A Final Point
By Douglas Farah
I think the Belgian police report, which is available to all on my website, speaks for itself. It is an official document. The same is true for the formal police statement to the judge in the trials of Samih Osailly and Aziz Nassour, and I would be happy to provide the full transcript to anyone who requests it, or post it on my site or this site. The Belgians told me and numerous other investigators that their official report shows of the belief of a connection to al Qaeda and terrorism. Why they told the FBI something different is an interesting question. It is clearly not what they said in their reports or to others.
Gen. Wald, as sitting deputy commander of the U.S. European Command, speaking on the Voice of America, likewise, was not speaking as an individual or out of synch with his command. Nor was the DIA report.
Perhaps this is another instance where information gathered by different agencies simply was not shared across institutional bounderies. It is a difficult and complex investigation. There are no signed checks going to al Qaeda, nor invoices for diamonds for them. And so the debate continues.
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