My friend, and fellow blogger, DFV sent me this interesting
little story:
Do you like a good 9/11 mystery?
A man named Stuart Buck blogs on his website The Buck Stops
Here (http://stuartbuck.blogspot.com). It is apparently a credible site (Michael Barone, Instapundit, and Jonah Goldberg vouch for it).
Two
years ago, he first wrote about the mysterious case of Dr. David Graham, a dentist in Shreveport, Louisiana. Graham said that
he had met three of the 9/11 hijackers a year before the attacks at a home in Shreveport. He became suspicious of them (he
thought they were planning attacks on nearby Barksdale AFB) and contacted the FBI.
The man who hosted the hijackers
in Shreveport was a Pakistani named Jamal Khan. In 2004, Khan pled guilty to hiding cash transfers to Pakistan, and in an
unusual plea deal the government stated that nothing in this deal would absolve Khan from any future prosecution regarding
the attacks of September 11.
Dr. Graham apparently met Khan in conjunction with the 9/11 conspirators and was set to
testify against him at a deportation hearing sometime in 2004, following Khan's conviction on the money transfer charge. He
was also trying to publish a manuscript about meeting the three men and his contacts with the FBI.
Then, Dr. Graham
fell seriously ill from what his family says was poison. Shortly thereafter, Jamal Khan disappeared.
The story fell
silent for a couple years until Buck's site did some more digging.
Dr. David Graham is dead.
Jamal Khan has
vanished.
And the FBI claims that Graham never contacted them until after 9/11 — except that one guy says that he knows personally that Graham talked to the FBI in 2000, and he can even tell you the specific
name of the G-Man he spoke to (Agent Spoon of the Shreveport FBI office, if you must know).
So who killed Dr. David
Graham? Was it Jamal Khan? Was Khan a co-conspirator of 9/11? And where is he now? How did the FBI let him get away (one comment
suggests that they didn't)? Did the FBI really have prior warning of these three 9/11 conspirators? And if so, why do they
deny it now...
An intriguing mystery indeed, so I did a little research.
Dr.
Graham fell seriously ill two years ago and medical tests revealed possible poisoning that led to organ failure. His family
is convinced that he was poisoned. At the time, Dr. Graham was attempting to publish his manuscript "The Graham Report: The
true story of three 9-11 hijackers who were reported to the FBI 10 months before 9-11."
His manuscript, like holy writ,
was on display at his funeral and his friends and family truly feel he was "onto something." Reportedly, the manuscript is
being safeguarded by Dr. Graham's friend, Mike Sledge. Mr. Sledge is quoted by www.ktbs.com as stating "Certainly he was digging
into some sensitive areas that may easily have caused some people some consternation."
Little media coverage has been
devoted to Dr. Graham's death. The local news station had this snippet which is available at www.KTBS.com.
KTBS.COM LOCAL TELEVISION OUTLET LOCAL Local Terrorist Whistle-Blower Dead After Poisoning
He
claimed he met three of the Sept. 11 hijackers in Shreveport a year before the attacks. Now, that man, Shreveport dentist
Dr. David Graham, is dead.
His family says he was poisoned more than two years ago. At the time, Graham was trying
to publish a manuscript about meeting three middle easterners in Shreveport, men he feared were plotting to bomb Barksdale
Air Force Base. Graham wrote that he warned the FBI. Then after Sept. 11, he saw their pictures among the hijackers.
Before
Graham was poisoned, he was supposed to testify at a deportation hearing against a Pakistani man, Jamal Khan, who hosted the
men Graham believed to be the hijackers. Graham's brother, Edwin Jones, told us Wednesday night the family believes someone
slipped poison into his drink, plunging him into a deadly illness.
Story Created: Sep 20, 2006 at 10:40 PM EST Story
Updated: Sep 21, 2006 at 7:40 PM EST
SHREVEPORT, LA — Dr. David Graham was born in Shreveport, LA. He was
born May 21, 1939 and passed away Sunday, September 17, 2006 in Shreveport, LA following a lengthy illness. Dr. Graham was
67.
Funeral services celebrating his life will be held at 1 p.m., Wednesday, September 20, 2006 at First Assembly Church,
5720 Buncomb Road, Shreveport, LA. Officiating will be Deacon John Milkovich and Reverend Dr. John Graham. Interment will
follow in Centuries Memorial Park Cemetery with Military Honors...
David was a family dentist in Shreveport for 36
years, 1968 to 2004. He proudly served his country as a Captain in the United States Air Force from 1965 until 1968, including
two years in the Vietnam War where he volunteered to fly by helicopter into dangerous villages to provide dental care for
private citizens. In Vietnam, he often was required to care for seriously injured soldiers in addition to dental care, and
received honorable discharge with Bronze Star in July of 1968. After the war he often volunteered his dental services for
free care for poor families here.
David was preceded in death by his parents, Frank Kirkland Graham and Lasca Thompson
Graham, and by his brothers, Asberry Graham and James Graham.....
David's family was so pleased with his personal,
dental and church friends who visited him often the last 27 months. You made his days worth living the last two years. Today
David is healthy and in the joyful presence of Jesus his Savior.
