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Guantanamo detainee admits 9/11 role

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Received money from hijackers within hours of September 11 attacks

An Associated Press report in the Washington Times today says a Gitmo detainee denied being a member of al Qaeda yet admitted at his status hearing to receiving funds from two of the nineteen 9/11 hijackers. The AP itself then failed to point out widely publicized findings of the 9/11 Commission:

A Saudi accused of arranging financing for the September 11 terrorist-plot participants told a hearing he got money transfers from two hijackers inside the United States just hours before the attacks, according to a transcript the Pentagon released yesterday. But Mustafa Ahmad al-Hawsawi, who was based in the United Arab Emirates on September 11, 2001, denied that he was a member of al Qaeda or that he sent money to the hijackers.
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The hearing, held to determine whether he is an “enemy combatant” eligible to be charged with war crimes, was conducted March 21.

Al-Hawsawi said he was told by al Qaeda operative Ramzi Binalshibh about the September 11 plot one day in advance and was instructed to fly that same day from the UAE to Pakistan, where he met Binalshibh the following day. Binalshibh is one of the 14 sent to Guantanamo last September; his hearing was March 9 but he refused to attend and submitted no statement.

Asked by a member of the Combatant Status Review Tribunal his reaction to realizing he was “part of that operation,” a reference to the September 11 attacks, al-Hawsawi replied, according to the transcript, “In the beginning I was surprised by the size of the operation. It was mostly a surprise to me.”

The transcript does not fully explain the significance of the claim that al-Hawsawi received thousands of dollars in money transfers from hijackers shortly before the September 11 attacks, other than establishing his association with them.

The 9/11 Commission stated some of the hijackers sent money back to their financiers prior to the attacks, to support future operations, as the money on hand was no longer needed for the current operation. They also noted that al Qaeda training manuals taught those sent on one-way missions to return unused funds (Ed.–No sense taking cash with them to hell). Al-Hawsawi’s admission directly links him to both al Qaeda and the 9/11 attacks. The Commission’s report has been in print and online for more than three years now. I wonder if the AP’s reporters will ever read it.

Guantanamo, Islamofascists, Lawfare

David Hicks is a terrorist

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Pleads guilty to one count of providing material support to terrorism

‘Australian Taliban’ is a misnomer for David Hicks.

After September 11, David Hicks traveled from Pakistan to Afghanistan with other foreign terrorists and fought US and Northern Alliance forces. It is important to set the record straight, to know what he pled guilty to, past all the misleading statements. For years now, his PR team has proffered up David Hicks’ father who passed his son off as only a misguided youth yet numerous reports and his own father’s statements indicate Hicks dropped out of school at 14, abused drugs, and stole cars before twice volunteering for the jihad. While his lawyers downplayed David Hicks’ role, the evidence shows he trained and fought as a terrorist.

Before September 11, David Hicks met Osama bin Laden at least eight times. Hicks complained to bin Laden that terrorists training manuals were not in English and volunteered to translate them from Arabic. Those translations were intended to train other al Qaeda who only spoke English for the jihad.

While visiting Pakistan, Hicks learned of the September 11 attacks and applauded them. He soon traveled to Afghanistan and fought against US and Northern Alliance alongside other “foreign” fighters for two months until captured.

In 2000, Hicks joined and trained with Lashkar-e Tayyiba or LET (also know as Lashkar-e-Toiba and the Army of the Pure):

“…learning guerrilla warfare, weapons training (including landmines), kidnapping techniques, and assassination methods. In a March 2000 letter, Hicks told his family “don’t ask what’s happened, I can’t be bothered explaining the outcome of these strange events has put me in Pakistan-controlled Kashmir in a training camp. Three months training. After which it is my decision whether to cross the line of control into Indian-occupied Kashmir.” In another letter on August 10, 2000, Hicks wrote from Kashmir, claiming to have been a guest of Pakistan’s army for two weeks at the front in the “controlled war” with India. At the time, Lashkar-e-Toiba was an Islamic fighting group that had widespread support in Pakistan. It had a reputation for being focused on fighting India in Kashmir but was also accused of attacks against Indian civilians. After the September 11, 2001 attacks and its banning as a terrorist group by Pakistan in January 2002, Lashkar-e-Toiba fragmented and branched out into sectarian violence. Lashkar-e-Toiba was banned in Australia in 2003.”

David Hicks also trained and fought in Afghanistan:

“…attended a number of al-Qaeda training courses at various camps around Afghanistan, including an advanced course on surveillance, in which he conducted surveillance of the US and British embassies in Kabul, Afghanistan”. They claim that, on an occasion when al-Qaeda founder Osama bin Laden visited an Afghan camp, Hicks questioned bin Laden about the lack of English in training material and subsequently “began to translate the training camp materials from Arabic to English”. Hicks wrote home that he’d met Osama bin Laden 20 times, later telling investigators that he’d exaggerated. He’d seen bin Laden about eight times and spoken to him only once. Prosecutors also allege Hicks was interviewed by Muhammad Atef, an al-Qaeda military commander, about his background and “the travel habits of Australians”. The US Department of Defense statement claimed “that after viewing TV news coverage in Pakistan of the Sept 11, 2001, attacks against the United States, [Hicks] returned to Afghanistan to rejoin his al-Qaeda associates to fight against US, British, Canadian, Australian, Afghan, and other coalition force. It is alleged Hicks armed himself with an AK-47 automatic rifle, ammunition, and grenades to fight against coalition forces… Hicks spoke to his parents from just outside the southern Afghan city of Kandahar in November 2001. “He said something about going off to Kabul to defend it against the Northern Alliance,” Terry Hicks said.”

David Hicks pled guilty yesterday. He is not some poor, misguided youth whose only crime was guarding a disabled Taliban tank. The media conned you, his lawyers misled you, and his PR team spun you.

David Hicks is a convicted terrorist.