How many people know that some of the 19 hijackers named by the FBI are still alive? What did
they do, parachute? or were they really on those four planes? How many
people know that the Bush family and the Bin Laden family have long been
very close? In the movie Fahrenheit 9/11: starting in 1975 when Osama Bin Laden's older brother Salem financed the young George Bush in his very first business with his very own oil company, Arbusto Energy Inc.
In the events of September 11, 2001, while the attacks were underway,
President Bush sat stiffly in a Florida elementary classroom, reading a
goat story with dozens of schoolchildren. His aide Andy Card came toward
him and whispered in his ear about the breaking news in Lower Manhattan,
New York, but Bush as a commander in chief, continued reading for twenty
minutes while America was under attack. Later he told three different
versions of how he felt during those world-changing moments.
In those first moments after the tragedy: Vice President Dick Cheney,
national security adviser Condoleezza Rice, and military chief Richard Myers all
insisted that the government had no idea something like this could
happen, that commercial airliners could be used as missiles to pierce
the heart of America, but they were able to furnish the names of 19 Arab
hijackers within 72 hours, or when later it was revealed
that the government had been studying this problem for ten years and
that very day was running a drill to practice how to cope with this
precise threat.
American Airlines #11 Boeing 767
7:45 a.m. Departed Boston for Los Angeles
8:46 a.m. Crashed into North Tower of World Trade Center
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.
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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.
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
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http://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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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."
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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.
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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."
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.
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Saudi Gazette 9/18/01 and The Khaleej Times 9/20/01
Marwan al-Shehhi is still alive in Morocco
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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.
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.
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http://www.fbi.gov/pressrel/pressrel01/092701hjpic.htm
U.S. Department of Justice
Federal Bueau of Investigation - Hijackers
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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.
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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
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.
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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.
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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.
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http://www.newsday.com/ny-usflight232380680sep23.story 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 ...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.
