FTR#570—Interview with Daniel Hopsicker—Update on the German Connections to
9/11—(Two 30-minute segments) (Sources are noted in parentheses.) (Recorded
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Summary of FTR#570—(Note: The massive
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Along with FTR#391, they should give
listeners/readers a substantive grasp of this momentous event. It is
recommended that listeners use this description and e-mail it to others.) Further exploring 9/11 hijacker Mohamed
Atta’s German associates in Florida, this interview with Daniel Hopsicker sheds
more light on the mysterious and sinister Wolfgang Bohringer, one of the
Germans who Atta referred to as his “brother.” (For more on Bohringer, see FTR#542. For more about Atta’s German associates in
Florida, see FTR#477.) Having
relocated to remote Fanning Island (one of the Kiribati Islands, formerly known
as the Gilberts), Bohringer is reportedly planning on opening a flight school
for trainikng people to fly DC3’s, an excellent aircraft for smuggling
contraband. This is a continuation of a career of shadowy and ostensibly
illegal activities in which Bohringer has been involved. Formerly working as a
pilot for Czech criminal kingpin Victor Kozeny, Bohringer keeps large amounts
of cash and weapons on his yacht moored at Fanning Island. Bohringer’s former
employer Kozeny has allegedly been involved with Bush family associates in a
decades-long scheme to launder money to help corrupt U.S. elections. Acquaintances
on Fanning Island describe Bohringer as rabidly anti-Semitic, lending
credibility to some of Mr. Emory’s previous speculation that Bohringer, and
perhaps other German associates of Atta’s, may well be of Nazi persuasion.
Program Highlights Include: Bohringer’s involvement in an Atlanta computer company allegedly involved
in massive fraud; the involvement of Bohringer’s boss Kozeny in a scheme to
gain control over the state-run oil company of Azerbaijan; Kozeny’s alleged
involvement in massive drug smuggling; the alleged involvement of Kozeny with
an executive of insurance AIG; Bohringer’s close association with the Flying
Club of Munich; the Flying Club of Munich’s reported Nazi associations;
attempts by law enforcement to cover-up the German connections of Atta and the
9/11 hijackers’ links to a global criminal network.
1.
Introducing the subject of the broadcast, the discussion begins by
highlighting features of the career of Wolfgang Bohringer, one of 9/11 hijacker
Mohamed Atta’s closest friends--one of a number of Germans with whom Atta
associated in Florida and a man with (as Mr. Emory likes to say) more
connections than a switchboard. Currently operating out of a remote Pacific
island, Bohringer appears to be part of the “global network” that Tony Blair identified
as being behind the 9/11 attack. “One of Mohamed
Atta's closest associates in Florida before the 9/11 attack today carries a
chest on his yacht filled with several million dollars in new bills, automatic
weapons, passports from a half-dozen nations, and works for a major
international mobster. Wolfgang Bohringer, a German pilot, identified by
Atta’s one-time girlfriend Amanda Keller as one of Mohamed Atta’s closest
associates in Florida during the run-up to the 9.11 attack, and one of the
handful of people the terrorist ringleader called “my brother,” recently
resurfaced on a tiny island in the South Pacific, in the Republic of
Kiribati. There he announced his intention to set up a flight school on Fanning
Island, almost a thousand miles south of Hawaii and one of the most remote
places on Earth. Bohringer plans to teach pilots how to fly DC3’s, the 70-year
old aviation workhorse frequently used in weapons and drug smuggling.” (“ ‘Close Associate’ of
Mohamed Atta Surfaces in South Pacific” by Daniel Hopsicker; Mad Cow Morning
News; 9/15/2006; accessed at: http://www.madcowprod.com/09152006.html.)
2.
On Fanning Island, Bohringer is planning to open a flight school to
teach pilots to fly DC3’s—an old but very serviceable aircraft that is ideal
for the smuggling of contraband. Knowledgeable experts say the DC3 could also
be adapted to aerial spraying. Biological warfare terrorism anyone? “The island has no electricity, and a population of barely
one hundred souls. While it hardly seems an ideal place for a flight school,
the remote location and lack of official scrutiny may make it ideal for something.
Bohringer, accompanied by a woman he reportedly met over the Internet named Ana
Maria Uhr, almost immediately aroused suspicion, after he announced plans
for a flight school training what local citizens suspected would be an
assortment of smugglers and mercenaries to fly DC3’s. Alarmed local
residents contacted The MadCowMorningNews about the German pilot,
offering new details which prompted us to take a closer look at him as a
possible link to the elusive global network which British Prime Minister Tony
Blair, two weeks after 9/11, said had assisted the terrorist hijackers.” (Idem.)
3.
