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Copyright 2002 Time Inc.
People
January 14, 2002
SECTION: TROUBLE; Pg. 59
LENGTH: 860 words
HEADLINE: Terror At 37,000 Feet;
Accused 'shoe bomber' Richard Reid followed a mysterious path to Flight 63. Does the trail
lead back to bin Laden?
BYLINE: Richard Jerome, Nina Biddle, Pete Norman and Caris Davis in London, Dietlind
Lerner in Paris, Anne Driscoll and Carolyn Eggert in Boston, and Siobhan Morrissey in Miami
BODY:
Members of South London's Brixton Mosque and Islamic Cultural Center were not entirely
shocked when they heard the news last month. On Dec 22 fellow worshipper Richard C. Reid
had allegedly packed plastic explosives into the hollowed-out heels of his black suede
high-tops, boarded Miami-bound American Airlines Flight 63 in Paris and tried to blow the
Boeing 767 --and the 197 people aboard--out of the sky. "Everyone who saw his picture
said, 'Oh, my gosh, it's him," says Abdul Haqq Baker, chairman of the mosque where Reid,
28, an ex-petty thief, worshipped from 1996 to 1998. "Initially he seemed very
happy-go-lucky," says Baker, 35. "Then we saw the change."
Baker believes that Reid was recruited by extremists tied to al-Qaeda. Once affable, Reid
took to wearing combat fatigues and making fiery statements against the West. Then in
1998, he left Brixton. "He didn't say goodbye," says Baker, who has complained to
authorities about radicals preying on his congregation. "He just disappeared." The mosque
faithful would not see Reid again until authorities in Boston took him into custody, after his
mission was dramatically thwarted by Flight 63's passengers and crew. According to the
FBI, flight attendant Hermis Moutardier, 46, caught Reid trying to light his sneaker with a
match. An altercation ensued, and several passengers strapped the 6'4", 200-lb. Briton to
his seat with belts. Then two doctors on board sedated him. "He was very powerful," says
Kwame James, 23, a Trinidadian who plays pro basketball in France. "There were three
guys and me--I'm 6'8" and 240 Ibs.--and still we were struggling with him."
Escorted by U.S. fighter jets, the plane was diverted to Boston. Reid is now in a Plymouth,
Mass., jail, charged with hindering the flight crew by intimidation and assault. He faces up
to 20 years in prison, and more serious charges may follow.
So far there is no solid evidence linking Reid to Osama bin Laden's al-Qaeda network. But
captured al-Qaeda fighters reportedly have claimed to recognize him from one of their
Afghan training camps. And one of Reid's fellow congregants at Brixton was Zacarias
Moussaoui, 33, the "20th hijacker" charged with conspiracy in the Sept. 11 attacks. Then
there is his itinerary since July. Reid traveled to seven countries, including Israel and
Pakistan, fueling speculation that he was part of a large, well-funded terrorist cell and was
testing airline security. He reportedly made several visits to a Paris cybercafe and bought
his explosive, triacetone triperoxide, or TATP--enough to blow a hole in the fuselage--in
Amsterdam. On Dec. 7 he renewed his British passport in Brussels.
Months ago, according to Britain's News of the World, Reid sent his mother, Lesley Hughes,
a message from Pakistan: "You will never see me again. You had better all convert to
Islam." Superficially he seems an unlikely Muslim suicide bomber. He was raised in the
gritty Kidbrooke section of London, the son of Robin Reid, now 51, a rail worker frequently
jailed for theft, and Lesley, his wife. They divorced in 1984. "When he was 15 or 16," says
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an ex-schoolmate, Reid "got into mugging." This avocation earned Reid 13 convictions and
at least two jail stretches for theft. During his incarceration he turned to Islam, apparently
encouraged by his father, who had previously converted--though, Robin told Britain's Daily
Mail, "the sort of Islam I encountered wasn't about blowing up planes."
Nor was that of the Brixton mosque, which Reid joined after his release in 1996. Located in
a high-crime area of South London, the mosque is known for shepherding ex-cons back into
the workforce. Reid secured a job making and peddling incense. Living briefly with an aunt,
he studied Arabic and knelt on prayer mats five times a day. He also adopted the traditional
Muslim garb and renamed himself Abdul Raheem. Then, four years ago, Reid began drifting
toward the radical groups often seen disseminating leaflets outside the mosque.
Reid's movements after leaving Brixton remain murky. What is clear is that on Dec. 21 he
arrived at Charles de Gaulle Airport with a round-trip ticket for Antigua via Miami. With no
luggage but a small backpack, the scruffy Reid was questioned by security and missed his
10:40 a.m. flight. American Airlines put him up at the $ 280-per-night Copthorne Hotel,
where staff reportedly heard him praying in his room. The next day French police saw no
reason to detain him, and Reid boarded Flight 63, settling into a window seat in row 29.
