A special report by Hal Bernton, Mike Carter, David Heath and James Neff · June 23 - July 7, 2002

DOSSIER

CHAPTER 1
	The State Department's warning of "credible information that terrorists are planning attacks" overseas.
	Dec. 12, 1999, interview with Secretary of State Madeleine Albright on CBS' "Face the Nation." Video | Transcript (Video courtesy CBS News.)
	Transcript of the briefing from a State Department spokesman offering further assurance that threats are "not to U.S. soil."
CHAPTER 3
	Excerpt of a speech by Sheik Abu Abdul Aziz on the duty of jihad. MP3 [754K] or Real [386K]
CHAPTER 4
	The immigration form Ressam filled out truthfully. [5.8M PDF]
	The page of tall tales in Ressam's request for political asylum. [322K PDF. Page 1 is in French; page 2 is the translation]
CHAPTER 5
	Learn more about Osama bin Laden in our related project "Understanding the Conflict."
CHAPTER 6
	Sections of the al-Qaida terrorist training manual.
CHAPTER 7
	More of Sheik Abu Abdul Aziz's recruitment message: · Go with nothing; Allah will provide MP3 [558K] or Real [148K] · A hard punishment if you don't go MP3 [491K] or Real [133K] · The duty of jihad (from Chapter 3) MP3 [754K] or Real [386K]
	Visit the Assuna mosque online.
CHAPTER 8
	The stolen baptismal certificate Ressam used to create his new Canadian identity.
	The plane ticket Ressam bought from Montreal to Frankfurt under his new name, Benni Antoine Noris. [974K PDF]
	Learn more about the 1998 U.S. embassy bombings in Kenya and Tanzania.
CHAPTER 9
	The apartment building where Ressam began to assemble a team for his mission.
CHAPTER 10
	See the list of credit-card charges introduced into evidence. [763K PDF]
	The alley down which Ahmed Ressam escaped when police rang the buzzer of the Sherbrooke apartment.
	Pages from the address book left behind during the raid.
CHAPTER 11
	The inside of the motel room where Ahmed Ressam and Abdelmajid Dahoumane began making their bomb.
CHAPTER 12
	The inspectors found several green bags filled with powder in the spare-tire compartment of Ressam's car.
	The parking lot Ressam fled across in Port Angeles, trying to escape U.S. Customs officials.
CHAPTER 13
	Learn more about the 1999 WTO riots in Seattle.
CHAPTER 14
	The address of the Loyal Inn in Seattle, written on letterhead from the Empress Hotel in Victoria, where Ahmed Ressam stopped to make a phone call.
CHAPTER 15
	The illegal handgun found hidden in a stove in Ahmed Ressam's Montreal apartment.
CHAPTER 16
	Ressam's fingerprints were found on explosive components, a fraudulently obtained passport and an address book full of al-Qaida contacts.
	The testimony from Bruguière that was ruled inadmissible in Ressam's trial. [29K PDF]
	Ressam testifies in the trial of accomplice Mokhtar Haouari, giving a detailed account of his time in the al-Qaida camps and his plot to blow up LAX. The transcript: Part I | Part II [PDFs from Findlaw]
CHAPTER 17
	Coleen Rowley's memo to FBI Director Robert Mueller about the handling of the Moussaoui case.
	Videotape broadcast of the attack and the collapse of the World Trade Center.