1995 : (NY : SHEIKH OMAR ABDEL RAHMAN IS CONVICTED OF PLOTTING TO BLOW UP THE WTC IN 1993; HE WOULD LATER DIRECT THE MURDER PLOT FROM HIS PRISON CELL -WITH THE ASSISTANCE OF HIS LEFTWING LAWYER LYNNE STEWART, US POSTAL WORKER AHMED ABDEL SATTAR, AND EGYPTIAN YASSIR SIRRI - WHICH WOULD SLAY NORTHERN ALLIANCE LEADER AHMED SHAH MASSOUD ON SEPT 9, 2001, JUST DAYS BEFORE THE SECOND WORLD TRADE CENTER ATTACK OF 9/11) -- "U.S. man's letter links to Afghan killing," Middle East Times, 2002, http://www.metimes.com/2K2/issue2002-20/eg/us_mans_letter.htm (* My note: So much for the 'criminal justice method of dealing with terrorists...)
1997 : (LUXOR, EGYPT MASSACRE OF TOURISTS & EGYPTIAN SECURITY GUARDS ) -- "U.S. man's letter links to Afghan killing," Middle East Times, 2002, http://www.metimes.com/2K2/issue2002-20/eg/us_mans_letter.htm
1999 : (GROUP RESPONSIBLE FOR THE 1997 MASSACRE IN LUXOR, EGYPT ASKS AHMED ABDEL SATTAR) According to Sattar's indictment, an Islamic group leader asked him to help expand the group's presence in the United States three years ago. The group has taken responsibility for the 1997 massacre at Luxor, Egypt in which 58 tourists and four Egyptian security guards were hacked and shot to death. -- "U.S. man's letter links to Afghan killing," Middle East Times, 2002, http://www.metimes.com/2K2/issue2002-20/eg/us_mans_letter.htm
2001summer : (EGYPTIAN-BORN US POSTAL WORKER AHMED ABDEL SATTAR'S CONVERSATION ABOUT HIS 'LETTER OF INTRODUCTION 'TO AFGHAN NORTHERN ALLIANCE LEADER AHMED SHAH MASSOUD IS WIRETAPPED; SATTAR ACTS AS IMPRISONED SHEIKH OMAR ABDEL RAHMAN'S 'COMMUNICATIONS CENTER') But a conversation in the summer of 2001 about the letter surfaced during a wiretap involving Sattar, who [would later be] charged with serving as a communications center for an Egyptian terrorist group allegedly directed by Sheikh Omar Abdel-Rahman from his U.S. prison cell, the Post reported [later]. Abdel-Rahman was convicted in 1995 of plotting to blow up New York landmarks, including the World Trade Center. -- "U.S. man's letter links to Afghan killing," Middle East Times, 2002, http://www.metimes.com/2K2/issue2002-20/eg/us_mans_letter.htm
SEPTEMBER 9, 2001 : (AFGHANISTAN : NORTHERN ALLIANCE LEADER AHMED SHAH MASSOUD IS ASSASSINATED BY AL QAEDA OPERATIVES BEARING A LETTER OF INTRODUCTION PARTIALLY DRAFTED BY EGYPTIAN-BORN US POSTAL WORKER AHMED ABDEL SATTAR AND EGYPTIAN YASSIR SIRRI) Massoud's murder, which took place on 9 September 2001. ...U.S. authorities [would come to] believe that Massoud was killed as a pre-emptive strike in advance of the attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon that killed more than 3,000 people two days later, the [NY Post] newspaper [later] said. -- "U.S. man's letter links to Afghan killing," Middle East Times, 2002, http://www.metimes.com/2K2/issue2002-20/eg/us_mans_letter.htm
MAY 13, 2002 : (WASHINGTON POST REPORTS : 'LETTER OF INTRODUCTION' PARTIALLY DRAFTED BY US POSTAL WORKER AHMED ABDEL SATTAR MAY BE LINKED TO THE ASSASSINATION AFGHAN NORTHERN ALLIANCE LEADER AHMED SHAH MASSOUD IN 2001; ANOTHER OF THE LETTER'S AUTHORS, AN EGYPTIAN NAMED YASSIR SIRRI, HAS BEEN CHARGED BY BRITAIN WITH CONSPIRING TO KILL MASSOUD) U.S. officials believe that a letter partially drafted by a U.S. postal worker now in custody may have had a role in the death of an Afghan resistance leader, The Washington Post reported on May 13. U.S. authorities believe that Ahmed Abdel Sattar, 42, helped write a letter of introduction for two men who posed as journalists to kill General Ahmed Shah Massoud in northern Afghanistan last fall, the Post said.
Sattar, an Egyptian-born U.S. citizen, has not been charged in Massoud's murder, which took place on 9 September 2001. But a conversation in the summer of 2001 about the letter surfaced during a wiretap involving Sattar, who is charged with serving as a communications center for an Egyptian terrorist group allegedly directed by Sheikh Omar Abdel-Rahman from his U.S. prison cell, the Post reported.
Another Egyptian man who allegedly helped draft the letter, Yassir Sirri, has been charged by Britain with conspiring to kill Massoud. ...Sattar, a 13-year veteran of the U.S. Post office, earned $40,000 per year working at the main post office in Staten Island, New York. He has pleaded not guilty to the charges. According to Sattar's indictment, an Islamic group leader asked him to help expand the group's presence in the United States three years ago. The group has taken responsibility for the 1997 massacre at Luxor, Egypt in which 58 tourists and four Egyptian security guards were hacked and shot to death. -- "U.S. man's letter links to Afghan killing," Middle East Times, 2002, http://www.metimes.com/2K2/issue2002-20/eg/us_mans_letter.htm