CIA Ordered To Assassinate 9/11 Suspect: Report

The CIA ordered to assassinate a supposed Al Qaeda operative in Germany in 2004, according to a Vanity Fair report.

 WASHINGTON, D.C. — The CIA ordered to assassinate a supposed Al Qaeda operative in Germany in 2004, according to a Vanity Fair report.

The suspect, Mamoun Darkazanli, was being investigated by German authorities for alleged ties to three 9/11 hijackers and the convicted bombers in the 1998 embassy attacks in East Africa, the report said.

The German government says that it knew nothing about the CIA program to kill Darkazanli, the magazine noted.

However, Green party parliamentarian Hans-Christian Stroebele said that such a denial is impossible.

“It can’t be true that they knew nothing,” Stroebele told the daily Hamburger Abendblatt.

In the end, Washington “chose not to pull the trigger,” it said, adding “This program died because of a lack of political will.”

The magazine quoted an unnamed source with connections to the CIA/Blackwater mission,

Because of the Vanity Fair report, prosecutors in Hamburg, Germany announced they were investigating into the assassination plot claims.

The CIA reportedly hired the Blackwater mercenary company to carry out the plot against Darkazanli.