| WASHINGTON — To hear Sept. 11 mastermind Khalid Shaikh Mohammed tell it, Osama bin Laden was a meddling boss whose indiscretion and poor judgment threatened to derail the terrorist attacks.
He also saddled Mohammed with at least four would-be hijackers who the ringleader thought were ill-equipped for the job. And he carelessly dropped hints about the imminent attacks, violating Mohammed's cardinal rule against discussing the suicide hijacking plot. The repeated conflicts between the two Al Qaeda leaders emerged last week during the penalty phase of the trial of Zacarias Moussaoui, the only person charged in the United States in connection with the Sept. 11 attacks. Jurors heard new details of the plot from the interrogation summaries of several captured Al Qaeda officials, including an extraordinary account of a series of interrogations of Mohammed. |
Two thoughts: First, after reading the entire profile, these people don't seem particularly fearsome or well organized. Second, given how prone they seem to be to making mistakes, remind me again why we haven't caught bin Laden? I realize this is just one profile, but its built exclusively on the evidence presented by the government at the Moussaoui trial, the only trial so far related to 9/11. No doubt this is the best the government's got. But it makes you wonder, doesn't it?
UPDATE: I like Kevin Drum's description: "According to the mastermind behind 9/11, Osama bin Laden is the pointy-haired boss from Dilbert."
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