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IP: Not pleasant reading: from the January 17 issue of The New York Review of Books.


From: David Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Fri, 04 Jan 2002 15:59:35 -0500


Date: Fri, 04 Jan 2002 15:49:55 -0700
From: Jo Procter <Jo.Procter () williams edu>
To: farber () central cis upenn edu

<http://www.nybooks.com/articles/15106> Manual for a 'Raid' By Kanan Makiya
and Hassan Mneimneh Three handwritten copies of a five-page Arabic document
were found by the FBI after the September 11 attack: one in a car used by
the hijackers and left outside Dulles International Airport, one in a piece
of Mohammad Atta's luggage that, by accident, did not get on the plane from
Logan Airport, one in the wreckage of the plane that crashed in
Pennsylvania. ... We don't know who wrote this document. From everything in
it, the author seems to have been an organizer of the attacks. But the text
contains a valuable record of the ideas that the hijackers would have been
expected to accept. One of its underlying assumptions is that all its
intended readers were going to die.

A.Jo Procter, News Director
Williams College
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Williamstown, MA 01267
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