With the trial of Khalid Shaikh Mohammed(if that actually is him) now taking place, this is timely moment to revisit  Chaim Kupferberg’s devasting, and often hilarious account of how KSM was woven into the 9/11 legend in the role of “mastermind”.

There’s something about Omar: Truth, Lies and the 9/11 Legend.

Chaim Kupferberg

Global Research

21st October, 2003

It was almost an afterthought.  On March 1, 2003, the War On Terror had finally served up the alleged paymaster of 9/11 – a shadowy Saudi by the name of Mustafa Ahmed al-Hisawi.  Yet his arrest just happened to coincide with the capture of a much bigger fish – the reported 9/11 mastermind himself, Khalid Shaikh Mohammed – thus relegating Mustafa Ahmed to the footnote section of the “official” 9/11 Legend.  But there was another, more explosive side to this tale. Only seventeen months before, a former London schoolboy by the name of Omar Saeed Sheikh was first exposed as the 9/11 paymaster, acting under the authority of a Pakistani general who was in Washington D.C. on September 11, meeting with the very two lawmakers who would subsequently preside over the “official” 9/11 congressional inquiry.  Omar Saeed, as reported back then by CNN, was acting under the alias of…Mustafa Ahmed.  So where is Omar now?  Sitting in a Pakistani prison, awaiting his execution for the kidnapping of Daniel Pearl – while another man fills the shoes of his pseudonym.  What follows is a reconstruction of one of the most extensive disinformation campaigns in history, and the chronicle of a legend that may now shine a devastating spotlight on some of the cliques behind 9/11 – and the FBI Director covering the paper trails.

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