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Bin Laden’s chosen 9/11 hijacker nearly missed plot
NDTV reports that one of the 19 hijackers involved in the September 11 attacks, hand-picked by Osama bin Laden, nearly got dropped from the plan after arriving in the United States in…
The Story in Brief
NDTV reports that one of the 19 hijackers involved in the September 11 attacks, hand-picked by Osama bin Laden, nearly got dropped from the plan after arriving in the United States in January 2000. The hijacker's time in the US did not go as planned, though the report does not specify why he was at risk of removal from the operation.
The hijacker was among the first of the 19 to enter the country, spending over a year preparing before the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. No further details were provided about how the plot nearly lost this member.
The Indian Opinion
The predictable hand-wringing over 'what if' details distracts from the harder truth: that the 9/11 attacks succeeded despite human error. When pushed, conspiracy hawks will seize on any near-miss as proof of hidden plots. The real test is whether security systems have learned from the failure to catch a sloppy hijacker before 2001. That answer lies in the next major plot, not the last one.
Source: ndtv.com
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