9/11 and Russia: connecting the dots
Igor Sergun was a military attache in Tirana in 1998-99 and engineered a plan to capture the Pristina airport. Zawahiri was formed by the likely KGB organized Sadat assassination and had close ties with Egyptian military intelligence (heavily influenced by Russian intelligence) officer who organised the assassination, becoming his successor in Egyptian Islamic movement. Zawahiri spent some time in the southern Russia and later, in Afghanistan, had contacts with the GRU officer who, apparently was later implicated in Yandarbiyev's murder as was demonstrated by computerised analysis of officer's photograph. Bosnian connection Zawahiri, just like KSM and many other jihadists, had a Bosnian passport and was able to travel there freely, where the contacts with Russians might have occurred. The Hamburg cell hijackers planned to go to Chechnya but instead, for some reasons went to Afghanistan to meet with Al Quaeda people. Turki al Faisal , who was a head of Saudi intellig...