from AP:
Karachi, Pakistan -
Two Pakistani officers said a government official said Sunday that an American charged with treason for working with al-Qaida has been captured, a development that could deliver another significant blow in the U.S. - led battle against the terror network.
U.S. defense, intelligence and law enforcement officials could not immediately verify the reported detention of Adam Gadahn, a 31 year old spokesman for al - Qaida who has appeared on videos threatening the West, including one that emerged earlier Sunday.
The reported arrest of Gadahn follows the recent detention of several Afghan Taliban commanders in Karachi, including the group's No. 2. Those detentions have been seen as a sign that Pakistan, which has been criticized as an untrustworthy ally, was cooperating more fully with Washington.
Some ovservers were cautious about giving credence to the claim that Gadahn was in custody as reports emerged that the man arrested might instead be a Talivan militant leader. There was no way of independently verifying the arrest or identity, and detentions or terror suspects in Pakistan are often surrounded by conflicting reports.
"If this is him, it's a big capture and a morale booster," said Patrick Towan, the former top anti-terrorism official in the Bush-Justice Department.
Gadahn, the first American to face treason charges in more than 50 years, has appeared in more than half a dowen al-Aqaida videos, taunting the West and calling for its destruction. The video that surfaced Sunday showed him urging American Muslims to attack their own country.
"It's a blow to al-Qaida and a boost to the U.S. when a guy that has been taunting the U.S. for years has been captured," Rowan said.
Gadahn was arrested in teh sprawling southern metropolis of Karachi in recent days, two officers who took part in the operation said. A senior government official also confirmed the arrest, but said it happened Sunday. The discrepancy could not immedicately be resolved.
They spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to release the information.
The intelligence officials said Gadahn was being interrorgated by Pakistani officials. Pakistanis agents and those from CIA work closely on some operation in Pakistan, but if was not clear if any Americans were involved in the operation or questioning.
In the past, Pakistan has handed over some al-Qaida suspects arrested on its soil to the United States.
If the man in custody is indeed Gadahn and authorities can get him to talk, he could offere valuable intelligence about al-Qaida's second in command Ayman al-Zawahiri and maybe even Osama bin Laden, Rowan said.
Gadahn has been on the FBI's most wanted list since 2004 and there is a &1 million reward for informaiton leading to his arrest. He was charged with treason in 2006 adn faces the death penalty if convicted. He was also charged with two counts of providing material support to a designated foreign terrorist organization.
Gadahn grew up on a goat farm in Riverside County, Calif., and converted to Islam at a mosque in nearby Orange County.
He moved to Pakistan, in 1998, according to the FBI, and is said to have attended an al-Qaida training camp six years later, serving as a translator and consultant. He is known by various aliases, inlcuding Yahya Majadin Adams and Azzam al-Amriki.
In the video posted Sunday he praised the U.S. Army major charged with killing 13 people in Fort Hood, Texas as a role model for other Muslims. It appeared to have been made after the end of the year, but it was unclear exactly when.
You shouldn't make the mistake of thinking that military bases are the only high-value targets in America and the West. On the contrary, there are countless other strategic places, insitutions and installations which, but striking, the Muslim can do major damage," Gadahn said, an assault rifle leaning up against a wall next to him
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Turabi - National Islamic Front leader, Sudan
Predator - unmanned military weapon "American Jihad"
Against All Enemies - during firefight with small boats of Iran
USS Vicennes - shot down Iran Air passenger - plane killing 290 civilians, mistaking it for an Iranian fighter plane - ended the war - Iraq-Iran (350,000 dead)
Kenya embassy - 257 dead, 5,000 wounded
retaliated - sent cruise missiles into Afghan-al qaeda camps
growing Islamic banking system
nongovernmental org. & banking system
nongovernmental org. & Islamic charities - nawala system - ancient underground system - offers money transfer w/out any money movement and virtually no paper trail
al qaeda planned simultaneous bombing - LAX Amman Radissan collapsing tourists gunned down at Mt. Nebo
USS Sullivan-plot-boat w/ explosives sank
Notes
* Threat of nukes - from Iraq - for poem - you must explore the capability of destructive power of nuclear weapons
*Oct. 7, 2001 bombings condemned bombstrings (in bin Laden tape)
4,800 - man Afghan national army by 2004
*still have not eliminated the Taliban - still sanctuary (Afghan) for terrorists
*response in Tehran - tens of thousands ralled spontaneously to show their solidarity with America
Terror
*Nic Robertson - Foreign correspondent Keeting
Hindu-Kush Mt.
*Saret Koleh - battle - pounded with LPG's fire from all sides, 7 hrs. laters Bulldawg co. made it out
Afghan National Army
Myer Platoon
North Base Northwest, Northeast
Lt. Alex Newsome, Tom Bostick
*Naray
Notes - NSC - most powerful care of White House Staff members
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Nosair - from Attica killed Kahane - Jewish Def. League
Ramzi Yousef
Ismoil
Aboudhalima
Salameh
Nidal, Ayyad, Mohammed, Salameh, Mahmud Abouhalima (Egyptian capture) - arrested
Siddiq Ali - thought bigger, boom, boom, boom - planned F.B.I. headquarters, possibly, U.N. began mixing diesel fuel & fertilizer for intended target w/ Scott's Turf Builder
nebulous lit.
