Posted on 09/06/2002 1:16:32 AM PDT by kattracks
Edited on 05/26/2004 5:08:23 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
September 6, 2002 -- DUBAI, United Arab Emirates - Arabic television station al-Jazeera said yesterday it had confessions from two men it identified as members of Osama bin Laden's al Qaeda network claiming the group was responsible for the Sept. 11 attacks.
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DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Arab station Al-Jazeera said Thursday that it will broadcast interviews with two Al Qaeda members who admit to helping the terror network plan and carry out the Sept. 11 attacks.
The Qatar-based, pan-Arab broadcaster, which drew world attention when it carried videotaped interviews with Usama bin Laden, said the interviews would air next Thursday as part of its coverage marking the anniversary of the attacks against the World Trade Center and Pentagon.
Al-Jazeera said the Al Qaeda members, Khalid Shaikh Mohammed and Ramzi Binalshibh, were interviewed recently at a secret location but did not elaborate further.
Binalshibh, a Yemeni believed to be in his late 20s or early 30s, was a member of a Hamburg-based cell led by Mohammed Atta, the Egyptian-born suspected lead Sept. 11 hijacker. Binalshibh remains at large.
Mohammed, 36, is one of the FBI's most-wanted terrorists and is believed to be at large in Afghanistan or nearby, a law enforcement official told The Associated Press in June. U.S. investigators believe Mohammed, working under bin Laden's leadership, planned many aspects of the Sept. 11 attacks.
U.S. officials regard him as one of the highest-ranking Al Qaeda leaders still at large and believe he is still planning attacks against U.S. interests.
A State Department official said the department would have no comment because the program has not yet aired.
Although Mohammed was born in Kuwait, officials there say he is a Pakistani national and note that people born in Kuwait do not automatically qualify for citizenship.
Mohammed is accused of working with Ramzi Yousef in the first World Trade Center bombing, which left six dead in 1993. He and Yousef, who is now in prison, also were accused of plotting in 1995 to bomb several trans-Pacific airliners heading for the United States.
Federal prosecutors in New York charged Mohammed in 1996 in connection with the alleged 1995 plot. The State Department is offering a reward of up to $25 million for information leading to his capture.
Al-Jazeera chief editor Ibrahim Helal told The Associated Press that the station will mark the Sept. 11 anniversary by running "reports on how the attacks and the war affected the lives of the American and Afghan people, and investigative reports on the attacks
This editotrial discusses the fact that Khalid Mohammed was hired by Saddam Hussein to conduct terror attacks against America :"America Should Act in Self Defense Against Iraq For 9/11,OKC,1993 WTC " from 9/5/02 on FR.
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