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08-17-2005, 06:20 PM
September 9, 2001: Osama Tells His Stepmother That Big News Will Come in Two Days
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It is later reported that on this day, bin Laden calls his stepmother and says, “In two days, you're going to hear big news and you're not going to hear from me for a while.” US officials later tell CNN that “in recent years they've been able to monitor some of bin Laden's telephone communications with his [step]mother. Bin Laden at the time was using a satellite telephone, and the signals were intercepted and sometimes recorded.” [New York Times, 10/2/01 (http://cooperativeresearch.org/timeline/2001/nyt100201.html)] Stepmother Al-Khalifa bin Laden, who raised Osama bin Laden after his natural mother died, is apparently waiting in Damascus, Syria, to meet Osama there, so he calls to cancel the meeting. [Sunday Herald, 10/7/01 (http://www.sundayherald.com/19047)] They had met periodically in recent years. Before 9/11, to impress important visitors, NSA analysts would occasionally play audio tapes of bin Laden talking to his stepmother. The next day government officials say about the call, “I would view those reports with skepticism.” [CNN, 10/2/01 (http://cooperativeresearch.org/timeline/2001/cnn100201.html)]
People and organizations involved: Al-Khalifa bin Laden (http://cooperativeresearch.org/entity.jsp?id=1521846767-2344), Osama bin Laden (http://cooperativeresearch.org/entity.jsp?id=1521846767-2073), National Security Agency (http://cooperativeresearch.org/entity.jsp?id=1521846767-2770)
http://cooperativeresearch.org/searchResults.jsp?searchtext=stepmother&events=on&entities=on&articles=on&topics=on&timelines=on&projects=on&titles=on&descriptions=on&dosearch=on&search=+Go+
It is later reported that on this day, bin Laden calls his stepmother and says, “In two days, you're going to hear big news and you're not going to hear from me for a while.” US officials later tell CNN that “in recent years they've been able to monitor some of bin Laden's telephone communications with his [step]mother. Bin Laden at the time was using a satellite telephone, and the signals were intercepted and sometimes recorded.” [New York Times, 10/2/01 (http://cooperativeresearch.org/timeline/2001/nyt100201.html)] Stepmother Al-Khalifa bin Laden, who raised Osama bin Laden after his natural mother died, is apparently waiting in Damascus, Syria, to meet Osama there, so he calls to cancel the meeting. [Sunday Herald, 10/7/01 (http://www.sundayherald.com/19047)] They had met periodically in recent years. Before 9/11, to impress important visitors, NSA analysts would occasionally play audio tapes of bin Laden talking to his stepmother. The next day government officials say about the call, “I would view those reports with skepticism.” [CNN, 10/2/01 (http://cooperativeresearch.org/timeline/2001/cnn100201.html)]
People and organizations involved: Al-Khalifa bin Laden (http://cooperativeresearch.org/entity.jsp?id=1521846767-2344), Osama bin Laden (http://cooperativeresearch.org/entity.jsp?id=1521846767-2073), National Security Agency (http://cooperativeresearch.org/entity.jsp?id=1521846767-2770)