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To: Counterterrorism From: Berlin Re: 315N-WE-227135, 12/05/2003 Appearing for the civil litigants ("Nebenklager") were Andreas Schulz, and Dr. (First name Unknown) von Groéhnen, appearing on behalf of Dr. Ulrich von Jeinsen, and other German attorneys appearing on behalf of the various civil litigants. The court now called Heinz Fromm (hereinafter "Fromm"), a fifty-five (55) year old attorney currently serving as the President of the German Federal Office of Constitutional Protection ("Bundesamt flr Verfassungsschutz", heréinafter "Bf£V") located in Cologne, Germany, to testify about statements concerning September 11th which he had made during an interview with the "Stid-Deutsche Zeitung" on 07/06/2003. Fromm advised the court that he was not related to Abdelghani Mzoudi, Mounir El Motassadeq, Ramzi Mohammed Abdullah Binalshibh, Said Bahaji or Zakariya Essabar. Fromm provided the court with a letter from the German Minister of the Interior which addressed the scope of his authority to provide testimony before the court. Fromm's testimony was restricted to statements he had made to the "Stid-Deutsche Zeitung.” He was prohibited from disclosing any classified sources or any information derived from foreign sources. 'Fromm testified that he gave the interview to the "Sud-Deutsche Zeitung" and that all of his statements made during the interview were correct. Specifically, the attacks of September 11th ~ were not conceived in Hamburg, but rather in Afghanistan. Furthermore, those individuals from Hamburg who had been involved in the attacks on September 11th had wanted to travel to Chechnya to fight. Upon reaching Afghanistan, they were recruited by Al-Qaeda for their English abilities, and were persuaded to participate in the September lith attacks. This represented the conclusion of the BfV which it publicly reported in May 2003 as part of its Annual Report for the Year 2002. The BfV's conclusion was based upon the totality of. the information available to it. - According to Fromm, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed (hereinafter "KSM") was the operational "mastermind". of the September 11th attacks for Al Qaeda. This view of KSM as the "mastermind" was supported by an Al-Jazeera interview of Ramzi Mohammed Abdullah Binalshibh (hereinafter "Binalshibh") and KSM conducted in 2002. The interview was first broadcast by the Al-Jazeera network in September 2002. Specialists at the BfV had analyzed this interview and deemed it as authentic.