Tracking the 19 Hijackers
What are they up to now?
At least 9 of them survived 9/11
A former high-level intelligence official told me, "Whatever
trail was left
was left deliberately--for the F.B.I. to chase." -
New Yorker 10/1/01 by Seymour Hersh
American Airlines #11 Boeing
767
7:45 a.m. Departed Boston for Los Angeles
8:45 a.m. Crashed into North Tower of World Trade Center
American Airlines #77 - Boeing 757
8:10 a.m. Departed Dulles for Los Angeles
9:39 a.m. Crashed into Pentagon
United Airlines #175 - Boeing 767
7:58 a.m. Departed Boston for Los Angeles
9:05 a.m. Crashed into South Tower of World Trade Center
United Airlines #93 - Boeing 757
8:42 a.m. Departed Newark for San Francisco
10:03 a.m. Crashed in Stony Creek Township
The FBI still says these are the terrorists.14
But when they are found alive,
the FBI says their identity was stolen, and its not
the terrorist.15
Remember that suspicious bin Laden "confession" video?
How could he praise uninvolved living people12
for the 9/11 hijackings?
If they stole identities, how did the FBI identify those passengers
as terrorists?
Not by flight calls, which contradict the FBI13
information!
These aren't the first mistakes. FBI quickly had amended the original
list8,
as the original "suicide hijackers" came forward!
1
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/nation/specials/attacked/A38270-2001Sep15.html
Washington Post - 9/16/01 - 2nd Witness Arrested; 25 Held for Questioning
Two of 19 suspects named by the FBI, Saeed Alghamdi and Ahmed Alghamdi,
have the same names as men listed at a housing facility for foreign military
trainees at Pensacola. Two others, Hamza Alghamdi and Ahmed Alnami, have
names similar to individuals listed in public records as using the same
address inside the base. In addition, a man named Saeed Alghamdi graduated
from the Defense Language Institute at Lackland Air Force Base in San Antonio,
while men with the same names as two other hijackers, Mohamed Atta and
Abdulaziz Alomari, appear as graduates of the U.S. International Officers
School at Maxwell Air Force Base, Ala., and the Aerospace Medical School
at Brooks Air Force Base in San Antonio, respectively.
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Mohamed Atta and the Venice Flying Circus, the real story of the Hijackers
2
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/world/middle_east/1559151.stm
BBC - 9/23/01 - Hijack 'suspects' alive and well
And there are suggestions that another suspect, Khalid Al Midhar,
may also be alive.
http://www.azstarnet.com/attack/10928TERRORISTMUGGRAPHIC.html
Online Service of the Arizona Daily Star - 9/28/01 - Hijack suspect
profiles
"An FBI notice to banks on Sept. 19 raised the possibility that
Almihdhar might still be alive without speculating or explaining how that
could be possible. "
http://www.cnn.com/2001/US/09/27/inv.suspects/
CNN - 9/28/01 - Details of hijacking suspects released
Khalid Almihdhar: there are reports he is still alive
3http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/world/middle_east/1559151.stm
BBC - 9/23/01 - Hijack 'suspects' alive and well
Another of the men named by the FBI as a hijacker in the suicide
attacks on Washington and New York has turned up alive and well. Saudi
Arabian pilot Waleed Al Shehri was one of five men that the FBI said had
deliberately crashed American Airlines flight 11 into the World Trade Centre
on 11 September. Now he is protesting his innocence from Casablanca, Morocco.
4
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/story.jsp?story=94438
'Suicide hijacker' is an airline pilot alive and well in Jeddah - 9/17/01
A man named by the US Department of Justice as a suicide hijacker
of American Airlines flight 11 the first airliner to smash into the
World Trade Centre is very much alive and living in Jeddah. Abdulrahman
al-Omari, a pilot with Saudi Airlines, was astonished to find himself accused
of hijacking as well as being dead and has visited the US consulate
in Jeddah to demand an explanation.
http://abcnews.go.com/sections/us/DailyNews/WTC_suspects.html
ABC - Who Did It? FBI Links Names to Terror Attacks
"The name [listed by the FBI] is my name and the birth date is the
same as mine, but I am not the one who bombed the World Trade Center in
New York," Abdulaziz Alomari told the London-based Asharq Al-Awsat newspaper.
http://www.portal.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2001/09/23/widen23.xml
Revealed: the men with stolen identities - 9/23/01
Mr Al-Omari, who was accused of hijacking the American Airlines
plane that smashed into the the World Trade Centre's north tower, said
that he was at his desk at the Saudi telecommunications authority in Riyadh
when the attacks took place.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/world/middle_east/1559151.stm
BBC - 9/23/01 - Hijack 'suspects' alive and well
Abdulaziz Al Omari, another of the Flight 11 hijack suspects, has
also been quoted in Arab news reports. He says he is an engineer with Saudi
Telecoms, and that he lost his passport while studying in Denver.
