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Politics : Piffer Thread on Political Rantings and Ravings -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Original Mad Dog who wrote (11675)	9/22/2003 2:31:43 PM
From: Augustus Gloop	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14610

This Carpet Rider needs to be put in the slammer with a camel in rut WASHINGTON -- Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, mastermind of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, told U.S. officials the plot was five years in the making and that a wave of suicide attacks was supposed to follow, say interrogation reports reviewed by The Associated Press. Mohammed (pictured, left) said the plan, first developed in 1996, called for hijacking five planes on each American coast, but was changed several times as Osama bin Laden sought to improve the chances that the attacks could be pulled off simultaneously. Mohammed suggested that the first wave involved as many as 22 terrorists on four planes. That was to be followed up by a second wave of attacks, possibly with the help of al-Qaida allies in southeast Asia. Mohammed said some would-be hijackers were unable to enter the United States and that the two men who slammed a plane into the Pentagon, Khalid al-Mihdhar and Nawaf al-Hazmi, were his key operatives -- more important than Mohammed Atta, identified as the likely ringleader of the hijackers. Mohammed also said he never heard of a Saudi man who provided some rent money and assistance to two hijackers when they arrived in California. Congressional investigators have been looking into that connection. Authorities say some of Mohammed's claims have been corroborated by other captives. Mohammed was captured in a March 1 raid by Pakistani forces and CIA operatives. He is being interrogated by the CIA at an undisclosed location. He is considered the highest ranking al-Qaida figure in U.S. custody