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Hijackers 'booked tickets at library'
Herald Sun ^ | 29apr05 | correspondents in Washington

Posted on 04/29/2005 10:21:18 AM PDT by Calpernia

THE Bush administration revealed today that some of the September 11, 2001, hijackers booked their tickets on the internet using a computer in a college library in New Jersey.

The disclosure by Ken Wainstein, US attorney for the District of Columbia in testimony to the House of Representatives subcommittee on crime, terrorism and homeland security, was intended to bolster the government's argument that Congress should renew a law allowing it to seize library and bookstore records.

"Investigators tracing the activities of the hijackers determined that, on four occasions in August of 2001, individuals using internet accounts registered to Nawaf Al Hazmi and Khalid Al Mihdar - 9/11 hijackers - used public access computers in the library of a state college in New Jersey," Mr Wainstein said.

He testified that computers in the library were used to review and order airline tickets on an internet travel reservations site.

Al Hazmi and Al Mihdar were hijackers aboard American Airlines Flight 77, which crashed into the Pentagon on September 11. Their last documented visit to the library occurred 12 days before the attack when a person using Al Hazmi's account used the library's computer to review the reservations, Mr Wainstein said.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Front Page News; News/Current Events; US: New Jersey; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: 2001; 911; 911hijackers; flight77; hijackers; jihadinamerica; khalidalmihdar; khalidalmihdhar; library; nawafalhazmi; newjersey; nj; september11; statecollege; wot
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To: Doe Eyes
The safest place to plan terrorist activity is within the USA. It's a violation of their rights to try stop them.
Strange country we live in. If we don't take the temporary
steps needed to protect our freedoms and secure the nation, we will wind up loosing both in the future. Criminals should not have rights. They forfeit them when they break the law.
21 posted on 04/29/2005 11:33:44 AM PDT by Nathan Zachary
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Two words for those who think protecting civil liberties is a waste of time:

President Hillary


22 posted on 04/29/2005 12:17:19 PM PDT by Majic (Skepticism requires an open mind, cynicism requires the opposite.)
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To: Nathan Zachary

Or, we could DEPORT the moon-worshipping FREAKS and keep our freedom.

Or do you like defending your own cage?


23 posted on 04/29/2005 12:19:40 PM PDT by eno_ (Freedom Lite - it's almost worth defending.)
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To: Majic

That's a strong argument......


24 posted on 04/29/2005 1:14:12 PM PDT by expatpat
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To: Calpernia

Bump


25 posted on 04/29/2005 1:38:46 PM PDT by nw_arizona_granny (Airspeed, altitude, or brains. Two are required to successfully complete a flight.)
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To: Pepper777; TexKat; lacylu; Tuba Guy; SevenofNine; DAVEY CROCKETT; WestCoastGal

Ping


26 posted on 04/29/2005 1:41:52 PM PDT by nw_arizona_granny (Airspeed, altitude, or brains. Two are required to successfully complete a flight.)
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To: Calpernia
You mean it wasn't about the 911 terrorists dating librarians?

Well, just heck and darn that!

27 posted on 04/29/2005 1:47:05 PM PDT by muawiyah
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To: Calpernia

Some of these guys had Virginia driver's licenses. Why was New Jersey issuing VA documents?


28 posted on 04/29/2005 1:48:48 PM PDT by muawiyah
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To: Nathan Zachary

Have to prove they broke the law first. Then there is malicious intent.


29 posted on 04/29/2005 1:56:40 PM PDT by Little Ray (I'm a reactionary, hirsute, gun-owning, knuckle dragging, Christian Neanderthal and proud of it!)
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To: muawiyah

>>>Some of these guys had Virginia driver's licenses. Why was New Jersey issuing VA documents?

I don't know what the breakdown is. The New Brunswick officer said most of the hijackers got their fake IDs in New Brunswick.

If that statement meant the ones that 'didn't' have have VA IDs or if that meant that New Brunswick issued various fake IDs from other states....I don't know.


30 posted on 04/29/2005 2:41:34 PM PDT by Calpernia (Breederville.com)
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To: Nathan Zachary
If we don't take the temporary steps needed to protect our freedoms and secure the nation, we will wind up loosing both in the future.

In the context of this specific event (terrorist booking flights at a library) what temporary steps do you see fit?

31 posted on 04/29/2005 2:53:11 PM PDT by Doe Eyes
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To: Calpernia; muawiyah
Between the 19 of the 9/11 hijackers, they had seventy something driver's licenses. So most probably had both NJ & VA IDs along with many others. I guess their MO was to use the NJ IDs while in NJ.

God save us from those politicians still opposing the toughening of driver's license requirements.

32 posted on 04/29/2005 3:10:59 PM PDT by drpix
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To: Calpernia

Two of the terrorist resided on William Patterson College.


33 posted on 04/29/2005 3:13:02 PM PDT by mware ("God is dead" -- Nietzsche........ "Nope, you are"-- GOD)
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To: Calpernia

Two of the terrorist resided on William Patterson College.


34 posted on 04/29/2005 3:14:26 PM PDT by mware ("God is dead" -- Nietzsche........ "Nope, you are"-- GOD)
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To: mware

Were they the same ones that had an apartment in Patterson?


35 posted on 04/29/2005 3:36:09 PM PDT by Calpernia (Breederville.com)
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To: Calpernia

I can not be sure, but I believe they are the ones that had the apartment in Patterson.


36 posted on 04/29/2005 3:46:52 PM PDT by mware ("God is dead" -- Nietzsche........ "Nope, you are"-- GOD)
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To: Calpernia

smart bastards..... Now everybody will have to suffer:

"Congress should renew a law allowing it to seize library and bookstore records "


37 posted on 04/29/2005 4:20:46 PM PDT by traumer
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To: traumer; Calpernia
This highlights the value of the so-called "library" provision (actually it is all business records, described in Section 215.)

We need to protect our right to national security. You can get help in fighting for your national security rights at Americans for National Security Rights.

38 posted on 04/29/2005 4:46:34 PM PDT by Ziva (Americans for National Security Rights (http://securityrights.org))
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To: Calpernia

I'd bet you are right.


39 posted on 04/29/2005 6:55:26 PM PDT by nmh (Intelligent people recognize Intelligent Design (God).)
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To: nmh

Between all the corrupt political busts and all these stories dribbling out again...

I bet we are going to find out!

We will need lotsa popcorn :)


40 posted on 04/29/2005 7:00:27 PM PDT by Calpernia (Breederville.com)
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