Brig. Gen. Thomas W. Hartmann said the charges lay out a long-term sophisticated plan by the al-Qaida terrorist network to attack the United States of America. The attack over six years ago killed nearly 3,000 people.
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Hartmann, the legal adviser to the U.S. military tribunal system, said the six include Khalid Sheik Mohammed, the suspected mastermind of the attacks, in which hijacked planes were flown into buildings in New York and Washington. Another hijacked plane crashed in the fields of western Pennsylvania.
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The military will recommend that the six men be tried together before a military tribunal. But the cases may be clouded because of recent revelations that Mohammmed was subject to a harsh interrogation technique known as water-boarding — which critics call torture.

Asked what impact that will have on the case, Hartmann said it will be up to the military judge to determine what evidence is allowed.

Prosecutors have been working for years to assemble the case against suspects in the attacks that prompted the Bush administration to launch its global war on terror.

The other five men being charged are:

Abdullah Hamid Mohammed Al-Qahtani, the Saudi Arabian man officials have labeled the 20th hijacker. The US says he worked for al Wafa in its offices in Pakistan and Afghanistan (Al Wafa is listed on the U.S. State Terrorist list) , and has close ties to al Qaida and Usama Bin Laden.
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Ramzi Binalshibh, a Yemeni citizen said to have been the main intermediary between the hijackers and leaders of Al Qaeda. According to US officials, he met Mohammed Atta, the leader of the Hamburg cell, and two other hijackers, Marwan al-Shehhi and Ziad Jarrah, in 1997. Two years later, the four traveled to Afghanistan where they met Bin Laden.
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Ali Abd al-Aziz Ali, known as Ammar al-Baluchi, a Pakistani citizen who is a nephew of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, who has been identified as Mohammed's lieutenant for the 2001 operation. US intelligence officials say he delivered funds to the 11 September hijackers and later helped Sheikh Mohammed communicate with "shoe bomber" Richard Reid and other plotters, including Majid Khan.
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Mustafa Ahmad al-Hawsawi, al-Baluchi's assistant, a Saudi citizen. He is suspected of meeting many senior al-Qaeda figures, including Bin Laden, soon after the attacks. Financial links have been found between Hawsawi, other terror suspects and some of the hijackers, US intelligence says., and he helped arrange travel for some of them.
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Walid Muhammad Salih Bin 'Attash, a Yemeni detainee known as Khallad, who investigators say selected and trained some of the hijackers. He is also accused of involvement in the 11 September 2001 attacks and met two of the hijackers, Nawaf al-Hamzi and Khalid al-Midhar, to help them check out US flights in Asia.
He was allegedly picked as one of the hijackers himself but was prevented from taking part when he was briefly arrested in Yemen earlier that year. He is said to have served as Bin Laden's bodyguard.

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Despite all these arrests , many in Lebanon and the rest of the Arabic and Muslim world are of the opinion that the September 11 attack was the work of Israeli agents . They claim it was a conspiracy by Israel to force the US to launch a crusade war against the Arabs and Mulsims.

Sources: AP, Ya Libnan

Tags: Arabs, Lebanon, Muslims, September 11, US