Patient plotting by al Qaeda
Sheik Mohammed said al Qaeda was willing to go slow and revise its plan.
"...Along the way, terrorist volunteers are shifted between different attack plots based on opportunity, according to interrogation reports.
"For instance, Mohammed told his captors that when two of the four original operatives assigned by Osama bin Laden to the Sept. 11 plot failed to get U.S. visas because they were Yemenis, bin Laden simply changed course and asked the two to study the possibility of hijacking planes in Asia."
"...Bin Laden then came up with additional participants for the Sept. 11 plan, offering a member of his personal security detail as well as a large group of young Saudi men who ultimately made it onto the ill-fated jetliners, Mohammed is quoted in the interrogation reports as saying.
"The plan evolved several times over five years -- with bin Laden making the final decisions."
Sheik Mohammed said al Qaeda was willing to go slow and revise its plan.
"...Along the way, terrorist volunteers are shifted between different attack plots based on opportunity, according to interrogation reports.
"For instance, Mohammed told his captors that when two of the four original operatives assigned by Osama bin Laden to the Sept. 11 plot failed to get U.S. visas because they were Yemenis, bin Laden simply changed course and asked the two to study the possibility of hijacking planes in Asia."
"...Bin Laden then came up with additional participants for the Sept. 11 plan, offering a member of his personal security detail as well as a large group of young Saudi men who ultimately made it onto the ill-fated jetliners, Mohammed is quoted in the interrogation reports as saying.
"The plan evolved several times over five years -- with bin Laden making the final decisions."
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