Arab world told of al Qaeda confession to 9-11 attacks
Al Jazeerah:
"The two suspected Al-Qaeda members believed to have been the architects of the Sept. 11 attacks have given interrogators full confessions, according to a German magazine report.
"The report in Der Spiegel news magazine, due to hit newsstands across Germany tomorrow, quotes US and German security experts as saying the confessions came from Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and his right-hand man, the former Hamburg technical university student Ramzi Binalshibh, both of whom are in custody.
"The two men have reportedly told interrogators that plans were drawn up as early as 1996 for flying planes into strategic targets in the United States.
"Mohammed’s original plan envisioned loading high explosives aboard light aircraft.
"But Osama Bin Laden himself is said to have dismissed that idea with the words, 'Why use a hatchet when you can use a bulldozer?'
"Thus, the idea of hijacking airliners was born, according to investigators."
Now, if only the Germans can be convinced. Recent polls in germany suggest that 20 percent of Germans believe the 9-11 attacks were staged by the US as a pretext for making war.
". . .For internal communications, Hamburg terrorist cell ringleader and suicide pilot Mohammed Atta agreed with Binalshibh to use the code word 'Porsche 911.'
". . .Another witness testified he had visited a military training camp in Afghanistan shortly after the Sept. 11 attacks where he saw purported Sept. 11 plotters Ramzi Binalshibh and Said Bahaji. Listening to news reports of the attacks on a shortwave radio, he said jubilation broke out in the camp."
Al Jazeerah:
"The two suspected Al-Qaeda members believed to have been the architects of the Sept. 11 attacks have given interrogators full confessions, according to a German magazine report.
"The report in Der Spiegel news magazine, due to hit newsstands across Germany tomorrow, quotes US and German security experts as saying the confessions came from Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and his right-hand man, the former Hamburg technical university student Ramzi Binalshibh, both of whom are in custody.
"The two men have reportedly told interrogators that plans were drawn up as early as 1996 for flying planes into strategic targets in the United States.
"Mohammed’s original plan envisioned loading high explosives aboard light aircraft.
"But Osama Bin Laden himself is said to have dismissed that idea with the words, 'Why use a hatchet when you can use a bulldozer?'
"Thus, the idea of hijacking airliners was born, according to investigators."
Now, if only the Germans can be convinced. Recent polls in germany suggest that 20 percent of Germans believe the 9-11 attacks were staged by the US as a pretext for making war.
". . .For internal communications, Hamburg terrorist cell ringleader and suicide pilot Mohammed Atta agreed with Binalshibh to use the code word 'Porsche 911.'
". . .Another witness testified he had visited a military training camp in Afghanistan shortly after the Sept. 11 attacks where he saw purported Sept. 11 plotters Ramzi Binalshibh and Said Bahaji. Listening to news reports of the attacks on a shortwave radio, he said jubilation broke out in the camp."
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