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Almost half voiced a negative view, and the remainder were neutral. On this question, no significant differences emerged across regions. While many respondents supported religious values in public life, only a small fraction strongly favored Shariah law, clerical influence in government, or heavy emphasis on Islamic education. Iran was rated lowest of any country included in the survey, including Russia and China: One-third of the respondents, whether activists or sympathizers, said they live in the Syrian capital.

To protect their privacy, the survey did not ask for more precise identification. Such feelings are evidently mutual: In the six months since the survey was completed, Syrian Kurdish organizations have increasingly decided to go their own way, separate from the other opposition groups. Based on a statistical analysis of the survey, most secularists among the respondents prefer weak central government, presumably as a way to safeguard their personal freedoms.

The survey demonstrates that the core of the Syrian opposition inside the country is not made up of the Muslim Brotherhood or other fundamentalist forces, and certainly not of al Qaeda or other jihadi organizations. To be sure, a revolution started by secularists could pave the way for Islamists to win elections, as has occurred in Egypt.

But the Syrian opposition is solidly favorable to the U. Assad knows that outright victory over the opposition is his only remaining chance to stay in power. Now that more than 10, people have died and tens of thousands have been tortured, the phase in which protesters were still staging peaceful demonstrations, and in which negotiations, transitional governments and compromises were possible is irrevocably over.

Now it no longer has that option, because any sign of weakness would lead to its overthrow. Similar bloodbaths have already taken place in the past. In April of last year, more than 60 people disappeared without a trace in Homs , after government troops had mowed down a group of peaceful protesters. In January, several families in a southeastern Homs neighborhood were massacred in a way that resembled the Houla killings. What was different this time was that on Saturday morning, only hours after the killing frenzy, a team of UN observers managed to reach Houla, where they saw and counted the bodies, heard what the survivors had to say and saw the tracks the tanks had made.

By failing, the UN mission appears finally to be having an impact. The roughly unarmed observers cannot possibly monitor a nonexistent cease-fire, during which more than 2, people had been killed by the end of last week. The UN observers cannot prevent what is happening, but they can prevent it from being covered up. Damn then, and damn the entire mission! First they took out my father and then my oldest brother. Why are you doing this?

Then they shot both of them, and after that my mother. Then one of the men came in with a flashlight and saw my sister Rasha. He shot her in the head. The man saw them and shot the brothers , but he missed Ali. Other survivors who hid or played dead consistently gave the same accounts: The men combed through house after house and room after room, killing everyone , some with knives and some with guns.

The massacre continued until the morning hours. When the UN observers arrived, they found nothing but corpses in the villages controlled by regime forces. The survivors had fled to neighborhoods held by the FSA, where they placed the bodies they had recovered on mats in the mosques before filming and burying them. The regime in Damascus could not deny that the massacre had taken place. The regime was apparently responsible for the assault by tanks and mortars, said Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov. In PR terms, a massacre of children cannot be helpful to the Assad regime.

By gradually concentrating power in the hands of the Alawite minority, to which the Assad clan belongs, the regime is fomenting a religious war against the Sunni majority, the very conflict it claims it wants to prevent. Now Assad has backed himself into a corner from which he believes there is only way out: The regime is relying solely on violence , accompanied by an outrageous propaganda narrative that blames foreign terrorists and al-Qaida for the uprising.

This conspiratorial obsession is nothing new. Starting in , the intelligence services began secretly organizing the transfer of jihadists from Saudi Arabia, Libya and Kuwait across the Syrian border into Iraq , to deter the Americans from seeking regime change in Damascus as well.

At the same time, the regime painted itself as a bulwark in the fight against al-Qaida. Foreigners who were later arrested reported how they had been kept in Syrian intelligence camps in Homs while waiting to be transferred into Iraq. The attacks on several Scandinavian embassies in Damascus after the Danish cartoon controversy in early were blamed on an Islamist mob, but as it turned out, the regime had planted Islamists in the crowd. Although there was no evidence that the regime was behind the major bombing attacks in Damascus, Aleppo and Deir al-Zor in recent months, they had several strange elements in common: The bombers had immense quantities of explosives, which they easily managed to get through all government checkpoints , and they detonated most of their bombs in front of empty buildings.

When the regime published its death tolls after the first attack on Dec. What happened in Houla followed the pattern of earlier attacks like the one in Homs. First, the target is bombarded with tanks and artillery from a great distance. Then the regular troops move in and drive out or shoot the last remaining rebels. What were once gangs of thugs and smugglers from the hills around Latakia, the home turf of the Assad clan, have turned into an army of irregular troops numbering in the thousands.

As long as they are loyal to Assad, they are permitted to murder, loot and rape , as was the case in Houla, where the Shabiha came from neighboring villages to the south. The Shabiha were also active in the capital Damascusin August Every evening during Ramadan, the Muslim month of fasting, dozens of them stood in front of mosques in Sunni neighborhoods, prepared to bludgeon and drag off anyone who said anything derogatory about the regime after emerging from prayers. At about 8 p. The Shabiha are criminals and day laborers, mostly Alawites, but also Kurds with the PKK terrorist group, members of Sunni clans from Aleppo loyal to the regime, and some Christians.

The Shabiha are the shadow force of a regime that no longer trusts its own army, but instead has created a monster that is taking on a life of its own, undermining the Syrian government long before it suffers a military defeat. Months ago, the author and dissident Yassin al-Haj Saleh, who is in hiding in Damascus, wrote: The Shabiha started off as racketeers and smugglers. But, operating in the heartland of the feared Shabiha militia, there were some patients the doctor would have preferred not to treat.

They were all very tall and frightening, and took steroids to pump up their bodies. But that is what makes them so terrifying — the combination of brute strength and blind allegiance to the regime. Nine days ago, people were butchered by the Shabiha in the town of Houla. The pro-Assad thugs went through the village, house to house, and slit the throats of anyone they came across — including 49 children. Exactly a week later, the Shabiha pulled 12 factory workers off a bus in the town of Qusayr , 40 miles to the south; tied their hands behind their backs, and shot them in the head.

