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The September 11th Attacks September 11th, 2001 - 8:46:40 A.M | S01E01

The September 11 attacks, often referred to as 9/11,[a] were a series of four coordinated terrorist attacks by the Wahhabi[3] terrorist group Al-Qaeda[4][5][6] against the United States on the morning of Tuesday, September 11, 2001. The attacks resulted in 2,977 fatalities, over 25,000 injuries, and substantial long-term health consequences, in addition to at least $10 billion in infrastructure and property damage.[7][8] It is the deadliest terrorist attack in human history and the single deadliest incident for firefighters and law enforcement officers in the history of the United States, with 340[9] and 72 killed,[10][11] respectively.

Four passenger airliners which had departed from airports in the northeastern United States bound for California were hijacked by 19 al-Qaeda terrorists. Two of the planes, American Airlines Flight 11 and United Airlines Flight 175, crashed into the North and South towers, respectively, of the World Trade Center complex in Lower Manhattan. Within an hour and 42 minutes, both 110-story towers collapsed. Debris and the resulting fires caused a partial or complete collapse of all other buildings in the World Trade Center complex, including the 47-story 7 World Trade Center tower, as well as significant damage to ten other large surrounding structures. A third plane, American Airlines Flight 77, was crashed into the Pentagon (the headquarters of the U.S. Department of Defense) in Arlington County, Virginia, which led to a partial collapse of the building's west side. The fourth plane, United Airlines Flight 93, was initially flown toward Washington, D.C., but crashed into a field in Stonycreek Township, Pennsylvania, after passengers thwarted the hijackers.

Suspicion quickly fell onto al-Qaeda. The United States responded by launching the War on Terror and invading Afghanistan to depose the Taliban, which had not complied with U.S. demands to expel al-Qaeda from Afghanistan and extradite their leader Osama bin Laden. Many countries strengthened their anti-terrorism legislation and expanded the powers of law enforcement and intelligence agencies to prevent terrorist attacks. Although bin Laden initially denied any involvement, in 2004 he claimed responsibility for the attacks.[2] Al-Qaeda and bin Laden cited U.S. support of Israel, the presence of U.S. troops in Saudi Arabia, and sanctions against Iraq as motives. After evading capture for almost a decade, bin Laden was located in Pakistan in 2011 and killed during a U.S. military raid.

The destruction of the World Trade Center and nearby infrastructure seriously harmed the economy of New York City and had a significant effect on global markets. The U.S. and Canadian civilian airspaces were closed until September 13, while Wall Street was closed until September 17. Many closings, evacuations, and cancellations followed, out of respect or fear of further attacks. Cleanup of the World Trade Center site was completed in May 2002, and the Pentagon was repaired within a year. The construction of One World Trade Center began in November 2006, and the building opened in November 2014.[12][13]Numerous memorials have been constructed, including the National September 11 Memorial & Museum in New York City, the Pentagon Memorial in Arlington County, Virginia, and the Flight 93 National Memorial at the Pennsylvania crash site.

Background

Al-Qaeda

The origins of al-Qaeda can be traced to 1979 when the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan. Osama bin Laden travelled to Afghanistan and helped to organize Arab mujahideen to resist the Soviets.[14] Under the guidance of Ayman al-Zawahiri, bin Laden became more radical.[15] In 1996, bin Laden issued his first fatwā, calling for American soldiers to leave Saudi Arabia.[16]

In a second fatwā in 1998, bin Laden outlined his objections to American foreign policy with respect to Israel, as well as the continued presence of American troops in Saudi Arabia after the Gulf War.[17] Bin Laden used Islamic texts to exhort Muslims to attack Americans until the stated grievances were reversed. Muslim legal scholars "have throughout Islamic history unanimously agreed that the jihad is an individual duty if the enemy destroys the Muslim countries", according to bin Laden.[17]

Osama bin Laden

Bin Laden orchestrated the attacks and initially denied involvement but later recanted his false statements.[2][18][19]Al Jazeera broadcast a statement by bin Laden on September 16, 2001, stating, "I stress that I have not carried out this act, which appears to have been carried out by individuals with their own motivation."[20] In November 2001, U.S. forces recovered a videotape from a destroyed house in Jalalabad, Afghanistan. In the video, bin Laden is seen talking to Khaled al-Harbi and admits foreknowledge of the attacks.[21] On December 27, 2001, a second bin Laden video was released. In the video, he said:

It has become clear that the West in general and America in particular have an unspeakable hatred for Islam. ... It is the hatred of crusaders. Terrorism against America deserves to be praised because it was a response to injustice, aimed at forcing America to stop its support for Israel, which kills our people. ... We say that the end of the United States is imminent, whether Bin Laden or his followers are alive or dead, for the awakening of the Muslim umma (nation) has occurred but he stopped short of admitting responsibility for the attacks.[22]

Shortly before the U.S. presidential election in 2004, bin Laden used a taped statement to publicly acknowledge al-Qaeda's involvement in the attacks on the United States. He admitted his direct link to the attacks and said they were carried out because:

we are free ... and want to regain freedom for our nation. As you undermine our security, we undermine yours.[23]

Bin Laden said he had personally directed his followers to attack the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.[24][25] Another video obtained by Al Jazeera in September 2006 shows bin Laden with Ramzi bin al-Shibh, as well as two hijackers, Hamza al-Ghamdi and Wail al-Shehri, as they make preparations for the attacks.[26] The U.S. never formally indicted bin Laden for the 9/11 attacks, but he was on the FBI's Most Wanted List for the bombings of the U.S. Embassies in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, and Nairobi, Kenya.[27][28] After a 10-year manhunt, U.S. President Barack Obama announced that bin Laden was killed by American special forces in his compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan, on May 1, 2011.[29]

