CAIRO -
Among the 19 people that the FBI investigations say carried out the famous September 11 attacks against the United States, the name of the Egyptian engineer, Mohamed Atta, stands out as the most famous who carried out these attacks, the only Egyptian among them and the most controversial and media attention, accused of leading The first hijacked planes crashed into the North Tower of the World Trade Center in New York that bloody morning.
But what is interesting is that Muhammad al-Amir (Atta's father) categorically denied his son's connection to the incident, and said that all evidence is conclusive that his son did not participate in these attacks, and at the forefront of this evidence is that his son called him hours after the attack.
prince of conspiracy
On the anniversary of the attacks, a report by the American magazine Newsweek described Atta as the "prince of the conspiracy", as a master planner, coach, financial and logistical director, and a psychiatrist for the kidnappers, which kept everyone on the right track and motivated for 19 months, as he finally had the authority to choose the targets and date of the attack, on The magazine says.
The report adds that al-Qaeda in Afghanistan wanted to strike military, political and financial targets in the United States, as the organization's leader, Osama bin Laden, was particularly interested in striking the US Capitol (Congress), but Atta had the last word based on the conditions on the ground.
Muhammad Atta, accused of participating in the September 11 attacks (social networking sites)
Who is Mohamed Atta?
Mohamed Atta was born on September 1, 1968, in the Kafr El-Sheikh governorate in northern Egypt. He studied architecture at the Faculty of Engineering at Cairo University, and traveled to Germany to complete his studies at the University of Hamburg, where he obtained a master's degree in 1999.
The 9/11 Commission report states that Atta established a cell for an extremist organization in Hamburg, and is believed to have traveled for several months to Afghanistan, where he met with al-Qaeda.
According to the investigations, Atta wrote his will in April 1996, which included 18 items that he recommended following his burial, including that no one weep for him, and asked women not to visit his grave, and not to visit him by those who were not in agreement with him in his life.
The investigations also complete that Atta traveled in June 2000 to the United States, where he learned to fly in Florida, and also traveled to many American states, and met the rest of the hijackers in Las Vegas in August 2001, where the plan for the attack was finalized.
According to US investigations, Atta piloted the plane that crashed into the North Tower of the World Trade Center in New York at 8:46 am on Tuesday 11 September 2001.
His father denied
On the other hand, Atta's parents denied the participation of their son in the attacks, and according to what Al-Watan newspaper published in Cairo, in a press conference at the Foreign Correspondents Association on September 25, 2011, his father, Muhammad Al-Amir, denied the accusation against his son of carrying out the September 11 attacks, and accused the Israeli intelligence service, Mossad. kidnapping his son and being responsible for the attacks.
The father stated that his son called him a day after the accident from Hamburg, and said that his son's papers had been seized, and the father repeated these statements in various interviews.
Detainee at Guantanamo
In September 2016, Al-Ahram newspaper quoted the Spanish newspaper, El Mundo, as saying an interview with Buthaina Mostafa - Atta's mother - in which she confirmed that her son was alive and believed that he was in Guantanamo Bay.
"My son, I want to see you before I die, I am 74 years old, and I live in the hope that you are still alive, I know that you have done nothing wrong and that you would not have done what they accused you of."
Some believe that not all revealed by the US investigations after the September attacks can be taken very seriously, because official US authorities returned years later and questioned the validity of some of this information, according to what was published by the British BBC website, as well as CNN website ( CNN) American.
In 2014, a US Central Intelligence Agency cable revealed that US counterterrorism officials in 2003 questioned reports that Muhammad Atta had met an Iraqi intelligence official in the Czech capital Prague a few months before the attacks, and the rest of the cable's contents were not disclosed.
Sources said that Atta did not travel to Europe during this period, which casts doubt on the preconceived American narrative that he was connected to the Iraqi regime at that time.
Dick Cheney, former US Vice President George W. Bush, confirmed - in a television interview in 2001 - that Atta went to Prague, "and met a high-ranking Iraqi intelligence official in the Czech capital last April, several months before the attacks."
island investigation
On the first anniversary of the September attacks, Al Jazeera broadcast a press report entitled "The Road to September" within the "Top Secret" program, which was considered a resounding global press scoop.. The investigation provided a detailed description of the planning and execution of the attacks based on the interview of journalist Yusri Fouda with two al-Qaeda leaders They are Ramzi bin al-Shibh and Khalid Sheikh Mohammed.
The investigation ended with accusing someone in the United States of knowingly planning the attacks, and that no one in the United States did not mind bending over even a little to receive this slap, in order to kick and kick from it in every corner unchecked. The highest degrees of knowledge, all of them in the age of flowers, to throw themselves in this way?