Osama bin Laden had planned a second attack on the United States shortly after the deadly atrocities of September 11, 2001 – also known as a 9/11 attack – which claimed almost 3,000 lives.
According to CBS News, the paper obtained and declared by the US Navy after the murder of bin Laden in 2011 recently revealed how the Al-Qaeda leader at that time encouraged the use of private jet, rather than a passenger plan, to carry out follow-up attacks after 9/11 . The newspaper also revealed how Bin Laden encouraged his followers to cut 12 meters from the US railroad tracks to cause a spectacular slip that he hoped to kill hundreds.
Islamic writer and scholar Nelly Lahoud, who has spent most of his careers to examine Al-Qaeda, examined thousands of pages of Osama bin Laden’s personal letter and a record that was confiscated 11 years ago by a team consisting of two dozen seals sent to Pakistan to be arrested Or killed by terrorists. Speaking during the 60-minute interview aired on CBS, MS Lahoud explained how Al-Qaeda did not anticipate that the US would fight after the 9/11 attack.
However, when the war raged in Afghanistan, Lahoud said that Bin Laden’s letter showed that terrorists were surprised by how Americans react to the cruelty of September 11. According to the decped letter, he said that bin Laden thought that America would take to the streets and would only press their government to withdraw from Muslim -majority countries.
“This is a big calculation error in the Osama bin Laden,” Lahoud said.
Speaking of media outlets, MS Lahoud told me that according to his personal letter to his group members, Osama bin Laden did not communicate with Al-Qaeda’s colleague for three years when he was on the escape. But in 2004, he was re -connected with terrorist groups, offering to members of his new plan to attack the United States.
Bin Laden was “very excited” to imitate the 9/11 attack but he also paid attention to security conditions that were very difficult at the airport. While reading a terrible letter from Osama bin Laden to the Head of the Al-Qaeda International Terror Unit, MS Lahoud revealed that he proposed the idea of operating through a charter aircraft instead of passengers for the next attack in the country. Terrorists also write that if it is too difficult to attack using a plane, then they must target the US train.
MS Lahoud said that Bin Laden, who had a degree in civil engineering, explained how to attack the United States. “He wants to remove 12 meters of steel train so, in this way, the train can slip. And we find it, explain the simple toolkit they can use. You know, he said, ‘You – you can use a compressor. You can use the smelting iron tool ‘, “Lahoud said to CBS.
He, however, noted that fortunately, bin Laden could never carry out his plan.
In addition, MS Lahoud said the documents declared also revealed that in November 2002, when US intelligence officials were worried that Al-Qaeda planned “spectacular attacks” that would produce “mass victims”, bin Laden hid and “did not” terrorist group.
The letter also revealed that the mastermind behind 9/11 planned an additional terror attack in 2010 targeting several crude oil tankers and large shipping routes in the Middle East and Africa. MS Lahoud claims that Bin Laden suggested that the Al-Qaeda operator could integrate themselves into the port area by disguising as fishermen. He instructed his team about where to buy certain ships to avoid radar and detail how the ship should be used to transport explosives. MS Lahoud accused that bin Laden “really wanted to do it for the American economy”.
Now, according to US intelligence agents, most of the al-Qaeda terrorist activities are being carried out by a smaller Al-Qaeda branch. The second Bin Laden Command, Ayman Al-Zawahiri, now heads Al-Qaeda. According to CBS, this month, he appeared in a new video that denounced the enemies of Islam.