Khalid Sheikh Mohammed

Journalist Yosri Fouda of the Arabic television channel Al Jazeera reported that in April 2002, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed admitted his involvement in the attacks, along with Ramzi bin al-Shibh.[30][31][32] The 2004 9/11 Commission Report determined that the animosity towards the United States felt by Mohammed, the principal architect of the 9/11 attacks, stemmed from his "violent disagreement with U.S. foreign policy favoring Israel".[33] Mohammed was also an adviser and financier of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing and the uncle of Ramzi Yousef, the lead bomber in that attack.[34][35]

Mohammed was arrested on March 1, 2003, in Rawalpindi, Pakistan, by Pakistani security officials working with the CIA. He was then held at multiple CIA secret prisons and Guantanamo Bay where he was interrogated and tortured with methods including waterboarding.[36][37] During U.S. hearings at Guantanamo Bay in March 2007, Mohammed again confessed his responsibility for the attacks, stating he "was responsible for the 9/11 operation from A to Z" and that his statement was not made under duress.[32][38]

A letter presented by the lawyers of Khaled Sheikh Mohammed in the U.S. District Court, Manhattan on July 26, 2019 indicated that he was interested in testifying about Saudi Arabia’s role in the 9/11 attacks and helping the victims and families of the victims of 9/11 in exchange for the United States not seeking the death penalty against him. James Kreindler, one of the lawyers for the victims, raised question over the usefulness of Mohammed.[1]

Other al-Qaeda members

In "Substitution for Testimony of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed" from the trial of Zacarias Moussaoui, five people are identified as having been completely aware of the operation's details. They are bin Laden, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Ramzi bin al-Shibh, Abu Turab al-Urduni, and Mohammed Atef.[39] To date, only peripheral figures have been tried or convicted for the attacks.

On September 26, 2005, the Spanish high court sentenced Abu Dahdah to 27 years in prison for conspiracy on the 9/11 attacks and being a member of the terrorist organization al-Qaeda. At the same time, another 17 al-Qaeda members were sentenced to penalties of between six and eleven years.[40] On February 16, 2006, the Spanish Supreme Court reduced the Abu Dahdah penalty to 12 years because it considered that his participation in the conspiracy was not proven.[41]

Also in 2006, Moussaoui—who some originally suspected might have been the assigned 20th hijacker—was convicted for the lesser role of conspiracy to commit acts of terrorism and air piracy. He was sentenced to life in prison without parole in the United States.[42][43]Mounir el-Motassadeq, an associate of the Hamburg-based hijackers, served 15 years in Germany for his role in helping the hijackers prepare for the attacks. He was released in October 2018, and deported to Morocco.[44]

The Hamburg cell in Germany included radical Islamists who eventually came to be key operatives in the 9/11 attacks.[45]Mohamed Atta, Marwan al-Shehhi, Ziad Jarrah, Ramzi bin al-Shibh, and Said Bahaji were all members of al-Qaeda's Hamburg cell.[46]

Motives

Osama bin Laden's declaration of a holy war against the United States, and a 1998 fatwā signed by bin Laden and others, calling for the killing of Americans,[17] are seen by investigators as evidence of his motivation.[47] In bin Laden's November 2002 "Letter to America", he explicitly stated that al-Qaeda's motives for their attacks include:

U.S. support of Israel[48][49]

support for the "attacks against Muslims" in Somalia

support of Philippines against Muslims in the Moro conflict

support for Israeli "aggression" against Muslims in Lebanon

support of Russian "atrocities against Muslims" in Chechnya

pro-American governments in the Middle East (who "act as your agents") being against Muslim interests

support of Indian "oppression against Muslims" in Kashmir

the presence of U.S. troops in Saudi Arabia[50]

the sanctions against Iraq[48]

After the attacks, bin Laden and al-Zawahiri released additional videotapes and audio recordings, some of which repeated those reasons for the attacks. Two particularly important publications were bin Laden's 2002 "Letter to America",[51] and a 2004 videotape by bin Laden.[52]

Bin Laden interpreted Muhammad as having banned the "permanent presence of infidels in Arabia".[53] In 1996, bin Laden issued a fatwā calling for American troops to leave Saudi Arabia. In 1998, al-Qaeda wrote, "for over seven years the United States has been occupying the lands of Islam in the holiest of places, the Arabian Peninsula, plundering its riches, dictating to its rulers, humiliating its people, terrorizing its neighbors, and turning its bases in the Peninsula into a spearhead through which to fight the neighboring Muslim peoples."[54]

In a December 1999 interview, bin Laden said he felt that Americans were "too near to Mecca", and considered this a provocation to the entire Muslim world.[55] One analysis of suicide terrorism suggested that without U.S. troops in Saudi Arabia, al-Qaeda likely would not have been able to get people to commit to suicide missions.[56]

In the 1998 fatwā, al-Qaeda identified the Iraq sanctions as a reason to kill Americans, condemning the "protracted blockade"[54] among other actions that constitute a declaration of war against "Allah, his messenger, and Muslims."[54] The fatwā declared that "the ruling to kill the Americans and their allies—civilians and military—is an individual duty for every Muslim who can do it in any country in which it is possible to do it, in order to liberate the al-Aqsa Mosque and the holy mosque of Mecca from their grip, and in order for their [the Americans'] armies to move out of all the lands of Islam, defeated and unable to threaten any Muslim."[17][57]

