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Title: Kiribati seeks Australian help to counter terrorism
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URL Source: http://www.abc.net.au/am/content/2006/s1788919.htm
Published: Nov 15, 2006
Author: Peter Lewis
Post Date: 2006-11-18 18:04:41 by honway
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TONY EASTLEY: The tiny Pacific nation of Kiribati wants Australia's help to counter terrorism after US authorities uncovered a bizarre plot to a set up a flight training school on one of its remote islands. The FBI (Federal Bureau of Investigations) suspects the man behind it, Wolfgang Bohringer, may have had links with 9/11 mastermind Mohammed Atta, and has confirmed that Bohringer is "a person of interest". Bohringer has fled Kiribati aboard his yacht, leaving questions about his real intent. New Zealand Correspondent Peter Lewis reports. PETER LEWIS: The mysterious Wolfgang Bohringer sailed into Kiribati a year ago, talking up plans for a tourist resort and a flight training school on one of its remotest islands. Kiribati President Anote Tong met him and discussed the proposal, which frankly struck him at the time as a deal that was just a little too good to be true. ANOTE TONG: You've got to be quite wary of very, very good proposals. The temptation is there to go ahead, but I submit a procedure, all investors are checked out. We received information that maybe there was a little more to the proposal than might appear to be. PETER LEWIS: Fanning Island doesn't have a lot going for it, apart from its isolation. No phones, no functioning airstrip, but it is one of the closest to Hawaii. BILL PAUPE: And one would say well, why would anybody want to set up a flight school there. It would be very expensive, you would have travel all the people there, you'd have to, all your instructors and your staff would have to be housed and fed and everything. It just didn't make any sense at all. I mean, no sense. PETER LEWIS: Bill Paupe runs his own aviation business in Honolulu, and is Kiribati's Consul in the US. BILL PAUPE: A rationale for setting up a private training school in such a location, remote location, would be to get beyond the reach of regulatory agencies, whether it be the USFAA (United States Federal Aviation Administration) or the New Zealand or Australian CAAs (Civil Aviation Authorities). PETER LEWIS: The plot thickened when Kiribati officials became aware of Bohringer's close connections with a US flight school used by 9/11 mastermind Mohammed Atta. About the same time, Kiribati President Anote Tong was briefed by the FBI on its suspicions and its concerns that small neighbouring countries like Kiribati were soft touches for terrorists. ANOTE TONG: I think it may put onus on the countries that would be threatened to assist us in providing that security. I think it is in their interest. PETER LEWIS: But for now the FBI is hunting for Mr Bohringer and his missing yacht. This is Peter Lewis in Auckland for AM.
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http://www.madcowprod.com/ FBI TERROR ALERT IN SOUTH PACIFIC Terror Alert suspect fingered by Mohamed Atta's American girlfriend An FBI terror alert has been released in the South Pacific for Wolfgang Bohringer, a German pilot first identified as a "close associate" of Mohamed Atta three years ago in the MadCowMorningNews and the opening chapter to "Welcome to TERRORLAND" in interviews with Atta's former American girlfriend, Amanda Keller.
http://www.madcowprod.com/11162006.html Atta's American girlfriend proven right... again Amanda Keller was identified as Atta's one-time live-in American girlfriend in a story on September 27,2002 headlined "Atta, American Girlfriend in Wild Drug & Booze party in Key West. It is Keller, who lived for several months with terrorist ringleader Mohamed Atta at the Sandpiper apartments in Venice, who deserves credit for first identifying Bohringer, an individual who the FBI now believes may pose a serious threat to this country, as a close associate of terrorist ringleader Mohamed Atta. Keller told us a German pilot named Wolfgang, whose last name she didn't know had been close to Mohamed Atta for what she said appeared to be, based on their familiarity with each other, a long time. Based on personal information she provided, a subsequent investigation determined the man she was referring to was Wolfgang Bohringer. The FBI knows about Wolfgang Bohringer today because Amanda Keller told us about him four years ago.
"U.S. authorities have uncovered a plot to set up a flight training school in Kiribati and suspect the man behind it may have had links to September 11 mastermind Mohamed Atta," reported the Associated Press.
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