But insideSyria, their capacity for hideous brutality has long been known. Her cousins are Shabiha. They would fight for Bashar to the death. It is natural — they have to defend their sect. It was from the army that Hafez al-Assad emerged to stage his coup. Initially the Shabiha were a mafia clan, making money through racketeering. The ruling Assad family turned a blind eye to their criminal behaviour and violent methods. At the end of the video, the posturing Shabiha militants proclaim: And indeed, it was in many ways a family business. How the men are paid is unclear, although many claim the Shabiha is funded by businessmen tied into the Alawite clique that dominates the government.

What is known is that the Shabiha have a strong economic motives for backing the regime. How the demonstrations started spreading and got bigger and bigger. To the first sporadic attempts from civilians to defend themselves and their families, villages, neighbourhoods etc. Via the first appearance of the defectors from the Assad army. Until today where you have a lot of groups going from hit-and-run attacks to learning how to coordinate and organize more sophisticated attacks against stronger targets.

In addition, they have increased the pressure on the regime many times over, increasing attrition and increasing defections etc. The rebels are also gaining confidence. Sami al-Kurdi, a spokesman for the Homs Military Council, one of the new military structures that are being established around the country. After driving rebels from strongholds in the Baba Amr district of Homs and several Idlib towns in March, the government has since been unable to press home the advantage.

Repeated efforts to dislodge the FSA from the provincial Homs towns of Rastan and Qusair have failed, and a major offensive launched last week against a rebel stronghold in the town of Haffa, northeast of Latakia, faltered despite intense shelling and the deployment of combat helicopters. The Assad regime can go in and suppress an area with heavy weapons, but as soon as they leave it, it losses the control. The result is that many parts of northern and central Syria have effectively fallen under the sway of the opposition ,.

Which also makes it really hard for the regime to move around, and for them to get out of their checkpoints that they are barricaded in. The Assad forces are in many cases pinned down. Well, now the defections have started to increase and continues at a steady rate. And regular troops are weary after nearly 15 months of continuous deployment since no new conscripts have been called in. One example — Of soldiers originally stationed in the provincial capital of Idlib, just around 60 remained last week defending their base near the centre of the city, which has seen significant fighting. In the small city of Maraa , near Aleppo , 15 soldiers defected within the space of a week — as many as in the entire previous year.

It is likely to hit a record level in June for the second month in a row. As of Monday, June 11, the state news agency has announced the funerals of soldiers and police officers who were killed in combat with rebels this month, a record 57 of them Saturday June 10 alone. They captured lots of weaponry and ammunition after the attack. They seized a lot of weapons and ammunition. In any revolution, getting weapons is a key challenge. A few hours later, the rebels returned alone, with a trunkload of weapons. As they loaded the store room with new bullets and rocket-propelled grenades, Hamza Fatahallah, an army defector who joined the Free Syrian Army nine months ago, described the transaction that had taken place.

We use the money to buy weapons. With this money, Fatahallah said they were able to buy ammunition from their main supplier: Fatahallah estimated that his village purchased 40 percent of their weapons from the regime. And they obtain an additional 50 percent of their weapons during battle. The remaining 10 percent are donated and smuggled from outside the country, or are purchased from private merchants, mostly from Iraq. Occasionally, prisoners are also exchanged directly for weapons, Fatahallah said. They have received up to two Kalashnikov rifles in exchange for a prisoner in the past.

For the regime, or at least the duplicitous members of it, supplying the enemy is a big business. He leads about 6, men from eight battalions that are collectively known as the Sham Falcons. While most of the sellers are corrupt officers, they said lower ranking soldiers have occasionally stolen supplies from government weapons storage and sold them to the rebel forces. Back at the base, the men were relaxing after lunch when a loud explosion shocked everyone to their feet. This time their colleagues were lucky enough to survive the discovery.

The men had learned from prior experience — bullets acquired from the regime are sometimes emptied of their gunpowder and filled with TNT designed to destroy the Kalashnikov and its owner, rather than the enemy. After several injuries and the loss of two rifles, the men had learned to spot the fakes. The damage inflicted was only a blackened hand, some singed hair and a hole in the table. The men said bullets like these have destroyed many guns and killed or seriously injured several of their fellow fighters.

But desperate for ammunition, they take the risk.


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Commander Al Sheikh said that half of the Sham Falcon arsenal are seized from the enemy. Most are taken either during battle, or after attacks on government checkpoints. And the rebels carry out organized raids on government weapon stores whenever they can. During an attack on a checkpoint in Mughara last week, Al Sheikh proudly boasted that his men had managed a rare grab: Another source of arms is from the army defectors themselves, who bring their own weapons along when they join the rebel forces.

Sitting at the base, the men laughed as they recalled the story of two friends, both defectors, who told their superior they needed one of the gun-mounted vehicles and some heavy weapons to check on a call regarding rebel activity. While the Free Syrian Army has been adept at obtaining weapons, it has also proven skillful in manufacturing their own.

In a secret warehouse across town from the base, fertilizer and sugar were being boiled in a large pot. Everything from teapots to large metal pipes were being filled to make roadside bombs for attacks on tanks and army vehicles. The men from the battalion spoke constantly of the need, not for military intervention from abroad, but for international help in obtaining more weapons.

But with or without this support, they vowed to continue the fight until Assad is removed. Some rebels and opposition figures inside and outside Syria say there has been an upsurge in recent weeks of heavier weaponry being smuggled into Syria via Turkey, Lebanon and Iraq from suppliers inSaudi Arabia and Qatar. The weapons, which according to the rebels are being supplied by private sponsors, include thousands of shells, hundreds of sniper rifles, as well as anti-armor missiles.

One rebel said less than half the fighters in his unit even had a gun. What weapons they did have, the rebels said, came from inside Syria. We have not seen anything. If they are coming through Lebanon , maybe, but if they were, we would see these weapons. What they leave behind, they destroy, he said. He motions his hands emphatically to drive home his point.

Like most of the Syrians inTurkey, Ahmad would only give one name for fear of reprisals against his relatives at home. As Ahmad spoke, the newest wounded arrival, year-old Lutfi, was wheeled into the emergency department below. Lutfi, a Free Army fighter was shot in the leg during a clash with government troops in Jabal al-Krad near the western city of Latakia. Two rebels were killed in the clash and another four were wounded.

The right leg of his camouflage military trousers has been ripped off, revealing a bandage covering his bullet wound. Lutfi laughed when asked whether new weapons had reached his men. All we can do is attack and retreat. Some 45 km 30 miles south of Antakya only minutes from the Syrian border, Nasim, another rebel stands outside the Yayladagi refugee camp — tents erected inside an old, derelict tobacco factory that now serves as his temporary home.