In 2004, Bin Laden claimed that the idea of destroying the towers had first occurred to him in 1982, when he witnessed Israel's bombardment of high-rise apartment buildings during the 1982 Lebanon War.[58][59] Some analysts, including Mearsheimer and Walt, also claimed that U.S. support of Israel was one motive for the attacks.[49][55] In 2004 and 2010, bin Laden again connected the September 11 attacks with U.S. support of Israel, although most of the letter expressed bin Laden's disdain for President Bush and bin Laden's hope to "destroy and bankrupt" the U.S.[60][61]

Other motives have been suggested in addition to those stated by bin Laden and al-Qaeda. Some authors suggested the "humiliation" that resulted from the Islamic world falling behind the Western world—this discrepancy was rendered especially visible by the globalization trend[62][63] and a desire to provoke the U.S. into a broader war against the Islamic world in the hope of motivating more allies to support al-Qaeda. Similarly, others have argued that 9/11 was a strategic move with the objective of provoking America into a war that would incite a pan-Islamic revolution.[64][65]

Planning

The attacks were conceived by Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, who first presented it to Osama bin Laden in 1996.[66] At that time, bin Laden and al-Qaeda were in a period of transition, having just relocated back to Afghanistan from Sudan.[67] The 1998 African Embassy bombings and bin Laden's February 1998 fatwā marked a turning point of al-Qaeda's terrorist operation,[68] as bin Laden became intent on attacking the United States.

In late 1998 or early 1999, bin Laden gave approval for Mohammed to go forward with organizing the plot.[69] Mohammed, bin Laden, and bin Laden's deputy Mohammed Atef held a series of meetings in early 1999.[70] Atef provided operational support, including target selections and helping arrange travel for the hijackers.[67] Bin Laden overruled Mohammed, rejecting potential targets such as the U.S. Bank Tower in Los Angeles for lack of time.[71][72]

Bin Laden provided leadership and financial support, and was involved in selecting participants.[73] He initially selected Nawaf al-Hazmi and Khalid al-Mihdhar, both experienced jihadists who had fought in Bosnia. Hazmi and Mihdhar arrived in the United States in mid-January 2000. In early 2000, Hazmi and Mihdhar took flying lessons in San Diego, California, but both spoke little English, performed poorly in flying lessons, and eventually served as secondary—or "muscle"—hijackers.[74][75]

In late 1999, a group of men from Hamburg, Germany arrived in Afghanistan; the group included Mohamed Atta, Marwan al-Shehhi, Ziad Jarrah, and Ramzi bin al-Shibh.[76] Bin Laden selected these men because they were educated, could speak English, and had experience living in the West.[77] New recruits were routinely screened for special skills and al-Qaeda leaders consequently discovered that Hani Hanjour already had a commercial pilot's license.[78] Mohammed later said that he helped the hijackers blend in by teaching them how to order food in restaurants and dress in Western clothing.[79]

Hanjour arrived in San Diego on December 8, 2000, joining Hazmi.[80]:6–7 They soon left for Arizona, where Hanjour took refresher training.[80]:7 Marwan al-Shehhi arrived at the end of May 2000, while Atta arrived on June 3, 2000, and Jarrah arrived on June 27, 2000.[80]:6 Bin al-Shibh applied several times for a visa to the United States, but as a Yemeni, he was rejected out of concerns he would overstay his visa.[80]:4, 14 Bin al-Shibh stayed in Hamburg, providing coordination between Atta and Mohammed.[80]:16 The three Hamburg cell members all took pilot training in South Florida at Huffman Aviation.[80]:6

In spring of 2001, the secondary hijackers began arriving in the United States.[81] In July 2001, Atta met with bin al-Shibh in Spain, where they coordinated details of the plot, including final target selection. Bin al-Shibh also passed along bin Laden's wish for the attacks to be carried out as soon as possible.[82] Some of the hijackers received passports from corrupt Saudi officials who were family members, or used fraudulent passports to gain entry.[83]

There is some idea that 9/11 was selected by the hijackers as the date of the attack because of its resemblance to 9-1-1, the phone number to report emergencies in the U.S. However, Lawrence Wright wrote that the hijackers chose it because September 11, 1683 is when the King of Poland began the battle that turned back the Muslim armies from the Ottoman Empire that were attempting to capture Vienna. For Osama bin Laden, this was a date when the West gained some dominance over Islam, and by attacking on this date, he hoped to make a step in Islam "winning" the war for worldwide power and influence.[84]

Prior intelligence

In late 1999, al-Qaeda associate Walid bin Attash ("Khallad") contacted Mihdhar, telling him to meet him in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia; Hazmi and Abu Bara al Yemeni would also be in attendance. The NSA intercepted a telephone call mentioning the meeting, Mihdhar, and the name "Nawaf" (Hazmi). While the agency feared "Something nefarious might be afoot", it took no further action. The CIA had already been alerted by Saudi intelligence about the status of Mihdhar and Hazmi as al-Qaeda members, and a CIA team broke into Mihdhar's Dubai hotel room and discovered that Mihdhar had a U.S. visa. While Alec Station alerted intelligence agencies worldwide about this fact, it did not share this information with the FBI. The Malaysian Special Branch observed the January 5, 2000 meeting of the two al-Qaeda members, and informed the CIA that Mihdhar, Hazmi, and Khallad were flying to Bangkok, but the CIA never notified other agencies of this, nor did it ask the State Department to put Mihdhar on its watchlist. An FBI liaison to Alec Station asked permission to inform the FBI of the meeting but was told: "This is not a matter for the FBI."[85]

