Osama Bin - Laden masterminded the hijacking from Afghanistan. He was a familiar face for the US Administration. He was not some obscure individual for the US secret services. During Cold-War, Mr. Laden was a jihad warrior, who had deep involvement with US and Russia proxy war in Afghanistan. He fought a war with Red Armed Forces, and the US supplied weapons to Mr. Laden and his followers to fight the war in Afghanistan. Eventually, Mr. Laden, Shah Massoud and their followers defeated the Russian army on February 15th, 1989 a war that begun on December 24th, 1979. Mr. Laden was an old war relic which was left to his own devices.