Look at this from the trial going on against Osama bin Laden's driver, from the report at Yahoo News:
This, of course, is all coming out of the trial where bin Laden's driver, Salim Hamdan, is charged with knowledge and co-conspiracy in the 9/11 talks and the prosecution is busy showing the close connection between the driver and bin Laden.
But what is going to be coming out of this trial is a lot of horrific and angering memories for the American people. I said it just after 9/11 happened...that bin Laden could have ordered that attack on a Sunday when there would have been relatively few occupants in the Twin Towers but no, he waited for prime work day, prime time of the day so that the MOST dead would be achieved.
As for bin Laden's driver being "in the circle"...one more detail from the trial:
Of course this means that bin Laden couldn't accept the fact that a group of American passengers on that fourth plane banded together and stopped that final atrocity. It shows the ego of bin Laden.
This trial will bring more and more to light and while the important thing is that Hamdan pay for his crimes (hopefully with his life), the real headlines here will be more direct information on what bin Laden did in the planning of the attacks along with his sick celebration.
Osama bin Laden's driver overheard the al Qaeda leader saying he was happy about the death toll in the September 11 attacks and thought the hijacked plane that crashed in Pennsylvania was shot down, according to one of the driver's interrogators.
"Bin Laden was happy about the results and he (Hamdan) heard bin Laden say he didn't expect the operation to be that successful," said Ali Soufan, a former FBI agent. "He only thought 1,000 to 1,500 people would perish so he was happy with the results."
This, of course, is all coming out of the trial where bin Laden's driver, Salim Hamdan, is charged with knowledge and co-conspiracy in the 9/11 talks and the prosecution is busy showing the close connection between the driver and bin Laden.
But what is going to be coming out of this trial is a lot of horrific and angering memories for the American people. I said it just after 9/11 happened...that bin Laden could have ordered that attack on a Sunday when there would have been relatively few occupants in the Twin Towers but no, he waited for prime work day, prime time of the day so that the MOST dead would be achieved.
As for bin Laden's driver being "in the circle"...one more detail from the trial:
"If they didn't shoot that fourth plane it would have hit the dome," Soufan said bin Laden told Zawahiri, according to Hamdan's account.
"I assumed ('the dome' meant) either Congress or the White House," Soufan said. "Hamdan said he did not know what they mean by the dome."
Of course this means that bin Laden couldn't accept the fact that a group of American passengers on that fourth plane banded together and stopped that final atrocity. It shows the ego of bin Laden.
This trial will bring more and more to light and while the important thing is that Hamdan pay for his crimes (hopefully with his life), the real headlines here will be more direct information on what bin Laden did in the planning of the attacks along with his sick celebration.
Bin Laden happy with September 11 toll, war court told
GUANTANAMO BAY U.S. NAVAL BASE, Cuba (Reuters) - Osama bin Laden's driver overheard the al Qaeda leader saying he was happy about the death toll in the September 11 attacks and thought the hijacked plane that crashed in Pennsylvania was shot down, according to one of the driver's interrogators.
The evidence by Ali Soufan, a former FBI agent, was meant to support the case by prosecutors at the Guantanamo Bay war crimes tribunal that the driver, Salim Hamdan, was close to al Qaeda's leadership.
Hamdan, a Yemeni father of two with a fourth-grade education, is the first Guantanamo prisoner to face trial before the controversial tribunal at the remote base on Cuba. He faces life in prison if convicted.
"Bin Laden was happy about the results and he (Hamdan) heard bin Laden say he didn't expect the operation to be that successful," said Ali Soufan, a former FBI agent. "He only thought 1,000 to 1,500 people would perish so he was happy with the results."
Soufan also said Hamdan told him about a conversation he overheard when he was driving bin Laden and his deputy, Ayman al-Zawahiri, after the attacks that killed nearly 3,000 people in New York, Washington and Pennsylvania.
The two men were looking at a magazine which described the flight routes of the September 11 hijacked planes, Soufan said.
"If they didn't shoot that fourth plane it would have hit the dome," Soufan said bin Laden told Zawahiri, according to Hamdan's account.
"I assumed ('the dome' meant) either Congress or the White House," Soufan said. "Hamdan said he did not know what they mean by the dome."
United Airlines Flight 93 crashed in a Pennsylvania field. U.S. officials have never said it was shot down but there was speculation about the issue at the time.
MARRIAGE ADVICE
Describing the relationship between the driver and the al Qaeda leader, Soufan said bin Laden had given Hamdan some marriage advice, suggesting he go back to Yemen and find a women from a "pious religious family," and when Hamdan returned with a wife, bin Laden held a feast in celebration.
"It shows a close relationship, an affinity," he said.
Hamdan is being tried in a court for terrorism suspects created by the Bush administration after the September 11 attacks. His innocence or guilt will be decided by a jury of U.S. military officers who are fighting the war on terrorism.
The tribunal system has been loudly criticized as unfair by human rights groups and defense lawyers.
Prosecutors have portrayed Hamdan as a driver and bodyguard for the fugitive al Qaeda leader who had access to the Islamic militant group's inner circle. Defense lawyers say he was just a hired hand in the motor pool who never joined al Qaeda.
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