"I cannot imagine that he was lurking, and considering, and nursing a plan of that atrocity".
Mr Mohammed later boasted of dozens of atrocities, from planning the September 11th attacks to personally beheading the journalist Daniel Pearl.At least investigators seem to have realised that they crossed a line.
Those agencies can only do their job, the argument goes, if they have full access to the online chatter of those planning terrorist atrocities.
Taylor was found not guilty of either ordering or planning the atrocities.
Al Qaeda's record of atrocities is characterized by meticulous long-term planning, a desire to inflict mass casualties, suicide bombers and multiple simultaneous attacks.
Even though all military activities ceased by 6 August, stories of atrocities committed by the Assyrians at Dirabun and rumours that Christians were planning to blow bridges up and poison drinking water in major Iraqi cities spread.
Dozens of victims testified of atrocities.
Syria is a simmering pot of atrocities.
"Add it to the list of atrocities".
Tales of atrocities are rife.