By late June, senior counter-terrorism official Richard Clarke and CIA director George Tenet were "convinced that a major series of attacks was about to come", although the CIA believed the attacks would likely occur in Saudi Arabia or Israel.[86] In early July, Clarke put domestic agencies on "full alert", telling them, "Something really spectacular is going to happen here. soon." He asked the FBI and the State Department to alert the embassies and police departments, and the Defense Department to go to "Threat Condition Delta".[87][88] Clarke would later write: "Somewhere in CIA there was information that two known al Qaeda terrorists had come into the United States. Somewhere in FBI there was information that strange things had been going on at flight schools in the United States... They had specific information about individual terrorists from which one could have deduced what was about to happen. None of that information got to me or the White House."[89]

On July 13, Tom Wilshire, a CIA agent assigned to the FBI's international terrorism division, emailed his superiors at the CIA's Counterterrorism Center (CTC) requesting permission to inform the FBI that Hazmi was in the country and that Mihdhar had a U.S. visa. The CIA never responded.[90]

The same day in July, Margarette Gillespie, an FBI analyst working in the CTC, was told to review material about the Malaysia meeting. She was not told of the participants' presence in the U.S. The CIA gave Gillespie surveillance photos of Mihdhar and Hazmi from the meeting to show to FBI counterterrorism, but did not tell her their significance. The Intelink database informed her not to share intelligence material on the meeting to criminal investigators. When shown the photos, the FBI were refused more details on their significance, and they were not given Mihdhar's date of birth nor passport number.[91] In late August 2001, Gillespie told the INS, the State Department, the Customs Service, and the FBI to put Hazmi and Mihdhar on their watchlists, but the FBI was prohibited from using criminal agents in the search for the duo, which hindered their efforts.[92]

Also in July, a Phoenix-based FBI agent sent a message to FBI headquarters, Alec Station, and to FBI agents in New York alerting them to "the possibility of a coordinated effort by Osama bin Laden to send students to the United States to attend civil aviation universities and colleges". The agent, Kenneth Williams, suggested the need to interview all flight school managers and identify all Arab students seeking flight training.[93] In July, Jordan alerted the U.S. that al-Qaeda was planning an attack on the U.S.; "months later", Jordan notified the U.S. that the attack's codename was "The Big Wedding" and that it involved airplanes.[94]

On August 6, 2001, the CIA's Presidential Daily Brief ("PDB"), designated "For the President Only", was entitled "Bin Ladin Determined to Strike in U.S." The memo noted that FBI information "indicates patterns of suspicious activity in this country consistent with preparations for hijackings or other types of attacks".[95]

In mid-August, one Minnesota flight school alerted the FBI about Zacarias Moussaoui, who had asked "suspicious questions". The FBI found that Moussaoui was a radical who had traveled to Pakistan, and the INS arrested him for overstaying his French visa. Their request to search his laptop was denied by FBI headquarters due to the lack of probable cause.[96]

The failures in intelligence-sharing were attributed to 1995 Justice Department policies limiting intelligence sharing, combined with CIA and NSA reluctance to reveal "sensitive sources and methods" such as tapped phones.[97] Testifying before the 9/11 Commission in April 2004, then-Attorney General John Ashcroft recalled that the "single greatest structural cause for the September 11th problem was the wall that segregated or separated criminal investigators and intelligence agents".[98] Clarke also wrote: "There were failures in the organizations failures to get information to the right place at the right time."[99]

TLDR; it was an inside job

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blogs-n-sheeit · 5 years ago

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Ever look at childhood photos of these people and wonder “what went wrong”?

Here’s a notorious example: Mohamed Atta.

He was born September 1, 1968 in Kafr-el Sheikh, Egypt. His parents, Mohamed el-Amir Awad el-Sayed Atta and Bouthayna Mohamed Mustapha Sheraqi, were of wealthy influence: his father a lawyer educated in sharia and civil law and his mother who came from a wealthy farming and trading family and who was also educated. Bouthayna and Mohamed both married when she was 14 in an arranged marriage. Atta’s father was described as “austere, strict and private” and neighbors viewed the family as reclusive. Atta was the only son; they also had two daughters — one is a medical doctor and the other a professor.

When Atta was ten, his family moved to the Cairo neighborhood of Abdeen and his family became ever more insulated. Atta’s father forbade him from fraternizing with other children. With little to do, he mostly studied at home and easily excelled in school. In 1985, Atta enrolled at Cairo University and focused his studies on engineering. He was among the highest-scoring students there and soon he focused his studies on engineering. By his senior year, he was admitted to an architecture program. After graduating in 1990, he joined Engineers Syndicate — an organization under the control of the Muslim Brotherhood. He then worked at the Urban Development Center at Cairo where he joined various building projects and dispatched diverse architectural tasks. Also in 1990, Atta’s family moved into an apartment in the Egyptian city of Giza.

Soon, Atta entered a German-language program at the Goethe Institute in the Egyptian City in Cairo. After being invited to an exchange program by a German couple who his father brought over that were visiting Egypt’s capital, he moved to Germany at the couple’s house in July 1992.

