A CNN article about the Al-Jazeera report on Al Qaeda codenames: ] "About three weeks before September 11, targets were ] assigned to four teams, with three of them bearing a code ] name: The U.S. Capitol was called "The Faculty of Law;" ] the Pentagon became "The Faculty of Fine Arts;" and the ] North Tower of the World Trade Center was code-named by ] Atta as "The Faculty of Town Planning." ] ] One of the terrorists, Abu Abdul Rahman, pretended to ] send a love message via an Internet chat room to his ] German girlfriend, who was actually Binalshibh. It ] contained more code for the attacks: ] ] "The first semester commences in three weeks. Two high ] schools and two universities. ... This summer will surely ] be hot ...19 [the eventual number of hijackers] ] certificates for private education and four exams. ] Regards to the professor. Goodbye." |