke barely a dozen words. “The newspaper quote you read was accurate,” she said. “‘I can’t really say anything.
I’m afraid I’ll get in trouble.’"
“A N.Y. Times reporter named Chris—young, tall, kind of heavy, dark hair and a dark goatee—came to my house,” she
explained. “And he was mad because I wouldn’t talk to him. This dude would NOT leave me alone. I stood outside arguing
with him forever, and he was trying to trip me up and get me to say something.”
"And so I called the FBI agent that had been calling me—right while this reporter guy was standing there—and told him
this reporter won’t leave me alone. The agent said let me talk to him, so I handed him the phone. And I don’t know what
was said, but after that he left me alone.”
Why had she remained silent? "Because of the intimidation by the FBI,” she replied. “They told me not to talk to
anybody, to keep my mouth shut."
"Peeling hundreds from his fanny pack"
The FBI didn’t confine their menacing visits just to people who had lived with the terrorist ringleader. Some got in
trouble just for having lived next-door, like Stephanie Frederickson, a pleasant 50-year old housewife who made the
grave mistake of living in an apartment beside the apartment that Mohamed Atta moved into with Amanda Keller.
“At first, right after the attack, they (the FBI) told me I must have been mistaken in my identification," Frederickson
stated. “Then they would insinuate that I was lying. Finally they stopped trying to get me to change my story. After
that they just stopped by once a week to make sure I hadn’t been talking to anyone.
Frederickson shrugged. "Who was I going to tell? Everybody around here already knew.”
The Sandpiper Apartments manager, Charlie Grapentine, is a grizzled Korean vet in his early 60’s. The FBI did not his
recollections any more warmly than they had those of Stephanie Frederickson.
"Atta always carried a fanny pack around his waist,” Grapentine told us. "I remember Amanda once telling him that she
needed some new clothes, and he reached in and peeled off a few hundreds from a thick roll of cash he had stuffed inside
the fanny pack.”
But, we all have careers to think about...
Grapentine turns grim on the subject of the FBI's treatment. "They called me a liar, and told me to keep my mouth shut,"
stated the ex-marine through clenched teeth. “Nobody likes to hear that: that they didn't see something they know they
saw.”
Keller, Frederickson, and Grapentine, are just three examples of the apparently officially-sanctioned silencing of
eyewitnesses in Florida to the terrorist's activities.
They are by no means alone in having felt official pressure to keep silent.
Longboat Key fire captain Carroll Mooneyhan was waiting in the lobby of the hotel President Bush was staying at the
night before the attack, for Bush to come out for his morning run when he saw something he shouldn’t have. Something
pretty big, actually…
After talking with local reporters he clammed up. When we finally reached him by phone, Mooneyhan, who witnessed the
launch of an attempt to assassinate the President, told us: “I was visited by the CIA and the Secret Service after 9/11.
I have a career to think about. I have to be careful what I say.”
And that was the last we heard from him.
A lesson for our times
You can count the number of investigative journalists who have followed the trail of the 9/11 terrorist conspiracy
during their time in the U.S. on one hand and pick your nose at the same time.
Its time for a change.
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- Daniel Hopsicker is the author of Barry & 'the boys: The CIA, the Mob and America's Secret History. About the author. - Email the author.
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