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Wednesday, 23 October, 2002, 13:13 GMT 14:13 UK Moroccan tells of ties with hijackers Mr Motassadek is accused of supporting the hijackers A 28-year-old Moroccan man accused of supporting the 11 September hijackers has been closely questioned about his alleged financial involvement in the operation. Speaking on the second day of his trial in the German city of Hamburg, Mounir al-Motassadek described how he sent money to a suicide hijacker and a suspected accomplice in the year before the terror strikes. Mr Motassadek went on trial on Tuesday, charged with membership of a terrorist cell and of being an accessory...

MILWAUKEE (AP) Federal authorities have found seven people in Wisconsin suspected of bribing U.S. embassy officials in the Persian Gulf to obtain illegal visas. Six of the seven don't appear to have terrorist ties, said Assistant U.S. Attorney Francis D. Schmitz. He said little is known about the seventh person, Ahmad Abed Atia, 23, who had been living in Milwaukee. Atia was uncooperative with investigators and has been transferred to Chicago on a federal visa fraud charge, Schmitz said. The seven are part of a larger group of foreigners from Jordan, Pakistan, Syria and Bangladesh suspected to have paid at...

WASHINGTON, Sept 17 (AFP) - Nearly half of all Americans are concerned the United States will give up too many rights and freedoms as it steps up its war on terror, according to a new opinion survey made public Tuesday. The survey, commissioned by the National Constitution Center, showed that 49 percent of respondents were worried the government would abandon too many civil liberties out of fears of terrorism. However, 40 percent said they were concerned that terrorists would take advantage of the rights and freedoms granted by the US Constitution to do the country harm. The poll reveals...

Not for commercial use. Solely to be used for the educational purposes of research and open discussion. Spain: Two 11 September suicide pilots met in Madrid in July 2001 La Vanguardia web site, Barcelona, in Spanish 1 Feb 02 BBC Monitoring Europe - Political Supplied by BBC Worldwide Monitoring February 1, 2002, Friday E xcerpt from report by Fernando Garcia, "Second World Trade Centre suicide pilot was also in Madrid and saw Atta", published by the Spanish newspaper La Vanguardia web site on 1 February Madrid: Mohamed Atta, the pilot of the first of the aircraft crashed into the World ...

Hijackers Said to Seek Navy Targets Tue Aug 20, 3:29 PM ET By SETH HETTENA, Associated Press Writer SAN DIEGO (AP) - Investigators believe the San Diego-based Sept. 11 hijackers who helped crash an airliner into the Pentagon ( news - web sites) initially were sent to California to pinpoint targets in the Navy's largest West Coast port, a federal law enforcement source told The Associated Press. Investigators believe al-Qaida operatives Nawaf Alhazmi and Khalid Almihdhar, who arrived in California in January 2000, most likely were assigned to identify San Diego-based Navy ships to attack, said the federal official, who...

Original Thread from "post-attack" 11 SEP 02As of 11 AM CST:Little Rock, AR: Gov. Mike Huckabee is in route with State Police escort coming from Kentucky. All Law enforcement agencies preparing for briefing from FEMA; All State, County, and Municipal Police are reporting to work; Police at major intersections in pairs and teams at malls, downtown office buildings; Department of Energy Emergency Response team on full alert at Arkansas Nuclear ONE in Russellville, civilians sent home. State Police at all Bridge/Highway intersections; NLR and Little Rock PD at Murray Lock and Dam barring all entry; Little Rock Police at Little...

<p>KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) --  A member of al-Qaida's German cell that was central to planning and carrying out the Sept. 11 attacks met with two hijackers from a different group in Malaysia in early 2000, according to a high-ranking Malaysian official.</p>

Jazeera Shows Tape of Alleged 9/11 Hijackers Mon Sep 9, 4:25 PM ET By Inal Ersan DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (Reuters) - The Arabic Al-Jazeera satellite television station said Monday it had received a videotape which it said apparently showed some of the Sept. 11 suicide hijackers studying flight manuals. "Jazeera has recently obtained what seems to be a tape prepared by al Qaeda on the first anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks showing some of the perpetrators of the ... attacks carrying out technical training on controlling aircraft," the Qatar-based channel said in a news bulletin. Washington has blamed...

Leave it to the Chron to make 9/11 special for its readers. In today’s edition we have an article from a reporter sympathizing with a terrorist collaborator who’s been penned up in San Diego. The article makes the case, quoting only form the suspect, about his innocence. The Chron complains that those rounded up in the wake of 9/11 have not been charged with a crime and we don’t even know who they are. Geez, seems the Chron found a suspect and interviewed him at length. This one is a beaut. The suspect in the story, one Yememite named, Omer...

Herald Correspondent Caroline Overington reports from Washington on a key strand of America's anthrax investigation. It is not easy to kill people with anthrax. Not, at least, without killing yourself in the process. The stuff is so lethal that the FBI thinks only 20 people in the United States would know how to handle it. Martin Hugh-Jones is one of those people. As a professor of veterinary medicine at Louisiana State University, he is an expert on the disease and, ever since somebody sent it through the mail last October and killed five people, he has been wondering how it...

