Hijack leader 'met bin Laden in Afghanistan'

The CIA believes the September 11 hijacking ringleader Mohamed Atta met Osama bin Laden’s top commander in 1999, it emerged today.

Atta, believed to have been the leader of the 19 men who hijacked airliners for the kamikaze attacks allegedly orchestrated by bin Laden’s al Qaida network, apparently travelled to Afghanistan in 1999 to meet the terror group’s commanders.