11 September Terrorist Attack

• Ramiz Yusef, architect of the First World Trade Center bombing, carried plans for airliner suicide U.S. officials said the destruction of the World Trade Center and the Pentagon bear the imprint of Yusef, the 41-year-old Pakistani who was convicted for the 1993 attack on the World Trade Center. Yusef was arrested and found with plans for a coordinated series of hijackings and suicide crashes of several U.S. commercial airliners.
• Laden tried to acquire mass-destruction weapons Extremists supporting suspected terrorist mastermind Osama bin Laden have been trying to develop nuclear, radiological, chemical or biological weapons for attacks that may follow this week's assaults on the United States, The Washington Times reported Saturday.
• PAK WILL HELP US, BUT WANTS INDIA OUT Pakistan is planning to extract maximum financial benefit from its decision to extend its full support to a US-led campaign against international terrorism.
• Pak to urge Taliban to hand over Laden A delegation of senior Pakistani officials will go to Afghanistan on Monday to demand that the ruling Taliban militia hand over Osama bin Laden within three days to the United States.
• Investigators Explore Boundaries of Everything the Law Allows Law enforcement officials have extensive powers to detain people when investigating attacks on the country, legal experts said yesterday.
• Lawmakers Hear Ashcroft Outline Antiterror Plans Attorney General John Ashcroft and Congressional leaders opened talks today on an emergency package of antiterrorism legislation that would expand the Justice Department's ability to use wiretaps in cases of suspected terrorism or espionage.
• Sikh Owner of Gas Station Is Fatally Shot in Rampage In a shooting rampage on Saturday, a gunman in Arizona fatally shot the Sikh owner of a Chevron gas station, and then, 20 minutes later, shot at but missed a clerk of Lebanese descent at a Mobil station.
• Pakistani Officials Stay On for More Talks With Taliban A group of high-ranking Pakistani military officers visiting Afghanistan decided this evening to stay overnight to continue their talks with the Taliban government over United States demands that the Taliban hand over the accused terrorist Osama bin Laden and his top associates.
• Osama Bin Laden Denounced by Family The family of Osama bin Laden denounced the notorious Saudi dissident on Saturday and offered their condolences to victims of the terror attacks in the United States.

Books Relevant to the September Terrorist Attack (links open Amazon.com window)

• The Hunt for the Engineer How Israeli Agents Tracked the Hamas Master Bomber by Samuel M. Katz
• Warriors of the Prophet The Struggle for Islam by Mark Huband
• Triumph of Disorder : Islamic Fundamentalism, the New Face of War by Morgan Norval
• Unholy Wars : Afghanistan, America and International Terrorism, 2nd edition by John K. Cooley
• Taliban by Ahmed Rashid
• Afghanistan Diary: 1992-2000 by Edward Grazda
• The Light Garden of the Angel King by Peter Levi
• Afghanistan's Endless War : State Failure, Regional Politics, and the Rise of the Taliban by Larry P. Goodson