LF: Key phone call between 9/11 plotters intercepted seven weeks before attacks

Title: Key phone call between 9/11 plotters intercepted seven weeks before attacks
Source: Daily Mail Online
URL Source: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art ... tercepted-7-weeks-attacks.html
Published: Aug 15, 2011
Author: John Stevens
Post Date: 2011-08-15 08:29:19 by Sebastian
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A phone call between the alleged masterminds of the September 11 attacks was intercepted by a western intelligence agency seven weeks before the terror act, it has been revealed.

Agents listened to a call between Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the alleged ringleader, and Ramzi Binalshibh, another plotter, on July 20 2001.

A newly released 9/11 commission document, which had previously been in part redacted, reveals details of a U.S. Department of Justice briefing on March 18 2004 when the call was discussed.

'There was a call between KSM [Khalid Sheikh Mohammed] and Binalshibh,' the document notes.

'There is a discussion about Teresa being late, which refers to Jarrah and possible conflicts with Atta.'

The plotters were worried that one of the plane hackers, Ziad Jarrah, might pull out of the attacks. Mohammed Atta was another of the hijackers.

The document was obtained by Anthony Summers and Robbyn Swan for their book 'The Eleventh Hour', about the attacks.

'The questions are which intelligence agency intercepted this call and what was done with the information,' he told the Sunday Times.

Both Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and Ramzi Binalshibh are awaiting trial at Guantanamo Bay.

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Author Anthony Summers has also obtained the transcripts of conversations between flight crew, ground staff and the military during the attacks.

They include poignant calls for help from flight 11, the first plane to hit the twin towers in New York, and American Airlines ground crew monitoring the situation.

American Airlines employee Nydia Gonzalez said: 'The number five [a member of the air crew] has been stabbed. She seems to be breathing.

'The number one [another air crew member] has been stabbed pretty badly. She's lying down.'

Moments before the plane crashed into the north tower of the World Trade Center, Amy Sweeney, a flight attendant, said: 'We are in a rapid descent. We are all over the place.

'I see the water. I see the buildings. We are flying way too low. Oh my God we are way too low.'

"Mohamed's commanding officer, Lt. Col. Robert Anderson, said he wrote detailed reports aimed at getting Army intelligence to investigate Mohamed — and have him court-martialed — but the reports were ignored.

"I think you or I would have a better chance of winning Powerball, than an Egyptian major in the unit that assassinated Sadat would have getting a visa, getting to California ... getting into the Army and getting assigned to a Special Forces unit," he said. "That just doesn't happen."

It was equally unthinkable that an ordinary American GI would go unpunished after fighting in a foreign war, he said.

Anderson said all this convinced him that Mohamed was "sponsored" by a U.S. intelligence service. "I assumed the CIA," he said.[6]

Mohamed also took maps and training manuals off base to downsize and copy at Kinko's and used them to write al-Qaeda's multivolume terrorist training guide that became playbook.[4]