Collins,Aukai

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Aukai Collins was a paid FBI informant, who told ABCNEWS, that three years before Sept. 11, he began providing the FBI with information about a young Saudi who later flew a hijacked passenger plane into the Pentagon. Aukai Collins, the informant, said he worked for the FBI for four years in Phoenix (1996-2000), monitoring the Arab and Islamic communities there. Hanjour,Hani was the hijacker Collins claimed to have told the FBI about while Hanjour,Hani was in flight training in Phoenix. Sources: http://www.salon.com/books/review/2002/ 07/17/myjihad/index1.html http://abcnews.go.com/sections/wnt/DailyNews/FBI_informant020523.html Aukai Collins released later his book "My Jihad" (Lyons Press), which was reviewed at http://Salon.com: "Collins offers a grunt's-eye view of the underground world of the mujahedin: the training camps, the motley platoons fighting away in various global hot spots, the smooth-talking organizers gathering fighters, funds and arms in Western cities. Then there's the FBI and the CIA; finally repelled by Islamist terrorism, Collins wound up working for both agencies for several years during which they earned his implacable contempt. In 1993, Collins trained at the Khalid Bin Whalid camp just over the Pakistani border in Afghanistan. The camp was sponsored by Osama bin Laden, among others, and was leveled by U.S. cruise missiles in 1998, in retaliation for the bombing of two U.S. embassies in Africa. Collins never met bin Laden, but he had an invitation to do so when he was working for the CIA and the agency forbade him to do it." Source: http://ww3.salon.com/books/review/2002/07/17/myjihad/index.html

(See Informants)