To: SirRealist who wrote (1024 ) 9/23/2001 2:01:58 PM From: Hawkmoon Read Replies (1) | Respond to Amazingly, no where in that Eurasianet article did the author discuss the family ties between Taleban leader Muhammed Omar.cairotimes.com iacsp.com "The aforementioned 1993 plot to bomb the U.N. (not the WTC) and the interstate tunnels is a good example. It arose from a loose confederation of independent operators brought together ad hoc around the perceived opportunity for a meaningful strike: members of Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman's Gama'at al-Islamiya (the Islamic Group), who hatched the scheme, reconnoitered the targets, and obtained the explosives; government officials connected to the Sudanese revolutionary faction of Hassan al-Turabi, who were to provide access to the U.N. complex; and even a Hamas terrorist (who supplied the diesel fuel for bomb construction). The would-be bombers planned to obtain engineering studies of additional future targets like the George Washington Bridge, and openly spoke of providing these to jihad organizations in Pakistan and Afghanistan, as well as to Turabi's group, Hamas, and Fatah." wisc.edu
