Al Qaeda published a book that recounts the preparation of the attacks on the Twin Towers

The jihadist organization Al Qaeda published today a book, written by one of its leaders, in which it relates details of the preparation of the attacks on the Twin Towers and the Pentagon, in the United States, on the 21st anniversary of those events, the international press reported. The book relates that the attacks began to prepare when al Qaeda managed to settle in Afghanistan in 1996, and that the goal was to drag the United States into a long war of attrition. The idea for the attacks arose when an Egyptian pilot proposed crashing a civilian plane with thousands of liters of fuel into “an important and symbolic American building,” explains the text, published by al Qaeda’s communication section, As Sahab.It adds that some militants were subjected to special combat training in 1998 and then enrolled in flight schools in different cities around the world. Finally, on September 11, 2001, al Qaeda militants hijacked four civilian planes in different parts of the United States.Two of them were crashed into each of the Twin Towers in New York, another was crashed into the Pentagon, headquarters of the Department of Defense, and the last one crashed in Pennsylvania after passengers reduced the hijackers to prevent a new attack. Those attacks triggered the invasion of Afghanistan and what the U.S. called the “war on terror.” Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden was killed in a U.S. military operation in Pakistan in 2011 and his successor, Ayman al-Zawahiri, was killed on July 31 in a U.S. drone strike in Kabul, the Afghan capital.

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