ALLEGED 9/11
HIJACKERS:
AMERICAN AIRLINES Flight 77
Crashed into the
Pentagon
| 1. Khalid Almihdhar:
Possible Saudi national, possible resident of San
Diego, Calif., and New York. Aliases: Sannan
Al-Makki; Khalid Bin Muhammad; 'Addallah
Al-Mihdhar; Khalid Mohammad Al-Saqaf. 
ALIVE?
In August, al-Midhar was placed on a
watch list after U.S. intelligence
received information that a man with that
name had been seen meeting with
associates of accused terrorist Osama bin
Laden in Malaysia, officials have said.
By the time al-Midhar's name was added to
the list, U.S. officials believed he
already had entered the country. His name
was listed on the manifest of the
American Airlines jet that crashed into
the Pentagon.
Officials, speaking on condition of
anonymity, said they were exploring
several possibilities. One was that
al-Midhar never entered the country and
his name was simply used as an alias by
one of the hijackers who died. Another
possibility was that he allowed his name
to be used on the flight by another
hijacker, so that U.S. officials might
assume he died, giving him time to escape
the country. A third was that he did in
fact die in the crash as a hijacker. [Guardian]
Three
pictures of Almihdhar shown by
the media
Eight days after
the planes went down, the Federal
Deposit Insurance Corp.
distributed a "special
alert" to its member banks
asking for information about 21
"alleged suspects" in
the attacks. The list said
"Al-Midhar, Khalid
Alive," raising the
possibility that the real
Almihdhar never died on the
plane. But one Justice Department
official called the listing a
"typo." [Cox News Service]
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While the FBI's confusion
over Arabic names and identities
was largely ignored in the
American press, each blunder has
made huge news in Saudi Arabia,
casting doubt on U.S. intentions
and convincing many Saudis that
their country has been slandered.
"I want to think all this is
a mistake," said a
bewildered Khalid al-Mihammadi,
24, a computer programmer from
Mecca who was named wrongfully in
an early list of hijackers
released by the U.S. Justice
Department. "We are
America's friends, and they do
this to us. It isn't fair."
Al-Mihammadi, who spent nine
months studying English in the
U.S., said he was watching
television at home when shaken
friends saw his photograph on the
news and began to call to see if
he was still alive. [Chicago Tribune] |
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2. Majed Moqed: Possible Saudi
national. Aliases: Majed M. GH Moqed; Majed Moqed, Majed
Mashaan Moqed.
| 3. Salem Alhazmi: Possible
Saudi national, possible resident of Fort Lee,
N.J., or Wayne, N.J. Named on the 2001
bin Laden video tape.
ALIVE
The real Salem
Al-Hazmi, however, is alive and indignant
in Saudi Arabia, and not one of the
people who perished in the American
Airlines flight that crashed on the
Pentagon. He works at a government-owned
petroleum and chemical plant in the city
of Yanbu.
He said yesterday he had not left Saudi
Arabia for two years, but that his
passport had been stolen by a pickpocket
in Cairo three years ago. [Guardian]
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4. Nawaf Alhazmi: Possible Saudi
national, possible resident of Fort Lee, N.J.; Wayne,
N.J.; San Diego, Calif. Aliases: Nawaf Al-Hazmi; Nawaf Al
Hazmi; Nawaf M.S. Al Hazmi.
5. Hani Hanjour:
Possible resident of Phoenix and San Diego.
Aliases: Hani Saleh Hanjour; Hani Saleh; Hani
Saleh H. Hanjour.
Hanjour
was the only suspect on Flight 77 the FBI listed
as a pilot
On Sepember 16 it was
reported that Hanjour's name was not on the
passenger manifest of Flight 77 because he may
not have had a ticket. [Washington
Post]
How
was Hanjour able to board the plane if he
didn't have his name on the manifest or a
ticket?
If
Hanjour's name wasn't on the manifest and
he didn't have a ticket there can be no
record whatsoever of Hanjour boarding
Flight 77, so how did the FBI know he was
on the plane?
One of the hijackers aboard the plane
that crashed into the Pentagon was
stopped for speeding within a few miles
of the military headquarters six weeks
before the attack, police confirmed
Tuesday.
Hani Hanjour, who is believed to have
piloted the hijacked plane into the
Pentagon, was ticketed Aug. 1 for driving
55 mph in a 30 mph zone in the 1800 block
of South George Mason Drive, Arlington,
Va., police said. Three weeks after
the stop, Hanjour mailed in a money order
to pay a $70 fine and $30 in court costs,
Arlington General District Court Clerk
Kimberly Reazey said Tuesday. [Washington Post]
Why did Hanjour pay a speeding
fine three weeks before his planned
suicide mission?
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Flight 77
passenger manifest
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