Days after 9/11, the FBI found the luggage of Mohammed Atta, whose plane crashed into World Trade Center Xia, in a hotel in Boston. The baggage contained airline uniforms and a videotape recording messages from the suicide pilots. The FBI was also quick to identify 19 hijackers, with Atta being Egyptian and others from Saudi Arabia and Oman.
The World Trade Center was hit
A telephone call overheard by German intelligence authorities following the terrorist attack provided Bin Laden's link to the incident. It was a call between bin Laden's adherents, which mentioned "30 men who set out for combat". The FBI has released the names and photos of 19 hijacking suspects and believes the remaining 11 escaped after abandoning the action plan.
Photos of 19 suspects (Baidu photos)
At least 4 of the 19 suspected hijackings had been trained in piloting at Bin Laden's camp in Afghanistan and had planned terrorist activities in an organized manner several years earlier. The FBI is also believed to have found evidence of a bank account linked to Bin Laden transferring funds to suspects involved in the terrorist attack, German police said the hijackers were in Hamburg, Germany, engaged in the planning of the whole incident, and British police claimed to have found flight instructors who trained participants in terrorist attacks in the UK. Thus the events in New York were linked to bin Laden and his terrorist organization in Afghanistan.
1. Global search for suspects
9． After the Events of 11, the UN Security Council adopted a resolution requiring all member states to hunt down terrorists and their supporters, as well as groups that provide economic support to terrorists. A global manhunt has been launched.
Soldiers of the NATO peacekeeping force in Bosnia and Herzegovina arrested 4 suspects in Sarajevo and seized safes containing large amounts of cash.
British authorities arrested Kamal Daoudi, 27, on Sept. 29, as well as an Algerian pilot named Lutefi Raisi. Prosecutors believe he is suspected of having a direct link to the terrorist attacks in the United States, and That is a 27-year-old flight instructor who has lectured some of the 9/11 hijackers who drove the plane toward the Pentagon, but he himself adamantly denies any involvement in the attack.
France provided the United States with intelligence on the terrorist Zaharias Mousavi lurking in the United States. The FBI found that the suspects in 9/11 were involved in Hamburg. Mohammed Atta (33), Marwan Shei (23) and Ziyad Samir Jalla may have been the hijackers of three planes crashing into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, who had been lurking in the United States pending the crime, awaiting orders to act. Spanish police discovered that Mohammed Atta had been present 120 kilometres south of Barcelona in the summer of 2011.
Second, it is determined that the planner of 9/11 is bin Laden's family
Britain released the results of the investigation, believing that Mohammed Atif was responsible for planning the entire attack. Adity Abu Hafs Masri, according to intelligence sources, was originally an Egyptian police officer who recruited Arabs to fight the Soviet Union in Afghanistan in the 1980s and helped bin Laden establish al-Qaida. He was Bin Laden's most trusted and highest-ranking aide and the military chief of al-Qaida, where he helped orchestrate the bombings of the U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania in 1998. Atif had a very close relationship with bin Laden, and in January his daughter married bin Laden's eldest son. The United States listed Bin Laden as the number one suspect, and a rapid global search began.
Khalid
Mohammed Sheikh Khalid is also considered one of the masterminds of the events of 9/11. He studied in the United States. Earned a degree in engineering.
On the eve of bin Laden's 9/11 incident, he told his loved ones that there would be major news
Bin Laden's wanted list
On the eve of 9/11, bin Laden stepped up his propaganda campaign to actively create public opinion on targets against Jews and the United States. Unconfirmed reports in the US press that Bin Laden had called his adoptive mother, Khalifa, on September 10 to tell her there would be "breaking news" and had not been heard from since. Between August and early September, bin Laden's cronies around the world were also informed to return to Afghanistan by September 10. Here's an interesting story: In 2021, the Taliban claimed that 9/11 was not organized by bin Laden.
World Trade Center area
IV. The United States Launches the "Longest War"
The United States identified bin Laden as the true perpetrator of the terrorist incident and was determined to crack down the Taliban who protected him and bring him to justice. At 00:27 a.m. Beijing time on October 8, 2001, Britain and the United States officially launched the first round of attacks on Afghanistan, the United States used 15 B-1, B-2 and B-52 bombers, 25 fighter jets including F-117A, launched 50 cruise missiles, And The three major cities of Afghanistan, Kabul, Kandahar and Jalalabad, were attacked, and the 20-year-long war began.