Keep an eye on this story. My friend Michael, visiting London, called me today to let me know the London Times has a story about a 9/11 hijacker who had second thoughts and gave up to police BEFORE THE ATTACKS. According to the Times story, as reported by PTI, the hijacker knew it was a suicide mission in America and knew that it involved his piloting a Boeing jet. Sounds kind of interesting since the Bush Administration had "no idea" anyone would consider using a jet as a weapon. I still can't get access to the London Times story, but was able to find this:
A British Muslim, trained in a 'terrorist training school' in Pakistan as a hijacker in preparation for the September 11 attacks, backed out at the last minute after gambling away thousands of pounds given to him by Al-Qaeda, a report said here.
The potential hijacker, a former waiter in a Manchester curry house was enlisted at a mosque in Oldham and 'attended terrorist training school in Pakistan. But he had second thoughts about his suicide mission as he flew to America and surrendered to the police after gambling away thousands of pounds given to him by Al-Qaeda,' The Sunday Times, claimed....
He travelled to Lahore, where he was taught how to carry out a hijacking and familiarized with the inside of a Boeing cockpit. "I knew they wanted me to do some kind of operation in which I would die but my life was such a mess that in my mind I was already dead," he said. - The Hindu News Update Service