Bojinka - like Moamar -Qadhafi's Pan Am 103 - 259 killed - Josefa Building - called for blowing up 12 U.S 747s over Pacific - United Airlines, Delta, N.W. from Manila, Tokyo, Singapore, Bangkok, Taipei, Seoul targetted
laptop of Ramzi Yousef
bomb making materials - batteries, two-pin connectors, juice bottle/explosives,
empty contact lens bottle
snythesized TATP, triacetone triperoxide trioglycerin, nitrocellulose or gun cottom
negligible amounts of metal & no high density materials
Terror
Davos Man?
farewell statements - cause of jihad
Phillipe Air Lines 747 - Manila to Tokyo - killed one
Japanese Businessman, damaged hydraulic system, managed safe landing to Okinawa - Casio watch, wiring, plastic bottle, small charge, used by Yousef, who was ON THE PLANE - killed Ikegami - where he had placed device near seat
Mohammed Jamal Khalifea, Usama's bro-in-law - paid for President Quirino Ave. Apt. captured Yousef in Islamabad '95
-security measures prevented plane massacre - FAA search
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Afghanistan - no reliable telecommunication
CELL INFRASTRUCTURE
-98 - al-Quds al Arabi, a dairy, bin Laden issued fatwa - killing American & their allies, civilians & military, individual duty for every Muslim
satellite phone
Baku Azerbaijan & London - comm./publicity
Operation Kaaba - Nairobi U.S. embassy
Operation al Aqsa - Tanzannian capital Der es Salaam U.S. embassy Harun Fazil, comoran islander, Nairobi cell, East African crew - pledged for an Islamic state
Sheikh Ahmad Salim vehicles (in charge) - Toyota Dyna (Nairobi - oxygen tank blast enhancement)
welded metal frame on back for bomb Nissan Atlas - Dar es Salaam (aluminum b.a.)
martyrs op - least costly, most effective, mujahidin in terms of casulties
no damage to org. - driver not arround to answer questions :).
Aug. 7, 98 - 8th anniversary of American troops in S.A.
Azzam/Al-Owhali - Nairobi
200th anniversary of Christian era - Radisson Hotel - Jordan stock of firearms of Mt. Nebo - Moses - view of promised land - death - Jordan River plans - associated with John the Baptist
U.S.S. Sullivans made ready - Aden
Ahmad Ressam - Canadian border (Los Angeles Intern)
********Mohammad Atta document
Tamiyya
temperatures at 1,700 to 2000 degrees F in some spots
Flight 11 - 470 miles per hr. - 10,000 gallons of jet fuel = 270 tons of dynamite
Flight 175 - 586 mph "10,000 gallons of jet fuel - WTC 2 - molten metal dripping down side of building coincided with partial collapse
Abu Zubayda's safe house - 71 containers - sulfuric acid/nitric acid
intelligence/law enforcement - circulated - paid off in part
Angeles, Washington - nervous Ressam's rental car discovered - >100 lbs. of explosives - making material
*Pentagon - 5 story height - 200 ft. wide, 189 dead
*39 of 59 columns of S. Woer on perimeter of South face destroyed
*heat of fires doomed them - Towers
2.1 richtor scale equivalent
*construction of towers heroic - in own way
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Abu Hamer (admitted info by Jamal Ahmad al-Fadl)
procured material for WMD for al Qaeda
(greater jihad - internal struggle (battle) during times of weakness
Shugri
Qutb
Shuguri Mustafa his brother
takfiri
Tahiliyya
*18,000 killed in Hama - 3 weeks, Aleppo & Homs - even greater
Azzam lectures - affects bin Laden
Beginning of Taliban - in Kandahar province - two teenage girls had been raped by foloowers of an area warlord - outraged village cleric - Mullah Omar - gathered 30 students & attacked camp of - where girls were held - hanged group's commander by a tank
**Raid Raid * on the path of God Bedouin raiders
Taliban offered modicum of order
Mullah Omar - caliph. Amir - commander of the Faithful - Islamic Emeriate of Afghanistan
"knife blade over the gun" preferred - in Algeria
August 2001 - bin Laden meets Mahmoud (PAEA) to discuss nuclear, bio, & chem weapons, advice on building dirty bomb
Jan. 25, 1993 - Rt. 123, McClean, VA - Mir Aimal Kansi- Pakistani - CIA headquarters - AK-47 rifle - two Agency employees dead - 3 others wounded
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Baghdad - palaces on West Bank of Tigris
markets/living quarters - East Bank
LITERARY ACHIEVEMENTS IN HARUN'S BAGHDAD - Turkish, Mongols, Ottomans, British occupiers
INA - Iraqi News agency
Uday al Taiy - SAaddam's son - limp from assassination's bullet
7 years ago
Hundreds of thousand of children dying - because U.S. sanctions have forbidden the import of essential medicines.
"100 + 1 days" Asne Seiersad
Notes - The Scale of the devestation and life-loss
Shia Muslim revolt - Southern Iraq rose up - arch enemy allowed Yoquell revolt - 30,000 killed 2 days - March 1991
Before Iraq war - Iraq had modern water system - quality has deteriorated drastically - bad maintenance - water works and purification plants, chlorine, powercut, lacking reserve parts
1/2 million tons of raw sewage emptied into Tigric every day
1.5 million in Saddam City - palms dead, grass scorched - canal dried - onstracized in slums, disease
thieves everywhere, contaminated water, sewage everwhere, chemical discharge
"The party has given me a Kalashnikov" - grocer
radioactivity, no fod, reduced immunity
Sheikhs - 100/1000 - ready for war, heads of tribes/clans
Notes: Prescient
Iraq crushed - oriental Stalinism - ambiguous
*Baghdad, before 1980s war - was almost educated Arab country - refer to artist *best of Arabian countries) - killed by Clinton's strikes - 5 million people left
7th century - richest city in the world - why - boats porcelain China, trades, spice from India, Turkish slaves, gold-dust Afrik, weapons from Arabia
First page b-fore page reversal
Baghdad attack "Aften posten"
4 a.m. ultimatum (from Bush) expires - hour of prayer
5:30 a.m. first bang is heard
Americans developed a bomb which destroys electronic equipment, incl. Iraqi defense systems, w/out human life being lost (thunderclaps on the horizon) two -billion watts let loose, electric shock reaching deep into bunkers via ventilation duets, water pipes, aerials. Circuit boards, drips, telephones, hard disks would be destroyed
Saddam recites Arab poetry - fighting horesman, sword in hand.
