Al-Qaida 'planned 9/11 style attack on Kabul'

[Turborama]

Source: The Guardian

It may be one of the more audacious terrorist plots to be hatched in Afghanistan, but it was certainly not the most original. The same al-Qaida masterminds behind 9/11 attacks on New York and Washington planned to commit a similar attack in the capital of the country that once harboured them, according to a file among US military intelligence documents published this week by the WikiLeaks website.

Ayman al-Zawahiri, al-Qaida's second in command, is said to have given the order for a team of 22 to board one or more planes at Kabul airport, hijack the aircraft and steer them toward a number of "important objectives".

The targets were to include Hamid Karzai's presidential palace, Nato headquarters, the British and US embassies and the Ariana hotel – the whole which the CIA rented and used as its station in Kabul.

The details of the plot have emerged as the leak of secret intelligence continues to create controversy in Kabul and Washington owing to the large number of references alleging that Pakistan's spy agency, the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), supported the Taliban in Afghanistan.

Read more: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/jul/29/al-qaida-9-11-attack-kabul

[RedCloud]

1. Almost as if the Al Queda acting on orders from the CIA...

released this report.

Color me suspicious for the time being.

[Turborama]

2. Wikileaks released this report

Are you saying Wikileaks are actually Al Qaeda?

[saigon68]

3. Apparently planned to steer a plane into a mud hut

IN OTHER NEWS------ the USAF in a massive bombing raid caused $37.27 worth of damage to a goat corral and a stack of firewood.