MAY +/- 2001, four months before 9/11 : (ISLAMIC ASSEMBLY OF NORTH AMERICA'S WEBSITES REPORTEDLY POST RANTS ADVOCATING SUICIDE BOMBINGS & USING PLANES AS 'CRUISE MISSILES' AGAINST BUILDINGS IN ORDER TO STRIKE AT THE ENEMY'S VITALS) A close affiliate of Syracuse-based Help the Needy is the Michigan-based Islamic Assembly of North America, a charity with which it shares members, officers and Web registrars. Some four months before 9/11, the assembly's sites allegedly posted death screeds that advocated suicide mega-bombings and the flying of airplanes into buildings in order to "demolish a center vital to the enemy or its military forces." - "Upstate charity tied to illegal Iraqi cash: Feds say N.Y. group laundered millions," by DOUGLAS FEIDEN, New York Daily News, April 6, 2003
JUNE 2001 : (TERROR WEB : IDAHO CELL : WWW.ALASR.WS, REGISTERED TO SAMI OMAR HUSSAYEN, CARRIES AN ARTICLE APPROVING OF SUICIDE ATTACKS - See IANA, also Sheik Hamed al-Ali) The government says in court filings that on Sept. 11, 2000, Mr. Sami Omar al-Hussayen registered the Internet site www.alasr.ws, an Arabic-language online magazine. The site is produced by IANA and provides links to other IANA sites, according to Rita Katz, a Washington-based terrorism researcher who is a native Arabic speaker and has consulted with the government on the Hussayen case. In June 2001, alasr.ws carried an article by a Saudi-trained Kuwaiti cleric titled, "Provision of Suicide Operations," according to an excerpt of an English translation in court papers.
"The warrior must kill himself if he knows that this will lead to killing a great number of the enemies, and that he will not be able to kill them without killing himself first, or demolishing a center vital to the enemy or its military force," wrote Sheik Hamed al-Ali. "This can be accomplished with the modern means of bombing or bringing down an airplane on an important location that will cause the enemy great losses." - "MSA Figure Seized By FBI ," By Paul Barrett, Wall Street Journal via FrontPageMagazine.com , Thursday, May 29, 2003