1993 WTC Bomb Attack - FBI Informant Emad Salem Tapes

The FBI set up the 1993 World Trade Center bombing as a sting operation to capture Al Qaeda patsies. Their confidential informant, Emad Salem, realized that he, too, was being set up--to take the fall for organizing the crime ring that carried out the bomb plot--and secretly recorded his conversation with his handler, John Anticev. The recordings portray Salem as trying to save his skin and cut out of the operation before big bust and his handler Anticev trying to lure him back in to continue the dirty work for the federal government.

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News & Politics

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• 1993
• wtc
• world trade center
• twin towers
• bombing
• attack
• fbi
• informant
• emad salem
• john anticev
• tapes
• set up

[1tonykirk]

@vancegreen1016 hey man, you took the trouble! All I heard on that film was the Times article, the rest I missed, and that is not the usual. people know me for being a walking encyclopedia and that item escaped me. You saved me some time ! LOL!

Thanks, really!

[vancegreen1016]

@Xendrius You're welcome, no problem.

[vancegreen1016]

@1tonykirk For what? All I did was pause a dvd to write down the date of that NY Times article that was flashed across the screen, then went to the library to get it from microfilm. The people who made it possible for us to know where to look are the ones who did a good job and deserves our many thanks. Ask your library about an inter-library microfilm loan for those papers if you don't already have the articles. There's another option if the waiting period is a month or more.

[1tonykirk]

@vancegreen1016 Thanks! Good job!

[Xendrius]

@vancegreen1016 Alrighty thanks.

[vancegreen1016]

@1tonykirk Actually it appeared TWICE...Thursday October 28th front page NY Times and Sunday October 31 1993 page 37. It also appeared once in the Chicago Tribune Wednesday December 15, 1993 on page 7

[vancegreen1016]

Great job Glenn!!

[vancegreen1016]

@Xendrius Salem is speaking to his FBI handler John Anticev.

[Xendrius]

Who exactly is he talking to?

[1tonykirk]

This story appeared ONCE in print in the NY TIMES and was never seen or heard from again in February 1993.