FBI Informant Allegedly Runs Down
El Paso Cop With Car

--Suspect Elie Assaad Once Told ABC News He Could've Stopped 9/11
Attacks

07 Mar 2011

A former undercover FBI informant who once told ABC
News he could've stopped the Sept. 11  attacks is in custody in El Paso, Texas,
after he allegedly tried to run over a police officer. On Thursday, El Paso
police attempted to pull over Elie Assaad for speeding, according to an
officer's complaint. Assaad allegedly refused to stop and instead led the police
officer on a chase that ended up racing through University of Texas El Paso
campus... Assaad, 38, has been charged with assaulting the officer, but El Paso
police spokesman Darrel Petry said police do not know why Assaad fled in the
first place. No illicit materials were reportedly found in the car.