Mastermind of 9/11 says 34 took part in the attacks

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By Josh Meyer
Tribune Newspapers: Los Angeles Times
Published March 29, 2006

WASHINGTON -- Sept. 11 mastermind Khalid Shaikh Mohammed has told his interrogators that at least 34 people were "participants" in the attacks, including a mysterious Jordanian who supposedly prepared 10 of the hijackers for their grisly task by training them to butcher camels and sheep with Swiss Army knives.

Mohammed's statements were read aloud in court this week during the sentencing trial of Zacarias Moussaoui, the only person ever charged as a co-conspirator in the attacks.

During his interrogations, Mohammed broke down the participants in the Sept. 11 attacks into six groups, each having differing levels of involvement in the plot or prior knowledge of it, according to a 58-page summary read aloud in court Monday.

Among the few in the top tier was Abu Turab Al-Urduni, a Jordanian who, according to Mohammed's testimony, had "full knowledge" of the plot because of his job as trainer of 10 of the "muscle" hijackers tasked with commandeering the planes, subduing the pilots and keeping the passengers at bay.

Abu Turab, as he was referred to in the summary, also trained the hijackers in bombing and train hijacking so they wouldn't be certain what their real assignment would be once they reached the U.S., Mohammed said. That way, if they were caught, they wouldn't be able to tip off authorities that the plot involved plane hijackings.

The disclosures, if true, are significant in that one of the more senior conspirators of the Sept. 11 attacks has until now never been identified publicly.

A U.S. intelligence official familiar with the continuing Sept. 11 investigation said Abu Turab was killed by U.S. forces in Afghanistan in late 2001.