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| Alleged Al Qaeda Member at Guantanamo Denies Helping Sept. 11 Hijackers |
| 2007-03-30 |
| A Saudi accused of arranging financing for the Sept. 11 terrorist plot participants told a hearing he got money transfers from two hijackers inside the United States just hours before the attacks, said a transcript the Pentagon released Thursday. But Mustafa Ahmad al-Hawsawi, who was based in the United Arab Emirates on Sept. 11, 2001, denied that he was a member of the Al Qaeda terrorist network and he also denied that he sent money to the hijackers. He is one of 14 "high value" detainees who were transferred to Guantanamo last September after being held in secret CIA prisons abroad. The transcript of his Guantanamo hearing contained no reference to his detention; a portion in which he explained how he was captured in Pakistan in 2003 was censored by the Defense Department. The hearing, held to determine whether he is an "enemy combatant" eligible to be charged with war crimes, was conducted March 21. Al-Hawsawi said he was told by Al Qaeda operative Ramzi Binalshibh about the Sept. 11 plot one day in advance and was instructed to fly that same day from the UAE to Pakistan, where he met Binalshibh the following day. Binalshibh is one of the 14 sent to Guantanamo last September; his hearing was March 9 but he refused to attend and submitted no statement. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #1 No more HARRY POTTER for him - oh the torture of it all. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2007-03-30 02:23 |