Like at the others camps scattered around Hatay and further to the east, here fighters come to recoup with comrades or family members. Syrians are free to enter and leave the camp but access to the media is restricted. Nasim says he regularly crosses back into Syriato smuggle food and blankets to fighters stationed inside but said he had not seen any new weapons cross from Turkey into Syria and that all the weapons he had seen had been acquired in the country.

Assad is hitting us with tanks. Some 40 rebels and activists who spoke to Reuters this week all said that apart from a small number of light weapons which had been bought on the black market, they had not seen any weapons smuggled to Syria through Turkey. Turkish officials sayAnkara is not arming the rebels and have denied reports that weapons from other countries are being smuggled over Turkish territory. Corroborating accounts of what is happening inside Syria is difficult because the government tightly restricts foreign media access. Most rebels also cross into Syria during darkness and Turkish security forces do not allow media near informal border crossings.

But for the rebels it does not matter where the weapons originate or how they get there, as long as they come. We want to be able to defend our women and our families. The regime is finding its soldiers slipping out of its grasp. One noncommissioned officer from the northwestern Syrian city of Idlib, just hours after defecting to the Free Syrian Army FSA , relates breathlessly how he made his escape: Go on and get out of here!

Of soldiers originally stationed in the provincial capital of Idlib, just a couple dozen remained last week defending their base near the center of the city, which has seen significant fighting. They reported they had received hardly any supplies in weeks, and that they were living on dried out bread and brackish water. One earlier defector had taken with him the numbers of everyone in his unit who owned a cell phone.

The FSA then contacted each of them, offering to help them escape. Many of the soldiers found it an attractive offer. This is just one small insight into the situation in northern Syria, but deserters from other parts of the country who have managed to make their way back to their native villages near Aleppo tell of similar conditions in their own units.

In many cases, the army no longer deploys its troops, but instead shoots from great distances using tanks and heavy artillery, or from helicopters, strategies which decrease the risk to the army. One defector from Homs, a city that has also been the site of heavy fighting, describes a cycle of accelerating collapse. That in turn increases the number of defectors, more and more of whom join the FSA. One officer, who defected to the FSA and has a precise mind for figures, estimates the group has around 40, former army soldiers in its ranks, although the proportion of soldiers and civilians varies among regions.

Outwardly, power dynamics in Syria have changed little in the past 15 months. The rebellion has gripped the cities, but unlike in Libya, here there is no still no large, contiguous region for the rebels to defend. But the appearance of stability is deceptive. The impression of power and control emanating from the centers of Damascus, Aleppo and other major cities may also be deceptive. The Western half of Syria is a land of villages and small cities, which have joined together with the insurgency in the most densely populated provinces.

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And in many places, the people living here have switched sides. Sunni Muslims have certainly done so, but so have most Druzes and Ismailis. The FSA itself is a peculiar entity. These troops have their stronghold in the Ansariyah Mountains in the west of the country and control parts of the larger cities as well, but they no longer hold all the land between. The next step is the air force.

Syria has made massive improvements to its air force in the past year, but so far, aside from the helicopters, hardly put it into action. At most, Dirri says, the regime would face the problem that many older pilots have been discharged in recent years, while many newer pilots have only barely completed the number of flying hours necessary in order to fly a fighter jet.

As long as the West continues to declare every few days that it has no intention of carrying out a military intervention, says Colonel Dirri, the regime in Syria will continue to use everything at its disposal. Instead, their greatest hope is little more than a rumor: What will it take to reach that line? Or perhaps the regime resorting to its arsenal of chemical weapons? One thing is clear: With or without a vote from the UN Security Council, the rebels want an intervention.

It is a Toyota pickup fitted with steel plates to protect teams of three rebel fighters each behind the rockets and machine guns. And this piece from Haaretz on the left and very critical of Israeli policies. The number of innocent people murdered in Syriaover the past year is times greater than the number of innocent people who were murdered in this Arab village at the edge of Jerusalem in Remember the Qibya incident? The number of innocent people killed in Syriaover the past year is times the number of innocent people killed in this pastoral village in Jordan in Remember Sabra and Shatila?

The number of innocent people butchered during the past year in Syria is 20 times the number of innocent people who were butchered in those Palestinian refugee camps in western Beirut in Remember the bloody rioting in October ? The number of innocent people who were shot to death in Syria during the past year is 1, times the number of innocent people who were shot to death by the Israel Police in the Galilee and the Triangle area in central Israel. Remember Operation Cast Lead? The number of innocent people who were felled in Syria during this past year is dozens of times the number of innocent people who fell in the Gaza Strip during that widely condemned Israeli military operation in the winter of The picture is clear: During one year , the secular Arab nationalism of Bashar Assad has spilled more innocent blood than the Zionists have in decades.

This Arab tyrant, who in the past was the darling of Arab Knesset members , is massacring his fellow Arabs in a way that Israel never did. Arab cities are being bombed, Arab women are murdered, Arab children are slaughtered. An Arab society is being shredded, and an Arab state shattered into fragments. Large Land Day type demonstrations have not been called. It is taking all meaning out concepts such as international community, international law and the idea of moral validity in international relations.

It is taking all meaning out of concepts such as Arab unity, Arab solidarity and the idea that the contemporary Arab world accords any real meaning to human rights. The inability of this community to directly confront Arab evil undermines the moral basis for its battle against Israeli evil. Its unwillingness to demand that universal values be upheld in Hama and in Homs pulls the rug out from under its demands that universal values be upheld in Ramallah and Nazareth.

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Its silence when faced with the butcher of Damascus makes its condemnations of the State of Israel sound hollow. The Syrian challenge is a moral challenge. There are some Israeli Arabs who are passing this test honorably. For example, Azmi Bishara, the former MK who fled Israel after being questioned on suspicion of aiding the enemy, who in the past was close to Assad , is today waging a brave and intensive campaign against him on Al Jazeera tv. This troublesome silence makes one wonder if their declared humanitarianism is authentic.

When they spoke up — against Israel — about human dignity and freedom, perhaps they were simply fooling us? Leading to more massacres and atrocities. Syrians on the ground have felt forgotten and betrayed. A system that is supposed to protect civilians from brutal force has failed on a monumental scale. To the children of Syria! Third, the countries and organizations that makes this possible continuation: You can say much about the Obama administrations Middle East policies. But the easiest is to state the obvious — it is an utter and total failure. In fact, it is even worse than that.