He enrolled at the Hamburg University of Technology’s urban planning graduate program. The couple were two high school teachers, and they said they didn’t like his introverted personality, closed-mindedness, adhering to the strictest Islamic diet, frequenting the most conservative mosques, socializing seldom and acting disdainfully towards the couple’s unmarried young daughter, who had a young child. After six months, they told him to leave.

By early 1993, he had moved into a new university housing with roommates at Centrumshause. He stayed there until 1998. During that time period, his roommates grew annoyed with him. He seldom bathed, and they could not take his “complete, almost aggressive insularity”. He responded to greetings and salutations with absolute silence, as if he thought he were better than you.

At the Hamburg University of Technology, he studied under the guidance of Dittmar Machule — the department chair who specialized in the Middle East. Atta was averse to modern development. He believed that the drab and the impersonal apartment blocks were a privacy concern and that it had ruined the beauty of the city and robbed people of their dignity. In 1990, his family had moved into such a building that was described as being ugly in it’s design. It was to him "a shabby symbol of Egypt's haphazard attempts to modernize and its shameless embrace of the West." For his doctoral thesis, he narrowed the subject to Syria’s ancient city of Aleppo and how the skyscrapers — which were different from what he was used to — and other modernizing projects were disrupting the fabric of communities by blocking city streets and altering the view of the beautiful sky.

In 1994, Dittmar Machule brought Atta on an archaeological trip to Aleppo. The invitation was originally intended to only be for three days, but he ended up staying for several weeks that August and revisited sometime later in December. While in Syria, Atta met a Palestinian woman who he was shy of and experienced dating difficulties with, despite the fact that they were both attracted to each other, due to her freedoms as a woman, which he didn’t agree with. His recent attraction to her, to which he resentfully self-denied, was the closest thing Atta knew to romance. In mid-1995, he stayed for three months in Cairo along with students Volker Hauth and Ralph Bodenstein under a grant from the Carl Duisberg Society. The academic team inquired about the effects of building projects over the old buildings in the Islamic Cairo, the old quarter, replacing the old sites which the government sought to “modernize” for the prospect of tourism. Atta stayed in Cairo awhile with his family after Haut and Bodenstein flew back to Germany.

While in Hamburg, Atta held several positions at places, such as a part-time job at the Plankontor urban planning firm as a draftsman as well as at another urban planning firm since 1992. However, he was let go from the firm in 1997 after it was decided that his draftsmanship was not needed because of a new computer system they had bought. To combat this, he started working unusual jobs, like car cleaning or buying and selling used cars just to make his paycheck. Atta had anticipated returning to his native city of Cairo ever since he finished his studies in Hamburg, but due to a lack of job prospects and his family lacking the right connections to the customary nepotism, he further knew that with the recent arrests of political activists that it wasn’t safe for him to return, given what his beliefs were.

After coming to Hamburg in 1992, his fanatical zeal intensified and he began visiting the mosque more frequently. He harbored anger for the United States in particular, due to its involvement with the Oslo Accords and the Gulf War. He also harbored anger and resentment towards his own government for hoarding all the power to themselves and cracking down on the dissident Muslim Brotherhood.

On August 1, 1995, Atta returned to Egypt for three months of study. Before leaving, he grew out his beard as a political statement and to show his devoutness to Islam. Atta returned to Hamburg on October 31, 1995 only to embark on a religious journey to the site of Mecca shortly after.

In Hamburg, Atta was drawn to the Al-Quds mosque, which has been described as adhering to the “harsh, uncompromisingly fundamentalist, and resoundingly militant” version of Sunni Islam. He met several new people at this mosque who would later also be implicated in the attacks on the World Trade Center, Pentagon and a field in rural Stonycreek Township, Pennsylvania. He also began teaching classes at both Al-Quds and a Turkish mosque near the Harburg district. Atta also started and led a prayer group, which others joined in.

On April 11, 1996, Atta signed his last will and testament at the mosque, officially stating his will and beliefs as well as giving 18 instructions for his burial after death. The will “offering his life” was his response to Israel’s attack on Lebanon during Operation Grapes of Wrath. Included in the instructions from his last will and testament were in tune with some Salafist elements, including asking people not to cry or show emotion at his funeral. The will was signed by Mounir El Motassadeq and a second person at the mosque.

After leaving Plantonkor in the summer of 1997, he disappeared for anywhere between three months to an entire year, claiming that he had made another pilgrimage to Mecca, but this time only 18 months after his first pilgrimage. When Atta returned, he claimed that he lost his old passport and was returned a new one — a common tactic of erasing evidence of travel to places like Afghanistan. When he returned in the spring in 1998, he grew a thick, long beard was noted to be more “serious and aloof” to those that knew him.

By mid-1998, Atta was no longer eligible for university housing at the Centrumshaus. He moved to a nearby apartment in the Wilhelmsburg district, where he met up and lived with Said Bahaji and Ramzi bin al-Shibh. By early 1999, Atta had formed his thesis and thoroughly defended it later that year in August 1999.

In mid-1998, Atta worked alongside Marwan al-Shehhi, Ramzi bin al-Shibh and another person at a warehouse, packing computers in crates for transport. They developed into what is known as the Hamburg Cell after leaving Wilhelmsburg for an apartment in Harburg, near the Hamburg University of Technology at which they developed and acted as a group. They met three or four times a week to discuss their anti-American feelings and to plot possible attacks. Many Al-Qaeda members lived in this apartment at various times, including Marwan al-Shehhi, Zakariya Essabar, among others.

