Thread by @kagsundaram

@DoItCueT @Qtah17 @RichardGrenell [1] I was on an FBI team that was tracking Osama bin Laden from late September 2001 to sometime in 2009

We had a similar opportunity to kidnap Osama bin Laden and his staff in Sudan, a Sudanese colonel offered to betray bin Laden to us on a remote Saharan highway

Mueller nixed

@DoItCueT @Qtah17 @RichardGrenell [2] Mostly I was stateside doing comms for a ratline that started in a refugee cam next to the airportp in Khartoum, went through the refugee community in USA, and from us to the FBI.

(The Sudanese would not talk directly to FBI agents.)
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@DoItCueT @Qtah17 @RichardGrenell [3]
The project was hated by CIA/NSA, because we kept proving them wrong.

Taliban was spoofing NSA by playing high quality audio of comms pre-recorded in Sudan, over unsecure radios in Afghanistan. The NSA ate it up.

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@DoItCueT @Qtah17 @RichardGrenell [4] The famous "in front of the cave" video was taken at a well known park outside Khartoum, which any resident of Khartoum will verify. That "cave" is the natural climbing rock in a children's playground.

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@DoItCueT @Qtah17 @RichardGrenell [5] It was a constant cat-and-mouse "game" between us and them; we has spies inside the Sudan Defense Ministry, and they had spies inside the East Africa bureau of our State Department, sending (fortunately redacted) copies of our reports to State back to Khartoum.

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@DoItCueT @Qtah17 @RichardGrenell [6] Eventually we outed the mole in Foggy Bottom; fired but not prosecuted. Her name popped up again associated with Fusion GPS, "she wasn't supposed to see classified documents, she had lost her security clearance."

We were reading their docs of our reports of their docs...

@DoItCueT @Qtah17 @RichardGrenell [7] Finally it came to a head when I went to Khartoum and met with our principal aggregator; the Khartoum government smelled something not right about my alleged identity and Osama bin Laden risked exposure to verify or disprove my "cover"
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