{"id":45,"date":"2005-01-17T15:03:06","date_gmt":"2005-01-17T20:03:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lee.org\/blog\/archives\/2005\/01\/17\/todays-unnerving-quote-mohammed-atta\/"},"modified":"2005-01-17T15:06:18","modified_gmt":"2005-01-17T20:06:18","slug":"todays-unnerving-quote-mohammed-atta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/2005\/01\/17\/todays-unnerving-quote-mohammed-atta\/","title":{"rendered":"Today&#8217;s unnerving quote: Mohammed Atta"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From IEEE <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spectrum.ieee.org\/WEBONLY\/resource\/jan05\/0105webs.html\">Spectrum Magazine, January 2005<br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p> THEN THERE&#8217;S THE INTERNET&#8217;S utility for planning and coordination. There are any number of sophisticated tools for collaboration, plus the obvious ones of e-mail, instant messaging, and chat rooms. It&#8217;s easy to build a new, temporary identity and post entries from public Internet kiosks and cafes. There are plenty of ways to hide or encrypt messages, or terrorists can just speak obliquely.<\/p>\n<p>Weimann says that Mohammed Atta&#8217;s final message to his fellow 9\/11 terrorists was: &#8220;The semester begins in three more weeks. We&#8217;ve obtained 19 confirmations for studies in the faculty of law, the faculty of urban planning, the faculty of fine arts, and the faculty of engineering.&#8221; Weimann believes the talk of various &#8220;faculties&#8221; referred to specific facilities, such as the Pentagon and the World Trade Center. Sifting the plans from the chatter is perhaps law enforcement&#8217;s greatest task. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From IEEE Spectrum Magazine, January 2005 THEN THERE&#8217;S THE INTERNET&#8217;S utility for planning and coordination. There are any number of sophisticated tools for collaboration, plus the obvious ones of e-mail, instant messaging, and chat rooms. It&#8217;s easy to build a new, temporary identity and post entries from public Internet kiosks and cafes. There are plenty [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other-sources"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}