In late 1999, Atta, Shehhi, Ziad Samir Jarrah, Bahaji and bin al-Shibh decided to travel to Chechnya to help fight the Russians, but were eventually made to change their plans. So they instead traveled to Afghanistan over a 2-week period in late November. On November 29, 1999, Atta flew to Pakistan and upon arrival, was selected, among other people, to partake in suicide missions by Al-Qaeda leaders Mohammed Atef and Osama Bin Laden, to which he and the other three men accepted.

German investigators said that they had evidence that Mohamed Atta had trained at Al-Qaeda camps in Afghanistan between late 1999 to early 2000. Klaus Ulrich Kersten was the senior investigator of the German Bundeskriminalamt — a federal anti-crime agency, who had confirmed that Atta and two other pilots had been in Afghanistan, and he also provided the dates for the training. He said that there was evidence that Atta was in Afghanistan in late 1999 to early 2000, and that he had met with Osama bin Laden there.

A video surfaced in October 2006 of Atta and Jarrah reading the wills together on January 18. On his return journey, Atta left Karachi on February 24, 2000 by flight to Istanbul, where he later changed the flight to Hamburg. Immediately after returning to Germany, Atta, al-Shehhi and Jarrah reported their passports stolen, possibly to discard travel visas to Afghanistan.

Soon after on May 17, 2000, Atta applied for a B-1/B-2 visa for the United States, and by June, he was inquiring about taking flight lessons and in July they had enrolled at Huffman Aviation in Venice, Florida where they entered the Accelerated Pilot Program. From there, they entered Spain in July 2001, and during their stay, they had a meeting where they discussed details of the attacks. Throughout the late summer of 2001, they continued finishing up their plans for the attack.

On September 11, 2001, he, along with 18 other members of Al-Qaeda, committed the single worst act of mass murder in United States history, leaving 2,977 people dead and 33,000+ others wounded (some of whom have died since due to health complications as a result of the attacks, which is set to soon outplace the number of people who died on that day).

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airborn64 · 6 years ago

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HAMBURG: Terrorhelfer soll vorzeitig aus Haft entlassen werden

Einer der Al-Qaida-Helfer der Attentäter vom 11. September, Mounir al-Motassadeq, soll vorzeitig aus der Haft entlassen werden. Das berichtet die „Bild“-Zeitung und beruft sich auf Justizkreise.