5
http://www.portal.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2001/09/23/widen23.xml
Revealed: the men with stolen identities - 9/23/01
The Saudi Airlines pilot, Saeed Al-Ghamdi, 25, and Abdulaziz Al-Omari,
an engineer from Riyadh, are furious that the hijackers' "personal details"
- including name, place, date of birth and occupation - matched their own.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/world/middle_east/1559151.stm
BBC - 9/23/01 - Hijack 'suspects' alive and well
Meanwhile, Asharq Al Awsat newspaper, a London-based Arabic daily,
says it has interviewed Saeed Alghamdi. He was listed by the FBI as a hijacker
in the United flight that crashed in Pennsylvania.
6
http://www.portal.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2001/09/23/widen23.xml
Revealed: the men with stolen identities - 9/23/01
Mr Al-Hamzi is 26 and had just returned to work at a petrochemical
complex in the industrial eastern city of Yanbou after a holiday in Saudi
Arabia when the hijackers struck. He was accused of hijacking the American
Airlines Flight 77 that hit the Pentagon. He said: "I have never been to
the United States and have not been out of Saudi Arabia in the past two
years." The FBI described him as 21 and said that his possible residences
were Fort Lee or Wayne, both in New Jersey.
7
http://www.portal.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2001/09/23/widen23.xml
Revealed: the men with stolen identities - 9/23/01
Mr Al-Nami, 33, from Riyadh, an administrative supervisor with Saudi
Arabian Airlines, said that he was in Riyadh when the terrorists struck.
He said: "I'm still alive, as you can see. I was shocked to see my name
mentioned by the American Justice Department. I had never even heard of
Pennsylvania where the plane I was supposed to have hijacked."
8
http://www.cnn.com/2001/US/09/13/investigation.terrorism/index.html
CNN - FBI: Early probe results show 18 hijackers took part 9/13/01
Based on information from multiple law enforcement sources, CNN
reported that Adnan Bukhari and Ameer Bukhari of Vero Beach Florida, were
suspected to be two of the pilots who crashed planes into the World Trade
Center. CNN later learned that Adnan Bukhari is still in Florida, where
he was questioned by the FBI. We are sorry for the misinformation. A federal
law enforcement source now tells CNN that Bukhari passed an FBI polygraph
and is not considered a suspect. Through his attorney, Bukhari says that
he is helping authorities. Ameer Bukhari died in a small plane crash last
year.
Some of those involved in the plot left suicide notes, but they are
not believed to have been the hijackers, a government source told The Associated
Press. It was unclear whether those who left the notes actually killed
themselves.
9
Cairo Times - 9/27/01
He also claimed that his son had called him two days after the attack,
and described it as "a normal conversation." But he snarled when asked
to give further details. Asked what country Muhammad had called from, he
said, "The name of the country isn't written on the phone." Asked where
Muhammad was now, he said, "Ask Mossad."
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Mohamed Atta and the Venice Flying Circus, the real story of the Hijackers
Video shows Atta was not suicidal, as he pays bills and returns rentals.
10
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-092101probe.story
Los Angeles Times - 9/21/01
A man by the same name is a pilot, whose father is a Saudi diplomat
in Bombay. "I personally talked to both father and son today," said Gaafar
Allagany, head of the Saudi Embassy's information center.
11
Saudi Gazette 9/18/01 and The Khaleej Times 9/20/01
Marwan al-Shehhi is still alive in Morocco
12
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2001/12/20/attack/main322092.shtml
CBS - Bin Laden Names Hijackers On Tape Dec. 20, 2001
He would identify only three: Nawaq Alhamzi, Salem Alhamzi and Wail
Alshehri. Alshehri was on American Airlines flight 11, one of the planes
that hit the Twin Towers at the World Trade Center in New York; Alhamzi
and Alhamzi were on American Airlines flight 77, which hit the Pentagon.
Bin Laden's "smoking gun" video names living, uninvolved people? This
makes no sense!
This is just the beginning,
this "confession" video is full of abnormalities.
13
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/1556096.stm
BBC- The last moments of Flight 11
The FBI has named five hijackers on board Flight 11, whereas Ms
Sweeney spotted only four. Also, the seat numbers she gave were different
from those registered in the hijackers' names.
14
http://www.fbi.gov/pressrel/pressrel01/092701hjpic.htm
U.S. Department of Justice
Federal Bueau of Investigation - Hijackers
15
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/1553754.stm
BBC - FBI probes hijackers' identities 9/21/01
It believes that some of the hijackers used false identities, possibly
even names of people who are still alive, which could significantly complicate
the manhunt.
16
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/southflorida/sns-worldtrade-jarrah-lat.story
Los Angeles Times - 10/23/01 - Friends of terror suspect say allegations
make no sense
By Carol J. Williams Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
...Ziad and Salim ... left Lebanon together April 4, 1996, at the
age of 20, heading to the eastern German town of Greifswald in pursuit
of both an education and a good time.
Jarrah and the other three men named by the FBI as hijackers...initially
came to be on the list of 19 because they "have been identified as having
'Arabic' names
http://boston.com/dailyglobe2/268/nation/Hijack_suspect_lived_a_life_or_a_lie%2B.shtml
Boston Globe - Hijack suspect lived a life, or a lie - 9/25/01
Although a Brooklyn apartment lease from 1995-1996 bears Ziad Jarrah's
name - and landlords there have identified his photograph - his family
insists he was in Beirut at the time.
How was he in Brooklyn and Lebanon at the same time?
..two days before the hijacking, his nephew called and told the family
he'd be coming home for a cousin's wedding in mid-September. "He said he
had even bought a new suit for the occasion."
http://www.cnn.com/2002/US/08/01/cia.hijacker/index.html
CNN 8/1/02 - September 11 hijacker questioned in January 2001
The CIA suspected Ziad Jarrah had been in Afghanistan and wanted
him questioned because of "his suspected involvement in terrorist activities,"
UAE sources said.
A CIA spokesman vigorously denied that the CIA knew anything about
Jarrah before September 11 or had anything do with his questioning in Dubai.
17
The New Yorker - What Went Wrong
by Seymour Hersh - 10/1/01
Many of the investigators believe that some of the initial clues
that were uncovered about the terrorists' identities and preparations,
such as flight manuals, were meant to be found. A former high-level intelligence
official told me, "Whatever trail was left was left deliberately--for the
F.B.I. to chase."
In interviews over the past two weeks, a number of intelligence officials
have raised questions about Osama bin Laden's capabilities. "This guy sits
in a cave in Afghanistan and he's running this operation?" one C.I.A. official
asked. "It's so huge. He couldn't have done it alone." A senior military
officer told me that because of the visas and other documentation needed
to infiltrate team members into the United States, a major foreign intelligence
service might also have been involved.
18
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A19549-2001Sep24.html
Washington Post - 9/25/01 - Some Light Shed On Saudi Suspects - A12
Still, the father of Alghamdi told Al Watan that the picture provided
by the FBI was not that of his son. "It has no resemblance to him at all,"
he said.
19
http://www.newsday.com/ny-usflight232380680sep23.story
Tracing Trail Of Hijackers - By Thomas Frank - 9/23/01
At Freeway Airport in Bowie, Md., 20 miles west of Washington, flight
instructor Sheri Baxter instantly recognized the name of alleged hijacker
Hani Hanjour when the FBI released a list of 19 suspects in the four hijackings.
Hanjour, the only suspect on Flight 77 the FBI listed
as a pilot, had come to the airport one month
earlier seeking to rent a small plane.... However, when Baxter and
fellow instructor Ben Conner took....Hanjour on three test runs during
the second week of August, they found he had trouble
controlling and landing the single-engine Cessna 172. .....chief
flight instructor Marcel Bernard declined to rent him a plane without more
lessons.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A14365-2001Sep11.html
Washington Post - On Flight 77: 'Our Plane Is Being Hijacked' - 9/12/01
- Page A01
...the unidentified pilot executed a pivot so tight that it reminded
observers of a fighter jet maneuver. The plane
circled 270 degrees to the right to approach the Pentagon from the west,
whereupon Flight 77 fell below radar level, vanishing from controllers'
screens, the sources said.... Aviation sources said the plane was flown
with extraordinary skill, making it highly
likely that a trained pilot was at the helm...
Someone even knew how to turn off the transponder, a move
that is considerably less than obvious.
20
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2002/09/09/attack/main521223.shtml
CBS - Hijackers Lived With FBI Informant - Sept. 9, 2002
Two of the Sept. 11 hijackers who lived in San Diego in 2000 rented
a room from a man who reportedly worked as an undercover FBI informant....the
FBI informant prayed with them and even helped one open a bank account. |