NYC-WTC_000152373

NYC 9/11 Public Portal Document

500G traced t I THEtERROR PROBE fe WEYDEVEUBPWEillS hijack plotters S ■ German authorities announced the arrest of - S three suspected terrorists thought to have Sinks S to a fugitive being hunted in the Sept 11 attach If on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. ByANDYGEUER cars and airplane trips. The hijackers who car­ Previous reports said ried out the worst terror­ the terrorists had access THE HU H33 ERS ist attack in U.S, history to $500,000, and the at­ up ■ The hunt is on for Said Bahaji, a former hatched their plot in Ger­ tack cost no more than ~ student in Hamburg suspected of helping plot many and had a $500,000 $200,000. German prosecutors the deadly attacks. bankroll, investigators confirmed yesterday, said the three suspected German authorities an­ terrorists arrested in nounced the arrest of three Weisbaden are charged suspected terrorists be- with plotting . _ violence, . - I ■ The rei is pursuing more than 100,800 leads in lieved linked to -fugitive weapons .possession and _ . / ah investigation that isfocusing on Osama bin Said Bahaji, a former Ham- forging documents. Laden’s sympatbteers in Germany, England and burg student- charged with ’^e suspe^, identified theUnitedArabEmirates. helping plot the attack. only as T^p T., 27, of Investigators believe Ba- Wadee A., haji — who has been charged with 5,000 counts 24, and Shahab al A,, 26, of Yemen, ran a Web site OSAMA BIN LADEN of murder — and Ramzi Bi- that had sm e-mail address a His 19-year-old son, Mohamed, spends his nalshibh, who has also van- for Bahaji. dais moving furtively through desolate regions ished, helped provide A search of Talip T.’s apartments, visas and pass- apartment turned up of Afghanistan, assaultrifle in hand. Heis being ports for three of the hi- weapons, fake credit groomed to play a key role in his father’s jackets. cards, maps of German - ■ tMro^-or^ij^twsL J The three, Mohamed cities, computers, mobile Atta, his cousin Marwan Al-Shehhi and Ziad Samir phones and an open-re- turn plane ticket between ^^ THEOFRCIALLINE__________ Jarrah, hatched the plot in London and Islamabad. ■ Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy a second-floor student Meanwhile, The New iSS Thompson says the US. is prepared to take tare apartment in Hamburg, York Times reported of any kind of biological attack, telling “60 investigators say. today that the CIA sent The FBI found that teams to Afghanistan • Minotes^tehi^ $500,000 flowed into U.S. three years ago to try to around the country are each stocked with SO < accounts used by Atta and persuade the anti-Taliban tons of medical supplies, induding vaccines, other hijackers, and was opposition to capture and antibiob'cs, gaS naa^and ventilators. : ‘ spent on hotels, rental perhaps kill bin Laden.

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