Dozens of 9/11 Hijacker Calls to Saudi Arabia, Syria

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Thursday, March 9. 2006

Dozens of 9/11 Hijacker Calls to Saudi Arabia, Syria

The Sept. 11 hijackers made dozens of telephone calls to Saudi Arabia and Syria in the months before the attacks, according to a classified report from the office of German Chancellor Angela Merkel.

Some 206 international telephone calls were known to have been made by the leaders of the hijacking plot after they arrived in the U.S. - including 32 to Saudi Arabia and 66 to Syria.

The German report said the telephone records were obtained by German intelligence agencies from the FBI.

It is interesting that these hundreds of phone calls would have been covered by the NSA wiretapping program. However, Mohammed Atta's domestic calls to fellow cell members would have been off-limits without a court order.

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And? So? Does that mean that Saudi and Syria ordered the attacks?

I'm sure most of the calls were normal, naturally some had to be malicious too.

But the calls in themselves do not signify anything, except for the ones to Syria, since none of the hijackers were Syrian or had family there.

#1 Frido on 2006-03-10 04:14 (Reply)

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