Bohringer is also associated with a major Czech organized figure named
Victor Kozeny. One question that suggests itself is whether or not Mohamed
Atta’s presence in Prague may have had something to do with the
Bohringer/Kozeny relationship. Note that the milieu of Atta and the 9/11
hijackers also overlaps the milieu of the Alfa group (see FTR#530). As is the case
with Kozeny, Alfa overlaps the milieux of drug smuggling and petroleum intrigue
in the former Soviet Union. Are Kozeny’s activities in Azerbaijan related to
the activities of Alfa? “During the same period Wolfgang Bohringer
was hanging out with Mohamed Atta, Bohringer was the personal pilot of a
notorious Czech Mobster named Victor Kozeny, who is known as the ‘Pirate of
Prague.' Kozeny owns a private island in the Bahamas, travels on an Irish
passport, and is currently fighting extradition to the U.S. on charges of
massive financial fraud and allegedly paying multi-million dollar bribes to
government officials in the Republic of Azerbaijan in an effort to take-over
that oil-rich country’s State Oil Company. After defrauding thousands of people
around the world while traveling on an Irish passport, including the chairman
of the Northern Ireland peace talks, Senator George Mitchell, Kozeny
sought refuge in the Bahamas. Bohringer had opened a flight school in
Naples, Florida in 1996, illegal for a foreigner. But he hadn't gotten in any
trouble with the FAA.” (Idem.)
4.
“Perhaps his association as the personal pilot for a major
Eastern European Mafia figure named Victor Kozeny had helped. Kozeny is
the subject of investigations by the FBI and US Customs, and was recently
charged in the U.S. with stealing $182 million dollars by the Manhattan
District Attorney. Bohringer moved to Atlanta to began a position as corporate
pilot in February 1, 2001, according to his online bio, for a software company
called HBOC. No doubt it is just a coincidence, or dashed bad luck,
but Bohringer's new employer was involved in a major accounting scandal that
cost shareholders $9 billion of lost value in a single day. ‘HBOC was
found to be a mob bust-out,’ a financial analyst emailed us. Kozeny, we were
shocked to discover, had at some point in the mid-90's controlled one-third of
the entire Czechoslovakian economy. ‘Kozeny bought
factories and 'rides' on pipelines, meaning they crossed land he owned and paid
big for the privilege.’” (Idem.)
5.
Kozeny’s questionable activities may overlap
an international money-laundering scandal involving associates of the Bush
family and involving the illegal funding of U.S. elections. “With his ill-gotten gains, Kozeny tried to buy off top
officials in the former Soviet Republic of Azerbaijan to gain control of that
country's state-owned oil company. One man already
convicted in the scheme, Hans Bodmer, belonged to a network of Russian
oligarchs, one of whom, Pyotr Aven, has been accused by a Russian corruption
task force of being engaged in drug trafficking.
Kozeny's partners in the Azeri scheme included a managing director of Hank
Greenberg's American Insurance Group (AIG). Greenberg was forced to step down amid the Eliot Spitzer
probe, a scandal, it is rumored, which involved a major Bush family and associates' international money-laundering operation that
has spanned more than a generation and has been used to
illegally fund US elections since the Nixon era.” (Idem.)
6.
The fact that one of Kozeny’s alleged collaborators
in the above conspiracy is an executive with AIG is interesting, and possibly
significant. AIG has an interesting pedigree, overlapping both the intelligence
community and the world of GOP rightwing politics. Note Atta’s movements in February
of 2001. Was he visiting potential targets with Bohringer? (For more about the
shady doings of AIG, see FTR#531.)
“AIG was founded from
Asia Life/CV Starr, a Shanghai-based international import/export and insurance firm founded in 1919 by
Cornelius V. Starr, an Office of Strategic Services (OSS) operative in
Southeast Asia during World War II. Clinton antagonist Kenneth Starr is
his nephew. Currently, Kozeny is awaiting extradition to the U.S. from the
Bahamas. A prosecutor there revealed in court that Kozeny possesses an
astonishing number of passports, including six from Ireland alone. ‘He appears
to be able to produce foreign passports at will,’ stated the prosecutor.
Atta and Al Shehhi flew or drove to Atlanta on several occasions during the
month of February 2001. To meet with Wolfgang? On two of those visits, Atta
rented a plane, the first with a pilot, the second unescorted, and visited an
area of Tennessee where he observed a dam, and several nuclear fuel production
facilities.” (Idem.)
7.
The cargo on Bohringer’s yacht is more than a little interesting: “On his yacht, the ‘Argos,’ Bohringer was carrying a
chest filled with ‘stacks of brand new hundred dollar bills, more money
that I have ever seen in my life,’ wrote one local resident. Like his former
boss, Bohringer is no slouch in the passport department...Aboard
Wolfgang's yacht were passports from a half-dozen nations, and a cache of
firearms, including a Glock. He claimed to be an arms dealer, and acknowledged
his involvement with Eastern European Mobsters. Bohringer also reportedly
admitted knowing Mohamed Atta, but stating to several islanders that another
German pilot in Naples, Rex Gasteiger, was to blame for linking him to 9/11.