In lieu of flowers, the family requests memorial donations
to be made to First Assembly Church, to Calvary Baptist Church or to a charity of the donor's choice.
Published
in the Shreveport Times from 9/19/2006–9/20/2006.
The other part of this
tale is Jamal Khan.
When Mohammad Jamal Khan pleaded guilty to trying to evade the requirement that large cash transactions
be reported to banks and the government, federal prosecutors added an unusual caveat to his plea agreement: There would be
no immunity from possible prosecution in the future for crimes relating to Sept. 11. The agreement adds: "The U.S. Attorney
is simply not aware of the involvement by the defendant in these crimes at this time."
A very strange thing to add
to a petty, white collar crime plea bargain, don't you think?
Now of the five characters in this little 9-11 subplot,
four are dead and Jamal Khan is apparently on the run.
What is interesting to me is that the FBI never disputed the
possibility that Dr. Graham's meetings and suspicions about the 9-11 hijackers were true. Or that they were hosted by Jamal
Khan. They only disputed Dr. Graham's timeline of when he actually reported the meetings to the FBI. And by adding that little
tidbit to Jamal Khan's plea bargain it appears that the FBI was very interested in Jamal Khan's possible involvement with
the planning of the 9-11 attacks.
The full story of 9-11 has yet to be told and Dr. Graham's story is another piece
of the 9-11 puzzle. But perhaps one the FBI would prefer you didn't know about. It is likely that Dr. Graham is telling the
truth. It is also likely that the FBI cannot bring itself to admit that there was yet another major warning of the impending
9-11 attacks that it failed to act on. There are careers on the line. The public's trust is on the line. And there is a War
on Terror to be fought. A minor adjustment to the timeline solves a lot of problems and embarrassments that otherwise arise
with the telling of Dr. Graham's story.
And what has happened to the apparent money launderer and gracious host to
hijackers, the mysterious Pakistani Jamal Khan? Is he in the Witness Protection Program? Did the CIA quietly ship him off
for "questioning"? Did he really skip the country and go underground? And, if so, why did the FBI let this man covered with
the bloody fingerprints of 9-11 slip away?
Stuart Buck put it this way. "...very intriguing. There may not be anything
to the story, of course, but I wonder why no one beyond a local news station has touched this story, let alone investigated
(a) whether Graham really was poisoned (and if so, by who), and (b) the story in Graham's manuscript?"
DFV ended his
intriguing mystery story with these words:
"And since Jonah Goldberg (National Review online) first highlighted this story by asking Whatever
happened to the anthrax investigation (yeah, whatever DID happen to that???) — one final question: Just how many subplots,
sub plotters, co-conspirators, accomplices, go-betweens, money men, facilitators, collaborators, and confederates had a hand
in the 9/11 attacks.... and how many of those still lurk stealthily somewhere in the catacombs of international intrigue?"
The author would greatly appreciate any additional information in regards to Jamal Khan, Dr. David Graham or
his, yet unpublished, manuscript. You may contact him at
DaveHuntwork@juno.com
.
"Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't
pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one
day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children's children what it was once like in the United States
where men were free."
- President Ronald Reagan
”I will not cede more power to the state. I will not willingly cede more power to anyone, not to the state,
not to General Motors, not to the CIO. I will hoard my power like a miser, resisting every effort to drain it away from me.
I will then use my power, as I see fit. I mean to live my life an obedient man, but obedient to God, subservient to the wisdom
of my ancestors; never to the authority of political truths arrived at yesterday at the voting booth. That is a program of
sorts, is it not? It is certainly program enough to keep conservatives busy, and Liberals at bay. And the nation free.”
—William F. Buckley Jr.
"Liberals want to regulate just about everything: where we live, what fuels we use, what car we drive, whether we can
drive or be forced to use government mass transit, where we send our kids to school, what doctor we see, and even to what
extent we express our approval or disapproval of others’ lifestyles. It’s hard to find something liberals don’t
want to regulate. Is that a world you want to live in?”
"At such a time in history, we who are free must proclaim anew our faith. This faith is the abiding creed of our fathers.
It is our faith in the deathless dignity of man, governed by eternal moral and natural laws. This faith defines our full view
of life. It establishes, beyond debate, those gifts of the Creator that are man’s inalienable rights, and that make
all men equal in His sight. "
—Dwight D. Eisenhower
"And if we elect a government that subverts or weakens or ends our war against terrorism, we can count on this: We
will soon face enemies that will make 9/11 look like stubbing our toe, and they will attack us with the confidence and determination
that come from knowing that we don’t have the will to sustain a war all the way to the end."
- Orson Scott Card
"In response to skyrocketing gas prices, liberals say, practically in unison, 'We can’t drill our way out of this
crisis.”' What does that mean? This is like telling a starving man, 'You can’t eat your way out of being hungry!' 'You
can’t water your way out of drought!' 'You can’t sleep your way out of tiredness!' 'You can’t drink yourself
out of dehydration!' Seriously, what does it mean? Finding more oil isn’t going to increase the supply of oil? It is
the typical Democratic strategy to babble meaningless slogans, as if they have a plan. Their plan is: the permanent twilight
of the human race. "
-Ann Coulter
"If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go
home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or your arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains
set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen."