2nd night - 9 o'clocks
enormous explosion, one more, then several
1:05 local time -bomb hit presidential palace
another pilot ejected into Tigris
Baghdad hi several times
powerful cracks cause windows to vibrate
driver of minibus - gets out on premises of "Ristafa" for lunch
close to lorry - bomb goes off - killed instantly
legs 0 bloody pulp
*They're at Hotel Palestine
perishes in buring cars
Ristafa - crushed
SANDSTORM CONTINUES TO RAGE
Evening - Minisstry hit by large bomb
Uday, Kadim, Mohsen - move into empty offices of Iraqi airways
Saddam - broadcasting his messages every day
"do not wait for orders - take the intiative yourselves if ou are attacked, or whenever the enemy draws near
yesterday, defense minister says at news conference, enemy tried to surround Najaf - "where thousands allegedly killed Iraqis)
A crash - hotel shakes building sways, looks like smoke bombs toward Tigris
swoosh - missile and blinding light past this hotel
horrendous night, mothers confort children - stay with them years to come
5 journalists dissapear without a trace
50 children killed by whining missiles - sitting on the pavement children carried away dead or dying "massacre"
"where is democracy" Humanity?"
Hospital
broken bone shafts, protruding, small as nail, large as axe head more their way, bore their way into human body cut in two
101 days & nights pg. 1
WTC - Center of world capitolism
9/11 - Ground zero (Nuclear attacked area)
*Photograph" - Immortalized Gean Potter 81st floor - right at entry point S. Tower ended up in Chinatown
Seismic - Lisbon, NH - registered
N. Tower creeking
13 seconds for N. Tower to come down
fourth floor - Dan Potter, Mel Hazel - exited just in time
Josephine Harris
Stairwell B - between 3rd floor stairwell and lobby - firefighters trapped after collapse
shook stareway (secondary collapse)
Praimnath - guardian angel
Rick Riscora - Morgan Stanley Dean Witter - evacted Ft. Benning, GA statue
Fred McBee - Team Riscola
Saddam - recites classical Arab poetry; fighting horseman; sword in hand.
Smart bombs?
2nd night
9 o'clock
enormous explosion, one more, then several, not like last time like
other side of Tigris - orange
noise of laser-guided missiles
whine of fighter planes
37 wounded during night
mullahs call to prayer in morning
lamp, torches, batteries - business spikes
mornings - hundreds of wounded Iraqis brough to hospitals
girl - as she left gate - hit by anti-aircraft missile - thrown back, chest, arm wounded, chest laden with shrapnel
the pregnant - leg shattered - no pain killers
farmer shot down a helicopter w/ a rifle - now national hero - copter pilot ejected, landed on school
roof-opened
fire in all directions, surrounded, police took him away
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Fatima's last moments before lowering into coffin - N.Y. review
65 dead in market
beating with chest with fists
Bush has ruined my life. Why does he kill families? Why
bodies taken to mosque to be washed and prayed over
*Iraq's first suicide bomber strikes - Ali - al Nawani
drives taxi straight into an American roadblock - 4 American's killed * report says 11 killed 10 wounded - in addition two tanks & two armored cars destroyed
"The Revolution"- Iraqi newspaper headline
30 suicide bombers from Yemen arrive
if (American soldiers) shoot warning shots they don't move
they're soldiers - women killed in a field
"shoot to kill" old man crossing road
-shot father leading his son and daughter by the hand
column of tanks
Abrams tank left after artillery shelled it - 1 killed
two injured - hopped in another tank
first Abrams, then Bradley & Amtracks for troops, then
Miclick mine detectors, lastly a Humvee (loudspeakers which tell people to stay inside)
25 mm cannon balls fired at portraits of Saddam Hussein
bombs all nhight and all morning - direction - S.E. - direction, airport
troops advancing on Baghdad
children can't sleep, they cry and are petrified - loss of electric, water
insert desert sequence - war drawing nearer
Monday April 7 7a.m. Beds swarm flies
other side of Tigris - American Tanks - battle for Presidential Palace
third infantry advances - 2 Iraqis surrender, face down - one turns around, is shot
woken up by mortars, small grenades,
charred bodies in burnt out cars abandoned on bridges
some in hospitals START TO HALLUCINATE!!!
101 Days & Nights
WTC - Center of World Capitolism
9/11 - Ground Zero "Nuclear attacked area"
Photograph Immortalized ***Gean Potter - 81st Floor - right at entry point - S. Tower ended up in Chinatown
Seismic - Lisbon, NH - registered
N. Tower creeking
13 seconds for N. tower to come down
Fourth floor - Dan Potter, Mel Hazel exited, just in time
Josephine Harris -
Stairwell B. - between 3rd floor stairwell and lobby - firefighters trapped
after colllapse
shook stairway (secondary collapse)
Rick Praimnath - guardian angel
Rick Riscora - Morgan Stanley Dean Witter - evaced Ft. Benning, GA statue
Fred McBee Team Riscora
Saddam recites classical Arab poetry; fighting horsemen, sword in hand
Smart bombs?
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Abu Graib
9/11 to Abu Graib
John Walker Lindh - 20 yr. old stripped, gagged, strapped to beard, exhibited him to the press - violations of international law
*Notes - Flouting Geneva convention on both sides - U.S. & al qaeda
Constitute torture - inflect pain that is difficult to endure - intensity of pain accompanying serious bodily/physical injury, organ failure, impairment of bodily functions, or death
response - Gonzalez - enemy attacks innocent civilians - cites Geneva conventions - to not apply provisions to al qaeda in Afghanistan
Guantanamo Bay, Cuba
cold water, hypothermia
poured on prisoners
Pres. - signed a top-secret finding - authorizing Defense Dep.
to set up clandestine special forces op. team - to defy diplomatic niceties & international law
other secret interrogation centers set-up - around the world in allied countries
Rumsfeld - disdain for Geneva convention
civilian leadership in Pentagon, not CIA lead in fighting terrorism
General Abizaid & General Sanchez report to Dick Cheney, report to President - chain of command
M.I. & Civilian contractors took charge of Abu Ghraib.
