9/11 ‘mastermind was trained in Japan’

The alleged mastermind of the September 11 terror attacks spent months in Japan apparently learning how to dig rock caves for use as underground fortresses in Afghanistan, it was reported today.

The alleged mastermind of the September 11 terror attacks spent months in Japan apparently learning how to dig rock caves for use as underground fortresses in Afghanistan, it was reported today.

Khalid Sheikh Mohammed was trained by a Japanese construction machine company, security officials in Tokyo told Kyodo News.

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