Hamburg: See No Terror

The decision to send a Gitmo detainee to the city where the 9/11 plot was hatched displays willful blindness on the part of German authorities, and the Obama administration.
by John Rosenthal
“Hamburg is always being mentioned in connection with September 11, 2001, and for this reason we feel we have a special responsibility to support the U.S.A. in this case.” This is what Kristin Breuer, a spokesperson for the Hamburg municipal government, told Germany’s ARD public television after it was announced that two Guantánamo detainees who had been slated for transfer would be coming to live in Germany — one of them in Hamburg. According to German news reports, it is the Obama administration that took the initiative in asking Germany to accept detainees.
Note Breuer’s exact words: it is because “Hamburg is always being mentioned in connection with September 11, 2001,” that the municipal government felt it had to “support” the U.S. The formulation gives off more than just a faint whiff of denial. What, after all, would one say of a German official who commented that Germany should take some given measure because Germany is merely “always being mentioned in connection with” the Holocaust?
It is as if there were perhaps not any legitimate reason for mentioning Hamburg in connection with the 9/11 attacks. As if Mohamed Atta, Ziad Jarrah, Marwan al-Shehhi, and the other members of the eponymous Hamburg cell did not precisely hatch the 9/11 plot in Hamburg. As if Hamburg resident Ramzi Binalshibh did not continue to facilitate the plot from Germany after the three suicide pilots from Hamburg had already arrived in the United States. As if other key al-Qaeda operatives have not also made their homes in Hamburg.
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