November 5th marks the 34-year anniversary of the assassination of rabbi, terrorist leader, and far right-wing Israeli politician Meir Kahane by followers of the “Blind Sheikh”, Omar Abdel-Rahman, in New York. The conspirators in the assassination were trained by former CIA asset and FBI informant Ali Mohamed, who was an al-Qaeda triple agent, as explained in Peter Lance’s book Triple Cross.  The CIA granted visas to the Blind Sheikh and Ali Mohamed despite them being on State Department terrorist watchlists.

Ignoring all evidence that the Kahane assassination was a conspiracy of Islamist terrorists operating and training in the US, law enforcement treated the assassination as solely the work of one follower of the Blind Sheikh, El Sayyid Nosair, who shot Kahane.  Nosair’s co-conspirators who were not prosecuted for the assassination, Mohamed Salemeh, Bilal Alkaisi, and Mahmoud Abouhalima, played key roles in the 1993 WTC bombing.  Nosair from prison was also a major facilitator of the 1993 bombing and the Landmarks plot, which targeted New York bridges and tunnels.

Before the assassination, the FBI monitored and photographed Ali Mohamed giving weapons training to Nosair and other conspirators such as Abouhalima and Salameh at a shooting range in 1989.  Nosair was photographed using the same weapon used to shoot Kahane.  The NYPD learned of the weapons training after the assassination.   After the assassination at Nosair’s house, Peter Lance writes, “FBI agents and NYPD detectives seize 47 boxes of evidence, including bomb recipes, Arabic writings threatening the WTC, and Ali Mohamed’s top secret memos stolen from Fort Bragg.  Abouhalima and Salameh are seized as material witnesses, but later set free.”  The Arabic language documents, including sermons from the Blind Sheikh calling for the destruction of the “edifices of capitalism”, were not translated until after the 1993 WTC bombings.

Thanks to law enforcement disconnecting the dots that the assassination was a conspiracy, Kahane’s assassins successfully carried out the deadly 1993 World Trade Center Bombing and then planned the Landmarks plot.  Abouhalimina and Salameh were convicted for their roles in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing.  Nosair was convicted in the Landmarks plot.  Alkaisi was given a plea deal for the 1993 bombing and later escaped the US.  Ali Mohamed, while serving as a FBI informant, played a key role in facilitating the 1998 African embassy bombings and went into witness protection after pleading guilty to his involvement in the embassy bombings.

The course of world history would have been much different if not for the US disconnecting the dots on the Kahane assassination.