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Montag, 03. Januar 2022 Umgang mit Dschihadisten-Kindern Was, wenn Terror und Hass vererbt werden? Glauben und Überzeugungen, die man früh gelehrt bekommt, prägen. Auch Kindern salafistischer Familien geht es so. In Hamburg kann ein Terroranschlag eines Verdächtigen in zweiter Generation gerade noch verhindert werden. Für Experten und Sicherheitsbehörden ist der Umgang damit ein Problem. Wer schon als Kind zum Hass auf vermeintlich "Ungläubige" erzogen wird, schüttelt die dschihadistische Ideologie später nicht so einfach ab. Die vor wenigen Tagen öffentlich verkündete Festnahme eines 20-jährigen Terrorverdächtigen der zweiten Generation in Hamburg wirft ein Schlaglicht auf ein Problem, das Sicherheitsbehörden und Experten für Deradikalisierung beschäftigt - auch mit Blick auf die Kinder von Rückkehrerinnen aus dem früheren Herrschaftsgebiet der Terrormiliz Islamischer Staat (IS). Der Sohn eines bekannten radikalen Islamisten soll einen Anschlag in Deutschland vorbereitet haben. Der junge Mann soll versucht haben, eine Pistole, Munition und eine Handgranate zu kaufen. Bei der Durchsuchung der Wohnung eines Verwandten, die er nutzte, fanden Ermittler Chemikalien für den Bau eines Sprengsatzes. Der bereits im August festgenommene Deutsch-Marokkaner aus Hamburg ist, soviel steht fest, schon früh mit dem gewaltbereiten Salafismus in Verbindung gekommen. Sein 2016 nach Marokko ausgereister Vater ging einst in der später geschlossenen Al-Quds-Moschee in Hamburg ein und aus. Später zählte er zu den Besuchern der islamistischen Al-Taqwa-Moschee. Der Vater kannte Mounir el Motassadeq sehr gut, ein Mitglied der sogenannten Hamburger Zelle um den Todespiloten Mohammed Atta, der 2001 eines der Flugzeuge in das World Trade Center in New York gesteuert hatte. Das Hanseatische Oberlandesgericht hatte el Motassadeq wegen Beihilfe zum Mord in mindestens 246 Fällen und Mitgliedschaft in einer terroristischen Vereinigung zu 15 Jahren Haft verurteilt. Er wurde 2019, wenige Wochen vor dem Ende seiner regulären Haftzeit, nach Marokko abgeschoben. Von Safia S., die Anfang 2016 - damals war sie 15 Jahre alt - einen Polizisten im Hauptbahnhof Hannover mit einem Küchenmesser niederstach, ist bekannt, dass sie als Kind zum Islamunterricht in eine von Salafisten dominierte Moschee geschickt wurde. Das Oberlandesgericht Celle hat sie wegen versuchten Mordes mit gefährlicher Körperverletzung und Unterstützung einer ausländischen terroristischen Vereinigung zu einer sechsjährigen Jugendstrafe verurteilt. Der Bundesgerichtshof wies eine Revision gegen die Entscheidung im Jahr 2018 zurück. Ideologien der Eltern Inwiefern die Prägung durch die Eltern bei gewaltbereiten Islamisten eine Rolle spielt, ist nicht immer klar. "In Einzelfällen ist so etwas bekannt", heißt es aus den Sicherheitsbehörden. Experten, die sich intensiv mit den Biografien von Terrorverdächtigen beschäftigen, werden sich vermutlich auch den Lebensweg des jungen Hamburgers, der jetzt in Untersuchungshaft sitzt, genauer anschauen. Bekannt ist auf jeden Fall, dass der Festgenommene im Herbst 2020 zurückgekehrt war, wohl um in Deutschland zu studieren. Einen Vorbereitungskurs bestand er jedoch nicht. Dass sich die Kinder radikaler Salafisten von der Ideologie der Eltern abwenden, ist allerdings genauso möglich. Das zeigt etwa der ungewöhnliche Fall eines Deutschen, dessen Vater dem Vorstand des 2017 verbotenen "Deutschsprachigen Islamkreises Hildesheim" angehörte. Der Sohn eines Palästinensers lieferte dem jordanischen Geheimdienst Informationen aus dem Umfeld der von IS-Anhängern frequentierten Moschee, wie das Thüringer Oberlandesgericht später feststellte. Der damals 34-Jährige wurde 2019 wegen geheimdienstlicher Agententätigkeit zu einer Bewährungsstrafe verurteilt. Die Rolle des Verfassungsschutzes Eine systematische Beobachtung der Kinder von radikalen Islamisten, etwa bei denjenigen, die von der Polizei als sogenannte Gefährder eingestuft werden, gibt es nicht. Der Verfassungsschutz schaut sich die Aktivitäten der Nachkommen dieser Salafisten erst an, wenn sie selbst als Islamisten auffällig werden. Und selbst dann sind die Möglichkeiten des Inlandsgeheimdienstes, Informationen zu speichern, sehr eingeschränkt, sofern es sich um Minderjährige handelt. Voraussetzung dafür sind "tatsächliche Anhaltspunkte", dass er oder sie eine besonders schwere Straftat plant, die zum Beispiel den demokratischen Rechtsstaat gefährdet. Außerdem sind die Informationen über mutmaßliche Extremisten aus dieser Altersgruppe bei einer normalen Datenbankabfrage nicht auffindbar. Das heißt, die Geheimdienstmitarbeiter müssen schon wissen, dass sie existieren und wo sie abgelegt wurden. Für Jugendliche im Alter zwischen 14 und 17 Jahren gelten bei einer Speicherung zudem spezielle Löschfristen. Datenspeicherung auch bei Kindern? Die Koalition von Union und SPD hatte 2016 die Altersgrenze für die Speicherung von Daten von 16 auf 14 Jahre gesenkt. Drei Jahre später wollte der damalige Bundesinnenminister Horst Seehofer sie dann ganz aufheben. Die SPD, die mit Nancy Faeser nun seine Amtsnachfolgerin stellt, war dagegen. Die Gegner einer Senkung der Mindestaltersgrenze sagen: Wer durch die Indoktrination der Eltern oder eigene Verirrungen in der Kindheit auf dem Radar des Verfassungsschutzes landet, soll später deshalb keine Nachteile haben. Etwa bei den Ausländerbehörden. Oder wenn er sich als Erwachsener um eine Stelle bewirbt, für die eine Sicherheitsprüfung verlangt wird. Das Bundesamt hielt den Wegfall der Altersbeschränkung 2019 dennoch für vertretbar und notwendig. Auch wegen der damals schon erwarteten Rückkehr von Kindern, deren "Dschihadisten-Eltern" sich dem IS im Irak oder in Syrien angeschlossen hatten. Einige von ihnen haben Grausamkeiten hautnah miterlebt. Teilweise waren sie auch nach der Vertreibung der Terroristen noch in Flüchtlingslagern salafistischer Indoktrination ausgesetzt. Zwischen August 2019 und Oktober 2021 wurden nach Angaben der Bundesregierung zwölf Mütter und 42 Kinder - darunter einige Waisen - aus Lagern in Nordost-Syrien nach Deutschland geholt. Weitere ehemalige IS-Anhänger kamen mit ihren Kindern auf anderen Wegen nach Deutschland zurück.

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Leben Sie ruhig weiter in den von den Herrschenden aufgebauten Kulissen ... Spätere Generationen werden über uns sprechen, wie wir über die Menschen in der Zeit der Hexenverbrennungen sprachen.

» [...] Die Rolle und die Funktion von Hasspredigern bestehen im Generieren von „Dschihadisten“, die entweder am militärischen oder am Online-Dschihad teilnehmen. Hassprediger arbeiten in der Öffentlichkeit und suchen sogar mediale Aufmerksamkeit durch provokative Aktionen. Anwerber hingegen arbeiten diskret, gemeinsam mit Geheimdiensten. ... | ... Allein in den USA wurden 30 Zentren zur Anwerbung von Kämpfern gegründet und hohe Summen deponiert. Bereits dort erhielt ein Teil der Angeworbenen eine militärische Ausbildung durch das FBI. ... | ... Zammar war den deutschen Ermittlern gut bekannt beziehungsweise arbeitete in ihrem Auftrag. Nach den Anschlägen des 11. September 2001 wurde ihm von höchster Stelle „gestattet“, von Deutschland nach Marokko auszureisen, damit er nicht für Aussagen im Gerichtsverfahren gegen Mounir al-Motassadeq zur Verfügung stehe. Er hätte sonst seine Rolle als Anwerber zugeben müssen. ... | ... Seit 2001 gibt es einige bekannte Fälle von Hasspredigern und Anwerbern, die mutmaßlich im Auftrag oder zumindest mit der Duldung der Geheimdienste arbeiten.

