When asked why Osama bin Laden’s wanted poster only mentions his alleged involvement in the East African embassy bombings, but not 9/11, Rex Tomb of the FBI’s public affairs unit says, “The reason why 9/11 is not mentioned on Osama bin Laden’s Most Wanted page is because the FBI has no hard evidence connecting bin Laden to 9/11.” [Milli Gazette, 6/11/2006]
This section is meant to provide an overview of the history behind Al Qaeda, Osama Bin Laden, and the 19 Hijackers whom the Government alleges were responsible for the attacks of September 11th.
News Update 9/24/2011 - Saudi Royal ties to 9/11 hijackers via florida Saudi Family
Whistleblower Michael Springman - Foreign Service Official (20 years) US Consulate, Jeddah Saudi Arabia
Core of Corruption
This excellent documentary details how the 9/11 Hijackers were brought to this country, trained at CIA connected flight schools, and protected from Federal Agencies.
At the time of the attacks, Armitage was the boss of Marc Grossman, Undersecretary of State for Political Affairs, and Grant S. Green, Undersecretary of State for Management. It has been reported that Grossman met with General Ahmed as well, prior to 9/11.[3] As Undersecretary of Management, Green was responsible for administration of U.S. embassies abroad as well as coordination with the president on key management issues, and he supervised the State Department’s Office of White House Liaison.
Green’s position in the State Department put him in control of the Bureau of Consular Affairs, which issued visas to foreign nationals. The Bureau’s new express visa program, instituted under the leadership of Armitage and Green, provided visas to five of the alleged 9/11 hijackers. Ten of the other alleged hijackers had previously received their visas in the same U.S. consulate office in Saudi Arabia. The express program made an already bad system worse because the new process was one in which “The issuing officer has no idea whether the person applying for the visa is actually the person (listed) in the documents and application.”[4] That is, in terms of the visas anyone could have taken the place of the alleged hijackers and Armitage and Green were in a position to supervise that dubious process.
According to the official story,
teams of four and five hijackers armed only with primitive weapons
(boxcutters)
overcame the flight crews of four out of four flights
and then proceeded to fly three of the four planes into
The World Trade Center towers and the Pentagon.
The alleged hijackers supposedly belonged to semi-autonomous cells,
having been in the United States for months and years.
The cells were directed by the terrorist organization Al Qaeda
headed by
Osama bin Laden.
The hijacker story had a great deal of appeal to the American audience.
The hijackers were all Muslim extremists,
far removed from mainstream American culture.
Their fanaticism made their success against overwhelming odds
seem more plausible.
Despite its attractive features,
the hijacker story is challenged by the facts:
There is no credible evidence that any of the alleged hijackers
were on any of the jetliners, and considerable evidence to the contrary.
None of the passenger lists published by the airlines
contained any of the alleged hijackers' names.
No airport video shows any of the alleged hijackers
boarding the flights.
Several of the alleged hijackers turned up alive after the attack.
The hijacker scenario was operationally almost impossible.
None of the alleged hijackers were good pilots, and none had flown
jet airplanes, let alone large jetliners.
Yet they are supposed to have piloted jetliners into small targets.
The maneuvers of the jet that targeted the Pentagon required
top-gun piloting, if they were even humanly possible.
The staggered flight times and long flight paths of the
targeted jetliners exposed the plan to certain defeat,
had the air defense system been allowed to function normally.
According to the official account four flight crews were defeated
by bands of four or five hijackers using only "boxcutters",
despite several of the airline pilots being Vietnam combat veterans.
The hijackers supposedly prevented any of the flight crews
from radioing distress or punching in the four-digit hijack codes.
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The alerting of flight crews to the hijacking of the first jetliner
would have raised their guard and made subsequent hijackings
much more difficult.
The behavior of the alleged hijackers does not match
that of committed jihadists on a suicide mission for Allah.
Several of the alleged hijackers frequented strip bars,
where they drank alcohol and were rude.
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Alleged hijackers left copies of the Koran behind.
Not a "Single Piece of Paper" Links Alleged Hijackers to Plot
Most of these facts are never acknowledged by government agencies
or mainstream media.
However, FBI director Robert Mueller did admit that his agency
failed to find "a single piece of paper" linking the alleged
hijackers to the 9/11/01 plot.
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title:
Robert S. Mueller, III, Director, FBI, Commonwealth Club of California
The hijackers also left no paper trail. In our investigation, we have not
uncovered a single piece of paper either here in the U.S. or in the treasure
trove of information that has turned up in Afghanistan and elsewhere
that mentioned any aspect of the September 11th plot.
The hijackers had no computers, no laptops, no storage media of any kind.
They used hundreds of different pay phones and cell phones,
often with prepaid calling cards that are extremely difficult to trace.
And they made sure that all the money sent to them to fund their attacks
was wired in small amounts to avoid detection.
With such a lack of evidence it is no wonder that there has
not been a single prosecution
leading to conviction
anywhere in the world of the alleged perpetrators,
with the single exception of Zaccarias Moussaoui,
who was only convicted because he admitted to involvement
in the alleged plot.
'But I'm Not Dead'
Even more damning for the official hijacking story is the fact
that several of the alleged hijackers turned up alive after the attack.
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title:
MANY 9-11 'HIJACKERS' ARE STILL ALIVE.
The world's media has reported that many of the so-called hijackers
"fingered" by the FBI are still alive. For example the BBC
(British Broadcasting Cooperation) carried this report:
Of the 19 alleged hijackers identified by the FBI,
at least six turned up alive after the attack.
The FBI's identifications included names, photographs, and,
in several cases, other personal details -- all of which matched
the six persons who surfaced after the attack to proclaim their innocence.
These pages each cite a number of mainstream press accounts that
document the efforts by the suspects to proclaim their innocence.
Yet despite this, the 9/11 Commission Report
repeated the FBI's original list of 19 hijackers without so much as
admitting that there was a problem in the identifications.
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title:
At Least 7 of the 9/11 Hijackers are Still Alive
Satam al Suqami, Wail and Waleed al Shehri (two brothers)
Both Alive
,
Abdul Aziz al Omari
Alive
,
Fayez Banihammad (from the UAE), Ahmed al Ghamdi, Hamza al Ghamdi, Mohand
al Shehri
Alive
,
Saeed al Ghamdi
Alive
,
Ahmad al Haznawi, Ahmed al Nami
Alive
,
Majed Moqed, and Salem al Hazmi
Alive
(the brother of Nawaf al Hazmi).
How can the 9/11 Commission be taken
seriously when they refer to 9/11 'hijackers' who are still alive?
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
http://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."
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
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.
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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.
