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September 24, 2003       Share:    

Source: http://www.washtimes.com/national/20030922-124107-9320r.htm

Original 9/11 Plan had 10 Jets on Both Coasts

(AP/Washington Times) September 11 mastermind Khalid Shaikh Mohammed has told U.S. interrogators that he first discussed the plot with Osama bin Laden in 1996 and that the original plan called for hijacking five commercial jets on each U.S. coast. Mohammed also divulged that in its final stages, the hijacking plan called for as many as 22 terrorists and four planes in a first wave followed by a second wave of suicide hijackings by al-Qaeda allies in southeast Asia. U.S. intelligence has suggested that Saudis were chosen in the end because there were large numbers willing to follow bin Laden and they could more easily get into the U.S. because of the countries' friendly relations.

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