"I was asleep and heard screams and girls crying," says Kwame James. Once he and the
others subdued Reid, the panic eased and an in-flight movie, the comedy Legally Blonde,
flashed onscreen. James tried to chat up Reid. "I told him there were a lot of good people on
the plane. Why us? He smirked." The effect was chilling. "We were a match strike from not
being here," James observes. "Every time you say goodbye, make sure you have love in it."
--Richard Jerome --Nina Biddle, Pete Norman and Caris Davis in London, Dietlind Lerner in
Paris, Anne Driscoll and Carolyn Eggert in Boston, and Siobhan Morrissey in Miami
GRAPHIC: COLOR PHOTO: WENDY MAEDA/THE BOSTON GLOBE/AP, "There is a
saying--'There is a God'--and it came true," says Kwame James, a hero of Flight 63 (in
Boston on Dec. 22).; COLOR PHOTO: PLYMOUTH COUNTY JAIL/AP, Reid, says an
ex-schoolmate, "was always in search of an identity."; COLOR PHOTO: BARRY
BATCHELOR/PA, "I am deeply shocked," said Reid's mother, Lesley Hughes.; COLOR
PHOTO: KERI LUMMIS/AP, "We were concerned," says Brixton mosque leader Abdul Haqq
Baker of Reid's radical transformation.; B/W PHOTO: NEWS INTERNATIONAL, Reid's father,
Robin (with then-wife Lesley and Richard in the late '70s), spent a total of 18 years in jail
for various crimes.
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December 7, 2001, Friday
SECTION: NEWS; Pg. 8, 9
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HEADLINE: OPERATION VERITAS: LADEN'S PLOT TO CRASH JET INTO BIG BEN;
HORROR PLAN IS REVEALED
BYLINE: Mark Dowdney
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EVIL Osama bin Laden planned to wreak death and destruction in Britain with more horrific
suicide attacks.
It was revealed yesterday Al-Qaeda boss bin Laden sent terrorists to Britain with the aim
of crashing two hijacked airliners into the House of Commons and Tower Bridge.
The loss of life at the bridge and Big Ben - two of London's most popular landmarks -
would have been enormous but the gang panicked and fled amid the worldwide uproar over
the atrocities in New York and Washington.
Details of the terrifying plan were revealed by gang member Mohammed Afroz, a
28-year-old Indian who was learning to fly jumbo jets in Britain. His nerve broke while he
was still learning to fly and he fled to India after the September 11 attacks.
He was arrested by police there after a tip-off from the FBI. He is now under arrest in
Bombay where he revealed plans for further suicide attacks in India and Australia.
The news came on the day Tory peers in the House of Lords threw out key elements in new
legislation guarding against terrorism.
Furious Home Secretary David Blunkett attacked Tory leader Iain Duncan Smith for allowing
his unelected peers to obstruct the laws.
And a spokesman for Blunkett said: "In public Iain Duncan Smith says he supports the fight
against terrorism but he is allowing his unelected peers to disembowel this bill."
The suicide attack plot was revealed by India's Home Minister Lal Krishna Advani who said:
"He has made some shocking confessions much of which we have been able to verify. It was
a massive conspiracy by al-Qaeda."
The other intended targets were Melbourne's Rialto Towers and the Indian parliament.
Afroz, who appeared in court yesterday, faces hanging or life in jail. He has been charged
with waging war against India as well as three local robberies, and more charges are
pending.
A slight man, barely 5ft tall, he wore dark trousers and a loose white shirt in court. He was
led to and from court covered by a towel and was remanded in custody until December 20.
Afroz was found to be carrying several international credit cards and a US passport with
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valid visas for the UK as well as the other countries he was allegedly planning to attack.
Under extensive questioning, Afroz, who is fluent in English, admitted that al -Qaeda sent
him to flight training schools in Britain and Australia.
He claimed they invested more than pounds 150,000 in his training.
He boasted that his code name within the terrorist network was "The Pilot".
He confessed that he was plotting with seven other al-Qaeda members - from Bangladesh,
Afghanistan and Pakistan - for the London attacks and alleged they had even booked
London-Manchester flights in readiness.
Stunned Indian detectives passed the information on to Britain and Australia.
Afroz is believed to have been on a pounds 50,000 course to qualify for his Airline Transport
Pilot's Licence at a flying school in Britain. On completion, pilots are qualified to fly a jumbo
jet.
Australia's Attorney General Daryl Williams also confirmed yesterday that Afroz had received
flight training.
"We have been able to confirm that he did train in Australia as a pilot in 1997 and 1998," he
said.
"But we've also ascertained that he left Australia in December 1998 and has not returned." "
Speaking in Canberra, Foreign Minister Alexander Downer said: "I gather that he confessed
to planning suicide attacks in Australia or in Britain.
