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National Public Radio (NPR) June 18, 2000, SundayCopyright 2000 National Public Radio (R). All rights reserved. No quotes from the materials

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SHOW: WEEKEND EDITION SUNDAY (1:00 PM ET)June 18, 2000, Sunday

LENGTH: 216 wordsHEADLINE: PAST ACTS OFTERRORISM LINGER IN OUR NATIONALCONSCIOUSNESSANCHORS: LIANE HANSENBODY:DANIEL SCHORR:Past acts of terrorism, unresolved, linger in our national consciousness.LIANE HANSEN, host:NPR senior news analyst Daniel Schorr.SCHORR: Last August, President Clinton sent a private letter to President MohammadKhatami of Iran. Because the two countries do not have diplomatic relations, an official of thesultanate of Oman agreed to act as courier. In the letter, Clinton looked towards betterrelations between the United States and Iran. He said Iran could make one contribution byhelping in the search for the terrorists responsible for the 1996 bombing of the KhobarTowers military complex in Saudi Arabia. That was a most peculiar request, something likeasking for a confession, for the Clinton administration has long suspected that Iran had ahand in the Khobar Towers bombing and that it exerted tremendous pressure on the Saudigovernment not to cooperate with the FBI investigation.On a trip to Saudi Arabia in 1998, Vice President Al Gore expressed America's frustrationafter what he called a long and penetrating talk about terrorism with Crown Prince Abdullah.The recent report of the bipartisan National Commission on Terrorism criticized theadministration for not pressing harder on Iran, which it called 'the most active state sponsorof anti-American terrorism.1 American intelligence believes that Iran also had a hand in the1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103, working in concert with Libyans, two of whom are ontrial in The Hague. The Pan Am bombing came just five months after an Iranian airliner wasshot down by the USSVincennes. Iran has made it clear that it never believed the Americanexplanation that the missile attack was an accident.All this happened before Khatami was elected president on a promise of moderation. Khatamimight not have ordered the bombing of a passenger plane, a reprisal for the accidentaldowning of an Iranian airliner, but the past doesn't go away. The State Department says theUnited States supports dialogue with Khatami's government, but about past acts of terror, it

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NTSB - EgyptAir Flight 990 Page 1 o f 2

EgyptAir Flight 990Atlantic Ocean about 60 miles south of

= ^ r . Nantucket Island, Massachusetts} October 31 , 1999

, J:::. DCAOOMA006NTSB Information:March 21, 2002 UpdatesFinal ReportPress ReleaseChairman's Statement

Public Docket Table of Contents: ( u p d a t e d 3 / 2 1 / 0 2 )Reports and other investigative material.Statement of Chairman Hall, on the Release ofthe EgyptAir flight 990 Public Docket ( 8 / 1 1 / 0 0 )Announcemerit: Openingof EgyptAir Public Docket ( 8 / 1 0 / 0 0 )Press Releases and AdvisoriesRemarks by Chairman HallFamily AssistanceNTSB Inyestigative ProcessAviation Accident SynopsesSlides from11/13/99 Press BriefingTimeline, (11 /19 /99)Information From Other Sources:

U . S . Navy Salvage Operations SupportNOAA Search and Recovery SupportNjQ AA/_Natip^aLW eather_Seryice_Forecast

On October 31, 1999, at about 1:50 a.m., EasternStandard Time, Egyptair flight 990, a scheduledinternational flight from New York to Cairo, crashedin the Atlantic Ocean about 60 miles south ofNantucket Island, Massachusetts.Under the International Civil Aviation Organizationtreaty, the investigation of a plane crash ininternational waters is under the jurisdiction of thecountry of registry of the aircraft. At the request ofthe Egyptian government, the NTSB took the lead inthis investigation.The airplane involved in the accident was a Boeing767 model 366 ER, a stretched and extended rangeversion of the basic 767. It was the 282nd 767 off theproduction line, delivered new to EgyptAir onSeptember 26, 1989. The registration number is SU-GAP. It was equipped with two Pratt & Whitney4000 turbofan engines.Passengers were from Canada, Egypt, Germany,Sudan, Syria, United States, and Zimbabwe. Familyassistance was coordinated through a task force ledby the Department of State and the NTSB's FamilyAffairs Office, supported by the Red Cross, DisasterMortuary Services of the Department of Health andHuman Services, and Federal EmergencyManagement Administration for communications.The investigation was supported by the FederalAviation Administration, the Federal Bureau ofInvestigation, the United States Coast Guard, theDepartment of Defense, National Oceanic andAtmospheric Administration, Boeing CommercialAirplanes, EgyptAir, and Pratt & Whitney AircraftEngines. The NTSB's final report was issued March

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NTSB - Publication Page 1 of 46

Aircraft Accident Brief [ P D F v e r s i o n ( 1 .9 M ) ]*Please note - the following items are not included here, but are available in the PDF and printed copies of the document:

Figures AttachmentA: Cockpit Voice Recorder Transcript AttachmentB: Response of the Egyptian Civil Aviation Authority to the Draft Report of the National Transportation

Safety Board

Other items are available from the public docket,includingReport of Investigation of Accident submitted by EgyptianCivil Aviation Authority

Accident Number.: DCAOOMA006Operator/Flight Number: EgyptAir flight 990Aircraft and Registration: Boeing 767-3 66ER, SU-GAPLocation: 60 miles south of Nantucket, MassachusettsDate: October 31, 1999Adopted On: March 13, 2002FACTUALOn October 31, 1999, about 0152 eastern standard time (EST), EgyptAir flight 990, a Boeing 767-366ER (767), SU-GAP, crashed into the Atlantic Ocean about 60 miles south of Nantucket,Massachusetts. EgyptAir flight 990 was being operated under the provisions of Egyptian Civil AviationRegulations (ECAR) Part 121 and U.S. 14 Code of Federal Regulations Part 129 as a scheduled,international flight from John F. Kennedy International Airport (JFK), New York, New York, to CairoInternational Airport, Cairo, Egypt.1 The flight departed JFK about 0120, with 4 flight crewmembers, 10flight attendants, and 203 passengers on board. All 217 people on board were killed, and the airplanew as destroyed. Visual meteorological conditions prevailed for the flight, which operated on aninstrument flight rules (IFR) flight plan.HISTORY OF FLIGHTOn October 30,1999, the accident airplane departed Los Angeles International Airport (LAX), LosAngeles, California, as EgyptAir flight 990, destined fo r Cairo, with a scheduled intermediate stop atJ F K . EgyptAir flight 990 landed at JFK about 2348 eastern daylight time (EDT)2 and arrived at the gateabout 0010 EDT on October 31,1999.Because of the 10-hour scheduled en route flight time from JFK to Cairo, ECAR Part 121, Subpart Q,required that the accident flight have two designated flight crews (each crew consisting of a captain andfirst officer). According to the EgyptAir flight dispatcher who accompanied the two accident flight

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USS Harlan County Affair Page 1 of 8

The USS Harlan County Affairby Lieutenant Commander Peter J.A. Riehm, US N avyThe views expressed in this article are those of th e author and do not purport to reflect th e position ofth e Department of th e Army, th e Department of Defense or any other government o f f i c e or agency.-Editor

From a balcony of the Montana Hotel over-looking Port-au-Prince harbor, UN Special Envoy DanteCaputo stood with his mouth agape, his breath gone. His eyes were fixed on the fleeting fortunes of theUN's diplomatic solution to the festering crisis in Haiti. 1 What he saw was a simple gesture, but apowerful and pervasive one. The USS Harlan County ha d weighed anchor and was quietly steamingout of Port-au-Prince harbor. Th e haze-gray hull, so small on the horizon, carried away with it thecredibility of the international effort to restore democracy to Haiti.Haiti's experiment with democracy in the post-Duvalier era had been short-lived. Less than a year afterbecoming the freely elected president of Haiti in 1991, Jean-Bertrand Aristide was ousted by the head ofhis military, General Raoul Cedras. In the months that followed, the international community laboredfeverishly to restore elective government to Haiti. These efforts seemed to bear fruit when, in July 1993,the Organization of American States (OAS) and UN brokered the Governors Island Accords thatprovided for the return of Aristide from exile, the military junta members' early retirement and the liftingof international trade sanctions. The agreement also contained provisions for US and Canadian militaryadvisers to reform the Haitian military and retrain the Haitian National Police (HNP).To implement the Governors Island Accords military provisions, the US Atlantic Command(USACOM) created Joint Task Force Haiti Assistance Group (JTF HAG) and placed US Army ColonelJ.G. Pulley, then 7th Special Forces Group commander at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, in command.2JTF HAG was an a d hoc group that included various subject matter experts from all services. By August1993, its assigned personnel converged on a makeshift headquarters set up in an obscure room in theUSACOM compound at Norfolk, Virginia. Equipment andmaterial were scarce; chairs became aprecious commodity: individuals arriving at the headquarters had to wait fo r someone to leave beforethey could si t down. The assembled talent was impressive, but lacking standing operating procedures fo ra JT F staff and any experience in working together, staff members experienced several days of completechaos.3Less than a week into his command, Pulley gathered his principal players at the Norfolk Naval BaseOfficers Club where they laid out the overarching objectives for JTF HAG:

