Al-Qaeda and September 11

Usama Bin Laden, b Son of Muhammad Bin Laden Family originally from Hadhramawt, now Yemen

Bin Ladin Group Father: billionaire construction magnate in Saudi Arabia Mother from Syria

Bin Laden Family Came to Saudi Arabia in 1930 Close to House of Saud Constructed roads, buildings Worth $11 bn at death

Dome of Rock 1969 Bin Laden Corp. repairs Dome of Rock Damaged by Australian Zionist

Education Bin Laden raised with Saudi princes engineering – Abd al-Aziz University, Jedda

Bin Laden & Palestine Studied with brother of Abdullah Azzam (later jihad leader, Afghanistan) (Palestinian Islamists)

Support for Mujahidin Soviets in Afghanistan From 1980: Bin Laden chief Saudi fundraiser for Mujahidin

Peshawar 1982 moves to Peshawar With Azzam runs bureau of services (Maktab al-Khidmat)

Camps 1986 Bin Laden establishes training camps in Afghanistan Fights against Soviets

Al-Qaeda 1988 makes database of trainees in his camps Data “base” = al-Qaeda

1989 Bin Laden breaks with Azzam, who is assassinated Is called back to Saudi Arabia, passport withdrawn Gives sermon on first Intifada in Jedda

Gulf War Bin Laden offers Mujahidin to Saudis for use against Saddam after invasion of Kuwait Is dismayed by presence of US troops

Gulf War and Sudan Is expelled from SA, goes to Sudan late 1991 Bin Laden uses construction works in Sudan as cover

Black Hawk Down Funds fundamentalists in Algeria, Somalia Blackhawk Down (Mogadishu June 1993) (Md. Atef)

First World Trade Center Bombing o First World Trade Bombing 1993 o Islamic Group of blind Sheikh o Bin Laden pays legal bills of one defendant

Ramzi Yusuf Ramzi Yusuf (later Manila plot) Cousin of Khalid Shaikh Muhammad 1995 assassination attempt against Hosni Mubarak

Afghanistan Again Bin Laden forced to Afghanistan 1996 Aug. 23 Declaration of Jihad against Americans occupying the Land of two holy places

Al-Qaeda Feb Bin Laden creates International Islamic Front against Jews and Crusaders With Ayman al-Zawahiri of al-Jihad al-Islami Calls for killing Americans

Al-Qaeda Terrorism Aug Embassy bombings East Africa October 12, 2000 – USS Cole

US Reaction 1998: US launching of Tomahawks on Khost, Khartoum Ships stop refueling at Aden, Yemen Plans 1999 covert operation against Bin Laden

Millennium Plot Al-Qaeda plan to bomb tourist hotel in Jordan And Los Angeles Airport in 2000 Ahmd Ressam arrested at Canada border -

Hamburg Cell 1992 Muhammad Atta comes to Hamburg to study engineering 1996 joins al-Quds mosque Grows beard, writes will

Atta and Bin Laden Summer 1998 trains in Afghanistan Oct Atta returns, forms terror cell in Hamburg Joined by Ziad Jarrah & Marwan al-Shehhi

Terror Cell May-June 2000 all three come to US for flight training Receive $100,000 each from Mustafa Hasawi in UAE

Plan Assembled Nov-Dec Jarrah visits Bin Laden in Afghanistan Spring 2001 Atta flies to Europe to coordinate al-Qaeda network

Cells in Place Saudi muscle begins arriving in US Khalid al-Mihdar & Nawaf al-Hazmi in San Diego (from Malaysia)

September 11

Further al-Qaeda attacks Attempted – Richard Reid, shoe bomber Carried out – Karachi – Bali – Mombasa – Casablanca – Madrid