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Mohammed Atta called Ramzi Bin al-Shibh in Germany August 29 And tell him the exact date of the upcoming attack: September 11. Atta and Marwan al-Shehhi have already purchased their flight tickets, and the four teams are close behind; then all the teams begin to make final arrangements and gather near the airport where they are about to depart: Boston Logan, Washington Dulles and Newark.
This was the first clear heads-up outside their circle, telling the exact scheduled date of the Al Qaeda attack. But even so, with the exception of those directly involved in supporting the 19 terrorists in the United States, it is believed that prior to this, only three or four people in the Al Qaeda leadership knew the details of the operation of the aircraft.
After learning the date of the attack, Ramzi bin Hibb issued instructions to Mohamed Atta’s former roommate and Hamburg team member Zakaria Essabal to go to Karachi to submit a proposal to Khalid Sheikh Mohamed. A sealed letter revealing the date. Essabar traveled on August 30. On September 6, just five days before the attack, Khalid Sheikh Mohamed traveled from Karachi, Pakistan to Kandahar, Afghanistan, to talk face-to-face with Osama bin Laden.
Bin Laden informed the Al-Qaida Shura Committee (the governing body of Al-Qaida) of the upcoming attack. Some members of the Council expressed opposition, saying that bin Laden had made promises to the head of the organization, Mullah Omar. Taliban And their master, without his knowledge, will not attack again. Bin Laden responded that Mullah Omar has no right to prevent al-Qaeda from conducting jihad outside Afghanistan.
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Subsequently, KSM began to publicize that members of Al-Qaida and their families in Afghanistan are prepared to take action in response to some kind of upcoming event. American armies attack. Al Qaeda in Europe and other Western countries also began to order individuals to plan to evacuate in the next two weeks, but provided few other details.
A later file extracted from a computer captured by KSM in Pakistan showed that Atta chose a date after the first week of September to allow the United States to Congress Will be in the meeting.
Just before 9/11, Ramzi Bin al-Shibh left Germany for Pakistan. We now know that the most important al-Qaeda members-Bin al-Shibh, KSM, Mustafa al-Hawsawi-ended in Pakistan before and after 9/11 and crossed the border into Afghanistan many times. Ramzi Bin al-Shibh entered Afghanistan three or four days after the 9/11 attacks. The United States did not start bombing until October 7.
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