WASHINGTON (AP) _ Among the human remains painstakingly sorted from the Pentagon and Pennsylvania crash sites of Sept. 11 are those of nine of the hijackers. The FBI has held them for months, and no one seems to know what should be done with them. It's a politically and emotionally charged question for the government, which eventually must decide how to dispose of some of the most despised men in American history. ``I think in Islam, you're supposed to be buried whole, so I would take them and scatter them all over the place,'' said Donn Marshall, whose wife, Shelley,...

Filed at 3:53 p.m. ET WASHINGTON (AP) -- Among the human remains painstakingly sorted from the Pentagon and Pennsylvania crash sites of Sept. 11 are those of nine of the hijackers. The FBI has held them for months, and no one seems to know what should be done with them. It's a politically and emotionally charged question for the government, which eventually must decide how to dispose of some of the most despised men in American history. ``I think in Islam, you're supposed to be buried whole, so I would take them and scatter them all over the place,'' said...

Report: Links Between Sept. 11 Hijacker, Anthrax NEW YORK (Reuters) - A Florida doctor who treated one of the alleged Sept. 11 hijackers last June for a dark lesion on his leg said after reviewing his notes weeks after the attack that the lesion was consistent with anthrax, The New York Times reported on Saturday. The newspaper said a new memorandum prepared by experts at the Johns Hopkins Center for Biodefense Strategies about Dr. Christos Tsonas' assertion had renewed debate about a possible link between the hijackers and anthrax-laced letters that killed five people in the United States in October...

Physicist’s Theory Differs From Mainstream View The United States government may still believe that whoever perpetrated the anthrax attacks last year is an American, but a UC Berkeley scientist vehemently disagrees. Physics professor Richard Muller believes that the real culprit is none other than Al Qaeda. His ideas were published in the April 16 issue of MIT's Technology Review. White House spokesperson Ari Fleischer said in a press briefing on Feb. 25 that that it appears that the anthrax mailings were not a foreign scheme. "All indications are that the source of the anthrax is domestic," he said. But according...

he two men identified themselves as pilots when they came to the emergency room of Holy Cross Hospital in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., last June. One had an ugly, dark lesion on his leg that he said he developed after bumping into a suitcase two months earlier. Dr. Christos Tsonas thought the injury was curious, but he cleaned it, prescribed an antibiotic for infection and sent the men away with hardly another thought.But after Sept. 11, when federal investigators found the medicine among the possessions of one of the hijackers, Ahmed Alhaznawi, Dr. Tsonas reviewed the case and arrived at...

<p>COPPERHILL, Tenn. (AP) -- Months before terrorists attacked America, two Middle Eastern men landed a small plane at an airstrip in the Appalachian foothills after getting a look at a nearby river and a huge chemical plant.</p> <p>Danny Whitener, a 48-year-old junk car dealer who was alone tending his plane when the strangers arrived, is convinced one of the men was Mohamed Atta, whom authorities believe was the ringleader of the Sept. 11 suicide hijackings.</p>

<p>November 12, 2001 -- The CIA has evidence that two more hijackers, besides terror leader Mohamed Atta, met with Iraqi intelligence officials earlier this year - bolstering arguments for a Baghdad role in the attacks, it was reported yesterday.</p> <p>The two other skyjackers were Atta's friends and co-conspirators, Marwan al-Shehhi and Ziad Samir Jarrah, who were believed to have been at the controls of two of the pirated jets on Sept. 11.</p>

Experts debate theory that hijacker was exposed By Steve Fainaru and Ceci Connolly THE WASHINGTON POST March 29 — In January, outside of formal channels, an FBI official asked biodefense experts at Johns Hopkins University to examine a curious lead in the federal government’s investigation into last fall’s anthrax attacks.THE EXPERTS were to evaluate the diagnosis of a Fort Lauderdale, Fla., emergency room physician who had treated one of the Sept. 11 hijackers last June. The physician, Christos Tsonas, initially thought the man had a minor infection, but after the wave of bioterrorist attacks he told the FBI that, in...

<p>BALTIMORE (AP) --  A Jordanian citizen who FBI officials believe lived with two Sept. 11 hijackers last year will remain in federal custody, a magistrate ordered Monday.</p> <p>Rasmi Al-Shannaq, 27, is charged with obtaining a fake visa from the U.S. embassy in Qatar.</p>

Osama bin Laden is to give another televised address to the world. The al-Qaeda leader is to deliver a hate-filled video on July 4, American Independence Day. The announcement was made on the Arabic Sahab website which issues daily information on the war in Afghanistan. Bin Laden was pictured on the site, kneeling between two al-Qaeda officials. His spokesman Sulaiman Abu Ghaith says: "America should get ready and fasten its safety belt. "We will come to them from where they don't expect. Yes, we will wage attacks but at the right time, at the place we want, in the way...