Terror summit
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Tarragona, Spain
9/11 mastermind Mohammad Atta called his henchmen together in Spain last July to plan the terror attacks, the Spanish daily El Pais reported this week. The newspaper said a confidential 700-page report that Spanish authorities gave the FBI indicates that Marwan Al-Shehhi, the man who crashed the second plane into the World Trade Center, may have met Atta then. More than 100 Spanish police officers have been investigating terror suspects’ movements in Spain in the months before the attacks. They concluded from travel records and credit card receipts that up to six of the hijackers flew from the U.S., Germany, and elsewhere to converge on the pretty coastal town of Tarragona, where, presumably, they honed their plot.
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