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Reporter: Al-Qaida considered
attacking U.S. nuclear facilitie
infr»rv it*u. but instead of this week. He told the;
DUBAI. United Arab
Emirates (AP) — Al-Qaida con
sidered striking U.S. nuclear
facilities in the Sept. 1 1 attacks
and hasn’t ruled out nuclear
attacks in the future, an Arab
television reporter who inter
viewed two plotters of the terror
attacks said Sunday.
Yosri Fouda, correspondent
for the satellite station Al-
Jazeera, told The Associated
Press that he was taken, blind
folded, to a secret location in
Pakistan to meet Khalid Shaikh
Mohammed and Ramzi
Binalshibh in a June interview
arranged by al-Qaida operatives.
Fouda said he waited until
now to air the audiotaped inter
view — it is scheduled to run
Thursday on al-Jazeera —
because he wanted to include it
in a documentary marking the
first anniversary of the attacks.
A videotape of al-Qaida
leader Osama bin Laden
released by U.S. officials in
December for many established
al-Qaida’s responsibility for
Sept. 11. According to Fouda*s
account, Mohammed and
Binalshibh spell out the link
even more clearly.
U.S. officials regard
est-ranking al-Qaida leaders at
large and believe he is still plan
ning attacks against U.S. inter
ests. U.S. officials say
Binalshibh was a member ot a
Hamburg-based cell led by
Mohammed Atta, the Egyptian-
born suspected lead hijacker on
Sept. 11.
“I am the head of the al-
Qaida military committee and
Ramzi (Binalshibh) is the coor
dinator of the “Holy Tuesday'
operation.” Fouda quoted
Mohammed as saying. Sept. 11.
2001 fell on a Tuesday.
Mohammed said planning
began two and a hall years
before Sept. 11 and that the first
targets considered were nuclear
facilities.
We “decided against it for
fear it would go out of control,’
Fouda quoted Mohammed as
saying. “You do not need to
know more than that at this
stage, and anyway it was even
tually decided to leave out
nuclear targets — for now.”
Fouda. speaking by tele
phone from London, said al-
Qaida operatives told him not to
bring any electronic equipment
— including a camera or
recorder — to the interview. The
the interview but instead of
sending a copy of the video as
they promise, sent him only the
audiotape, he said.
Fouda said at one point, while
he was being led blindfolded to
the meeting, he thought he was
going to meet with al-Qaida
leader Osama bin Laden.
Fouda said during the two
days he spent talking to the two,
Mohammed once reterred to bin
Laden in the past tense and that a
sense of disarray led him to
believe bin Laden could be dead.
Fouda, an Egyptian reporter
and host of al-Jazeera s inves
tigative program Top Secret,
said he flew to Islamabad.
Pakistan's capital, and then to
Karachi on al-Qaida instruc
tions. In Karachi, he was taken
blindfolded and via a complicat
ed route to an apartment where
he met the two men he recog
nized as Mohammed and
Binalshibh.
Al-Jazeera had announced
last week it will broadcast the
interviews as part of its cover
age marking the anniversary’ of
the attacks against the World
Trade Center and Pentagon.
Fouda w rote about the inter
view for London’s Sunday
this week. He told tl#
approached the Times to*
ci/e the documentary.
He wrote in the nc*.,;
that during the intenies
learned that the U.S. Go
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plane crashed in a Penm,
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stormed the hijackers.
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been a sleeper opera:
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detailed planning with i
meeting in Afghanisiar
other sleepers.
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Atta communicated wuL
ranking a)-Qaida official:
mail, Fouda wrote. Bn:
he had determined eve
was ready, he telep:
Binalshibh in German) i
him the date, using anddt
reterred to the shapes r
numbers 9 and 11.
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lion Al-Jazeera has Jrm*
attention with its broad*
interviews w ith and star
b\ Osama bin Laden andk
NEWS IN BRIEF
created by a pillar sticking up through the
concrete to rescue Broadway, who had been
pinned between a pillar and an I-beam, said
It. Ron Franks of the Corsicana Fire
Department
Rescuers continued to try to reach the
toddler's body.
Driver rescued after eight
hours trapped inside truck
RICHLAND, Texas (AP) — A truck driver
whose rig crashed into an interstate overpass
Sunday was freed almost eight hours after
the structure collapsed on top of him. The
man's 19-month-old son died.
Rescuers cut away at the cab to get to the
driver. Cleaster Broadway, 41, had been com
municating with sheriff's and Department of
Public Safety officials since the collapse, said
Lt. Gary Myles.
Rescuers took advantage of an opening
Four killed in collision of
truck and freight train
road crossing in northwest Ohio.
The injured victim was thrown frcr
back of the pickup and the dead i
trapped in the wreckage, said Logan C
Sheriff Michael Henry.
The injured person was flown toOsk
Hospital in Columbus Nursing supc
Donna Geitter declined to release Ho'
tion on the person's condition.
Henry said crews were trying to renww
victims from the wreckage several hom'
the crash.
The CSX tram was heading eastbounc
the railroad crossing did not hate war
lights, Henry said.
DeGRAFF, Ohio (AP) — A collision between
a freight train and pickup truck killed four
people and injured another Sunday at a rail-
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