Tuesday, April 26, 2011

Al Qaeda's Leaders Watched 9/11 Unfold On TV In Afghanistan And Pakistan



WikiLeaks: Al Qaeda Watched Towers Burn -- CBS News

Latest WikiLeaks docs offer new insights into al Qaeda's leadership, though accounts come from unreliable Gitmo prisoners.

Each of us remembers where we were on September 11, 2001, but we never knew what the masterminds of al Qaeda's terrorist plot were doing that terrible day.

Now, we have an answer, as found in more than 700 documents from the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, and just published by WikiLeaks.

As it turns out, while Americans watched in horror as the twin towers burned, al Qaeda's top leaders were watching, too. CBS News correspondent David Martin reports that Khalid Sheik Mohammed, the plot mastermind, was in Karachi, Pakistan, watching on television with Ramsi bin al Shib, the day-to-day coordinator of the operation.

"After the success of the attacks, the operatives prostrated themselves and gave thanks to Allah," one document says.

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My Comment: Osama Bin Laden and Ayman al Zawahiri are still on the loose .... but one day they will be caught.

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