Osama Bin Laden’s last call a day before the Twin Towers attack

Osama Bin Laden he had dreamed of an attack of apocalyptic proportions for years. He gave the task to the Pakistani Khalid Sheikh Mohamed, syndicated as the brain. All the planning of the attacks of September 11, 2001 against twin towers and the Pentagon lasted about 15 months. There were four planes – one of them crashed without hitting any targets – that rocked the world. Minus the Afghan and the hard core of Al-Qaeda that he knew what was to come.

Ben Laden, who was then 44 years old, also knew that from then on, his head would have a price so high that it would compromise everyone around him. This is why he sought refuge for 10 years with the complicity of the Taliban and Pakistanis to hide and survive. Corn On September 10, when the world didn’t even know he was about to change forever, he made one last call..

Islamic terrorist leader phoned his mother, Alia Ghanem, who was his native country in Syria. He was terse and his tone almost seemed to fade away. He informed her that most likely he wouldn’t be able to meet her for a long time (maybe never?) Because in a few hours it was going to happen “something huge“That would put an end to your communications for a long time, according to a magazine publication News week.

The link of Ben Laden with Ghanem it was always close. When he was three, his mother divorced Mohammed bin Laden let the child be brought up by the second husband in Saudi Arabia. During his childhood he went to school in Jeddah, and in his youth he joined the muslim brotherhood. Then I would travel to Pakistan and Afghanistan fight the Soviet Union as well as Afghans and Taliban, who years later will harbor it. This time served him to bond with jihad intellectuals and begin to become an extremist leader.

The day after this farewell call, Alia ghanem he knew what his son was talking about when he told him that “something big” was about to happen. He also knew he could never see him again. Neither alive nor dead. Ten years later, a team of commandos Seal from United States located the terrorist leader and killed him on May 2, 2011 in Abbottabad, Pakistan.

Today, the terrorist group seems to have declined, but is far from dead. They will surely be reinforced after the departure of American forces from Afghanistan. They will face the power dispute with him Islamic state, another fundamentalist group responsible for atrocious attacks.

Attempt

The September 11, 2001around 8 a.m. 19 al-Qaeda jihadists hijacked four passenger planes to attacks that changed the course of history.

The terrorists, mostly from Saudi Arabia, have targeted the economic, military and political symbols of the most powerful country in the world.

Two planes have crashed into the World Trade Center in New York and a third into the Pentagonnear Washington DC.

a the fourth plane was perhaps pointed at the Capitol, seat of the Congress, or the White House, but after the heroic intervention of its passengers it crashed in a rural area of ​​Shanksville, in Pennsylvania.

That day, in less than two hours, the twin towers have been reduced to a mountain of dust and incandescent steel, part of the Pentagon was also badly damaged.

Was the America’s darkest day: 2,977 people died and 25 thousand were injured. Thousands of people continued to suffer the consequences even years after the attacks.

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