‘Operation Holy Tuesday’ code name for 9/11 attacks

THE September 11 attacks were given the code name ‘Operation Holy Tuesday’ and precisely planned at an al-Qaida meeting in Malaysia chaired by terror mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, it has emerged.

The purpose of the three day secret conference in January 2000, which was monitored by Malaysian police at the CIA's request, was to discuss details of how the hijackers should train and hide in the United States and how the attacks should be carried out.

"This was the first planning meeting of the 9/11 operation. It was to review the progress they had achieved on the operation and to map out their future course of action," Rohan Gunaratna, a leading expert on Osama bin Laden, said after appearing before the US commission probing 9/11.