Th NY Daily News reveals Bin Laden bankrolled Kahane killer defense:
Osama Bin Laden helped pay for the legal defense of the man who shot militant Jewish leader Meir Kahane in a midtown hotel in 1990, officials revealed yesterday.But wait, there's more from the Christian Science Monitor:
The FBI had never heard of Bin Laden at the time, and the New York police were saying Kahane's killing by El Sayed A Nosair was the work of a lone gunman with no affiliation to terrorist groups.
The revelation surfaced in a report by Eleanor Hill, director of the Senate Intelligence Committee that's investigating pre-Sept. 11 intelligence failures by government agencies.
Norris responded to the scene of the killing of a radical Jewish leader, Rabbi Meir Kahane. An Egyptian male was apprehended.The mills of the gods grind slowly, but exceedingly fine.
The suspect - Sayyid Nosair - had jumped into one cab, then jumped out, obviously confused, Norris said.
Norris and his colleagues visited the suspect's apartment, where they encountered several other males of Middle Eastern descent. Two of them were cabdrivers and just happened to be at the Kahane murder scene. Norris says it was obvious to him that the suspect had jumped into the wrong getaway cab.
But Norris was told by his superiors to focus on only the murder suspect, and that the FBI would take over the conspiracy portion of the investigation.
Norris said he didn't hear another word about that investigation until 1993, when a man drove an explosives-laden van into the World Trade Center. That driver was one of the same taxi drivers Norris encountered in 1990 at the apartment of the man accused of murdering Mr. Kahane.
I wonder how Osama is enjoying his dirt nap?
