Event
Tora Bora meeting of 1996
Khalid Sheikh Mohammed put a menu of ideas for terrorist operations to Osama bin Laden.
- Dates
- 1996
- Place
- Afghanistan
Connections 3
involved
- Khalid Sheikh Mohammed presented the ideas Primary record 1
- Osama bin Laden heard the proposals Primary record 1
located in
- Afghanistan Primary record 1
Timeline 1 date
- 1996 Tora Bora meeting of 1996
Proof 1 source
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The 9/11 Commission Report: Final Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States, 9-11-commission, 22 Jul 2004.
Primary record
Through Atef, KSM arranged a meeting with Bin Ladin in Tora Bora, a mountainous redoubt from the Afghan war days. At the meeting, KSM presented the al Qaeda leader with a menu of ideas for terrorist operations.
Assessing the truth of statements by these witnesses—sworn enemies of the United States—is challenging. Our access to them has been limited to the review of intelligence reports based on communications received from the locations where the actual interrogations take place.
KSM briefed Bin Ladin and Atef on the first World Trade Center bombing, the Manila air plot, the cargo carriers plan, and other activities pursued by KSM and his colleagues in the Philippines.
he left Qatar for good and fled to Afghanistan, where he renewed his relationship with Rasul Sayyaf.
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