LAT: Al Qaeda Agent's 9/11 Role Comes Into Focus

[Rose Siding]

WASHINGTON — Until recently, Ammar al-Baluchi was considered a peripheral player in Al Qaeda, a functionary who made travel arrangements and wired money for terrorists.

But new government disclosures place Baluchi in a larger role in the Sept. 11 preparations and rank him No. 4 among the conspirators captured by U.S. forces after the 2001 terrorist attacks.

Indeed, investigators say he was instrumental in acquiring a Boeing 747 flight simulator and a Boeing 767 flight-deck video for the hijackers to practice on before heading to the United States.

"He was turning up everywhere we looked — like a chameleon," recalled one federal agent who spoke on condition of anonymity because of ongoing investigations.

A man of many names, Baluchi seemed to have his hand in everything......

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-baluchi21may21,1,6708051,full.story?coll=la-headlines-nation

[leesa]

1. Was he meeting with Porter Goss on 9-11 too?

[Rose Siding]

2. Looks like with another couple of fake names and a decent set of pipes,

he could have met Goss, then starred on American Idol.

[MrPrax]

3. "acquiring a Boeing 747 flight simulator"

This will end up as: purchased and installed a copy of MS Flight Simulator on a laptop in Arabic and the flight video was a copy of 'Airplane!'

Yeah...a real comedian...I mean chameleon

[Pierre.Suave]

5. hey...

I own MSFS, am I on that list too????

[uppityperson]

4. Oooooooo, #4 bought MS Flight Sim.

Well, that does it for me. Wonder what number Bill Gates is? And, Baluchi didn't have his hand in me.

[sutz12]

6. #4..what's up with that?

Did they run out of No 2's already? :sarcasm: