Related BBC article 23 Sept 2001: https://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/1559151.stm
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
 Satam Suqami Used Firearm |
 Waleed Alshehri Still Alive3 |
 Wail Alshehri Still alive10 BL Video12 |
 Mohamed Atta Still Alive9 U.S. Military1 |
Abdulaziz Alomari |
American Airlines #77 – Boeing 757
8:10 a.m. Departed Dulles for Los Angeles
9:39 a.m. Crashed into Pentagon
 Khalid Almihdhar Still Alive2 Lived w/FBI20 |
 Majed Moqed |
 Nawaf Alhazmi Lived w/FBI20 |
 Salem Alhazmi Still Alive6 |
 Hani Hanjour Lacked alleged flying ability19 |
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
 Marwan Al-Shehhi Still Alive11 |
 Fayez Rashid |
 Ahmed Alghamdi U.S. Military1 |
 Hamza Alghamdi Fabrications18 U.S. Military1 |
 Mohand Alshehri |
United Airlines #93 – Boeing 757
8:42 a.m. Departed Newark for San Francisco
10:03 a.m. Crashed in Stony Creek Township
Saeed Alghamdi |
 Ahmad Haznawi |
Ahmed Alnami |
 Ziad Samir Jarrah Fabrications16 Alleged Pilot |
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?
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https://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.
2
https://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.
https://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. ”
https://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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https://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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https://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.
https://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.
https://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.
https://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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https://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.
https://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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https://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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https://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
https://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.”
10
https://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
12
https://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
https://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
https://www.fbi.gov/pressrel/pressrel01/092701hjpic.htm
U.S. Department of Justice
Federal Bueau of Investigation – Hijackers
15
https://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
https://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
https://web.archive.org/web/20010925123748/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.”
https://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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https://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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https://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.
https://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.
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https://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.