Just remembering that Al Zwahari (maybe wrong name??) but: There was an interview. He said he talked to Atta just before 9-11 and Atta told him in code (a riddle), the date of the attack.
Since this was well after the attack, I wondered why this bad dude mentioned it. The word "cake" was part of the riddle. I'm trying to remember when this interview occurred.
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"The Mastermind," CBSNews, March 5, 2003
(snip)
Then, on Aug. 29, the phone rang in Binalshibh's Hamburg apartment at three in the morning.
It was Atta with an important, but cryptic message: ”He said to me, ‘One of my friends related a riddle to me and I cannot solve it, and I called you so that you can solve it for me.’” Binalshibh is heard saying.
Atta goes, “Two sticks, a dash and a cake with a stick down.”
Binalshibh said, “I said to him, ‘Is this the riddle? You wake me from a deep sleep to tell me this riddle? Two sticks and I do not know what?’”
Eventually, Fouda says, Binalshibh realized what Atta meant. So he says to him, “OK. Tell your friend, he has nothing to worry about. It's such a sweet riddle."
Binalshibh explained it: “The two sticks represent the number 11, then the dash, and then the cake from which a stick dangles represents number nine. Thus, the picture becomes complete: the 11th of September.”
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"The Mastermind," CBSNews, March 5, 2003
(snip)
Then, on Aug. 29, the phone rang in Binalshibh's Hamburg apartment at three in the morning.
It was Atta with an important, but cryptic message: ”He said to me, ‘One of my friends related a riddle to me and I cannot solve it, and I called you so that you can solve it for me.’” Binalshibh is heard saying.
Atta goes, “Two sticks, a dash and a cake with a stick down.”
Binalshibh said, “I said to him, ‘Is this the riddle? You wake me from a deep sleep to tell me this riddle? Two sticks and I do not know what?’”
Eventually, Fouda says, Binalshibh realized what Atta meant. So he says to him, “OK. Tell your friend, he has nothing to worry about. It's such a sweet riddle."
Binalshibh explained it: “The two sticks represent the number 11, then the dash, and then the cake from which a stick dangles represents number nine. Thus, the picture becomes complete: the 11th of September.”
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"The Mastermind," CBSNews, March 5, 2003
(snip)
Then, on Aug. 29, the phone rang in Binalshibh's Hamburg apartment at three in the morning.
It was Atta with an important, but cryptic message: ”He said to me, ‘One of my friends related a riddle to me and I cannot solve it, and I called you so that you can solve it for me.’” Binalshibh is heard saying.
Atta goes, “Two sticks, a dash and a cake with a stick down.”
Binalshibh said, “I said to him, ‘Is this the riddle? You wake me from a deep sleep to tell me this riddle? Two sticks and I do not know what?’”
Eventually, Fouda says, Binalshibh realized what Atta meant. So he says to him, “OK. Tell your friend, he has nothing to worry about. It's such a sweet riddle."
Binalshibh explained it: “The two sticks represent the number 11, then the dash, and then the cake from which a stick dangles represents number nine. Thus, the picture becomes complete: the 11th of September.”
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