Abu Graib
*SAP (special acccess programs)
Against All Enemies memoirs of Richard Clarke
60% were skeptical choices for prison inmates
Anaconda Mission - research - Afghanistan
Mazar-i-Sharif-battle - $1 million was payoof of CIA to N. Alliance before committing against Taliban - forces routed and retreated
intelligences, communications, navigation, & meterological satellites to support Afghan op. - $25 billion
perception of ops in Afghanistan disconnected from how situation was understood in Washington
failure
2002 - hunting bin Laden & Mullah Omar
Hamid Karzai - exercised little political control outside Kabul (joke - mayor of Kabul)
Richard A. Clark - 9/11 Commission, Against all Enemies
contentious hearings before Commission
deteriorating rapidly despite Administration Afghanistan success story
sfel-defeating tactics - Taliban and Al Qaeda attacking U.N. officials and aid workers
avoidable humanitarian and stability costs
Taliban influence grew in 2004 - due to defiance of American air and ground assault killing civilian casulties
D'jbouti
Sadddam's major oil trading partners would be assuaged (France and Russia) by assurance of access to rich oil fields in southern Iraq
unpublicized buildup of American military forces underway March 2002 - 5,000 spoken of - many times that
shift - in Arabic speaking Middle-East experts from Afghan to Iraq
aimed at Al-Qaeda - now aimed and redirected at Gulf
Orange glow in the distance
felt like an earthquake
people running down hallway looking for a bomb
70% of body burned - women clothes burned off her
Salv. Army, RedCross, Search and Rescue Tennessee, MD, VA
first hallway - ankle deep water - body parts floating
melted intestines, hardened lungs, deflated and black through rib cage
four chaplains last rites - Baptist, Protestant, Catholic, Jewish rabbi
Tuesday - Friday
WEST SIDE OF BUILDING HIT
Clarke memoirs 9/11 related
Pentagon - pop. 10,000
support from Arlington County Fire Dep.
Plane gutted three rings, went in at an angle
Project Phoenix - reconstruction effort
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Buildup to Iraq
Shipment of high strength aluminum tubes was intercepted on its way to Iraq - meant for the construction of centrifuges that could be used to produce enriched uranium between 1999-2001. Iraq had attempted to buy 500 tons of uranium oxide from Niger - "yellow cake" - fuel for nuclear reactors or converted to weapons-grade uranium.
March 7, 2003 - International Atomic Energy Agency in Vienna told U.N. Sec. Council that documents involving uranium sales were fake (Brit. gov't released its dossier) - verified by Jacques Baute, Iraq Nuclear Verification Office
2002 - Tenet, Powell testimony before U.N. - helped pass resolution giving Pres. a congressional mandate for a military assault on Iraq
Dick Cheney calls El Baradei, director general of IAEA - "Frankly, is wrong"
Special plans - created to find evidence of what Wolfowitz & Don Rumsfeld though ties between Hussein & Al Qaeda - built arsenal of chemical, bio, possibly nuclear
Administration spun rhetoric - "We don't want the smoking gun to be a mushroom cloud"
"cannot wait for final proof - the smoking gun - that could come in the form of a mushroom cloud"
Democratization ran through Baghdad - Admin. thought terrorism, not democracy, is now spreading through region
What was Bush's vision for MidEast? what was Administration's vision for Iraq & Afghanistan
Age of Sacred Terror?
King Fahd mosque in Culver City - probably where Hazmi & Mindhar were positioned - no evidence of Thumairy support
Thumairy - imam refused re-entry from Saudi Arabia - for suspected terrorist activity - for speeches anti-American
Modhar Abdullah - Yemeni student drove Mindhar & Hazmi to San Diego - they did not like >.A. & knew no one
Hani Hanjour - Dec. 8, 2000 - arrives in San Diego
Hazmi - flight training in San Jose, San Fran, Arizona?
Summer 2000
al Shehhi - Newark, waited for Mohammed Atta in NYC, still undecided on flight training plans
Jarrah - FFTC - Florida Flight Traininig Center in Venic FL.
arranged attendance summer 2000
Atta- Huffman Aviation - Venice, FL (& Shehhi)
Zacarias Moussaoui - Norman, OKO - Arman Flight School
Hanjour - San Diego - flight training 737 simulator in Mesa, Arizona
April 4, Hanjour, Hazmi arrive Falls Church, VA - in Alexandria (?)
Age of Sacred Terror/9/11
Ahmed al Ghamdi/Majed Moqed - muscle hijackers
Paterson found - al Hazmi's younger brother Salem Hanjour, Moqed, Ahmed al Ghamdi, Abdul Aziz al Omari, Mindhar soon joined them
Atta & Shehhi - FL awaiting muscle hijackers
muscle were not physically imposing - most between 5'5''-5'7'' - Satam al Suqami, Wail al Shehri, Waleed al Shehri, Omari, Ghamdi, Hamza al Ghamdi, Mohand al Shehri, Majed Moqed, Salem al Hazmi, Saeed al Ghamdi, Ahmad al Haznawi, Ahmed al Nami (Muscle) - Saudi's last remaining, Fayez Banihammad, UAE (message to Saudi gov't about relationship w/ U.S. or largest contingent from S.A.)
All 20-28 years old, no more than h.s. education, unmarried
Ghamdi's - all three attended prayer services regularly Omari - served as imam, student of radical cleric Sulayman al Alwan?
