Solving A 19-Year-Old Al-Qaida-Related Cold Case
In 2010 Lance was contacted by Emad Salem, the ex-Egyptian army officer who had infiltrated the cell around blind Sheikh Omar Abdel-Rahman and the 1993 World Trade Center bombing conspiracy. Lance worked with Salem and ex-NYPD homicide detective James Moss to solve the homicide case of Mustafa Shalabi who was killed by al-Qaeda operatives in 1992.
Lance's investigative reporting into the WTC bombing and Shalabi was published in “The Spy Who Came In for the Heat,” an article for the August, 2010 issue of Playboy, recapping his findings on the television show Morning Joe. Lance expanded his reporting in First Blood, another investigative piece published in Tablet Magazine. In that story Lance revealed new evidence of a second gunman in the 1991 assassination of Rabbi Meir Kahane. Lance offered proof that El Sayyid Nosair, the convicted killer of Kahane, also intended to murder former Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, a revelation that made page-one news in The Jerusalem Post.
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