Because what Obama has managed to do is to totally destroy US reputation and standing in the region. The Saudis was so upset after the way Obama throw Mubarak under the buss that they decided that they could NO longer trust this man. After that, they strengthen the Gulf Cooperation Council, intervened in Bahrain etc. And how Obama have supported the Muslim Brotherhood and the fundamentalist take over after Mubarak and the military regime. And the Israelis, the way the have been treated regarding the fundamental and existential treat from a nuclear Iran.

Make no mistake; this is a fundamental strategic break. That America will suffer the consequences for many years to come. And is helping Iran support Assad in Syria. Remember also that Obama and Hillary Clinton switched the policy degrees compared to the Bush time. Even several months into this uprising and the slaughter, Obama and Hillary Clinton still vehemently defend him as a reformer refusing to condemn what was going on. With hundreds of political prisoners like journalist, judges, layers, military, kurds etc.

Who have spent years and years in prison without a trial. Turkey has now passed over toward being an Islamist state. That turning point is marked by a tiny event of gigantic importance. Fazil Say is an internationally acclaimed Turkish classical pianist. He has performed with prestigious symphony orchestras such as the New York Philharmonic, Berlin, Israel Philharmonic, France, and Tokyo as well as being a European Union cultural ambassador. The Turkish state is now going to put him on trial. Specifically, he is accused of insulting Islam because of tweets he sent. Say suggested that since the Koran says there are rivers of drinks in heaven that makes it sound like a pub, while the beautiful women available there make it sound like a brothel.

A number of his tweets are quoted here. We are not talking of someone criticizing Say or disagreeing with him. We are talking about the power of the Turkish state being used to charge a man with a crime and send him to prison for exercising free speech. True, they are only asking for a sentence of eighteen months in prison but once the precedent is set their ambitions will expand.

There are already hundreds of political prisoners in Turkey today who have been in prison for over three years without any trial at all. Now if criticizing Islam in Turkey is a crime, Turkey is not a secular state. And with all of those innocent people already thrown in jail by the regime on trumped-up charges of treason and terrorism, Turkey is no longer a democratic state either.

Thereby fuelling ALL resources to them and not to the rest of the more secular, democratic opposition inside Syria.

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The Obama administration is actually, which is astounding, giving Russia de facto veto power over US foreign policy. Russia is the one that is supporting and protecting Assad, Iran etc. This is the Russia that just raised the fines for participating in unsanctioned rallies or demonstration from rubles to , rubles , a year salary for a normal Russian.

Yeas, you read right. A week after protestors for gay rights were arrested in Moscow, a district court upheld the decision by a Moscow city court to ban gay pride parades for years. Yes, the government can now legally forbid gay pride for a century, from March to March The opposition figures have been summoned for questioning by investigators on June 12 — the same day as the planned protest. Udaltsov said police confiscated his computer, a flash stick, his iPad, and mobile telephone.

But I think you get the picture. US condemns Syria massacre and looks for Russian help to oust Assad Hillary Clinton harshly condemns Syrian president as Obama reportedly plans to urge Putin to back a transition of power. Under the reported plan, the international community would broker a settlement in which Assad would leave, but remnants of the political structure would remain intact. Clinton spoke to Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov by telephone at the weekend to say that Washington and Moscow needed to work together on a plan that would halt the violence and bring about political change in the country.

The Syrian people want and deserve change. The plan calls for a negotiated political settlement that would satisfy Syrian opposition groups but that could leave remnants of Mr. Hadi, though later elected in an uncontested vote, is viewed as a transitional leader. The success of the plan hinges on Russia , one of Mr. Assad , arguing that it could lead to his forced ouster and the kind of fates suffered by Col. Obama, administration officials said, will press the proposal with President Vladimir V. Putin returned to his old post on May 7.

Putin in Moscow three weeks ago. Obama brought it up with Prime Minister Dmitri A. Medvedev appeared receptive , American officials said, signaling that Russia would prefer that option to other transitions in the Arab upheaval. The official, who requested anonymity because of the delicacy of the discussions, said Mr.

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The Russians may consider convening an international conference, but only if its remit is limited to offering a basis for negotiations between the Assad regime and the opposition and new political reforms. After Russian officials stated this week that keeping the Assad regime in power was not a priority, Bogdanev said Friday: However, the only thing that all the participants at the UN could agree on was that the Annan peace plan had failed.

And now that the US mission to Moscow has run into another dead end , the violence in Syria will continue to run riot with no world power or body prepared to step in and stop it. Adding to the complications, the Syrian conflict and the Iranian nuclear controversy are becoming inextricably intermeshed. The U Sofficial Hoff knew he was arriving in Moscow at a grave disadvantage after Iran indicated to the six world powers that it was seriously considering not turning up for their third round of nuclear talks in Moscow on June When she spoke, Clinton knew there was not the slightest chance of the Iranians accepting this demand.

Tehran also pulled in its horns at International Atomic Energy Agency IAEA headquarters inVienna when confronted Friday, June 8, with demands to open up its suspect nuclear sites to international inspection.

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These related developments all point in one direction: Indeed, the Russians and Iranians believe that as the flames of the civil war already raging there spread , the US president will be blamed by the American public and the Arab world for the horrendous sectarian bloodbath. The problem is that this administration keeps doing terrible things in the Middle East. Forced by the uprising to back away from Damascus , the Obama administration has spent almost a year bumbling about what to do.

Not surprisingly, Ankara pursued its own interest by assembling a Muslim Brotherhood-dominated group, the Syrian National Congress. Though several members resigned, complaining of the radical Islamist control, the Obama administration is still trying to force hostile oppositionists to join. Now the administration has unveiled a new and equally terrible policy. There are four different acts of strategic insanity involved in this paragraph. The Syrian dictatorship is led by murderous thugs who know this is a case of kill or be killed. The opposition is not so foolish as a Washington pundit, policymaker, or politician.

They know that their only hope is to destroy the regime entirely. The democrats want to do so in order to have a modern democracy. The Islamists want Islamism. The Kurds and Druze want autonomy. How could there possibly be a coalition? Both sides know that within days people would be murdering each other. How could anyone expect this kind of deal would work or that the opposition would accept it? So the idea cannot succeed but reveals once again that the Obama administration seems to get many of its strategies from the Muslim Brotherhood.

Just think about that sentence! In order to portray himself as decisive, heroic, and a friend of democracy, Obama could take every possible overt and covert opportunity to weaken Assad, even helping at a low cost to create a no-fly zone and safe havens. None of this is going to happen. Instead, though, he turns over dealing with the opposition to an Islamist regime in Turkey and subcontracts dealing with the regime to a pro-regime Russian government.

Syrian Kurdish, Druse, Alawite and Sunni Arab federal areas, he suggested, would have no interest in aligning with Iran. Not only do they oppose Islamism itself but they also see the Brotherhood as an Arabizing and centralizing group that would impose a regime oppressing the non-Arab Kurds.

To sum up , Obama policy has strengthened the Islamist forces in the opposition and fragmented the rebels, thus helping preserve a radical anti-American Syrian regime that is an ally of Iran or helping make any revolution more likely to produce a radical anti-American Syrian Islamist regime that will be an ally of an Islamist Egypt. It is part of the pre-election spin about what a great job Obama is doing. Yet there is another problem here, a potentially devastating one. Who is getting the weapons? There are different people and groups in the Syrian opposition.

Whoever gets these weapons will be tremendously empowered. While this is a complex subject, there is information that these arms supplies up until now have not been sufficiently discriminatory toward moderates and away from Islamist radicals. We will know more in the weeks to come if we can see and identify which opposition groups in what parts of Syria have become better armed. And if it comes out that the U.

Such a policy would make sure to deny money, weapons, and power to the Islamists and Salafists, who are proportionately far weaker in Syria than in Egypt. Obama policy follows the worst possible course. However that may be a vain hope. A regime dominated by a fundamentalist Islamist coalition. That would dash hopes of minority ethnic and religious groups for a secular democratic federal republic.

An estimated , Kurds were denied Syrian citizenship following a special census in They lived as aliens in their ancestral lands in the northeastern border areas adjacent to Turkey on the north and Iraq to the east. Instruction and schooling in Kurdish language and culture was stopped. That led to the uprising in Dozens of Kurds were killed; more than were jailed and tortured. He maintains that Syria post-Assad may not become another fundamentalist Sunni Arab post-revolutionary government.

The Muslim Brotherhood, with the support of President Obama and Turkey , will not succeed in controlling all of Syria. The US has a moral responsibility to insure freedom and democracy for all Syrians. What were the purposes of the session, who attended and what did the Obama Administration hope to achieve? The interpretation of the U. Administration in support for the Kurdish political movement is premature. This was a positive event, but the US government should contact and meet various representatives of the Syrian Kurdish street, especially those that work for a federal Syria and want to bring down the Assad terrorist regime.

Do you believe that the Obama Administration has played a productive role in fostering Syrian dissident opposition during this crisis? Unfortunately, the Obama administration played a role in the mismanagement of the Syrian crisis. It did not encourage a clear and supportive policy toward democratic groups. If the Syrian Revolution fails, the current U.

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King, who was brief by state police, said the men apparently used New Jersey driver licenses but little else was known about them. The car, a blue Nissan Altima, was identified at Cigarette butts found next to the car will be tested for DNA, and the car was taken to a crime lab, Chitwood said. Another rental car, containing Arabic-language flight training manuals, was seized in a Logan parking garage, The Boston Herald said Wednesday, quoting an anonymous source.

The source said five Arab men had been identified as suspects, including one who was a trained pilot. Authorities believe the two had entered the country recently from Canada, the newspaper said. Two of the men, including the trained pilot, were brothers with passports traced to the United Arab Emirates, the Herald reported. The bag contained a copy of the Quran, an instructional video on flying commercial airliners and a fuel consumption calculator, the newspaper said. The airport was evacuated and remained closed Wednesday.

Hijackers also crashed a plane out of Dulles International Airport near Washington into the Pentagon news - web sites and another hijacked commercial flight from Newark, N. In the majority of incidents, screeners hired by the airlines for checkpoints in terminals routinely failed to detect test items, such as pipe bombs and guns. Also in , a teen-ager who said he wanted to impress the Israeli intelligence agency allegedly sliced through a fence and settled into an empty seat on a British Airways jet and flew to London. Hoglan said the only consolation was her son, a well-built public relations executive, might have played a role in preventing the San Francisco-bound plane from heading toward the Washington area where hijackers are believed to have been aiming to hit another target, apart from the Pentagon.

Her last words to him were: Olson, a former federal prosecutor and conservative political commentator, was on board a plane headed for Los Angeles that ultimately made a deathly about-turn to smash into the Pentagon. In her first call, Olson told her husband: In another high-altitude call, a passenger managed to stay holed up in a lavatory from where he dialed the emergency number to report his aircraft had been hijacked. Die Sendungen werden aber weiterhin angenommen und bearbeitet. The deliberate and deadly attacks, which were carried out yesterday against our country, were more than acts of terror.

They were acts of war. This will require our country to unite in steadfast determination and resolve. Freedom and democracy are under attack. This enemy hides in shadows and has no regard for human life. This enemy attacked not just our people but all freedom-loving people everywhere in the world. The United States of America will use all our resources to conquer this enemy. We will rally the world. We will be patient. This battle will take time and resolve, but make no mistake about it, we will win.

The federal government and all our agencies are conducting business, but it is not business as usual. We are operating on heightened security alert. America is going forward, and as we do so, we must remain keenly aware of the threats to our country. Those in authority should take appropriate precautions to protect our citizens.

But we will not allow this enemy to win the war by changing our way of life or restricting our freedoms. This morning, I am sending to Congress a request for emergency funding authority so that we are prepared to spend whatever it takes to rescue victims, to help the citizens of New York City and Washington, D. I want to thank the members of Congress for their unity and support.

The freedom-loving nations of the world stand by our side. This will be a monumental struggle of good versus evil, but good will prevail. Thank you very much. Guests were ordered to evacuate the story Westin Hotel in the Back Bay section, according to a guest leaving the hotel who declined to give his name. Agents wearing bulletproof vests and carrying shields were seen bringing fiber-optic equipment into the hotel, which can be slipped under doors to see inside rooms. As a large crowd gathered outside, one person was seen taken out of the hotel and put in a van, but a law enforcement official said said no one connected to the terror attacks had been arrested.

Ryan, who joined hundreds of other onlookers. A law enforcement official who spoke on condition of anonymity said two hotel rooms in the Boston area believed to have been used in the attacks were searched. While no arrests were made in connection with the attacks, searchers did find information with a link to a name on the manifest of one of the hijacked flights, the source said.

Liste der Opfer Am. Huffman Aviation is shown Wednesday morning, Sept. Rudy Dekkers, president and owner of Huffman Aviation, said the FBI was looking at student records at the flight school, including copies of passports from the men. Festnahmen habe es noch nicht gegeben. Friends or family members who want more information on United Flights 93 or should contact in the US.

United also will post all available information it has on this website. United also has established international toll-free numbers for friends or family members who want more information. Hopes of finding more survivors in the rubble were all but extinguished, too. Rescuers worked cautiously, wary of a repeat of the building collapses that killed firefighters in the World Trade Center.

About military personnel and an undetermined number of civilian employees were missing. Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld said an earlier estimate by fire officials of as many as dead was too high. September 13, About 40, people had worked in the story skyscrapers. At the Pentagon, also partially demolished by a third hijacked airliner in the coordinated attacks, about people were still missing in the smoking ruins on Wednesday. A bipartisan resolution vowing U. The House of Representatives passed the nonbinding measure by a vote of , about 12 hours after the Senate approved it The Afghan capital Kabul, which lies mostly in ruins after years of conflict, was calm on Thursday despite the rumbles from Washington.

General Pervez Musharraf, military ruler of neighboring Pakistan which is the main supporter of the Taliban, has promised the United States full cooperation in the fight against terror, official media reported. Some of the hijackers were trained as pilots in the United States, U. Attorney General John Ashcroft said, giving details of what he called perhaps the "most massive and intensive investigation" in U. Mieter war sein Cousin, Marwan Al S. Sie sollen Flugunterricht bei einer US-Firma genommen haben. Es sieht so aus. Multiple cells of terrorist groups participated in the operation and the hijackers had possible ties to countries that included Saudi Arabia and Egypt, said law enforcement officials, speaking on condition of anonymity.

The identities of more than a dozen of the men who hijacked the four planes with knives and threats of bombs has been ascertained, the officials said. Attorney General John Ashcroft news - web sites said 12 to 24 hijackers commandeered the four planes, and a government official said another two dozen or so are believed to have assisted them. About 40 of the men have been accounted for, including those killed in the suicide attacks, but 10 remain at large, the Los Angeles Times reported Wednesday night on its Web site, citing an unidentified source with knowledge of the investigation.

The Times reported at least one of the suspects receiving advanced flight training in Florida was a commercial pilot from Saudi Arabia. Some of those involved in the plot left suicide notes, but they are not believed to have been the hijackers, a government source told The Associated Press. At least one hijacker on each of the four planes was trained at a U. The Times said authorities believe 27 suspected terrorists received pilot training. Authorities detained at least a half dozen people in Massachusetts and Florida on unrelated local warrants and immigration charges and were questioning them about their possible ties to the hijackers.

Search warrants were executed in Florida, New Jersey and Massachusetts. Sealed warrants went out in several other states, officials said. Officials said authorities were gathering evidence that the terrorist cells may have had prior involvement in earlier plots against the United States, and may have been involved with Saudi exile Osama bin Laden news - web sites. Charles Grassley news - bio - voting record of Iowa, the top Republican on the Senate Finance Committee, said the briefing he received Wednesday from law enforcement left him with the same impression.

The officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said they were investigating whether one group of hijackers crossed the Canadian border at a checkpoint and made their way to Boston, where two jetliners were hijacked and flown into the World Trade Center. Der Wert der Transaktion betrug insgesamt 3,2 Mrd. Dollar hinterlegt und bei Vertragsschluss im Juli weitere Mill. Dollar gezahlt, berichtete das "Wall Street Journal" am Mittwoch.

Der Rest der 3,2 Mrd. Dollar sollte von der Gruppe durch Mietzahlungen der im World Trade Center angesiedelten vielen hundert Unternehmen hereingeholt werden. Police declined to identify the man and did not say what his job had been. It was not immediately clear where he had worked. Mueller said the man had been living in Germany legally.

Police also said two of the suspected aircraft hijackers in the suicide attacks had lived in Hamburg and were enrolled as students there. Scholz said Mohammed Atta, 33, whose name has already been cited in media reports as a suspect and who was on the passenger list of one of the hijacked planes used in the attack, had lived in Hamburg in one of the apartments that were searched. He was registered as being from the United Arab Emirates, as was Marvan Yusef Mohammed Alshadi, 23, who Scholz said was on one of the other planes involved in the terror attack. Alshadi had also lived in Germany, sometimes in the same apartment as Atta, Scholz said.

Alshadi left Germany for the United States on May 2. He said police had interviewed a number of people but made no arrests. Thursday September 13 4: Dramatic transcripts and reports of hurried cell phone conversations suggest that Glick and a few other passengers aboard the doomed United Airlines Flight 93 may have struggled with hijackers who commandeered the airliner. In so doing, they may have thwarted an attempt to crash the airliner into a target in or near Washington.

The plane crashed in Somerset County, Pennsylvania, at about But that was my brother-in-law. He was a take-charge guy. He was not the only passenger who knew he was going to die. Frank Colacicco, told the newspaper. The plane had left Newark bound for Los Angeles with 38 passengers and seven crew.

He also said passengers knew a plane had crashed into the World Trade Center in New York just minutes before and said some of them were talking about retaking control of their plane. At this point the aircraft was flying at 35, feet near Cleveland. Remain in your seat. There is a bomb on board. We are meeting with their demands. We are returning to the airport. Wir sehen in die Augen von Mohammed Atta. Sie raste in das World Trade Center. An Bord der anderen Maschine: Atta und Al-Shehi lebten mitten unter uns.

Bei einer Flugschule, die auch schon John F. In einem Objekt wurde ein Mann festgenommen. Generalbundesanwalt Kay Nehm leitete ein Ermittlungsverfahren gegen eine terroristische Gruppe ein. Sie soll sich Anfang des Jahres in Hamburg gebildet haben. Nachdem er sein Heim verlassen hatte, war er fromm geworden. Wer das Land verlassen will, fasst seinen Beschluss schneller. Israelische Soldaten entdeckten das, als sie den verletzten Mann entkleideten, nachdem er einen Eselskarren gesprengt hatte.

Ein israelischer Geheimdienstmann fragte ihn, ob es im Paradies auch Juden gebe. Das schlimmste Selbstmordattentat fand in Tel Aviv am 1. Am Sonntag sprengte sich erstmals ein israelischer Araber am Bahnhof von Naharia. Ich vermisse ihn sehr. Musharraf said in a statement following a late night meeting Wednesday with his military. Embassy in Pakistan said. The radical Islamic militia has denied bin Laden was involved in the terror.


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Musharraf also met on Thursday in Islamabad with incoming U. Since the terrorist attacks in New York City and Washington, there has been considerable speculation of a retaliatory strike against Afghanistan. Powell, at a news conference Thursday, became the first senior Bush administration official to say for the record what many have been saying privately: Saying the administration had not yet publicly identified the organization it believed responsible, Powell added: Bin Laden has enjoyed sanctuary in neighboring Afghanistan, most of which is controlled by the Taliban, a fiercely Muslim fundamentalist movement.

Meanwhile, Armitage scheduled a trip to Moscow on Wednesday to follow up on a Russian offer to help in the investigation. Russia fought a year war with Muslim fundamentalists after invading Afghanistan in The United States opposed the Soviet invasion and provided weapons to the insurgents through Pakistan. The Colin Powell for President Draft Exploratory Committee has discontinued operations, but we will hold on to the hope that he will run for President in Whatever his political destiny may be, we have faith that this fine man and dedicated patriot will continue to serve our country in important ways and will continue to be a model of integrity and excellence for our young people and an inspiration to us all.

We will leave this web site up for a few more months for the convenience of those who have grown accustomed to using its links, but will no longer maintain it or respond to correspondence. That link is http: The son of Jamaican immigrants, Powell was raised in the South Bronx. Powell served two tours of duty in Vietnam, and as a battalion commander in Korea. General Powell has been the recipient of numerous U. He retired from the U.

General Powell was selected by President George W. Bush as his Secrerary of State in January, This article appears in the July 16, issue of New Federalist newspaper. According to the sources, shortly after he was elected, Sharon met with a small group of trusted political and military allies, and spelled out, in confidential memos, a war plan targetting the Palestinian Authority, the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, and other Arab neighbors.

Two factors were identified by the sources as key to the "Sharon Plan": To this end, Sharon, who was instrumental in the launching of the Hamas movement earlier in his career, has dispatched his son as a personal back-channel emissary to the Islamist group.

In many ways, the Sharon-backed Hamas targetting of Jordan is a replay of the early s "Black September" destabilization which involved Abu Nidal, long suspected of being an asset of British and Israeli intelligence. Sharon has been operating on the assumption that President Bush can be manipulated into supporting Israeli war provocations because Bush et al. Sharon also assessed that Colin Powell and others in senior positions, who might not favor a war provocation, would be outmaneuvered by Israel and by wealthy and well-connected U.

Hamas teams are also reportedly activated—with clandestine Israeli backing—to target American assets in Europe and the Middle East. Further, the sources say, Sharon is conducting a vicious psychological operation in Israel, to secure popular support for a war by staging nearly non-stop terror scares. A prominent Israeli businessman confirmed to this news service that almost nightly, Israeli police enter restaurants, hotels, shops, etc.

Sharon has, according to the U. Sharon will soon seek a meeting with Russian President Putin, in an effort to win some degree of Moscow support for the war moves. Now, the sources add, Sharon is preparing to use a new terrorist attack against Israeli civilians—an attack likely to come from Hamas-linked terrorists under de facto Sharon control—to justify a general war. For a majority of Israeli military professionals, this means Israel must accept a meaningful peace agreement with the Palestinian Authority. For Sharon and his rabid allies, it means that Israel must provoke a general war, under cover of which Israel could occupy the territories currently under the control of the Palestinian Authority, and either eliminate or exile the PA leadership from the Gaza Strip and the West Bank.

The sources warned that Sharon would use any pretext to justify a military strike against Iraq, probably in a ground invasion of Jordan that would also topple King Abdullah II. Israel has already attacked radar installations in Syrian territory, in hopes of forcing Damascus into war. By launching such a regional war "in reaction" to a terrorist attack, particularly in the context of simultaneous terrorist actions against American targets, Sharon would hope to assure that Israel would win the solid support of the U.

Ultimately, the sources concluded, Sharon would move to "transfer" large portions of the Arab population of Israel—along with a majority of West Bank and Gaza Palestinians—to the east bank of the Jordan River, under a Sharon-sponsored Hamas regime, thus achieving the "final solution" to the "Palestinian problem. Saturday, 16 December, , The Powell doctrine can be summed up as a reluctance to intervene, but using overwhelming force for quick victory once a decision is taken. This applies to both his military and civilian lives. Vietnam In the s he completed two tours of duty in Vietnam, the first as a military adviser to the South Vietnamese Army.

During his second tour, the helicopter in which he was travelling crashed and Powell was decorated for rescuing his troops from the blazing wreckage. Preparing for action in the Gulf From that moment on Colin Powell enjoyed a rapid rise to the top. After alternating between military commands and staff jobs in Washington, he became senior military assistant to Defence Secretary Caspar Weinberger in , where he played a major role in operations such as the invasion of Grenada and the US bombing of Libya.

But Colin Powell became a world famous figure in when, as chairman of the Joint Chiefs, he was a major architect in the successful campaign against the Iraqi forces which had invaded Kuwait. He summarised the plan thus: First we are going to cut it off, then we are going to kill it. General Powell opposed sending US forces in to Kuwait, preferring merely to defend the Saudi oilfields. He has dedicated himself to improving race relations. Though he has ruled himself out of running for the White House his wife fears he would be assassinated , he has long been strongly tipped for the job of Secretary of State.

The appointment will make him the most powerful black man in American history. In den USA habe man ihm aber nicht geglaubt. Der Mann soll dem Bericht zufolge an diesem Donnerstag von der Bundesanwaltschaft und amerikanischen Geheimdienstleuten vernommen worden sein. Dies sei ihm erlaubt worden, schrieb die Zeitung. Bush, George Walker , 43d president of the United States. He attended the exclusive Phillips Academy--Andover Mass. He married Laura Welsh, a librarian, in Early Career Bush was first elected to public office relatively late in life.