Suqami/Hazmi - drank
According to KSM, ops volunteered suicide operations
KSM - most important quality - martyrdom
Bin Laden, assisted by Atef, personally chose all muscle hijackers - fealty, oath swearing, loyalty for a suicide mission, men to S.A. for U.S. visas, then back to Afghan to train
muscle began arriving in late April 2001
al Qassim mosque at very heart of Wahhabi movement (Ghamdi/Shehri ties to mosque)
Flight 11
Mohammed Atta pilot; 767
Waleed al Shehri
Wail al Shehri
Satam al Suqami
Abdulaziz al Omari
Flight 175
Marwan al Shehhi, pilot - 767
Fayez Banihammad
Ahmed al Ghamdi
Hamza al Ghamdi
Mohammad al Shehri
Flight 77
Hani Hanjour; pilot
Nawaf al Hamzi
Khalid al Mihdar
Majed Moqed
Salem al Hazmi
Flight 93
Ziad Jarrah; pilot 757
Saeed al Ghamdi
Ahmad al Haznawi
Ahmed al Nami
Iran, after Colel attack, effor to strengthen relationshiops with al Aqaeda, willingness to facilitiate - 8 muscle jackers - to and from Iran - to Afghanistan via Iran - did not stamp Saudi passports - easy access
Atta, Shehhi - coord. arrival of muscle into FL
Nothern Alliance leader Ahmed Shah Massoud - assassinated Sept. 9
Age...9/11
Sept. 10 coordinated Taliban offensive
77's migrated from NJ to Laurel, MD - 20 miles from Washington, D.C. - motel first week Sept., final night lodged hotel in Herndon, VA
93's gathered in Newark from base in FL Sept. 7, 8-9, Jarrah speeding ticket in MD N. on 95 - joined rest of team at hotel
Atta - flew from Ft. Lauderdale to Baltimore (Sept.7)
meet Flight 77 team in Laurel, Baltimore to Boston, Shehhi had arrived there, Atta picked up Omari - two drove to Portland, MN
early morning - flight to Boston
3 fellow hijackers - hotel in Newton, Mass.
Shehhi & team - 175 - two Boston hotels *(last hrs. )
19 men in nodescript hotel rooms
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Doors leading to the roof were locked
stairwells A&C - 110 - raised mezzazine level of lobby
stairwell B - 107 - level B6, six below ground and accessible from W. St. lobby level, one below mezzanine
N&S roofs were sloped & cluttered surface w/ radiation hazards
Port Auth.: 1331 offices
P.D.
NYPD - 40,000 officer NYPD
FDNY - 11,000 member 133 Ladder companies, 205 engine companies
9/11
N. Tower - plane hit floors 93-99, 92-110 impassible hundreds killed, hundred trapped
jet fuel fireball - shot down one bank of elevators
-exploded onto 22&77th floors, W. St. lobby level,
by level - 4 stories below ground
roof of S. Tower engulfed in thick black smoke - prevailing light winds from NW (burning jet fuel)
primary groups - 103&106 floors, civilians trapped on elevators
deputy fire safety inspector gave announcements to floors with generated computerized alarms
w/in 10 min. - evacuation (one min?) - announcements did not reach all levels
Many called 911
Transfers plagued by delays - some unsucccesful some prematurely disconnected
advice to N. Tower callers above/below impact zone was wait for emergency personnel
-thousands evac. - problems (disabled/poor health) ie 1993 evac.
FDNY - issue instructions to PAPD - evac. South Tower
some staircase doors blocked - by debris - despite - calm/orderly
insufferable heat/smoke/fire - people lept - jumped/fell
Morgan Stanley (20 floors) evaced S. Tower on decision of company sec. off. S. Tower
deputy fire safety director - "building was safe, should remain on or return together offices or floors - consistent with protocol!"
such a scenario =- second tower hit - was beyong their consciousness
group of 20 descending elevators - personally instructed
by security off. to go back upstairs
not part of fire safety stuff
some (by Port authority police desk) were advised to stand by far further
instructions, others were strongly advised to leave
less than a minute before building was struck 9:02, 9:03 - S. Tower
PA system advised civilians, generally, that they could begin an orderly evac. if conditions warranted
no correspondence with pre-written emergency instruction
Brooklyn headquarters Mobilization within 5 sec. of crash
commissioner was depis. & ass., chief of dep., Chief of Operations
5th alarm called - additional engine/ladder companies, two more elite rescue units
Chief of dep. arrival - 9:00
FDNY incident command - West Side Highway
22 of 32 Senior Chiefs arrived pre-10:00
by 9:00 - 235 firefighters
21 engine comps
9 ladder comps
4 elite r.
Hazmat team
2 elite squad comps
support staff
8:53 - 9 Brooklyn units on Brook side of Brook-Battery Tunnel await dispatch
9/11
battalion chief & two ladder & two engine comps arrived N. Tower at 8:52 - encountered badly burned victims
Floor - to ceiling windows in NW corner - W. St. level of lobby blown out
marble tiles dislodged
elevator bunk destroyed
all 99 elevators were out - no assurances sprinklers/standpipes still working
one engine/one ladder climbing stairwell C - 8:57 goal of reaching impact zone - to formulate plan (others were held up)
Tactical 1 - radio channel
Did not know (FDNY) the dire situation (jumping fire)
Div. Chief Lower Manhattan Peter Hayden "strong sense of impending loss...lose firefighters...deep trouble"
-concluded (the chiefs did) - it was rescue and not fire operation
Each floor - approx. acre in size - rough estimates one could deduce incapable of fire rescue
Senior FDNY - might suffer partial collapse, no one anticipated total ambulance paramedics began shaving - rushed to complex NYPD chief - 8:58, mobilization level 22 lt., 100 sgt., 800 officers - prepared evac.
two copters aviation unit NYPD - dispatched two copters a third was responding
bridges/tunnels into Manhattan closed, cleared thoroughfares.
9/11
Port Auth. - On site commanding officer - in concourse
fireball erupted out of elevator shafts, exploded onto the mall concourse, dove for cover
Ground floors and Trans Hudson station evac started
some lacked motor operable radio frequencies (PAPD commands)
9:00 PAPD comm. officer - ordered evac. of all civ's from WTC complex - was not heard by dep. fire safety director S. Tower
in 17 minutes (8:46 - 9:03) - P.A. of New York/Jersey & New York mobilized largest rescue oepration in city's history
>1,000 first responders
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South Tower - hit from South - 77th to 85th Floors
-rescue instantly doubled in magnitude
plane banked as it hit
stairwell A - 91 0- down impassible
78th floor sky lobby - hundreds waiting to evac.
-two small groups of civs descended, others remained to help wounded
81st - plane had sliced - demolitian area - smell of jet fuel
so strong, impossible to breath
switching stairwells
intensifying smoke - caused many to pass out
lower 70s, A & B were normal
>100 people aliv eon 88-89 floors calling 911, advice to stay, although A stairwell may have been passable
West St. Lobby overwhelmed by injured not able to go on - those able exited north or east - through concourse - out of WTC
stream of civilians from stairwell in 20s descending just before collapse
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North Tower
9st - all but one -uninjured - able to descend
64th - recieved contrary advice from FDNY - chosen not to descend - most died in collapse of North Tower
some remained in stairwell C
Second button on repeater system - not pushed - transmission problems
FDNY radios partially worked - firefighters used repeater channel
FDNY - some off-duty (explicitly told not to) but some "rode heavy"
FDNY - company rescued 22nd floor civilians from fireball on North Tower
9:07 - 100 lbs strong (of heavy equiment) protective clthing, self contained breathing apparatus, other equip (hoses for engine companies, heavy tools for ladder comps - began climbing stairwell B North Tower
civs found firefighters presence calming
fatigue set in - separated units
chief in lobby (FDNY) asked to consider rooftop rescue, unable to reach dispatch by radio/phone
(limited high-rise effectiveness of radius and because so many units on tactical were trying to communicate at once)
As units climbed higher ability to communicate became more limited and sporadic - when attempting to reach particular unit - chiefs in lobby heard no response*
9/11
first 15 min. - channel 7 worked well * ladder company transmitted info that impact began at 78 - battallion initially had at disposal - chief directed enging company 40th floor in an attempt to find elevator to reach upper level
Senior chief - lack of units South Tower - initially had an disposal, he directed engine comp. to 40th floor
No FDNY chiefs realized repeater channel was functioning & being used by units in tower
senior chief initially unable to communicate request for more units & chiefs either in N. Tower lobby or outdoor command post
battallion chief - unable to reach S. Tower Command post
FDNY 70th floor numerous injured
78th floor - trapped elevator - found by FDNY - freed
fatalities numerous
ESU - encountered firefighters and administered oxygen to some of exhausted
by 9:50 ESU had reached 31st, by 10:00 - 54th
numerous NYPD offices were stationed throughout the concourse assisting burned injured disoriented civilians directing all civilians to exit by north and east
South Tower collapsed in 10 seconds
all concourse, in the Marriot (first responders and civs) & on neighboring streets
collapsed onto itself creating a massive debris cloud
North Tower
some people remained alive in some locations late in the morning even as high as 92nd & 79th floors.
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Emergency Response at the Pentagon 9:37
no damage 1,000 ft. above ground like NYC
plane crash, fire, partial building collapse
Arlington County Fire Department - served as incident commander
response from Arlington County at U.S. Military's headquarters
Dep. of Justice - fed agency in charge (FBI delegated oper. response)
Boeing 757, westwall, Flight 77 all 64 killed (on plane), 125 people inside - pentagon (70 civs, 55 mil) 106 serious injuries
success - adoption of Incident Command System
(reputation for insuring public safety)
Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority,
Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport Fire Department
Fort Myer Fire Department
Virginia State Police
Virginia State Police
Virginia Dep. of Emergency Mngment,
FBI
FEMA
National Medical Response Team
Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms,
Military District of Washington
Partial collapse imminent
no first responder was injured
full evac of command post - word recieved of approaching
hijacked aircraft - easy to secure and contain
cells were little value - radio channels over saturated will likely recur (comm. problems)
9/11
at most 2,152 died who were not 1)fire/ police first responders
sec/safety personnel, volunteer civilians, on two plans
*damage to softward in security command station
prevented lock release order from taking effect
*radio communication that S. Tower collapsed was not conveyed to FDNY chiefs
*9:51 - helicopter pilot cautioned that large pieces of S. Tower appeared to be about to fall and cause danger to those below
NYPD aviation - FDNY hampered by lack of comunication with them
compensation for victims? retaliation
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768 aliens arrested (wartime) as "special interest"
less than a week after Sept. 11 - US PATRIOT ACT began to take shape
"the wall" - for the proposal (between intelligence communities & law enforcement communities) to break this wall down every concievable action, within limits of constitution - to identify potential terrorists - deter add. attacks
war council convened
V.P. Cheney
Sec. of State Powell
Sec. of Def. Rumsfeld
Gen. Hugh Shelton
Vice Chairman of Joint Chiefs (later chairman) Gen. Myers
DCI Tenet
Att. General Ashcroft
FBI Dir. Robert Mueller
NSA Condoleeza Rice
Chief of Staff Card
often joined Stephen Hadley, Joshua Bolten - deputies
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Defeated Jihadists
Pahlavi gov't - Iran - 1979
Saudi Arabia - line of succession - king's eldest son - Primogenitive (not used by S.A.)
instead, decided by fitness to rule
King Fahd - current king Prince Abdullah - heir apparent
he has option - power to appoint/remove his heir apparent
5,000 princes
Abdullah - liberal, democratic reform, national dialogue (incl. Shiites) -
Nayef int. minister - Wahhabi, tawhid - monotheism, ulema support
Fallujah Brigade spurred by war in Iraq - perhaps new directing energies to house of Saud - beheaded Paul Johnson
Arab first older generation - Muslim first - younger generation
Egypt
Hoshi Mubarak - current president.
son - Gamal Abdel Nasser
increasing Islamic mindset
Gamal - head of Policy committee
Muhammad Rashid, unilever, leads cabinet - young cabinet
Mahmoud Mohieden
ministry of investment
paved way for Islamists in Egyptian politics
al-Jazeera
al-Arabiya
Hellfire missile A.Q. Khans - nuclear technology
winning "Battle of Ideas"
Operation Enduring Freedom Op. Iraqi Freedom
Notes * I can win that battle (battle of ideas)
Iran
deemed counter to revolutionary Islamic standards, legislative power is constrained by conferring blocking rights to clerical elit
fragmentation
stagnate or advance
pro-American population, anti-American sentiment in gov't
45 percent population estimate - even military intervention
at once Islamic and Republican
Pakistan
political instability - on the precipice
Dec. 2003 Musharraf assassination attempt - double suicide bombing narrowly missed
"military - mullah alliance"
army untainted
puppet gov't installed by Moscow into Kabul - Mohammed Najibullah
madrassas grown - 10,000 in Pakistan, consequent to public school system (collapse mid-1980s)
recruitment base
tribal chieftans - deployed of gov't soldiers - hiding al qaeda put in crossfire?
