In Detail: How bin Laden Set Plan in Motion in '99
By DOUGLAS JEHL and DAVID JOHNSTON
Published: June 17, 2004
WASHINGTON, June 16 - In early 1999, Osama bin Laden summoned Khalid Shaikh Mohammed to his well-guarded compound in Kandahar, Afghanistan, to confide to the lieutenant that his long-discussed proposal to use aircraft as terror weapons against the United States had the full support of Al Qaeda.
Read article here.
We begin to see the "planning" that went into 9/11. For me the most interesting part was the "guy who almost didn't make it" because he was more interested in his girlfriend. He came from a wealthy, secular family, but was still able to be "coxed" into performing. Also, the guys who failed out and the “compromise” as far as “targets” were concerned.
Funniest (if you can say that): they wanted to highjack a plane, kill all men on board and then land it and give a rousing anti-American speech. That plot sounds very Hollywood influenced to me!
Very interesting read.
By DOUGLAS JEHL and DAVID JOHNSTON
Published: June 17, 2004
WASHINGTON, June 16 - In early 1999, Osama bin Laden summoned Khalid Shaikh Mohammed to his well-guarded compound in Kandahar, Afghanistan, to confide to the lieutenant that his long-discussed proposal to use aircraft as terror weapons against the United States had the full support of Al Qaeda.
Read article here.
We begin to see the "planning" that went into 9/11. For me the most interesting part was the "guy who almost didn't make it" because he was more interested in his girlfriend. He came from a wealthy, secular family, but was still able to be "coxed" into performing. Also, the guys who failed out and the “compromise” as far as “targets” were concerned.
Funniest (if you can say that): they wanted to highjack a plane, kill all men on board and then land it and give a rousing anti-American speech. That plot sounds very Hollywood influenced to me!
Very interesting read.
posted by Aki at
11:06 AM
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Tom Clancy ended his 'Debt of Honor' published in the early 1990's with a 747 smacking into the Capitol Building during a Joint Session of Congress that's been assembled so that his über-wet-dream, All American, Jack Ryan can be sworn in as Veep, as a plot device so he can ascend to the Presidency, Constitutionally, legally.
I'll lay dollars to doughnuts that this is *exactly* where Al-Qaeda got their idear to jack a plane and use it as a missile in the first fucking place.
Isn't it ironic?
nwa
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Nyc Labretš, at 8:30 AM
Yes, well if you read the article you can see definite Hollywood/ fictional overtones. They make it seem as if, while bin Laden, wasn't the "master-mind", but more like the executive; making sure the final plans "come" together.
The idea of taking 10 planes crashing a bunch of them and then landing one (with all the men on board killed) to a rousing anti-American speech....now that sounds like its right out of a B-movie.
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Anonymous, at 9:30 AM
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