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| The Investigation |
| 9-11 thug was involved in two other bombings |
| 2001-10-06 |
Khalid Almihdhar, one of the hijackers who crashed a jetliner into the Pentagon, was involved in the 1998 U.S. embassies bombings in East Africa and the attack on the destroyer Cole in Yemen last year, sources say. The embassy bombings killed 224 people. Seventeen sailors died when the Cole was attacked by suicide bombers, and 189 died in the rubble of the Pentagon. Evidence connecting Almihdhar to the three acts of terror first showed up in a British report released Thursday that said at least three of the hijackers were associates of Al Qaeda, the confederacy of terrorist groups run by Bin Laden. The report — without naming names — said one of the associates played "key roles" in the three attacks. Sources familiar with the investigation of the Sept. 11 terror attacks identified the suspect as Almihdhar. The British report also said investigators had evidence that one of Bin Laden's top lieutenants was responsible for the "detail planning of the attacks." U.S. News and World Report stated yesterday that intelligence sources identified the bombing mastermind as Mohammed Atef. Atef, formerly a member of the Egyptian Islamic Jihad, helped Bin Laden create Al Qaeda. The two men are so close that their children recently married and Atef is considered to be Bin Laden's successor if something happened to him. |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |