Africa-Press – Eswatini. The terrorist organization Al-Qaeda published, Sunday, a book written by a leader of the group with details on the preparation of the attacks on the Twin Towers and the Pentagon on September 11, 2001, 21 years after the attacks.
The 250-page text is attributed to Abu Mohamed al-Masri, a senior member of the Islamic fundamentalist organization who died in 2020 in Iran.
Al-Masri reports that attacks began to be prepared when they settled in Afghanistan in 1996, and that they were intended to drag the United States into a long war of attrition.
The idea came when an Egyptian pilot suggested the crash of a civilian plane with thousands of liters of fuel in an “important and symbolic American building”, explains the book, now published by al-Qaida’s communications arm, As Sahab.
So some militiamen underwent special combat training in 1998 and then enrolled in flight schools in different parts of the world.
Finally, on September 11, 2001, al-Qaeda operatives hijacked four civilian planes in different parts of the United States.
Two of them hit the Twin Towers in New York, another crashed into the Pentagon, the headquarters of the Department of Defense, and the last one crashed in Pennsylvania after the hijackers were shot down by passengers to prevent another attack.
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