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In call before attacks, Bin Laden told mother to expect ‘big news’ Intelligence service taped incriminating call two days before hijackings, sources tell NBC NBC, MSNBC AND NEWS SERVICES Oct. 1 — Osama bin Laden called his mother two days before the Sept. 11 terror attacks and told her, “In two days you’re going to hear big news and you’re not going to hear from me for a while,” NBC News has learned. Word of the phone call came as President Bush reported “good progress” in the battle against terrorism, saying authorities around the world had frozen $6 million in assets linked to terrorist activities and arrested or detained “about 150 terrorists and their supporters.” Oct. 1 — Law enforcement officials say following the suspected hijackers’ money trail has been the most fruitful area of investigation so far, NBC’s Pete Williams reports. THE CONTENTS of the phone call from bin Laden to his adoptive mother, Al-Kalifa bin Laden, were relayed to authorities in the United States by a foreign intelligence service, sources familiar with the the report told NBC’s Andrea Mitchell. The sources, who spoke on condition of anonymity, declined to identify the foreign service that forwarded the information. Al-Kalifa bin Laden was previously reported to have checked into a hospital in Paris on Sept. 12, the day after the terrorist attacks in New York and Washington, D.C. The French magazine Le Point said she underwent a checkup in the American Hospital’s cancer unit. Osama bin Laden, 44, is believed to be the only son of a woman from either Syria or Palestine. But the suspected terrorism mastermind was raised by Al-Kalifa bin Laden, another of Saudi construction magnate Mohammed bin Laden’s four wives. The bin Laden family disowned Osama bin Laden after his alleged role in planning and funding terrorist attacks became known, but sources in the United States tell NBC News that Al-Kalifa bin Laden has remained in contact with her adopted outlaw son. She is believed to have attended the wedding of bin Laden’s son earlier this year in Afghanistan, the sources said. BUSH SPEAKS OF EARLY PROGRESS Bush, meanwhile, said investigators have locked up $6 million in assets linked to terrorism by freezing 30 U.S. bank accounts believed to be used by bin Laden’s al-Qaida organization and 20 more overseas. He vowed that the move to cut off financial support for terrorists was “just the beginning.” Bush also said that “about 150 terrorists and their supporters ... in 25 different countries” had been arrested. He provided no details on the number of arrests, which exceeds the number reported by law enforcement agencies around the world, but said that U.S. agents had taken into custody a former hijacker accused of killing two Americans in 1986. White House officials identified the man as Zayd Hassan Al Safarini and said he had highjacked Pan Am Flight 73 in Pakistan on Sept. 9, 1986. The White House said Al Safarini and five other men were indicted by a District of Columbia grand jury in 1991 for the hijacking, in which 22 people were killed when the hijackers opened fire in the aircraft’s cabin. News accounts at the time did not identify anyone by that name among the five hijackers who were tried and convicted in connection with the hijacking. There was no immediate explanation for the discrepancy. Bush said the man had been sentenced to life in prison in Pakistan, but had been released after serving 14 years. The circumstances of his arrest were not immediately known, but Bush said U.S. authorities had transported him to Alaska and planned to charge him with murder later in the day. In another development Monday, authorities in Virginia revealed they had charged a Falls Church man with helping obtain false identification documents for two men accused of crashing a jetliner into the Pentagon on Sept. 11. Luis Martinez-Flores, 28, is charged with falsely certifying that Hani Hanjour and Khalid Almihdhar Almihdhar lived at his Falls Church address. The certifications were on state registration forms needed by the two to obtain a Virginia ID card. THIRD ARREST IN VIRGINIA Authorities also disclosed the arrest of Kenys Galicia on Monday. She was accused by the FBI of assisting numerous people obtain false Virginia documents. The FBI said she admitted on Sept. 19 that she signed residency certification forms for two of the suspected hijackers, Abdulaziz Alomari and Ahmed Alghamdi. Galicia was the third Virginia resident charged with helping the suspected hijackers, though authorities have not indicated that they believe any of the people knew about the terrorist plot. Meanwhile, U.S. investigators reportedly have uncovered documentation that cements a financial relationship between several of the hijackers involved in the Sept. 11 attacks and Mustafa Ahmed, an Egyptian who law enforcement officials say acts as the “paymaster” of bin Laden’s far-flung al-Qaida terrorist network. Time magazine and The New York Times both reported Monday that Mohamed Atta, who investigators say was a leader of the alleged hijackers, received wire transfers of cash in the days before the attacks from Ahmed, who was then in the United Arab Emirates. Time said the transfers occurred on Sept. 8 and Sept. 9 via a money service in Florida. The Times said two other suspected hijackers, whom it did not identify, wired more than $10,000 to Ahmed hours before the hijackings. The newspaper quoted investigative reports as stating that Ahmed left the United Arab Emirates for Pakistan later that day. MYSTERIOUSLY FREED FROM JAIL Ahmed has been identified as a suspect in the 1998 bombings of U.S. embassies in Tanzania and Kenya, another operation that law enforcement officials believe was funded by bin Laden and his al-Qaida network. Ahmed was arrested by Tanzanian authorities in September of that year, but released in 1999 when, under mysterious circumstances, all charges were dropped. In addition to unearthing evidence of ties between the suspected hijackers and a suspected bin Laden lieutenant, investigators have been following a paper trail that winds through Europe and the Middle East. Sources told NBC News over the weekend that the hijacking plot appears to have been planned in England, Germany and the Middle East. Working backward from bank accounts used by the alleged hijackers in the United States, investigators have found that the money to finance the plot flowed into Germany from the United Arab Emirates and was then distributed to other countries. Some suspects in the attacks also traveled into and out of the United Arab Emirates, according to the sources. In recent days, the FBI sent more agents to Germany in the search for the masterminds of the plot, which The Washington Post reported on Sunday was financed with a $500,000 bankroll. HIJACKING STRATEGY REVEALED New details on the hijacking strategy reveal a well-orchestrated plot devised overseas and carried out in the United States by 19 men who died on board the planes that slammed into the World Trade Center, the Pentagon and a Pennsylvania field. According to a report Sunday in The Post, the group was led by a team of six leaders, all of whom had taken flying lessons in the United States within the past several years. Four of them are believed to have piloted the doomed planes. Supporting these leaders was a group of 13 mostly younger Saudi Arabian men who had arrived in the United States during the last few few months, The Post reported. Atta, considered to be the group’s ringleader, and two of the other suspected pilots, Marwan Al-Shehhi and Ziad Jarrah, belonged to a radical Islamic student group in Hamburg, Germany, that investigators believe may have been a birthplace of the plot. Despite their religious extremism and hatred of the United States, records show the group often indulged in Western culture, from fast food and doughnuts to beer and hard liquor. WashPost: New details on hijacking plot The New York Times reported Saturday that within hours of the attacks, German intelligence agents intercepted a celebratory phone call between followers of bin Laden. The callers referred to “the 30 people traveling for the operation,” the Times reported. This prompted the FBI to search frantically for two more teams of potential hijackers, the newspaper said. TERROR CELLS INVESTIGATED In addition to the 19 alleged hijackers, U.S. and European authorities are zeroing in on a small group of men overseas who are believed to have plotted the attack and provided assistance to the suspected hijackers, government officials told The Associated Press last week. Among the groups are various cells of the Algerian-based Armed Islamic Group that joined forces with bin Laden, the officials said, speaking only on condition of anonymity. *COPYRIGHT NOTICE** In accordance with Title 17 U. S. C. Section 107, any copyrighted work in this message is distributed under fair use without profit or payment to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for nonprofit research and educational purposes only.[Ref. http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml ] Want to be on our lists? 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