Hat tip: Kim du Toit
Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the alleged mastermind of the September 11 attacks, has told American interrogators he originally aimed for a double wave of suicide attacks, involving up to 10 commercial airliners and targets on both US coasts. Details of what he has told his CIA captors were made public by the Associated Press news agency yesterday after an AP reporter was shown interview reports. They make clear Osama bin Laden’s central role in the attacks. He scaled down plans to hijack five planes on each coast, and scrapped plans to hijack others in Asia. He thought it would be "too difficult to synchronise" attacks on opposite sides of the world. Bin Laden was also directly responsible for the number of Saudis among the hijackers, Mohamed said. "There was a large group of Saudi operatives that would be available to participate as the muscle in the plot," he told interrogators. The reports also appear to back claims by Zacarias Moussaoui, the French Muslim on trial for his life as a September 11 conspirator, that he was not part of the plot, but was training for a later wave of attacks.
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