Hassprediger Yahia Youssif – der angeblich die Sauerlandgruppe radikalisierte – suchte nicht die Öffentlichkeit, da er gleichzeitig Mitarbeiter des Landesamtes für Verfassungsschutz Baden-Württemberg (LfV) war. [...] Als seine Doppelrolle aufflog, verließ er Deutschland.

Ein anderer geduldeter Hassprediger, der mutmaßlich ebenfalls in Hamburg Atta geholfen haben soll, war der Marokkaner Mohammed Fisasi oder Fazazi. ... | ... Die Salafisten Yassin Oussaifi, Sven Lau und Pierre Vogel werden immer wieder verdächtigt, im Auftrag des Verfassungsschutzes zu arbeiten beziehungsweise gearbeitet zu haben. ... | ... Auch in Großbritannien tummelten sich über Jahre hinweg Hassprediger – wie Abu Hamza al-Masri, Abu Qatada, Sheikh Omar Bakri Mohammed und Ajem Chodary – im Schutz der Geheimdienste. ... | ... Hassprediger spielen eine doppelte Rolle in der Mythenpflege:

Erstens sorgen sie für die ideologische Bereitschaft junger Muslime, sich dem Dschihad anzuschließen.

Zweitens stellen sie für die Medien – durch ihre zweideutigen Aussagen – die ideale Erscheinung des hinterlistigen, verschwörerischen Islamisten zur Schau.

Durch inszenierte Aktionen in der Öffentlichkeit und ständig publizierte Ermittlungsverfahren erhalten die Salafisten Sven Lau und Pierre Vogel – die von Leitmedien gerne als Extremisten bezeichnet werden – eine ständige Gratiswerbung, von der sogar Spitzenkünstler, weltberühmte Wissenschaftler, Menschenrechtler oder Friedensaktivisten nur träumen können. Leitmedien kündigten sogar Vorlesungen von Pierre Vogel an!

In einem einzigen Jahr – zwischen dem 1. Januar 2015 und dem 1. Januar 2016 – wurden, laut der Datenbank Nexis, Pierre Vogel 532 Mal und Sven Lau 390 Mal in deutschen Medien erwähnt, der deutsche Chemie-Nobelpreisträger 2014 Stefan Hell dagegen lediglich 70 Mal und der Menschenrechtler Rolf Gössner nur 14 Mal. Diese Statistik deutet auf eine offizielle Strategie hin, diese Salafisten und den Dschihad aufzuwerten. ... | ... Seine Antwort bestätigt, dass sich deutsche Medien in ihrer Berichterstattung über den IS trotz der Undurchsichtigkeit des Informationsflusses auf dubiosen Quellen verlassen. Dass Journalisten damit den deutschen Pressekodex verletzen, scheint niemanden zu stören.

Zwei Aspekte bilden den gemeinsamen Nenner dieser „dschihadistischen“ Schriften:

Erstens ist der Standort der Produzenten nicht bekannt. Sie betreiben keine Webseiten und haben keine Kontaktadresse. Es ist daher unmöglich, ihre wahre Identität festzustellen, obwohl die herrschenden Medien ihre Produkte als waschecht zitieren.

Zweitens werden dschihadistische Schriften und Videos nicht von Afghanistan oder Syrien aus vertrieben, sondern zufälligerweise von pro-israelischen Firmen, die sich in den USA befinden.

SITE Intelligence Group – von der Israelin Rita Katz gegründet und geleitet – verbreitet an ihre Abonnenten hauptsächlich dschihadistische Reden, Bekennermeldungen und Videos.

Clarion Project – vom israelischen Rabbiner Raphael Shore gegründet – betreibt die Zeitschrift Dabiq, die dem Islamischen Staat zugeordnet wird.

Die Firma Jihadology *– vom Islamophoben Aaron Y. Zelin geleitet – gibt die Zeitschriften *Dar al Islam und Inspire, die Al-Qaida zuzuordnen sind. ... | ... Dass die dschihadistischen Medienprodukte sich großer Beliebtheit bei den herrschenden Leitmedien erfreuen, äußert sich in deren Bereitschaft, für diese kostenlos zu werben. So wurde zum Beispiel die neueste Ausgabe von Dabiq – eine angebliche IS-Produktion – zwischen dem 28. Juli und dem 5. August 2016 unter anderen in folgenden 44 Leitmedien weltweit zitiert: Asharq Alawsat, Bild Zeitung, Boa Informação, Canberra Times, Corriere della Sera, Courrier International, Cyprus Mail, Daily Star Online, Diario De Yucatan, DNA India, El Espectador, El Nacional, Express Online, Folha De Spaulo, Fox News, Ha’aretz, Het Laatste Nieuws, Hindustan Times, Il Giorno, Il Resto del Carlino, Irish Mirror, Jornal de Estado, Jornal de Piracicaba, La Nazione, La Rioja, La Stampa, Le Figaro, Mail Online, Nederlands Dagblad, NRC Handels- blad, Reformatorisch Dagblad, Reuters USA, SDA, Sur, Tages-Anzeiger, Thai News Service, The Guardian, The Independent, The Vancouver Sun, Valeurs actuelles, Voice of America, Zeit Online. [...] «

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