C 01110635 • b 1 b 3 EO 12958 1 4 b 25Yrs EO 12958 1 4 c 25Yrs EO 12958 1 4 d 25Yrs EO 12958 3 5 c 'i 4Dec r1998 SUBJECT Bin La din Preparing To Hijack us· Air and Qther Attac1' s allies Reportingl _ - _ ggesta B Lad in and his are aring for attacks in the US incl g an aircra t hijacking to pbtain the release qf Shaykh 'Vmar 'Abd aj Rahman 'Ramzi Yousef andMubam mad Sadiq 'Awc lil One sour quoted a senior me ber of the GJm a'at al-Islamiyya- IG saying that as of late October the IG had completed planning foi an operation in the US on be of Bin Ladin buttbat the o on on hold A senior Bin J adin operative from Saudi Arabia was to visit-IO counterparts in Pie US soqn t h to _dis options- including an hijacking · · was IQ l e a d e r in late Sep l er was plan ajng te hij a US aiIJjner during the 'n t couple of weeks to free •Abd al-Rahman and the othe prisoners according to what may· a different source e _same sow ce late last month said that Bin Ladiii might implement plans to hij k US aircraft before the beghpJ ipg of an on 20 Pecember and at two r s Qf the operational tc am bad security checks dul'ing a recent trial mn at an UIµd 1 i fied New York 3 in ortl ev¢ed I f-· Some me of the Bin Lad in twork have xeceived hijack traµling according to vari soUICes no group directly tied to Bin Ladin' s al-Qa'ida organization has ever can ieq out an aircraft hij Jdng Uin Ladin could be weighing other types of operations against US Acµording t ' -r ' e 1G in October obtained SA-7 missiles and intended to move them from 'Yemen mto Saudi Araf ia to shoot down an Egyptian plane or if UDSUCCeSSfw a US military or civilian · AIL October told I thatun pecified extremist elements iµ ¥ enien I ha I acquired SA 7s1 3 j-- dicate e Bin Ladin o ganization or its allies Ie moving closer to implementing anti-US attacks at unspecified locations but we do not know whether they are related to attacks on aircraft A Bin associate in Sudan late last month told a colleague in Kandahar that be had shipped a gr UP of cont iners to Afghanistan Bin La din assotjates also ta1ked about Jl OVe nt of containers to ¥gbanistan before the East Africa bo s In othe -- -in Ladin associates last month discus ed pic Jdng up a package in Malaysia One told his colleagae in alay a fha ''they were the ninth inonth ¢ pregnancy APPROVED FOR RELEASEL DATE 25-April-2012 An alleged Bin Ladiµ supporter in Yemen late last month temarlre d te his mother that he planned to work in commerce from abroad said his impending maniage whiq woul J take pblcc soo would be a surprise ''Con inlerce and • age · often are c odewords for termrist attacks 1 _ · This mcmoran ium was and 1 i reach '----- - '---- ftbc DO Co Center The anthorcan be - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - ·i 00 •