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 47. The fourth group, numbering four, consisted of operatives who handled logistical, financial, and some training aspects of the operation. They knew they were involved in the al Qaeda operation against the U.S. but that was the extent of their knowledge. Mustafa Ahmed al-Hawsawi [al-Hawsawi] and Ammar al-Baluchi [Ammar] served as key travel and financial facilitators for the hijackers. According to Sheikh Mohammed, al-Baluchi may have guessed that the operation involved planes, because Sheikh Mohammed at one point in 2000 requested that al-Baluchi send him a CD-ROM and Videos on Boeing Commercial jets. Abd al-Rahim. Ghulam Rabbani, aka abu Rahmah, helped several of the hijackers transit Pakistan on their way to Afghanistan and back again.

48. The fifth group, consisting of seven individuals, were candidate muscle hijackers. They, along with Bin al-Shibh, were the eight would-be hijackers who never made it to the U.S. They knew that they were involved in a martyrdom operation and that it involved traveling to the U.S., but they never learned the real purpose of the operation until after the 9/11 attacks.

49. Sheikh Mohammed claimed that he wanted to get as many muscle hijackers as possible to the U.S. to enhance the odds for a successful hijacking, even if there were as many as six or seven hijackers or more per flight. There Page 26 of 58