Five years before 9 11 plan for mass murder emerged in Afghanistan
The Sept. 11 commission outlines how a Kuwaiti student in the United States proposed using 10 planes to strike U S targets, a plan that evolved into the 2001 attacks. Bin Laden approved a scaled version, and by 1999 the targets included the Capitol White House and World Trade Center. Attacks unfolded after years of aborted warnings and bureaucratic confusion.
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Overview of the 9 11 Commission hearings
Washington AP notes the 9 11 Commission completed its final hearings. The National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States was created by Congress in November 2002 to study the causes and responses to the 2001 attacks. It consists of five Republicans and five Democrats led by Thomas Kean and Lee Hamilton.
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