· a personnel system that could recruit candidates, vet them, indoctri-
nate them, and give them necessary training;
· an intelligence effort to gather required information and form assess-
ments of enemy strengths and weaknesses;
· the ability to move people; and
· the ability to raise and move the necessary money.
The information we have presented about the development of
the planes operation shows how, by the spring and summer of 2000, al Qaeda
was able to meet these requirements.
By late May 2000, two operatives assigned to the planes operation were
already in the United States.Three of the four Hamburg cell members would
soon arrive.
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