"It does underline the point that we need to take our security very seriously."
Indian police discovered that Afroz sent an e-mail to an address in Australia mentioning
plans to attack the House of Commons after hijacking a plane.
Sources said that after fleeing from Britain, Afroz flew to New Delhi and then on the Indian
holiday resort of Goa.
A week or so later he returned to Bombay where, early in October, he was arrested in the
company of a prostitute in a seedy hotel near his home.
His parents did not know he was in the city.
Afroz is believed to have been a a member of the Student's Islamic Movement - banned in
India.
Local police will release more details about his arrest today.
The fact that Al-Qaeda planned to carry out atrocities similar to the ones in New York and
Washington added greater impact to the news Tory and Lib Dem peers had thrown out key
parts of the Government's emergency laws to clamp down on terrorism.
The main defeat in the House of Lords came for a section of the bill which would allow police
to access personal data, such as bank accounts and e-mails, of any suspects.
The Lords argued this was a breach of human rights which went too far and could be abused
by the police.
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The Advertiser
December 7, 2001, Friday
SECTION: NEWS; Pg. 1
LENGTH: 683 words
HEADLINE: TARGET: AUSTRALIA;
Terrorism suspect reveals plot
BYLINE: By RAHUL BEDI in New Delhi, MARK DUNN and IAN McPHEDRAN
BODY:
THE Rialto Towers landmark in Melbourne was the target of a suicide hijack plot by a
terrorism suspect linked to the September 11 attacks.
Mohammad Afroz, who has confessed links to Osama bin Laden's al-Qaeda terrorist
network, trained as a pilot at a Moorabbin flying school in 1997 and 1998.
It has been revealed the man and al-Qaeda associates plotted to crash hijacked jets into
targets that included the 55-storey Rialto, London's Houses of Commons and Tower Bridge,
and New Delhi's Parliament.
About 10,000 people work in the Rialto Towers - the headquarters of some of Australia's top
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The plots were revealed yesterday by Indian security police who arrested Mumbai-born
Afroz last month.
They say he has links to bin Laden's terror group and helped plot the Rialto suicide mission.
Afroz has also claimed he was part of an aborted suicide hijack attack to be carried out on
London on September 11.
Indian Home Minister Lal Kishenchand Advani said Afroz, 26, confessed knowledge of plans
to crash planes into landmarks.
As the Australian Government intensified investigations into the allegations yesterday:
INDIAN officials said Afroz trained to fly at Moorabbin and frequented a mosque in
Melbourne's west.
AFROZ claimed seven other al-Qaeda members - from Bangladesh, Afghanistan and
Pakistan - also received flight training in Australia.
UP to seven other Middle Eastern men sought urgent pilot training in SA 10 months before
September 11.
ASIO admitted it had names of thousands of people who underwent flight training in
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Australia and was checking records with known or suspected terrorists.
FEDERAL Attorney-General Daryl Williams' office said no one with suspected terrorist links
had been arrested or detained in Australia since September 11.
Mr Williams said the Government had been aware of the suspect's alleged confessions for
"some time" and confirmed he received flying instructions in Australia between 1997 and
1998.
But Mr Williams said the man's terrorist claims were yet to be independently verified.
Mr Advani said the plots reflected a "deep-rooted and massive conspiracy". "We have been
able to verify some of the basic things which he told police in Mumbai and these have
turned out to be true," he said.
Afroz left India in 1997, travelled to Australia and remained here until December, 1998.
He was reported to have also received flight training in Britain and used a simulator in
Texas.
He was arrested by police in Mumbai acting on a tip-off on October 9. Sources told the
Indian press Afroz was "wining and dining lavishly" at the time of his arrest and Interpol
checks had linked him with al-Qaeda.
Security officials told London's Daily Telegraph newspaper Afroze and seven other al-Qaeda
members had flight training in Australia.
The group had booked themselves on two London-Manchester flights on September 11 but
apparently lost their nerve after seeing the devastation in New York.
Police also told the Telegraph Australian, US and British security agencies reacted with
scepticism when informed of Afroz's confessions six weeks ago.
Foreign Affairs Minister Alexander Downer said the allegations would be taken seriously. "I
don't think this is a hoax or should be treated as a hoax," he said. "I think these are claims
that should be taken seriously."
Australian officials have not interviewed the man but are seeking access from Indian
authorities.
Mr Williams said: "He claimed, to the extent that it is appropriate to talk about it, he was
part of a group who were proposing to attack targets in Australia, the United Kingdom and
India," Mr Williams said.
The man has no family or other links in Australia.
In one speech from his mountain hideaway in November, bin Laden singled out Australia.
"The crusader Australian forces were on Indonesian shores and in fact they landed to
separate Indonesia which is part of the Islamic world," he said.