Indeed, Bush admitted on a number of occasions that he lacked a focus in life until he reached his forties. In , at age 48, he won election as governor of Texas. Prior to winning elective office Bush had a varied career. He spent much of the s and s working in the oil and gas business in Texas. He lost the race badly and turned his attention back to oil prospecting, where his business ran into difficulties. After the elder Bush won the presidency, George W.

Bush turned his attention to major league baseball. He put together a group of investors to purchase the Texas Rangers team and ultimately became managing general partner of the team from to In Bush undertook what most observers believed was a futile campaign to unseat popular incumbent Democratic governor Ann Richards. During the campaign Richards had mocked Bush as intellectually vacuous, but her obvious contempt for the GOP Grand Old Party, or Republican candidate ultimately backfired.

Bush proved to be an adept campaigner with strong voter appeal, and he won the election with Governor of Texas During his first term as governor, Bush enjoyed growing popularity in Texas. The state enjoyed substantial prosperity, and the governor seemed to have a knack for pleasing almost all constituencies. He held firm on antidrug and anticrime measures and on the death penalty, all of which pleased conservatives.

He also gratified those same voters with large tax cuts and a far-reaching welfare reform program that required benefit recipients to work. Bush promoted substantial new spending on public education and bilingual programs, to the approval of many Democrats and Hispanic residents and immigrants.

He substantially increased state funding for public schools while at the same time promoting the conservative goals of educational choice through programs such as charter schools and teacher accountability. His ability to attract major party and donor support the latter on an unprecedented scale early on so demoralized the rest of the field that a number of prominent candidates dropped out of the race before a single primary had been held. It appeared to many that Bush would coast to an easy nomination and that the GOP would be united against the presumptive Democratic candidate, Vice Pres.

But the Bush campaign and its backers did not anticipate the broad electoral appeal of Arizona senator John McCain, a decorated war hero and national leader for campaign finance reform. McCain decisively won the New Hampshire primary, and suddenly Bush was no longer the front-runner for the nomination by his party. Once again, however, Bush overcame the doubts that others had about his ability to run a good campaign, and he defeated McCain in a sequence of crucial primaries.

The Bush-McCain battle at times was a bitter and personal one, and in defeat McCain waited a considerable amount of time before issuing a rather tepid endorsement of the victor. Bush proved those observers wrong when he began a quick climb in the national opinion polls and opened a strong lead against Vice President Gore. Cheney strengthened the GOP ticket by adding what Bush clearly lacked, foreign policy and defense-issues experience.

Although widely considered weak and inexperienced in foreign policy, Bush offered an appealing set of policy proposals on the domestic front--the more important area for influencing presidential election outcomes. His social security plan to partially privatize retirement accounts and his education initiatives, including school choice, enabled the GOP presidential nominee to challenge the traditional Democratic advantage on these issues.

In line with long-standing Republican interests, he promised massive tax cuts as well. His campaign in fact seemed to lose focus, and many independent observers and Republicans alike suggested that Bush was in real danger of losing. For weeks he seemed more interested in discussing campaign minutiae such as the format of the candidate debates than the larger policy issues that had made him a strong candidate to begin with.

Although polls showed that most voters believed that Gore had won the debate because of his superior command of the issues, those same polls suggested that the electorate found Bush to be the more likable and believable candidate. Although foreign policy experts did not widely praise his performance, Bush nonetheless proved himself to voters as capable enough to be a leader of the free world.

Subsequent polls showed that voter concerns about his abilities were easily retired by his debate performance. He continued to hold his ground following the third debate on October Voter surveys indicated that people perceived Bush as the candidate of change and Gore the man who represented the status quo. With some uncertainty over the continued strength of the economy and stability abroad, voters seemed to decide that a change in leadership was good for the country.

Bush was narrowly declared the victor on the basis of the electoral vote, although he lost the popular vote. Because of the extreme closeness of the results in Florida, however, where a decisive 25 electoral votes were at stake, an unprecedented recount was automatically triggered there under state law. After more than two weeks had passed during which Gore campaign officials predicted vindication on the basis of manual recounts in selected balloting precincts, and Bush representatives sued in the federal courts to enjoin the action, Bush was certified the winner.

He was credited with Gore, however, immediately challenged these results on the basis of apparent problems involving the balloting procedures used and an allegedly flawed certification process. The matter quickly made its way to the U. Supreme Court, which, in a sharply divided ruling , decided the case in favor of Bush.

Rozell Catholic University of America. Warum ist der Pate des Terrors so reich? Warum konnten die Geheimdienste die Katastrophe nicht stoppen? Die USA-Spione sind hoch technologisiert. Eine unheimliche Lawine von Informationen. Bin Laden hat ca. Investigators said they recovered the flight data recorder from United Flight 93, the jet that crashed in a field about 80 miles from Pittsburgh.

Investigators hope the so-called black box will provide vital clues from the final minutes before the plane crashed. The Justice Department said it will release names and photographs of the 18 tomorrow. In New York, officials compiled a list of 4, people missing in the smoldering and shifting ruins of the World Trade Center. The Pentagon reported that Pentagon personnel are missing in the attack along with 64 people aboard the plane that crashed into the building. A Justice Department official who briefed reporters said some people had been arrested for immigration violations that might be related to the terrorism case.

The official did not say how many people were arrested or where, and said formal charges had not yet been filed. Bukhari and his brother Ameer, 39, were among a group of flight engineers with Saudi Arabian Airlines who were brought to the U. CNN reported investigators had initially identified the brothers as possible hijackers. CNN quoted an unnamed lawyer for Adnan Bukhari as saying it appeared their identifications were stolen and that Adnan Bukhari had no role in the hijackings.

Ameer Bukhari died in a midair collision while flying a Piper Cherokee from the academy. The accident occurred on Sept.

The government typically only sends Saudi nationals to the U. Atta, who also received pilot training in Florida, was listed as aboard one of the planes that left Boston and crashed into the World Trade Center. Huffman often advertises for students in Europe and trains on small aircraft such as Pipers and Cessnas, Voss said.

Five hijackers entered the United States through Canada, probably through border points in Quebec and Nova Scotia, including the ferry depot, said Vincent Cannistraro, a former CIA counterintelligence official, according to the Montreal Gazette.