Who planned the 9/11 attack?

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December 1, 2009 • Messi Mohammad  
Filed under National News

After a nearly seven-year odyssey that took him to secret C.I.A. jails in Europe and an American military prison in Cuba, Mr. Mohammed is finally likely to get his wish.  He will be the most senior leader of Al Qaeda to date held to account for the mass murder of nearly 3,000 Americans, facing trial in Manhattan while his boss, Osama bin Laden, continues to get away from a worldwide dragnet.  This is important to us as COHS students to know who actually planned this deadly attack on our fellow Americans who were all innocent. Bin Laden had said that he only had hatred for America because the United States was supplying arms to countries that killed innocent Muslims.

Yet the proud, calculating and violently independent Mr. Mohammed has never neatly fit the sort of Al Qaeda group leader.  He has little use for the high-minded serious of some of his associates, and for years before the Sept. 11 attacks, he refused to swear an oath of loyalty to his leader Bin Laden.  He was born in Pakistan but raised in Kuwait. Mr. Mohammed became important to Al Qaeda’s operation in large part because of his background.  He had an engineering degree from an American university, spoke sufficient English and had a deeper understanding of the West than any of Mr. Bin Laden’s other members. As Pakistanis in Kuwait, his family would have been considered second-class citizens, but they had the means to send him to the United States for his education.  He later transferred to North Carolina A&T in Greensboro, where he earned a mechanical engineering degree in 1986.    Over the next decade, he plotted dozens of attacks against Western targets.  At his martial tribunal in 2007, Mr. Mohammed recited a litany of conspiracies he said he had had a hand in, including shooting plots against President Bill Clinton and Pope John Paul II and the 1993 World Trade Center bombing.  

Now he is facing trial in New York for the mass murder of 3,000 people and I think he should be punished because he was the master planner of this attack or else Bin Laden would have never thought of this in the first place. This shows us that many people make civilians as their target to get their demand.

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