{"id":1857,"date":"2007-11-30T02:50:10","date_gmt":"2007-11-30T02:50:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/911-truth\/giuliani-the-911-mastermind\/1857\/"},"modified":"2007-11-30T02:50:10","modified_gmt":"2007-11-30T02:50:10","slug":"giuliani-the-911-mastermind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/911-truth\/giuliani-the-911-mastermind\/","title":{"rendered":"Giuliani &#038; the 9\/11 Mastermind"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Rudy Giuliani Does Business With Sheik Who Helped 9\/11 Mastermind Elude FBI<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Three weeks after 9\/11, when the roar of fighter jets still haunted the city\u2019s skyline, the emir of gas-rich Qatar, Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifah al-Thani, toured Ground Zero. Although a member of the emir\u2019s own royal family had harbored the man who would later be identified as the mastermind of the attack\u2013a man named Khalid Sheikh Muhammad, often referred to in intelligence circles by his initials, KSM\u2013al-Thani rushed to New York in its aftermath, offering to make a $3 million donation, principally to the families of its victims. Rudy Giuliani, apparently unaware of what the FBI and CIA had long known about Qatari links to Al Qaeda, appeared on CNN with al-Thani that night and vouched for the emir when Larry King asked the mayor: \u201cYou are a friend of his, are you not?\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Abdallah al-Thani remains a named defendant in the 9\/11 lawsuits that are still proceeding in Manhattan federal court, but his Washington lawyers declined to address the charges that he shielded KSM, insisting only that he never \u201csupported\u201d any \u201cterrorist acts.\u201d Asked if Abdallah al-Thani ever supported any <\/em><em>terrorists rather than their acts, his lawyer David Nachman declined to comment further. The Congressional Research Service report summarized the evidence against him: \u201cAccording to the 9\/11 Commission Report and former U.S. government officials, royal family member and current Qatari Interior Minister, Sheikh Abdullah (Abdallah) bin Khalid Al Thani, provided safe harbor and assistance to Al Qaeda leaders during the 1990s,\u201d including KSM. While numerous accounts have named Abdallah as the KSM tipster, the report simply says that \u201ca high ranking member of the Qatari government\u201d is believed to have \u201calerted\u201d KSM \u201cto the impending raid.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>In other words, as incredible as it might seem, <strong>Rudy Giuliani\u2013whose presidential candidacy is steeped in 9\/11 iconography\u2013has been doing business with a government agency run by the very man who made the attacks on 9\/11 possible<\/strong>. <\/em><\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.crooksandliars.com\/2007\/11\/28\/rudy-giuliani-does-business-with-sheik-who-helped-911-mastermind-elude-fbi\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rudy Giuliani Does Business With Sheik Who Helped 9\/11 Mastermind Elude FBI Three weeks after 9\/11, when the roar of fighter jets still haunted the city\u2019s skyline, the emir of gas-rich Qatar, Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifah al-Thani, toured Ground Zero. Although a member of the emir\u2019s own royal family had harbored the man who would [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,18],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1857","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-911-truth","7":"category-latest-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1857","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1857"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1857\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}