Soon several residents quietly reported surprisingly deep suspicions to local
authorities. ‘To me Wolfgang is carrying dirty money, lots of it,’ wrote
one. ‘If he can gets a flight school going it does not take a stretch of the
imagination to see he would sell it to some else who sells it to someone else and
Honolulu gets vaporized. He seems to know the money tree and could be
working to set things up for others to do so and so has been funded to do so.’”
(Idem.)
8.
Among his many endearing qualities, Bohringer is apparently viciously
anti-Semitic. In the discussion with Daniel Hopsicker in the actual broadcast,
Daniel mentions that the Flying Club of Munich, closely connected to Bohringer
and his father, appears to have Nazi connections, as Mr. Emory had surmised in
previous discussion in FTR#542.
“Locals on Fanning Island sent us the pictures of
Wolfgang in this story. ‘A month before Wolfgang left with his boat he met Ana
on the internet. He sent tickets and credit card for her to meet him in Paris.
He would take her as crew on a round the world trip. First stop Hawaii. But
when they were a day out of Hawaii he informed her they were sailing to another
island and not stopping at Hawaii.’ ‘My friend crewed with them to Samoa, and
on the trip he found Wolfgang liked having his picture taken,’ one local
resident wrote us. On the trip Ana confided she was really worried about
Wolfgang. He seemed to running from something. So she told him what she’d
read about him on the Internet about the 9/11 thing.’ ‘Wolfgang alleviated my
concerns with simple explanations about an unhappy business partnership with
the guy who bought his flight school,’ the resident wrote. ‘But, it was
clear he hated Jews. He told some very bad jokes about ovens, Jews,
bread, and blacks.’ We compared the new pictures with what Amanda Keller
had told us about Wolfgang. She called Bohringer ‘The Iceman,’ she said,
because of his resemblance to a character in the movie ‘Top Gun,’ the
rival to Tom Cruise played by Val Kilmer. And indeed, the resemblance is
remarkably close.” (Idem.)
9.
Residents of Fanning Island heard Bohringer discussing having won his
Green Card in a lottery, confirming what Atta’s girlfriend Amanda Keller had
learned. “Keller also said Wolfgang won a lottery
to get his green card. The locals on Fanning Island report that Bohringer told
them that story too. So clearly Amanda Keller had known Bohringer. Her
testimony has once again proven correct, as it also was when she told of
helping Atta move from Deep Creek, part of the recently-incorporated town of
North Port. Documents made public after the Moussaoui trial show Atta was
sending faxes from a Postal Express in Deep Creek on March 11, 2001, at
exactly the time Amanda Keller says he was there. The Moussaoui trial
produced the largest trove of government documents about the hijackers' South
Florida movements. The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press was
instrumental in the release of many of those court documents. The FBI fought
them every step of the way. Now we know why. The documents prove they’ve been
lying. ‘Him (Atta ) and Wolfgang drove around in the red convertible a lot,’
she said. ‘Their favorite place to eat was Hooters in Sarasota. They got kicked
out of Hooters for grabbing their boobs.’” (Idem.)
10.
Wolfgang’s activities are definitely out of the ordinary. Note that he
was one of the first of what Hopsicker calls “the German element” to arrive in
Naples, Florida. “‘He spoke German with
Wolfgang, who was in his thirties. Wolfgang
was with Mohamed when he came by the nursing home to see me one time.
Mohamed called certain people—Arabic people—‘my brother.’ And I was wondering
how he had so many family members. Like gang members do, ‘this is my brother,’’
she said. ‘But not all Arabs. So it wasn’t like just anyone Muslim
was his brother. He called Wolfgang and Juergen ‘my brother,’ too. He
and Wolfgang were very tight, they went everywhere together. When he came into
the picture they were together all the time.’ The story of Wolfgang’s life to
date is studded, according to people we spoke with who knew him, with
activities considerably out of the ordinary. While sailing around the world on
a 47-foot yacht, for example, instead of crossing the Indian Ocean from the
coast of Africa on a direct line, he took a ‘detour’ to Bombay, where he met
his wife Sujita. He was one of the first of the ‘German element’ to
arrive in Florida, in 1996, when he opened a flight school in Naples. Prior to
arriving in Naples he was associated with an organization called ‘The Flying
Club of Munich,’ in Augsburg, Germany. In Spring 2002, he became a
naturalized U.S. citizen.” (Idem.)
11.