Separate the HNP and military. Reform andprofessionalize the Haitian military.It was understood that the Royal Canadian Mounted Police would retrain the HNP.4The planning challenge was formidable and implementation would be difficult. Real-world pressure wasalready bearing down on the JTF staff, as the National Command Authority (NCA) wanted PresidentAristide back in power by the end of October. It was imperative that JTFHAG be operating in Haiti

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Haiti Declare a "War on Terrorism" against the U.S.? Page 1 o f 2

Should HaitiDeclare a "Waron Terrorism"against the U.S?by Steve Pitteli

H O P E D A N C EOn December 27, 1993, Emmanuel "Toto"Constant and his FRAPH (RevolutionaryFront for the Advancement and Progress ofHaiti) death squads began firing on theHaitian shantytown of Cite Soleil. They thencircled the town w ith gasoline and burntseveral hundred homes to the ground,forcing some fleeing residents- childrenincluded- back into their burning homes atgunpoint.Two months be fore this attack, in October,1993, the U.S. navy vessel, USS HarlanCounty was dispatched to Haiti carrying 200troops to ostensibly pave the way forpreviously ousted President Jean-BertrandAristide's return to power. As the shipapproached the Port-au-Prince wha rf,Constant and his men staged a riot and theUSS Harlan was unable to dock. As a result,the populist President's scheduled returnwas aborted.During Constant's thre e-yea r reign of terror,his FRAPH death squads butchered severalthousand Haitian civilians. So how is it thatone o f the world's leading terrorists is freeand living in a nice, two-story home in thequiet Laurelton neighborhood of Queens,New York?After the U.S. military entered Haiti in 1994,Constant, who by then had a criminalsubpoena and a warrant for h is arrest,escaped an uninspired "search" by U.S.soldiers and slipped into the U.S. on a touristvisa. He was eventually captured and placedin the custody of U.S. immigration authoritiesfor over a year. In 1995, the Haitiangovernment requested Constant'sextradition on charges of murder, torture andarson; however the U.S. suspended hisdeportation, claiming that Haitian courtscould not handle the extradition and insteadgave Constant a green card to live and workfreely in the U.S.

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#292*05-15-03 AL QAEDA ASSOCIATES CHARGED IN ATTACK ON USS COLE,... Page 1 of 3

of 3JttstttFOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CRMTHURSDAY, MAY 15, 2003 (202) 514-2008WWW.USDOJ.GOV TDD (202) 514-1888

ALJQAEDAASSOCIATES CHARGED IN ATTACK ON USS COLE,

WASHINGTON, D.C. - Attorney General John Ashcroft, Assistant Attorney General MichaelChertoff of the Criminal Division, FBI Director Robert Mueller and U.S. Attorney James Comey of theSouthern District of New York announced today that two Yemeni nationals have been indicted by afederal grand jury in Manhattan for plotting al Qaeda's October 2000 attack on the USS Cole in theharbor of Aden, Yemen, in which 17 American sailors were killed.

The indictment charges Jamal Ahmed Mohammed Ali Al-Badawi and Fahd al-Quso with 50 countsof various terrorism offenses, including murder of U.S. nationals an d murder of U.S. military personnel.Badawi was also charged with attempting with co-conspirators to attack the U.S. naval vessel the USSThe Sullivans in January 2000, while that vessel was refueling in the port of Aden.

The defendants, both alleged to be longtime al Qaeda associates, remain at large overseas. They hadbeen in custody in Yemen until they escaped from prison last month.

On Oct. 12, 2000, a small boat laden with high explosives pulled alongside the USS Cole in theharbor of Aden, where it had been moored for a scheduled refueling stop. Suicide terrorists detonatedthe bomb, ripping a 40-foot hole in the side of the Cole, killing 17 American sailors and wounding atleast 40 others.The indictment charges that conspirators engineered a plot in mid-1999 to conduct an attack on U.S.navy ships that were to arrive in Aden for service and refueling. According to the indictment, Badawi, akey al Qaeda operative in Aden recruited by members of Usama bin Laden's inner circle, helped procuresafehouses in Aden for the terrorists, and obtained th e attack boat and the trailer an d truck used to towthe boat to Aden harbor. The indictment alleges that Quso facilitated the plot to ambush the USS Cole,

and prepared to film the attack from an apartment on the hills overlooking Aden Harbor.The indictment names as unindicted co-conspirators several high-ranking members of al Qaeda, someof whom have previously been charged in other terrorism indictments, including:Usama bin Laden, who allegedly planned these attacks and later praised the suicide bombers, and who

has been indicted in connection with the 1998 attacks on U.S. embassies in East Africa;Saif al Adel, a member of al Qaeda's military committee, who allegedly participated in the planning

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