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January 2, 2002, Wednesday
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HEADLINE: Terrorists threaten to blow up Taj Mahal
DATELINE: NEW DELHI, Jan. 2
BODY:
Indian authorities on Wednesday tightened security around the Taj Mahal after the militant
Lashkar-e-Toiba group threatened to destroy the landmark.
Internet news site rediff.com reported that militants sent an e-mail to a government
minister's Web site threatening to bomb the 17th-century love monument. Rebels also said
they would assassinate Rajnath Singh, the chief minister of India's most populous Uttar
Pradesh state. The threat was sent to Singh's e-mail account.
"Our experts are on the job and I am sure we will be able to track down this mail, which
spells out an open threat to the chief minister and a few other prominent leaders of the
state," Uttar Pradesh's Home Secretary Naresh Dayal told the news site.
He said, "We have also enhanced the security in and around the Taj Mahal, which was
mentioned as among Lashkar-e-Toiba's main targets."
Another Pakistan-based terrorist group, Jaish-e-Mohammed, has threatened to carry out
attacks on Indian troops stationed in Kashmir.
India has blamed the two terrorists groups for a Dec. 13 attack on Parliament in which 14
people were killed, including all five attackers.
The Taj Mahal is India's best-known tourist attraction, and millions of tourists visit the
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January 12, 2002, Saturday, Weekend Edition
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HEADLINE: ISD's chilling account of terrorist plans
BYLINE: Anna Teo
BODY:
[SINGAPORE] "This is the place where US military personnel will be dropped off from a bus
and they will walk towards the MRT station, and this is one of the regular buses that carry
the military personnel from Sembawang to Yishun MRT station."
So began a detailed commentary in a videotape that recorded a recce for a plan to attack
American targets in Singapore.
The videotape of the Yishun neighbourhood from Sembawang Wharf to around Admiralty
Road East "the residential area" of US military personnel here was recovered from the
rubble of an Al-Qaeda leader's home in Afghanistan last month.
Both the video cameraman -- Khalim Jaffar, a 39-year-old printer -- and the commentator
-- service engineer Hashim Abas, 40, who spoke in English in the tape -- are among the 15
arrested last month by the Internal Security Department (ISD) for terrorism-related
activities. Found among Khalim's possessions here was a list of over 200 US companies in
Singapore. Three of the firms, the ISD learned, were highlighted as potential targets,
apparently because their senior executives were fairly prominent members of the American
community here.
All but two of the 15 arrested are being detained for two years under Section 8(1)(a) of the
Internal Security Act, the Singapore government said yesterday.
The detainees -- all Singaporeans except for one who became a Malaysian some years back
-- are members of a clandestine Islamic group, Jemaah Islamiyah (JI), linked to a larger
network spread across Malaysia and Indonesia. One of the detained, technician Andrew
Gerard, is a Roman Catholic Indian who converted to Islam in 1988.
The other two men, apparently not JI members, were released on restriction orders last
Sunday.
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Evidence unearthed by the ISD shows that JI's activities here started well before the Sept
11 terrorist attacks in the US. The group -- which is organised into various cells, or fiahs --
began surveilance of places frequented by Americans here in 1997.
Personal preparations -- including how to handle AK-47 rifles and mortars -- started even
earlier, with training in Afghanistan.
One of the detainees underwent training on three occasions between 1991 and 2000. And
the leader of the Singapore JI, Ibrahim Maidin -- a 51-year-old condominium manager
was trained in Afghanistan in 1993. In all, eight of the 13 detainees went through Al-Qaeda
training.
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briefed Al-Qaeda leaders on the plan to target the Singapore shuttle bus carrying US
personnel while he was in Afghanistan for training between August 1999 and April 2000.
The Al-Qaeda leaders showed interest in the plan -- which was apparently operationally
ready -- "but for reasons not known, they did not subsequently pursue it", the government
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Khalim was also instrumental in another plan to bomb US naval vessels along the
north-eastern waters between Changi and Pulau Tekong. Among his belongings was a
Mindef map with markings of observation posts in Singapore and Johor, and a "kill zone"
between Changi and Tekong.
Also among Khalim's possessions were more than 50 digital photos of Paya Lebar Airbase
and US aircraft there, taken in April 2001 by Andrew Gerard, then a technician in Singapore
Technologies Aerospace
Last September, the cell was approached by a group of foreigners, some believed to have
Al-Qaeda links, to be part of a plan to bomb specific targets here. They made
video-recordings of several targets, including the US and Israeli embassies, the Mindef
complex at Bukit Gombak, and commercial buildings that house US companies.
Cell members were also asked to procure 17 tonnes of ammonium nitrate to be used in
making truck bombs, and scout for suitable warehouses as bomb-making sites.