Iraq
counterproductive assaults on no-go zones
al Iraqiya
84% recieved al Iraqiya w/o difficulty
ports - 90% of everything in/out of county
2% containers inspected
3 times the customs inspection man power that currently
exists nation wide (270,000 man - hrs. per day)
ISPS International Ship and Port Facility - Security Code - new age of maritime security - on ramps/off ramps abide by sec. measures of International Maritime org.
CSI places customs and Border Protection (CBP) checked before shipping to O.J.
Automated Targeting System *ATS
Customs declaration form
VACIS - cuts down inspection man hrs.
customs trade - partnership against terrorism *CTPAT coop. w/ (CPB))
Radio Frequency Identification tags, recieve/send transmissions
through "choke points"
"green zone" - assurances U.S. authorities - preferential treatment - if - ship targeted for inspection - thereby minimizing delays for that shipper.
Perfect Soldier - nepotism - Biography
Return with speed (Theridamus) - time passeth swiftly away
Nycetes - "our life is frail - and we may die to-day"
Tamburlaine - "iron" nickname
Mohammad Atta - joined research project in Aleppo
mud-brick house, Tamerlaine sacked - city in 14th century
French Islamists - Algerian
Tunisians - Italy
Spain, like Germany, cadre of Syrians, but overwhelmingly Moroccans
Netherlands/Belgium - Algerians/Moroccans
London - Gulf Arab/Egyptian expatriates
taught classes with Ramzi Omar - Yemeni, claimed asylum in Germany stayed at Belfas apt.
Germany - 100,000 seeking asylum a year
Yemen - Queen of Sheba
Noah - southern coast - said to have built his arc at a harbor
Proxy! war - b/t U.S. Russia in Yemen
Hadramat - mudbrick skyscrapers
Ramzi Omar - first name "Shahid, meant martyr"
job to job, no more than a week
Ziad Jarrah - Beirut Univ. of Greifswald
University of Applied Sciences - in Hamburg
radical Islam, Aysel, partier until Al-Jihad-magazine, inward, handsome
Marwan al-Shehhi
native of UAE, born, Germany prospective Marine engineering student
radiated sense of calm
rotund
scholarship to Germany after UAE Army out of h.s.
Amir - Ramzi - 2 hajjs in 18 months
London based Qutada
Uday al-Taiy - Saddam's son - INA Iraqi News Agency
Shehhi - religiously trained father
cold presence in host family.
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Omar/Shehhi - gone for long stretches *from Hamburg 1998
local acolyte when group got back from Aghanistan
moved from Wilhelmsburg to Marienstrasse 54 - dar al Ansar, "House of the Followers"
Amir - political, anti-Semite minded
Omar - religious minded
Jarrah - occasional member of Amir-Omar
Yemenis - Jarrah - believed Yemenis, original followers of Mohammed
Amir - no doctorate ambitions in U.S. - Malaysia instead
Malaysia?
Pakistani designated six fundamentalist religious parties
(political parties) to recieve money
$1 billion a year by mid-1980s
at Azzam's call - many joined Afghans in holy war
Khalif - an-Caliphate Gulbaddin Hekmatiyar
Islamabuli, Khalid-Sadat's assassin
Shawqi al-Islambuli - his brother
Adeni anti-communist insurgents recruited by bin Laden at behest of Saudi intelligence sponsors of Tariq al-Fahli; last sultan of Aden (militant-Islamist) PDRY struggle
$90 million - Medina mosque - contract went to his father
training camps ISI installations
bin Laden - battle of Jalalabad - proved corageous
resourceful leader
also held in Jaji against DRA force supported by Soviet firepower
hus memento from Shaban - Kalashnikov rifle captured from dead Russian
(fought in attack on Soviet0-DRA dispositions in Shaban in Pakti Province w/ mix of mujahideen Arabs and Afghans (w/bin Laden) in command position penetrated the enemy's dispositions
vicious hand-t0-hand fighting erupted, mujahideen - heavy losses before withdrawal
fearless, oblivious to danger, front line, moving ahead of everyone else
Benazir Bhutto - Prime minister of Pakistan in 1989 - believed destiny lay in strategic alliances with Syria, Iran, PRC & N. Korea
Bhutto's Islamabad - reexamined Pakistan's involvement in Afghanistan
Islamabad - committed to furthering Islamism in heart of Asia
ISI's partnership - sisterly Islamic terrorist movements throughout world - conversion of Pakistani policy
Sayyaf - Long, Long beard (Islamic Union Party)
shifted support (Islamabad) to active support for militant Islamism
Afghan ressistance so decimated by decade of fighting Soviets - opened road for Taliban "mujahideen force" to mount offensive in Jalalabad against DRA-Soviet fortified defenses - Osama bin Laden participated - witnessed needless slaughter of dedicated mujahideen - no longer viable fighters
-returned to Pashawar - relayed anger/sense of betrayal to Azzam - renewed fighting "jihad spirit"
(hints of U.S. conspiracy implemented through Pakistanis because of Pakistani involvement - Islamabad knew the risk - that frontal assault and result in massive carnage
Nov. 24, 1989 - Azzam and sons assassinated - outside Lion of the Night Mosque, Arbat Rd., Peshawar
Camps of Afghan resistance in Pakistan - became center of radical Islamic terrorism (majority - Sunni Islamists)
REVIVAL OF TRADITIONALISM
Khalid Sheikh Mohammed - got "sheikh" from work as imam of Pakistani mosque in Fahaheel neighborhood along coast road - Budu camp
father died before KSM's h.s. graduation, KSM excellent in science - sent to U.S. to complete his doctorate
