So Jews knew about 911, after all!
hey amigo, but what about Sheikh Mohamed's comments released yesterday?
Al Qaeda itself has admited countless times it organised the attacks.
Oh, wait, I know, Al Qaeda is a tool of the Mossad and Osama is really a
Zionist.
LOL!
Target Asia: bin Laden's second wave
Osama bin Laden planned a "second wave" of aircraft hijackings in Asia to
follow the September 11 attacks, using suicide bombers recruited with the
help of Jemaah Islamiah, the alleged mastermind of the United States strikes
has told investigators.
Under the plan, extremists recruited and trained by JI, the regional
terrorist network, would hijack a series of aircraft in east Asia which
would be blown up or flown into unspecified targets after the suicide
attacks in New York and Washington in 2001.
Details of the plot are reported to have been outlined to US interrogators
by Khalid Sheik Mohammed, the most important figure in bin Laden's al-Qaeda
network to be captured so far and the alleged mastermind of the September 11
attacks.
Mohammed also revealed that a series of fresh regional terrorist raids -
including one targeting Singapore - were being planned when he was arrested
in Pakistan in March this year, according to US interrogation reports seen
by Associated Press.
He told the interrogators that he had first proposed a suicide hijacking
operation within the US in 1996.
But the reports contain dramatic new evidence of the extent to which
South-East Asia was used as a recruiting ground, transit point and potential
target by al-Qaeda and its regional associates during the years of planning
that culminated in September 11, and after those attacks.
Mohammed said that he and other senior al-Qaeda members initially had
planned simultaneous suicide hijackings using 10 aircraft against targets on
the west and east coasts of the US and an unspecified number in east Asia.
After bin Laden abandoned this plan as too difficult to synchronise in early
2000, Mohammed said he had begun developing contacts with JI, the extremist
group blamed for last year's Bali bombings and a series of other attacks
across South-East Asia in recent years.
One of the interrogation reports quoted by AP said Mohammed had begun
"recruiting JI operatives for inclusion in the hijacking plot as part of his
second wave of hijacking attacks to occur after September 11".
The report said agents directed by the JI operations chief, Riduan
Isamuddin, also known as Hambali, had begun training possible recruits for
the second-wave attacks before that plan was also dropped. Hambali was
captured in Thailand last month.
One of those claimed to have received training in Malaysia before travelling
to the US was Zacarias Moussaoui, the French citizen dubbed "the 20th
hijacker" and accused of being a major figure in the conspiracy.
Details given by Mohammed, who is being held by US officials at an
undisclosed location, also undermine persistent claims by the Malaysian
Government that the country was not an important link in the September 11
attacks.
Mohammed said a vital event in the planning of the attacks was a meeting in
Kuala Lumpur in January 2000 attended by al-Qaeda operatives including
Khalid al-Mihdhar and Nawaf al-Hazmi, two of the hijackers on the plane that
was crashed into the Pentagon.
Mohammed describes al-Mihdhar and al-Hazmi as central figures in the plot
and more important than Mohammed Atta, the hijacker identified initially by
US officials as the ringleader. After Mohammed had first proposed the US
suicide hijacking operation in 1996, bin Laden hand-picked the two men for
the job.
Mohammed's evidence also strengthens claims by US and Asian officials of
strong organisational links between al-Qaeda and JI. He told interrogators
that the Kuala Lumpur meeting had been attended by Hambali, who "as a rule
had to be informed of events in the region".
Mohammed is reported to have also given details of other terrorist plots
that were "in various stages of planning or had been temporarily disrupted"
at the time of his arrest - including one planned for Singapore.
AP reported that details of those operations could not be revealed as
investigations were continuing and some of those involved were still being
hunted.
In December 2001, US and regional investigators foiled an alleged JI plot to
blow up Western embassies in Singapore, including the Australian high
commission, using seven big truck bombs.
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