Detained al-Qaeda leader Mr Abu Zubaydah has told interrogators the airliner that crashed in Pennsylvania on September 11th was headed for the White House, NBC News has reported.
Mr Zubaydah, who was captured in Pakistan in March,
is described as the third-ranking leader in Osama bin Laden's terrorist network. He has been held in an undisclosed location since his capture.
Four US passenger planes were seized on September 11th by 19 suspected hijackers, according to police.
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Two of them were flown into the World Trade Center towers in New York, and a third rammed the Pentagon building outside Washington. The fourth plane crashed into a field in rural Pennsylvania when its passengers resisted the hijackers.
AFP