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Osama bin Laden called his mom to say he wouldn’t be able to get in touch (opens the original)
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In this series, Newsweek maps the road to 9/11 as it happened 25 years ago, day by day. Yesterday: The news that Ahmad Shah Massoud had been killed "made me feel sick to my stomach," said the CIA officer who led the first team into Afghanistan after 9/11. September 10, 2001: Osama bin Laden telephoned his mother in Syria on September 10 to tell her that he might not be able to meet her for a while because "something big" was going to happen that would end their communications for a long time. Mo
As a favor for his Taliban hosts, bin Laden had their rival assassinated (opens the original)
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In this series, Newsweek maps the road to 9/11 as it happened 25 years ago, day by day. Yesterday: "The match is about to begin," said one of the communications. The NSA didn't translate them into English or disseminate them. September 9, 2001: Ahmad Shah Massoud, leader of the so-called Northern Alliance, was assassinated September 9 during a media interview in the Panshir Valley of northern Afghanistan. Two al-Qaeda suicide bombers posing as TV interviewers for Belgian television were taken to
"Zero hour": Intercepted comms signaled an imminent terror attack (opens the original)
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In this series, Newsweek maps the road to 9/11 as it happened 25 years ago, day by day. Yesterday: September 7 saw the terrorists en route to their 9/11 departure points. The four hijackers of United Airlines Flight 93 were the earliest team in position. September 8, 2001: The National Security Agency (NSA), the nation's signals-intelligence organization, intercepted on September 8 its first communications indicating a possible imminent terrorist attack. Between September 8 and 11, the NSA would
How much did al-Qaeda pay for the entire 9/11 operation? (opens the original)
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In this series, Newsweek maps the road to 9/11 as it happened 25 years ago, day by day. Yesterday: The FBI sent around a deeply troubling report on Zacarias Moussaoui after warning the FAA in Minneapolis. The Bureau finally emailed field agents—12 minutes before Flight 11 hit the tower. September 6, 2001: "Fayez Ahmed" (Fayez Rashid Ahmed Hassan al-Qadi Banihammad), a muscle man who would help hijack United Airlines Flight 175, wired $8,055 on September 6 from his Florida SunTrust account to a S
The FBI finally emailed field agents—12 minutes before Flight 11 hit tower (opens the original)
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In this series, Newsweek maps the road to 9/11 as it happened 25 years ago, day by day. Yesterday: The personal warning from terrorism staffer Richard Clarke could not have been stronger. But he was just frustrated by the bureaucracy, Condoleezza Rice thought. September 5, 2001: The FBI sent a report to and briefed the local FAA office in Minneapolis of a potential threat of hijacking of large airliners (specifically Boeing 747s) based upon the information gleaned from Zacarias Moussaoui. The br
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