* Moussaoui testimony: After Moussaoui got in trouble with KSM for Yazid Sufaat’s unauthorized purchase of 10 tons of ammonium nitrate to blow up the US embassy in KL, AQ #2 Atef formally tasked Moussaoui with buying and learning to fly a crop dusting plane for use in an attack
Posted by DXer on February 6, 2015
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DXer said
In addition to disclosing the strain of anthrax he was using and attempting to load into unidentified weapons, Al Qaeda lab director Yazid Sufaat should explain, to the extent he knows, what Al Qaeda #2 Atef had in mind for Moussaoui and the cropduster plane. (Ayman Zawahiri reported to Atef, Al Qaeda’s military head, on the anthrax program up until a bomb killed Atef in mid-November 2001.)
Yazid Sufaat gave an interview on French TV about Moussaoui’s pilot ambitions.
DXer said
A There was operation, yes, to — to free up the Imam, okay, and the idea was taken from the — the operation where an Indian airliner was highjacked and brought to Kandahar. So that was the idea that — Shaykh Abu Hafs [Atef] and me talk about this, okay, and that’s the main thing, okay.
Background:
“The Blind Sheikh: A Flashpoint For Terror 20 Years After The World Trade Center Bombing,” By Peter Lance
The Public Record, Feb 27th, 2013
http://pubrecord.org/nation/10726/blind-sheikh-flashpoint-terror-years/