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HEADLINE: I DID NOT BRING UP MY SON TO HATE HE WAS A GOOD, KIND, YOUNG MAN
NOT AN EVIL KILLER
BYLINE: Alexandra Williams In Lebanon
HIGHLIGHT:
HIJACKER: Ziad Jarrah is thought to have piloted one of the airliners; DEVASTATED:
Jarrah's father Samir, Jarrah as child with his family, and, right, sister Nisrien yesterday;
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BODY:
THE mother of suicide hijacker Ziad Jarrah insisted desperately yesterday: "He is not
capable of such horror."
Bewildered and confused, Nafisa Jarrah cannot bring herself to believe that her son was
among fanatics who killed nearly 5,500 in last week's US terror attacks.
Defying evidence, she clings to the hope that the "kind" 26-year-old she adores is still alive
and a victim of mistaken identity.
Looking haggard with care and with tears in her eyes, she told me: "I am a teacher. Do you
think I would educate my child to hate? "I am his mother and the best person in the world
to judge him. We know who we have raised and I know he is not capable of such horror.
"He is a good, kind young man who loves to laugh and party.
"We last saw him in February and he was the lovely Ziad he always was. It's impossible for
him to become a terrorist in seven months."
As she spoke her husband Samir, 62, sat slumped in a chair looking traumatised with shock.
Shaking his head and quietly weeping, the retired civil servant whispered: "It cannot be."
Jarrah is believed to have been at the controls of United Airlines Flight 93 when it crashed in
Pennsylvania following airliner attacks on the World Trade Center in New York and the
Pentagon.
His target is thought to have been the White House, Camp David or the presidential jet Air
Force One.
Nafisa, 55, has barricaded herself in her home, too heartbroken even to look at her son's
belongings, since Friday when he was named as a suspect in terror chief Osama bin Laden's
hideous conspiracy of mass destruction.
If she did venture from her hiding place the family pretended to inquisitive strangers she
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was "just another aunt".
I drove east from Beirut for 50 miles yesterday to the Lebanese village of Almarj in the
Bekaa Valley.
OUTSIDE Jarrah's family villa in the shadow of a modern mosque I was told: "Ziad's mother
will not speak. She is not here."
But as I stood under vines shielding myself from the sun, I saw a woman staring at me.
There was no mistaking the shattered, broken figure before me.
Nafisa, a primary school teacher, squeezed my hands and looked me straight in the eye
with desperation etched on her face.
She pleaded: "Ziad is our only son. We have never deprived him of anything. We gave him
everything he needs in life.
"He had big plans. He was getting married next summer and studying hard to be a pilot so
he could get a good job and raise a family. He wanted children. Why all these plans if he is
a terrorist?"
Nafisa knew the families of countless victims were looking to her to explain how she could
raise a son who had so much hate in his heart.
Her protestations of his innocence were earnest and intense. Yet they were also strangely
naive.
How could he be a terrorist, she asked? After all, he enjoyed swimming, dancing, "beautiful,
soft" music and was a volunteer drug counsellor at school.
"Nothing is logical," she said. "He went to Christian schools and we wouldn't have minded if
he had married a non-Muslim."
Her son was still alive, she said, and one day would come bounding back into the house.
But her bewilderment was evident as she slipped in and out of the past and present tenses
when talking of her son. And her list exonerating him of guilt smacked of fear and
desperation.
The family heard on a friend called to say he had been named as one of the 19 terrorists.
Jarrah's uncle Jamal, 46, insisted his nephew was not political or religious - he even drank
the odd glass of wine.
Bank manager Jamal said: "It's ridiculous to call Ziad a terrorist. The people who did this
are crazy and sick.
"Imagine the thousands of families whose lives have been ruined for ever. And don't think
we aren't one of those."
Resting her head on her father's chest Jarrah's sister Nisrien, 24, said: "I'm a student at the
Lebanese American university in Beirut.
"We're not the kind of family to be involved in this. We were planning a big wedding next
year for Ziad. He was so excited."
The family last saw him in February when he returned for his father's open -heart surgery -
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he thought the world of Samir and some nights he would stay at the hospital watching over
him.
The previous month he had returned for a fleeting visit for the engagement of his sister
Dania, 29.
Two days before last week's atrocities Jarrah - who was engaged to Turkish girlfriend Asle
Sengun, 21 - phoned home from Miami.
He thanked his father for $ 2,000 he sent him and said he was looking forward to returning
on September 22 for his cousin Miriam's wedding. Jarrah nagged his father about giving up
smoking and made him promise he was taking his pills.
Jamal said: "The call was light-hearted. Ziad said he had received the money which he
needed for his leisure time.
"His father told him they had bought his wedding present - a new car. Ziad joked that he
wanted something bigger and better because his sister did not have a car and would use his
instead.
Asle, who is studying medicine, met her future in-laws last month. She came alone because
Jarrah said he was too busy studying.
Jamal said: "Ziad was concerned to know what we thought of her. He wanted our
acceptance. We loved her. She was a good choice."
