Hamburg cell

Between August 25th and September 5th, all nineteen plane tickets are bought.

In the last days of August and the first days of September, the Hamburg cell begins to disappear.

Zakaria Essabar leaves for Karachi on August 30th, carrying a message for KSM.

Bin al-Shibh and KSM both say Essabar does not know what it means.

Let's talk about how they recruited the hijackers.

How do you recruit someone to fly a plane into a building, specifically Mohammed Atta in the Hamburg cell? Let's talk about that whole process.

What did that look like? And also, you go into so much more detail with Gordon in the Rest Is History series on this.

The Rest Is Classified history on this.

He's an Egyptian.

He's living in Hamburg, Germany.

He and this group that become known as the Hamburg Cell in this very sort of strict, devout, kind of, you know, little Islamic community in Hamburg are looking around in 2000 for how they can take, I think how they would see it is, how can they take their faith to the next level? And we talked about these ideas around sort of offensive jihad and Sayyid Qutb and his philosophy around going out and fighting infidel regimes.

At this point in time in 2000, the big fights in Chechnya This is where you have Arab fighters in Chechnya fighting against what they see as a Russian occupation.