Yes, the attackers were Salafists. The “cover up”, though, was undertaken to protect American Commies “just in case”.
No, the US-based operatives were Salafist, and not communist.
Given that operational security would require that no one was involved other than those whose technical skills were needed, any antiwar activist would have been superfluous and unaware of what had been done.
The communists you imagine under your bed don’t even know the Salafists.
1960s : (NCPPF IS FOUNDED TO PROVIDE LEGAL SUPPORT FOR WEATHER UNDERGROUND, FALN & BLA -—— see Sami al Arian & al Amoudi’s AMC) The National Coalition to Protect Political Freedom, or NCPPF, was founded in the 1960s to provide legal support to New Left terrorists in the Weather Underground, the Puerto Rican FALN and the Black Liberation Army;[ it would be revived decades later to push for Islamist terrorist causes.] -”Undermining war on terror : Muslim groups weakening fed laws under guise of protecting civil liberties,” World Net Daily, March 10, 2003 via 24 posted on 11/01/2004 9:56:32 PM PST by piasa
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Sami al-Arian & Abdurahman al-Amoudi : [Sami] Al-Arian is also chairman of the National Coalition for the Protection of Political Freedom (NCPPF), a legal-aid group based in New York for U.S. and foreign terrorist causes (see “Domestic Front in the War on Terror,” December 17, 2001). Alamoudi’s AMC is a leading member of the NCPPF.
— “Supporters of Hamas and Hezbollah File Suit Against Bush,” by Michael Waller, Insight on the News, July 17, 2002
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