Kuwaiti, introduced himself as Pakistani at Chowan College; he was Baluchi-Baluchistan
****1/2 of 15 MILLLION UNACCOUNTED FOR AFGHANIS through mountain passes to Pakistan-border was never much more than a line on maps
KSM's brother Zahed ran Lajnat al Dawa al Islamia (LDI) Peshawar
LDI thought to be legit - ran 200 bed hospital and another in Afghanistan
funded / staffed 22 Islamic centers
KSM joined in and Abed - secondary school teacher/Islamic scholar
Abed - Sayyaf newspaper, Khalid - engineering teacher warlord's university worked closely with Azzam
bin Laden - openly in Hayatab part of Peshawar(1986-1989)
Bhutto - supported Jalalabad offensive - went along with anything the ISI proposed - wanted to show she was macho
after Soviet withdrawal - wanted psychological victory Abed Sheikh Mohammed - casualty - Jalalabad
Hekmatyar vs. Massoud - INTERNECINE
Azzam- 89 - ties to vin Laden equating Soviet & Americans
Gulf War 91 as infidels
The Chemist - Abdul Basit, nephew KSM - met Abdurajak Janjalani - Abu Sayyaf leader (Phillipines) a kidnap & ransom
KSM - Balkans briefly, afterward Doha, Qatar - sponsorship from ruling family of Qatar - schemes started
*Basit - contact w/Abdul Hakim Murad (flight school) - told him he was picking targets, he was phoned back w/ Murad's response - WTC
Flight 434 - Phillipines to Tokyo (Haruki Ikegami) - only through great skill did pilot keep plane from careening into ocean
Ramzi Yousef - uncle was KSM, Pakistani by birth, Palestinian by choice
Basit took a plane to U.S - J.F.K. with Ahmad Mohammed
Ajaj - took taxi to Brooklyn, explosives expert
dreamed of device with initial explosion releasing cyanide cloud into WTC ventilation system
32,000 matchbooks with Yousef's photo on them and air-dropped them into country
Yousef & Murad (Abdel Murad) friend from Fahabeel, considered potential targets - Benazir Bhutto, then candidate for p.m.
Murad - small airplane of explosives dive bombing into Pentagon
Later that year, after Murad had moved into Karachi apt., Yousef came to stay - had a plan to assasinate Bhutto w/ a remote control bomb
KSM obtained funding and necessary equip from Sayyaf's camp outside Peshawar, delivered to Murad's apt. where Yousef began to build the bomb
azide-volatile (detonator) substance, exploded in his face - were able to save partial sight in his uninjured eye, as Yousef recuperated, KSM showed up to pay medical bills
open-air warehouse in Lahore - Yousef on return trip from Bangkok, Thailand, met up with Murad
Yousef taught Murad bomb-making
**When Murad and Yousef were arrested, KSM gave an account of the police taking him away kicking and screaming (see photocopy) - KSM gave an eyewitness account in disguise!!!!!
In Sudan - around Kharthoum, bin Laden controlled gum, corn, sunflower, & sesame trade, invested $50 million in a bank
construction company, built roads, airports, harbors, farms, bought orchards, land
Riyadh - beheading of bomb perpetrators - National Guard office (5 Americans, 2 Indians)
Qatar - source of al-Jazeera television origin
Doha - evidence of Abed (SM)'s martyrdom
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from Perfect Soldiers:
Marwan al Shehhi left first
KSM - worked on "ubiquitous global terror network"
*Map of Africa hung as advertisement, during fatwah
Feb. 98 - for what was to come
grandoise plan of KSM - pilot one of 10 aircraft - slaughter of all men aboard, plane, contact media in the air, land in U.S. make speech denouncing U.S. policiies in MidEast, then release women and children passengers
-action in 99 - four men - Khalid al-Mihdar, Nawat al Hazmi (Saudis) Aftash - senior al qaeda - lost leg in battle
(early versions of plan did not involve piloting)
notes - hrs. spent over? martyrdom vs. suicide
Jarrah - w/ photocopied page of Qur'an attached to passport - stopped for questioning in Dubai - UAE official called Americans - told them to let him go - they'd track him
via Dubai - Hamburg (Aysel), Florida Flight Schoool
Hazmi - inline chat rooms - SDSU
known Mihdar since childhood in Mecca, Saudi Arabia
easygoing, lighthearted
Amir - emailed 31 flight schools
Atta & Shehhi - first weeks in New York, then Fl.
Jarrah - own apartment in West Florida
70,000 wired to group from Ali Abdul Aziz Ali - KSM nephew
compensation for 9/11 mission, from UAE
Hani Hanjour - already licensed pilt in U.S.
studied English in Tuscon, AZ where older brother lived
prosperous merchants (family) from Taif - southeast of Mecca
unable to find work as pilot - instead went to al qaeda training camps (saudi citizenship)
terrible pilot
bin Laden trusted Yemenis implicitly - Omar to network the pilot candidates
Notes * trust stemming from historical significance - Prophet's followers?
Khallad directed Cole attack, Mindhar involved
****little overlapping with al qaeda & Islamic fundamentalists - independent, local ops
Bin Laden's Hadrami - family from centr. Yemen
Tamiyyah - BKU Bundeskriminalamt
Haznawi - Hajdik Kidjra - memorized Qur'an -
Wail - al - Shehri - depressed - Qur'an verses suggested
*Transformed into a human bomb
13 men - brigades of belief - brigadeers
Notes - why, if Moussaoui could so easily be apprehended by FBI - Pan Am Intern. Flight Academy - suburban Minneapolis - informed them, why was not a red flg made for others?
ZERO HOUR - Sept. 11
-many Islamic extremists gripped a Yemeni dagger during prayer
