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    The Preparation For Flight 77: With Driving Tour of the Two Weeks in Maryland Prior to the 9/11 Attack on the Pentagon
    The Preparation For Flight 77: With Driving Tour of the Two Weeks in Maryland Prior to the 9/11 Attack on the Pentagon
    The Preparation For Flight 77: With Driving Tour of the Two Weeks in Maryland Prior to the 9/11 Attack on the Pentagon
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    The Preparation For Flight 77: With Driving Tour of the Two Weeks in Maryland Prior to the 9/11 Attack on the Pentagon

    By Erik Sellin

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    The September 2001 terrorist attack on the Pentagon was part of the most audacious and successful ever mounted. This book looks specifically at the attack on the Headquarters of the Department of Defense, examining Osama bin Laden, the origin of al Qaeda, and how the hijackers were selected. It also describes how these men arrived in America and where they gathered. The second part of the book takes the reader on a chilling driving tour of the places in Maryland that all five hijackers frequented in the two weeks prior to 9/11. Concluding with details of the attack and its aftermath, this is an intriguing look at how five men, bent on destruction and terror, lived and walked among the general population, with disquieting ease, in the weeks leading up to the attack. Ebook includes a link to the mp3 version of the driving tour.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherErik Sellin
    Release dateSep 7, 2016
    ISBN9781935513056
    The Preparation For Flight 77: With Driving Tour of the Two Weeks in Maryland Prior to the 9/11 Attack on the Pentagon

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      The Preparation For Flight 77 - Erik Sellin

      The Preparation for Flight 77

      with Driving Tour of the Two Weeks in Maryland prior to the 9/11 Attack on the Pentagon

      Erik Sellin

      Copyright 2016 by Erik Sellin

      Smashwords Edition

      Table of Contents

      Part I

      Part II

      Greenbelt

      Beltway Plaza

      Gold’s Gym

      Giant Food

      Center/East Side

      College Park

      Mail Boxes, Etc.

      Kinko’s

      College Park Motel

      North College Park

      Beltsville

      Laurel

      Kinko’s

      First Union Bank

      North Laurel

      Valencia Hotel, 10131 Washington Boulevard

      Part III

      Selected Bibliography

      Part I

      The attacks of September 11, 2001 were planned over many years in many countries.

      In 1989 the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan. Arab fighters there formed an alliance with local resistance forces that became broadly known as the mujahideen. These Islamic guerillas successfully forced the Red army to withdraw. One of the fighters was Osama bin Laden, who returned to Saudi Arabia emboldened by the fact that a ragged army of dedicated Muslims could overcome a superpower.

      In 1991 bin Laden left Saudi Arabia for the Sudan, where he began setting up training camps for terrorists and first got attention from American intelligence. The United States started putting pressure on Sudan to expel him, but he could not return to Saudi Arabia as his citizenship had been revoked in 1994.

      Sudan finally exiled bin Laden in 1996, and he relocated to Afghanistan’s Tora Bora, where he reveled in the memory of his helping dispatch the Soviets from the area. Afghanistan was in chaos and its largest city would be seized by a group of Islamist militants called the Taliban. Bin Laden quickly formed an alliance with Taliban rulers. In August he issued a fatwah entitled Declaration of Jihad Against the Americans Occupying the Land of the Two Holy Mosques, referring to those in Mecca and Medina in Saudi Arabia.

      Bin Laden saw himself as called to follow in the footsteps of the messenger and to communicate his message to all nations, and to spearhead a new kind of war to destroy America and bring the world to Islam.

      His appeal was strong by February 23, 1998 when he and fugitive Egyptian doctor Ayman al Zawahiri issued the second fatwa against the United States in two years. An Arabic newspaper in London published the edict, which called for the murder of any American, as it was the

      individual duty for every Muslim who can do it in any country in which it is possible to do it... This is in accordance with the words of Almighty Allah.

      We do not have to differentiate between military or civilian. As far as we are concerned, they [Americans] are all targets.

      By then, bin Laden could attract and recruit individuals for increasingly ambitious attacks, each would then attract still more recruits.

      In June 1998 bin Laden was indicted on charges of plotting to murder U.S. soldiers in Yemen. Later that year he was indicted again for his involvement in the East African embassy bombings.

      The Clinton administration repeatedly requested that the Taliban hand over bin Laden, but he remained in Afghanistan.

      The militant Islamist group al Qaeda was formed in or around 1989 by militant Islamists who opposed America’s military presence in Saudi Arabia and support of Israel. The group took shape in Afghanistan, taking refuge with the Taliban.

      Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice in her book No

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