On the surface Jarrah seemed an improbable terrorist.
Unlike suspect Mohamed Atta, linked to Islamic extremism, he had a reputation for being a
kind, studious man who loved his family and enjoyed Western culture.
According to identity documents he was born on May 11 1975.
The Sunni Muslim had a happy upbringing in Beirut, attending a private evangelical school.
Holidays were spent in Cyprus and Italy.
In April 1996 Jarrah left Lebanon for Greifswald, Germany, where he enrolled in aeronautical
engineering. It was there he met Asle.
The following year he continued his studies at the University of Applied Science in Hamburg,
staying until 1999.
Jarrah moved seamlessly into the relaxed student life. Confident and good looking, he rarely
discussed politics and loved partying, cooking and socialising.
He preferred a T-shirt, trainers and jeans to the traditional Islamic robes sometimes worn
by fellow hijacker Mohamed Atta. Jarrah split his time between Hamburg and Bochum,
about 200 miles to the south, where he visited devoted Asle.
When he finally left Hamburg in late 1999 he told friends he wanted to fulfil a lifelong
ambition to study in America.
But he gave no details and refused to leave a forwarding address.
What he did not reveal was that he was going to take flying lessons so he could play his
part in a massacre of the innocent.
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He spent most of this year in Florida, renting homes in Hollywood and
Lauderdale-by-the-Sea.
In 1999 his father sent him money to start a part time pilot's course in Miami.
Thanks to relaxed rules, Jarrah was able to continue registering for his studies in Hamburg.
No one checked to see if he was turning up.
Then 18 months ago he disappeared for five months. Asle called his parents to say he had
gone to Afghanistan, where bin Laden trains his army of terror.
Jarrah's worried family contacted friends in the Pakistani border town of Peshawar. But they
say nothing came of it and yesterday dismissed the coincidence.
Like his family Jarrah's friends expressed disbelief at his role in the outrages. At first many
thought his identity must have been stolen.
But their worst fears were confirmed when Jarrah was named and his picture released by
the FBI after Asle reported him missing.
Former student colleague Michael Gotzmann, 25, said: "We worked together and partied
together - we went through thick and thin together.
"We did the same studies but also spent free time with each other. We would even cook
together.
"You would never ever believe he was capable of something like this."
ANOTHER friend, Melih Demir, 23, said: "He told me he loved the United States.
"He'd always planned to go there and told us he had his visa in autumn 1999. A couple of
days after that he was gone. We never saw him again."
Asle was said to be so shaken by her fiance's double life that she was offered counselling.
Jarrah's warped mission is believed to have been foiled by hero passengers who forced the
hijacker to crash south of Pittsburgh. All 45 passengers and crew on the Newark to San
Francisco flight were killed.
Unknown to those closest to him, the popular student had turned into a murderous fanatic.
His devastated family are split. Some believe he was just going on holiday to San Francisco.
Others think it is a case of mistaken identity. Was his passport stolen? Now he has been
labelled a terrorist, is he too frightened to come forward?
Yet all believe in his innocence. And none more so than his mother.
We were strangers yet I seemed to offer some slight hope. As I left, Nafisa wrapped her frail
arms round my waist.
Weeping pitiably, she begged: "Please tell the world the truth." But will the world believe
her?
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Subject: FACT SHEET: STRENGTHENING HOMELAND SECURITY
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Office of the Press Secretary
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
January 24, 2002
Strengthening Homeland Security
President Bush's budget for fiscal year 2003 -- the federal government's first
post-September 11 budget - - almost doubles spending to secure the homeland. The FY 2003
homeland security budget provides substantial increases in areas that require immediate
attention: enhancing first responder programs, securing America's borders, combating
bioterrorism, strengthening intelligence sharing, improving transportation security and
supporting other national defense related initiatives. This significant increase in resources
from $19.5 billion to $37.7 billion reflects the President's unwavering resolve to achieve a
more secure homeland.
182billion mirease
First Responders - America's Frontline Soldiers
Police officers, firefighters, and emergency medical teams are America's front-line soldiers
in the event of a terrorist attack. With the right training and equipment, these first responders
have the greatest potential to save lives and limit casualties. America's current capabilities for
responding to a terrorist attack vary widely across the country. Even the best-prepared States and
localities lack adequate resources to respond to the full range of terrorist threats this country
faces. Many areas have little or no capability to respond to terrorist attacks using weapons of
mass destruction.
Facts About First Responders
There are over 1 million firefighters in the United States, of which approximately
750,000 are volunteers.
Local police departments have an estimated 556,000 full-time employees including about
436,000 sworn law enforcement personnel.
Sheriffs' offices reported about 291,000 full-time employees, including about 186,000
sworn officers.
There are over 155,000 nationally registered emergency medical technicians.
