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Dirk39 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-25-03 05:50 PM
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Intelligence Chief says Sept. 11 Attacks not Planned in Hamburg
"The trial of a suspected extremist could be dismissed after a German intelligence official said the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks in the United States were planned in Afghanistan and not Hamburg, as had been previously thought."
Deutsche Welle
Hello from Hamburg, Germany
Dirk
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acmavm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-25-03 05:54 PM
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1. Oh phooey, these people don't know where anything took place. They
just make it up as they go. Whatever will justify their actions they'll run with. Truth, logic, and reality are just minor complications to be ignored.
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teryang Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-25-03 08:15 PM
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2. If you really want to know
Edited on Sat Oct-25-03 08:18 PM by teryang
Check out this out. Only students of tradecraft will read the entire lengthy article, which is fairly comprehensive. As to the subject of this thread read below.

http://www.globalresearch.ca/articles/KUP310A.html

There's Something About Omar:
Truth, Lies, and The Legend of 9/11
by Chaim Kupferberg
www.globalresearch.ca , 21 October 2003

The Centre for Research on Globalization (CRG) at www.globalresearch.ca

<Abu Hamza's role as an Islamic fundamentalist recruiter (along with that of his counterpart in Hamburg, Mohammed Haydar Zammar - the recruiter of Atta and Binalshibh) must be judged in the light of present demographic realities. And the reality is this: with a population in excess of one billion adherents, and a geographic span that stretches from the West African Straits of Gibraltar to the far east of Asia, the Muslim World apparently was not up to the task of furnishing the most hardcore, sophisticated operative cells of al-Qaida...>

<...the man who had allegedly recruited Binalshibh and other members of the "Hamburg cell" into the ranks of Islamic fundamentalism - Mohammed Haydar Zammar... - Finn introduced Zammar as the "charismatic advocate" who had cast his spell over Atta, Binalshibh, and their Hamburg-based colleagues - in much the same way that Abu Hamza had worked his magic on his British charges.>

<And, like Abu Hamza, Zammar was likewise allowed to carry on freely in the immediate aftermath of 9/11 while the German and British authorities were rounding up suspects by the dozens. According to Der Speigel, German intelligence agents had approached Zammar in 1996, offering to recruit him as an informer. Zammar reportedly declined the offer...>

<The $64,000 question, however, is whether Zammar - and British recruiter Abu Hamza - did in fact fall under the influence of any intelligence service. Put simply, if one were to look for the fingerprints of a covert service lurking behind the "Hamburg cell", the most fruitful place to look would be in the vicinity of the man who supposedly forged this insular clique. However, the Der Speigel item had perhaps the unintended effect of casting a thin veil of plausible deniability over this crucial question - for in the event that someone might eventually blow the whistle on an intelligence contact with Zammar...>
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