The Brother “Zacarias” & The Minnesota Terrorism Project

Zacarias Moussaoui is a French member of al-Qaeda who pleaded guilty in U.S. federal court to conspiring to kill citizens of the United States as part of the September 11 attacks. Moussaoui was like most young Muslim youth, met with prejudice and racial tension while he grew up in the town of Narbonne, France. There was no religious education within the family. Moussaoui seeked to find peace within his young adult life, and after completing a master's degree at the South Bank University in London, he started visiting Brixton Mosque in 1995. French authorities began monitoring Moussaoui in 1996 when they observed him with Islamic extremists in London. In 1998, he attended the Khalden training camp in Afghanistan, allegedly returning the next year as well. He was also suspected of attending a very high level Al Qaeda summit in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia in January of 2000. It was here he was allegedly selected to take part in the September 11th 2001 terrorist attacks.

On February 23rd 2001, Zacarias Moussaoui lands at O’ Haire Airport in Chicago. Where he begins attending the Masjid al-Salaam mosque in Norman, Oklahoma. However, FBI agents in Minneapolis halted Moussaoui's plans, and tried to secure FISA warrant to search his personal belongings and what was in the hotel room he stayed in. To which the agent's request were denied. Moussaoui would later be convicted for his role in the September 11th 2001 terrorist attacks, per his own admissions. Yet in the biggest surprise of all, Osama Bin Laden, just a mere few months after Moussaoui's sentencing, made a statement which put a wrench in the story regarding Zacarias Moussaoui. Some information used in this video is based off the book "I Heard You Were Going On Jihad" written by Mitchell Gray.