brief - Iran 911 Case

symbols. Ex. 6, Lopez-Tefft Affid. 178-83. Further, the al Qaeda operatives whocarried out the attacks were trained by Hizballah in handling the sophisticated explosivesused in the East Africa bombings. See 9/11 REPORT, p. 68; Ex. 6, Lopez-Tefft Affid.179; 182-83. One of the specific types of training Hizballah provided was in blowingup large buildings. Among those who trained at the Hizballah camps was Saef al Adel,the al Qaeda chief of terrorist operations, who was convicted in absentia in the U.S. forhis role in the twin embassy bombings, and who would spend the years after 9/11 in safehaven inside Iran. Ex. 6, Lopez-Tefft Affid. 194-95; Ex. 2, Timmerman 2nd Affid.57-59 and Ex. B-4 thereto. 6010. 2000: the U.S.S. Cole. On October 12, 2000, al Qaeda suicide bombersattacked the U.S.S. Cole in the harbor of Aden, Yemen, killing seventeen sailors andinjuring thirty-nine. At just that time, a U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency analyst wasalerting his superiors to a web of connections he was finding between and among alQaeda, the Iranian intelligence agencies controlled by Iran‘s Supreme Leader, Hizballah,and other active terrorist groups. See Ex. 6, Lopez-Tefft Affid. 188-192. 61 As lateranalysis would reveal, the explosives used to damage the Cole were a trademarkHizballah ―shaped charge‖ similar to what was used in the Marine barracks bombings.According to a U.S. government official who spoke to the press, ―‗It‘s a trademark ofbombs made by Hizballah and raises the question of the involvement of Iran.‘‖ Id.60 Telephone records obtained by American prosecutors investigating the East Africa embassy bombingsrevealed that ten percent (10%) of the calls made from the satellite phone used by Osama bin Ladenwere to Iran. Ex. 6, Lopez-Tefft Affid. 185.61 One such connection was a secret meeting in Kuala Lumpur in January 2000 attended by a Malaysianarmy captain affiliated with al Qaeda who would later be linked to the U.S.S. Cole bombing (and whowould help Zacharias Moussaoui obtain a U.S. visa), and two of the eventual 9/11 hijackers. The twofuture hijackers were observed to have spent the night at the Iranian embassy. Ex. 6, Lopez-TefftAffid. 191.66