President Bush proposes to spend $3.5 billion in fiscal year 2003 to dramatically enhance
the homeland security response capabilities of America's first responders - a greater than
10-fold increase in Federal resources. This initiative will:
Give the first responder community critically needed funds to purchase equipment, train
their personnel, and plan.
Provide states and localities with the flexibility they require to ensure that the funds are
used in the local areas where they are needed most.
Establish a consolidated, simple, and quick method for dispersing federal assistance to
states and localities.
Foster mutual aid across the nation so that the entire local, state, federal, and volunteer
network can operate seamlessly together.
Create an evaluation process to make sure that all programs are producing results and to
direct the allocation of future resources.
Involve all Americans in programs to make their homes, communities, states, and nation
safer and stronger.
The President's First Responder Initiative will be administered by the Federal Emergency
Management Agency (FEMA) through a streamlined mechanism designed to speed the flow of
resources to the States and localities.
These new funds will sustain first responder activities, including:
Planning. Allocates approximately $105 million to support state and local governments in
developing comprehensive plans to prepare for and respond to a terrorist attack.
Equipment. Provides about $2 billion to allow State and local first responder agencies to
purchase a wide range of equipment needed to respond effectively to a terrorist attack, including
personal protective equipment, chemical and biological detection systems, and interoperable
communications gear.
Training. Allocates approximately $1.1 billion to train firefighters, police offices, and
emergency medical technicians to respond and operate in a chemical or biological environment.
Exercises. Designates about $245 million to support a coordinated, regular exercise program to
improve response capabilities, practice mutual aid, and assess operational improvements and
deficiencies.
Strengthening America's first responder community will make our country not only safer,
but also stronger. Nearly two million first responders put their lives at risk regularly to save
lives and make our country more secure. Hundreds of firefighters, police officers and emergency
medical workers gave their lives on September 11 as they worked to save others. The President'
S First Responder Initiative will help these brave Americans do their jobs better.
Building on existing capabilities at the federal, State, and local level, the First Responder
Initiative provides an incentive to develop mutually supportive programs that maximize effective
response capability. Through joint planning, clear communication, comprehensive coordination,
mutual aid at all levels and increased information sharing, America's first responders can be
trained and equipped to save lives in the event of a terrorist attack.
Building first responder capabilities will have immediate and widespread benefit - making
the Nation safer from terrorist attacks and bolstering everyday response capabilities.
Harnessing the power of citizens will help make local communities stronger. Every
American can contribute to winning the war on terrorism. The Presidential Task Force on Citizen
Preparedness in the War Against Terrorism has outlined ways all citizens can work to make their
homes and communities more prepared.
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P1/b1;
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COLLECTION:
Speechwriting, White House Office of
SERIES:
Reilly, Jeannette - Speech Files
FOLDER TITLE:
State of the Union 01/29/2002 [3]
FRC ID:
FOIA IDs and Segments:
697
2014-0042-F
OA Num.:
1339
NARA Num.:
1217
RESTRICTION CODES
Presidential Records Act - [44 U.S.C. 2204(a)]
Freedom of Information Act [5 U.S.C. 552(b)]
P1 National Security Classified Information [(a)(1) of the PRA]
b(1) National security classified information [(b)(1) of the FOIA]
P2 Relating to the appointment to Federal office [(a)(2) of the PRA]
b(2) Release would disclose internal personnel rules and practices of
P3 Release would violate a Federal statute [(a)(3) of the PRA]
an agency [(b)(2) of the FOIA]
P4 Release would disclose trade secrets or confidential commercial or
b(3) Release would violate a Federal statute [(b)(3) of the FOIA]
financial information [(a)(4) of the PRA]
b(4) Release would disclose trade secrets or confidential or financial
P5 Release would disclose confidential advise between the President
information [(b)(4) of the FOIA]
and his advisors, or between such advisors [a)(5) of the PRA]
b(6) Release would constitute a clearly unwarranted invasion of
P6 Release would constitute a clearly unwarranted invasion of
personal privacy [(b)(6) of the FOIA]
personal privacy [(a)(6) of the PRA]
b(7) Release would disclose information compiled for law enforcement
purposes [(b)(7) of the FOIA]
PRM. Personal record misfile defined in accordance with 44 U.S.C.
b(8) Release would disclose information concerning the regulation of
2201(3).
financial institutions [(b)(8) of the FOIA]
b(9) Release would disclose geological or geophysical information
Deed of Gift Restrictions
concerning wells [(b)(9) of the FOIA]
A. Closed by Executive Order 13526 governing access to national
security information.
B. Closed by statute or by the agency which originated the document.
C. Closed in accordance with restrictions contained in donor's deed
of gift.
This Document was withdrawn on 3/7/2014
by PSC
Withdrawal Marker
The George W. Bush Library
FORM
SUBJECT/TITLE
PAGES
DATE
RESTRICTION(S)
Draft
[State of the Union] [pages 2 - 6, 11]
6
N.D.