Note that Bohringer, like Rudi Dekkers (the head of Huffman Aviation,
the flight school through which Atta and other 9/11 hijackers infiltrated the
U.S.), appears to have been immune to arrest and prosecution by law enforcement
authorities, despite enormous wrongdoing. “Like
Rudi Dekkers, Wolfgang was notorious in aviation circles for bad behavior.
We found records of his scrapes in the files of airport authorities in Florida,
including a letter sent by a former employee soliciting to offer private flight
instruction at his Wolf Aero, Bohringer's flight school, without authority and in
violation of FAA rules was in the airport records in Naples. ‘Wolfgang
showed up from Munich in the mid-1990’s and immediately began operating a
flight school illegally,’ stated Naples flight instructor Marcus Huber, a
flight instructor in Naples. ‘He’s half Swiss, half German.’ Like Rudi Dekkers,
Wolfgang also seems to have had a ‘hall pass’ from federal authorities, which
embittered other foreign flight trainers not similarly well-connected. ‘When Wolfgang applied for an E-2 Visa, he made up a fake
company, a cleaning service,’ Huber told us. ‘Sometimes it makes me mad that a
criminal gets preference.’ In the wake of the Sept 11 disaster, U.S.
officials repeatedly promised explanations. But it was left to British Prime
Minister Tony Blair to sketch out the Cliff notes version of the case against
Bin Laden. He said, ‘Al Qaeda is a terrorist organization with ties to a
global network.’” (Idem.)
12.
In his article, Daniel Hopsicker links the network to which Bohringer,
Dekkers and Atta belonged to a network identified by Sibel Edmonds, a
relatively well-known whistle blower. “Almost
five years after Tony Blair first told the world that a ‘global network’
provided assistance to the terrorist hijackers while they were in the U.S.,
what is happening on a tiny island in the South Pacific may point towards the
international organization in question. ‘You have a network of people who
obtain certain information and... sell it to whomever would be the highest
bidder,’ explained Sibel Edmonds, former FBI translator, who was muzzled by
U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft, who went to the Supreme Court to ensure
her silence about... something. ‘There are certain points where you have
your drug-related activities combined with money laundering and information
laundering, converging with your terrorist activities... Post-9/11 intelligence
'failures' include the willful quashing by the Government of investigations
tracing these criminal networks.’ Atta's German buddy Bohringer works for a
global network. Did it assist Atta and the terrorist hijackers? Was there a
connection between the larger organization, or network, behind gangster
financier Victor Kozeny, and that of the terrorists in Florida plotting to kill
Americans on the 11th of September in 2001?” (Idem.)
13.
“Amanda Keller was not the only eyewitness quoted
mentioning Atta’s German associates. Atta’s landlord for a brief week
told reporters about a wild 3-day weekend Amanda and Atta spent in Key West,
along with another girl named Linda. ‘The two girls were introduced to two men
from Germany that they said were Mohamed’s friends,’ Tony LaConca told the Charlotte
Sun-Herald. When we first learned that all of Atta’s associates in Florida
had not been Arab, we were understandably eager to learn more about the
terrorist ringleaders’ two German friends. Sun-Herald reporter Elaine
Allen-Emrich had apparently felt the same way... ‘The FBI in Tampa would
neither confirm nor deny that any agents were interviewing people in the North
Port area,’ she reported. ‘Asked for more information about Atta’s wild
weekend, an FBI spokesperson identified only as ‘Pam’ said, ‘We recommend that
you check in with CNN for current information. Any press statements can be
found on televised stations like CNN.’ We went looking for ourselves. The
results are in ‘Welcome to TERRORLAND. We didn’t feel like ‘checking
in with CNN.’” (Idem.)
14.
Daniel also discussed the 9/11 B.S. movement, and the
conscious attempt to deceive people about the events of 9/11—attributing the
attacks to “controlled demolitions”, a “cruise missile” hitting the Pentagon or
“the Mossad.” For more about this, see some of Daniel’s Mad Cow Morning News
articles, including: (“Cointelpro
9/11: Peak Oil and the Level Above Saudi” By Daniel Hopsicker; Mad Cow
Morning News; 9/28/2004; accessed at: http://www.madcowprod.com/mc6612004.html.);
(“Cointelpro 9/11: John Gray and Saudi Genesis” By Daniel Hopsicker; Mad Cow
Morning News; 10/6/2004; accessed at: http://www.madcowprod.com/mc6712004.html); “Khashoggi, Cults, Cover-Ups & Mars & Venus Doing Lunch” by
Daniel Hopsicker; Mad Cow Morning News; 10/13/2004; accessed at: http://www.madcowprod.com/MC6812004.html.
“The 9/11 Heroin Connection” By Daniel Hopsicker; Mad Cow Morning News;
9/6/2006; accessed at: http://www.madcowprod.com/09062006.html.)