Posted on 04/05/2006 10:26:41 AM PDT by jmc1969
To hear Sept. 11 mastermind Khalid Shaikh Mohammed tell it, Osama bin Laden was a meddling boss whose indiscretion and poor judgment threatened to derail the terrorist attacks.
He also saddled Mohammed with at least four would-be hijackers who the ringleader thought were ill-equipped for the job. And he carelessly dropped hints about the imminent attacks, violating Mohammed's cardinal rule against discussing the suicide hijacking plot.
Mohammed described Al Qaeda in a written statement for his U.S. interrogators as an almost mystically efficient corporation that operates in ways Americans would never understand.
"You must study these matters to know the huge difference between the Western mentality in administration and the Eastern mentality, specifically at Al Qaeda."
Yet Mohammed describes a terrorist outfit fraught with the same conflicts and petty animosities that plague many American corporations. Mohammed describes himself in particular as having to fend off a chairman of the board who insists on micromanaging despite not knowing what he was doing.
"[Shaikh] Mohammed stated that he was usually compelled to do whatever Bin Laden wanted with respect to operatives for the September 11 operation," the interrogation summary states. "That said, [Shaikh] Mohammed noted that he disobeyed Bin Laden on several occasions by taking operatives assigned to him by Bin Laden and using them how he best saw fit."
Bin Laden presumably would have his own version of events. But a former FBI agent who closely tracked Al Qaeda said the testy relationship described by Mohammed was consistent with the accounts of other terrorism suspects in custody.
"They couldn't stand each other," the former official said. "They both had huge egos."
(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...
Isn't Kahlid the brother of Ron Jeremy?
Architects build. A$$hole terrorists destroy. Calling an a$$hole terrorist an architect is just wrong.
Amazing what kind of results you can get by placing a sheet of clear plastic over a man's face and then spraying his head with a fire hose to trick his brain into the panic state that comes from drowning.
What a load of crap. Everybody in Hollywood knows Bush was behind 9/11.
This type of article makes the conspiratorialists' bowels obstruct.
And here I thought his screen name was Hairy Chest.
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