P1/b1; P5;
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For a complete list of items withdrawn from this folder, see the
Withdrawal/Redaction Sheet at the front of the folder.
COLLECTION:
Speechwriting, White House Office of
SERIES:
Reilly, Jeannette - Speech Files
FOLDER TITLE:
State of the Union 01/29/2002 [3]
FRC ID:
FOIA IDs and Segments:
697
2014-0042-F
OA Num.:
1339
NARA Num.:
1217
RESTRICTION CODES
Presidential Records Act - [44 U.S.C. 2204(a)]
Freedom of Information Act - [5 U.S.C. 552(b)]
P1 National Security Classified Information [(a)(1) of the PRA]
b(1) National security classified information [(b)(1) of the FOIA]
P2 Relating to the appointment to Federal office [(a)(2) of the PRA]
b(2) Release would disclose internal personnel rules and practices of
P3 Release would violate a Federal statute [(a)(3) of the PRA]
an agency [(b)(2) of the FOIA]
P4 Release would disclose trade secrets or confidential commercial or
b(3) Release would violate a Federal statute [(b)(3) of the FOIA]
financial information [(a)(4) of the PRA]
b(4) Release would disclose trade secrets or confidential or financial
P5 Release would disclose confidential advise between the President
information [(b)(4) of the FOIA]
and his advisors, or between such advisors [a)(5) of the PRA]
b(6) Release would constitute a clearly unwarranted invasion of
P6 Release would constitute a clearly unwarranted invasion of
personal privacy [(b)(6) of the FOIA]
personal privacy [(a)(6) of the PRA]
b(7) Release would disclose information compiled for law enforcement
purposes [(b)(7) of the FOIA]
PRM. Personal record misfile defined in accordance with 44 U.S.C.
b(8) Release would disclose information concerning the regulation of
2201(3).
financial institutions [(b)(8) of the FOIA]
b(9) Release would disclose geological or geophysical information
Deed of Gift Restrictions
concerning wells [(b)(9) of the FOIA]
A. Closed by Executive Order 13526 governing access to national
security information.
B. Closed by statute or by the agency which originated the document.
C. Closed in accordance with restrictions contained in donor's deed
of gift.
This Document was withdrawn on 3/7/2014
by PSC
Withdrawal Marker
The George W. Bush Library
FORM
SUBJECT/TITLE
PAGES
DATE
RESTRICTION(S)
Draft
State of the Union Address Draft #21
11
01/29/2002
P1/b1; P5;
This marker identifies the original location of the withdrawn item listed above.
For a complete list of items withdrawn from this folder, see the
Withdrawal/Redaction Sheet at the front of the folder.
COLLECTION:
Speechwriting, White House Office of
SERIES:
Reilly, Jeannette - Speech Files
FOLDER TITLE:
State of the Union 01/29/2002 [3]
FRC ID:
FOIA IDs and Segments:
697
2014-0042-F
OA Num.:
1339
NARA Num.:
1217
RESTRICTION CODES
Presidential Records Act - [44 U.S.C. 2204(a)]
Freedom of Information Act - [5 U.S.C. 552(b)]
P1 National Security Classified Information [(a)(1) of the PRA]
b(1) National security classified information [(b)(1) of the FOIA]
P2 Relating to the appointment to Federal office [(a)(2) of the PRA]
b(2) Release would disclose internal personnel rules and practices of
P3 Release would violate a Federal statute [(a)(3) of the PRA]
an agency [(b)(2) of the FOIA]
P4 Release would disclose trade secrets or confidential commercial or
b(3) Release would violate a Federal statute [(b)(3) of the FOIA]
financial information [(a)(4) of the PRA]
b(4) Release would disclose trade secrets or confidential or financial
P5 Release would disclose confidential advise between the President
information [(b)(4) of the FOIA]
and his advisors, or between such advisors [a)(5) of the PRA]
b(6) Release would constitute a clearly unwarranted invasion of
P6 Release would constitute a clearly unwarranted invasion of
personal privacy [(b)(6) of the FOIA]
personal privacy [(a)(6) of the PRA]
b(7) Release would disclose information compiled for law enforcement
purposes [(b)(7) of the FOIA]
PRM. Personal record misfile defined in accordance with 44 U.S.C.
b(8) Release would disclose information concerning the regulation of
2201(3).
financial institutions [(b)(8) of the FOIA]
b(9) Release would disclose geological or geophysical information
Deed of Gift Restrictions
concerning wells [(b)(9) of the FOIA]
A. Closed by Executive Order 13526 governing access to national
security information.
B. Closed by statute or by the agency which originated the document.
C. Closed in accordance with restrictions contained in donor's deed
of gift.
This Document was withdrawn on 3/7/2014
by PSC