NYPD Detective Breaks His Silence on Kahane and the WTC
by Hana Levi Julian
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A New York Police Department detective has broken his silence about the connection between Rabbi Meir Kahane’s murderer and the terrorists who destroyed the Twin Towers at the World Trade Center. |
| Political activist Rabbi Meir Kahane was murdered after a speech in Manhattan by an Egyptian-born al-Qaeda terrorist in 1990, but because no one actually saw al-Sayed Nuseir pull the trigger, he was acquitted of the crime and was instead convicted on a lesser charge of possession of an illegal weapon. Three years later, Kahane’s murderer helped lead the terror cell which attacked the World Trade Center in 1993.
At the time, the theory that Kahane’s murder had been part of a terror conspiracy was discounted by federal investigators. NYPD Detective John Molleli knew better, however, having been the first to find and examine the papers in Nuseir’s apartment. Boxes of notebooks and other papers written in Arabic, complete with diagrams, revealed the existence of a terrorist cell operating in the New Jersey – New York area. The papers included plans to attack a number of targets in New York City, including the World Trade Center. Kahane was considered a troublemaker who promoted an unpopular view that Arabs who lived in Israeli territory should be encouraged to move out of the country. According to a program on Israel’s Channel 2 TV, the evidence was ignored because Kahane was the victim in the case, and it was quickly removed to the offices of the Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI). The documents were largely ignored until the 1993 terror attack on the Twin Towers, in which six people died and 100 were injured. At that time, the boxes confiscated from Nuseir’s apartment were finally opened and closely examined, and the Arabic was translated. Nuseir was later convicted as a co-conspirator of Sheikh Omar Abdel Rahman for the 1993 bombing, as well as conspiracy to attack New York landmarks and assassinate U.S. politicians. Both men were sentenced to life in prison without parole, plus 15 years. It was only after that trial that Nuseir was also convicted of murdering Kahane as part of the “seditious conspiracy.”Nuseir continued to manage the affairs of the al-Qaeda terror cell that continued to operate in the U.S. and on September 11, 2001 succeeded in completing the job it attempted in 1993, the destruction of the World Trade Center. |
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