Terror in the Cradle of Liberty by Ilya Feoktistov

Author:Ilya Feoktistov
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Encounter Books
Published: 2019-02-26T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 13

OVERREACH AND UNDER ATTACK

At 7:59 on the morning of September 11, 2001, an American Airlines Boeing 767 carrying Mohammed Atta and four Saudi nationals took off from Boston’s Logan Airport. Exactly fifteen minutes later, another Boeing 767 flew out of Boston, this one carrying three Saudis and two Emiratis. Within forty-five minutes, both would be flown into the World Trade Center’s Twin Towers in New York.

Boston-based al-Qaeda supporters, in conversations intercepted by the FBI, would later speculate about whether they might have spotted Mohammed Atta praying at the ISB. They very well could have. As the 9/11 hijackers boarded their planes at Boston Logan, they were leaving behind a city whose growing Muslim population was dominated by a thriving Islamist movement. The ISB mosque in Cambridge was a central headquarters for a powerful Muslim Brotherhood network controlling several Muslim K-12 schools, the Muslim Students Associations at all of the major Boston area universities, the Islamic Center of New England mosques in Sharon and Quincy suburbs, and the African American Muslim Mosque for the Praising of Allah in Roxbury. Boston’s mayor, Thomas Menino, had just given the ISB the proverbial key to the city, as the ISB trustees embarked on building the largest mosque in New England on city land, which they got “virtually free of charge.”

The Hamas campaign of terror raged, as the Second Intifada was in full bloody swing and the Muslim Brotherhood in New England was raising large amounts of money to keep the suicide bombs coming through the Holy Land Foundation and other charities identified in the ISB’s bank records as recipients of ISB funds. The al-Qaeda contingent that revolved around MIT’s Muslim Students Association and Care International was just as active in raising money for Shamil Basayev’s murder campaign against Russian schoolkids and theatergoers. PTech, the software company these MIT al-Qaeda supporters founded with Saudi terror financier Yassin Al Qadi’s money, had secured some very lucrative top-secret government and military contracts. At the ICNE, Hafiz Masood was recruiting and raising money for the Pakistani jihad against India in Kashmir. ISB founder Abdulrahman Alamoudi was in Washington, raising money for George W. Bush’s first presidential campaign by day—and for an al-Qaeda assassination plot against Saudi crown prince Abdullah by night.

The radical Islamist project in the United States in general, and in New England in particular, was proceeding with full immunity. But everything changed on the morning of September 11, 2001, when big parts of the Islamist movement’s infrastructure, carefully constructed over decades of patient growth and infiltration, came crashing down with the Twin Towers. As with the histories of many other ideological movements from the Zealots to the Jacobins to the Khmer Rouge, the more extreme elements of the Islamist movement came to dominate, and then jumped the gun. Abdullah Azzam’s impatience with the Muslim Brotherhood’s slower approach of proselytism, infiltration, and subversion of non-Islamist societies led his disciple Osama bin Laden to carry out an act of terrorism against the American homeland so brazen and destructive that it jolted the U.

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