[iwar] [fc:What.kind.of.Muslim.writes.like.this?.(another.view)]

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The Arab News did piece on the story:  Note that they reported it straight up and raised no questions. 

Hijackers’ last words revealed
By Muhammad Sadik, Arab News Staff

WASHINGTON, 29 September — Terrorists involved in the Sept. 11 
hijackings left behind copies of a document in Arabic giving them 
step-by-step instructions for their suicide mission and preparing 
them spiritually for death, a law enforcement official said 
yesterday. A copy of the document was found in luggage left behind by 
Muhammad Atta, suspected of organizing the attacks and flying into 
one of the World Trade Center towers, said the official.
Another was found in the wreckage of a United Airlines jet that 
crashed in rural Pennsylvania and a third in another hijacker’s car, 
the official said.

The document contained a mission checklist and instructions for 
mental and spiritual preparation, the official said, speaking on 
condition of anonymity. The official was unable to provide further 
details. Published accounts characterized the document as a haunting 
mission guide that urged the hijackers to smile at their taxicab 
driver, “crave death” and “make sure no one is following you.” The 
documents provide the most jarring insight yet into the mindset of 
the 19 men who boarded the four planes. Two of the jets crashed into 
the World Trade Center, one into the Pentagon and one in Pennsylvania.
The texts starkly address fear on the eve of their suicide mission. 
“Everybody hates death, fears death,” according to a translation of 
highlights of the document obtained by The Washington Post, which 
reported that the book was found in Atta’s luggage. “But only those, 
the believers who know the life after death and the reward after 
death, would be the ones who will be seeking death.”

The manual found in Pennsylvania contained directives on what 
actions, thoughts and prayers should be undertaken in the final 
hours, according to The Dallas Morning News. The document instructs a 
follower, on the day of the attack, to “check your weapon,” say 
morning prayers together, and, “If you take a taxi to the airport, 
when you arrive ... smile and rest assured, for Allah is with the 
believers and the angels are protecting you.”

This appears in a section of the document beneath the words, “The 
last night.” That section begins, “Remind yourself that in this night 
you will face many challenges. But you have to face them and 
understand it 100 percent. ... Obey God, His messenger, and don’t 
fight among yourself where you become weak, and stand fast, God will 
stand with those who stood fast.”

The translated version of the document instructs the hijackers to 
steel their will with prayer before embarking on their mission. “You 
should pray, you should fast. You should ask God for guidance, you 
should ask God for help... Continue to pray throughout this night. 
Continue to recite the Qur’an.”

It continues: “Purify your heart and clean it from all earthly 
matters. The time of fun and waste has gone. The time of judgment has 
arrived. Hence we need to utilize those few hours to ask God for 
forgiveness. You have to be convinced that those few hours that are 
left you in your life are very few. From there you will begin to live 
the happy life, the infinite paradise. Be optimistic. The prophet was 
always optimistic.”

The follower is told to pray as he sets foot on the plane and again 
as he takes his seat, remembering “It is a raid for Allah.” The book 
also contained this passage for comfort: “When the time of truth 
comes and zero hour arrives, then straighten out your clothes, open 
your chest and welcome death for the sake of Allah. Seconds before 
the target, your last words should be ‘There is no god but Allah. 
Muhammad is His messenger’.”

The document instructed to bring “knives, your will, IDs, your 
passport” and, finally, “to make sure that nobody is following you.” 
FBI investigators, who found the writings in Atta’s luggage, which 
did not make it onto his flight, are not sure of the author’s 
identity — whether it was Atta, another hijacker or someone else.
The document is a cross between a chilling spiritual exhortation 
aimed at the hijackers and an operational mission checklist. With the 
hijackers all dead, the pages may turn out to provide the most vivid 
and penetrating glimpse into their mental states and final hours 
before they embarked on the deadliest act of terrorism in US history.
The first four pages of both documents are handwritten on large paper 
and recite some basic Islamic history about the Prophet fighting 
infidels with 100 men against 1,000, the Post said. They also include 
prayers such as, “I pray to you God to forgive me from all my sins, 
to allow me to glorify you in every possible way.”

Atta, 33, and Abdulaziz Alomari spent the night of Sept. 10 in Room 
232 of the South Portland Comfort Inn in Portland, Maine. Early on 
Sept. 11, they boarded a flight from Portland to Boston’s Logan 
Airport, where they connected to American Airlines Flight 11, the 
plane that was commandeered and flown into the north tower of the 
World Trade Center.

Atta’s luggage did not make it onto Flight 11. The FBI found another 
copy of essentially the same document in the wreckage of United 
Flight 93, a government source said. Flight 93 was also hijacked and 
crashed into a field in Pennsylvania. The multiple copies suggest the 
document was shared among at least some of the hijackers. After the 
attacks, several published reports stated that Atta had left a 
“suicide note,” which is what the FBI initially called it in a 
document sent to police investigators in Europe.

US President George W. Bush yesterday said the United States was in 
“hot pursuit” of those he blames for terror strikes and ruled out 
diplomacy as a way to get Taleban to turn them over. “Make no mistake 
about it: we’re in hot pursuit,” he said, as the White House declined 
to confirm news reports that small teams of US special forces were 
searching in Afghanistan for Osama Bin Laden.

“There is no negotiation with the Taleban,” the president said as the 
Taleban militia stood fast by its refusal to hand over the suspect.
“They heard what I said, and now they can act,” he added. Bush 
renewed demands he made of the militia last week in a rare speech to 
a joint session of the US Congress outlining the US response to 
attacks that left more than 7,000 dead or missing at the World Trade 
Center and the Pentagon.

He insisted that not just Bin Laden but all members of his Al-Qaeda 
network and “any terrorist that is housed and fed Afghanistan” and 
called for “complete destruction of terrorist camps.”

“We expect them to not only hear what I say, but to do something 
about it,” Bush said sternly during a joint Oval Office appearance 
with Jordan’s King Abdallah, the first Arab head of state to meet 
with him since the attacks. The monarch offered Jordan’s “full 
unequivocal support” for US reprisals for the attacks as well as for 
an open-ended global campaign against terrorism.

Picking up on Bush’s message that “our war is against evil, not 
against Islam,” the monarch declared: “What these people stand for is 
completely against all the principles that Arab Muslims believe in.”
“The majority of Arabs and Muslims will band together with our 
colleagues all over the world to be able to put an end to this 
horrible scourge of international terrorism, and you’ll see a united 
front,” he said.

In a bid to include nations with large Muslim populations in a global 
coalition to support US-led retaliation, the US leader has emphasized 
that Washington is waging war on terrorism, not Islam. “There are 
thousands of Muslims who proudly call themselves Americans, and they 
know what I know, that the Muslim faith is based upon peace and love 
and compassion, the exact opposite of the teachings of the Al-Qaeda 
organization, which is based upon evil and hate and destruction,” he 
said yesterday.

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