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| UK thug named in 9/11 report |
| 2004-08-06 |
| One of the terrorist suspects arrested in Britain this week is the man named in the report by the Sept. 11 commission as the operative al-Qaida sent to the United States to review possible economic and "Jewish" targets a few months before the terrorist attacks in 2001, NBC News reported Thursday. Two years earlier, the man, Abu Eisa al-Hindi, a British citizen of Indian descent, wrote a terrorist training manual describing how to kill enemy soldiers using remote-controlled explosives, grenades and automatic weapons, according to a copy of the manual obtained by NBC News. Referring to al-Hindi by his nom de guerre, Issa al-Britani, the independent commission that investigated the Sept. 11 attacks quotes a CIA interrogation of Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, al-Qaida's operations chief, as saying he sent al-Hindi "to the United States to case potential economic and 'Jewish' targets in New York City" in early 2001. Mohammed, who was captured in March 2003, said the trip was made as he considered "other possibilities for terrorist attacks" beyond those on New York and Washington that were carried out on Sept. 11. |
| Posted by:Dan Darling |