The Guardian reports that among the paperwork left behind by fleeing Taliban and al-Qa’eda leadership is more hard evidence of their plans, their activities, and their involvement in 9-11 (in case anyone was still doubting):
The scraps of half-burnt paper, meticulously kept notebooks and pages torn from magazines and technical manuals reveal the vast and terrifying scale of the terrorists’ ambitions to launch a jihad against the West. They reveal plans to assassinate world leaders in their cars; to bomb the power stations of America, Europe and Asia; and to make weapons of mass destruction from chemicals and smuggled nuclear material.
[…] The most satisfying finds for President Bush’s administration are likely to have been a page torn out of Flying magazine listing flight schools in Florida – including Walkwitz Aviation in Titusville and Phoenix East Aviation in Daytona Beach, two schools linked to the hijackers of 11 September – and a form that comes with a Microsoft Flight Simulator 98 computer program. The program, which simulates the experience of flying a commercial jet, is often used by pilots and is similar to one found in the luggage of Mohammed Atta, one of the hijackers.
This article is fascinating (if chilling) reading, and there’s lots, lots more than what I’ve quoted above.
(Via OpinionJournal)