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**Hijakers Names Released**
CNN.com ^ | 9-14-01 | CNN

Posted on 09/14/2001 7:19:48 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer

Edited on 04/29/2004 1:58:46 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]

The suspected hijackers aboard American Airlines Flight 11, which hit the north tower of the World Trade Center, were Walid Al Shehri, Wail Alsheri aka Waleed Alsheri, Mohammad Atta, Aabdul Alomari and Satam Sugami.

Aboard United Airlines Flight 175, which hit the south tower of the World Trade Center, the suspected hijackers were Marawn Alshehhi, Fayez Ahmed, Mohald Alshehri, Hamza Al Ghamdi and Ahmed Al Ghamdi.


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To: RedBloodedAmerican
You didn't happen to teach a Hani Saleh Hanjoor, did you?
41 posted on 09/14/2001 12:05:21 PM PDT by Hillary's Lovely Legs
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To: Alissa
Has anyone heard or read any further backgrounds on these terrorists, particularly, did any of them attend any US universities?
42 posted on 09/14/2001 12:44:40 PM PDT by standorfall
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To: Wallaby
I posted this one a day or two ago on the FBI RAIDS DALLAS AREA ARAB INTERNET OFFICE thread. Since then, I've seen this 1980's incident associated with MOHAMED ATTA in the news media, so I think it's safe to say this is the same fellow.

Not for commercial use. Solely to be used for the educational purposes of research and open discussion.

The Xinhua General Overseas News Service
MAY 21, 1987, THURSDAY

Syria Accuses U.S. of Deteriorating Bilateral Relations

Damascus -- Syria today criticized the U.S. decision not to send back its ambassador to Damascus and said Washington was responsible for deteriorating bilateral relations, according to radio Damascus. The radio indicated in a commentary that American accusations of Syrian support for terrorism were baseless and that Syria had never asked the U.S. to send back its ambassador. U.S. announced a few days ago not to send back its ambassador to Damascus, unless Syrian President Hafez Assad took some steps to prove that his government was no longer supporting acts of terrorism by closing down the office of Abu Nidal in Damascus or securing the release of some American hostages in Lebanon.

Abu Nidal, head of the Fatah revolutionary committee of the Palestine Liberation Organization, had threatened to sabotage American interests all over the world if Washington decided to hand over MOHAMED ATTA, a Palestinian arrested in New York, to the Israeli authorities on trial for murdering a bus driver in Israel. Syria will not submit to the American conditions, the commentary said, and the U.S. should quit its state terrorism and the provocative measures directed against Syria.

43 posted on 09/14/2001 12:50:52 PM PDT by Nita Nupress
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To: Nita Nupress
Mohamed Atta, on American Airlines Flight 11, which left Boston at 7:45 a.m. and crashed into the World Trade Center at 8:45 a.m.

Atta, 33, was born in the United Arab Emirates and is believed to be the cousin of suspected United Airlines Flight 175 hijacker Marwan Al-Shehhi.

Investigators say the two followed parallel paths. Atta received pilot training at Huffman Aviation in Venice Fla., and took two three-hour courses at SimCenter Inc. in Opa-locka, Fla., where he trained on a Boeing 727 full-motion flight simulator.

Atta lived in Venice, Coral Springs and Hollywood, Fla., and Hamburg, Germany, investigators say. He held an Egyptian driver's license.

Atta studied electrical engineering for eight years at the Technical University in Hamburg and had ties to an Islamic fundamentalist group that planned attacks on American targets, German investigators say. He and Al-Shehhi left for the United States in May.

Both went to a sports bar in Hollywood last Friday night. Atta played video games while Al-Shehhi drank with another man.


44 posted on 09/14/2001 12:58:36 PM PDT by Wallaby
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To: Hillary's Lovely Legs
Don't recall.

The names of these people are not the easiest to remember.

I am more a visual person. I NEVER forget a face.

45 posted on 09/14/2001 2:01:15 PM PDT by RedBloodedAmerican
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To: RedBloodedAmerican
Fix?
46 posted on 09/14/2001 2:01:43 PM PDT by RedBloodedAmerican
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To: Wallaby
I'm wondering why the groups of hijackers on the two flights out of Boston that hit the WTC were each of five men, whereas the groups headed for D.C. -- out of Newark and Dulles -- were each four men. Any significance?
47 posted on 09/14/2001 2:41:39 PM PDT by aristeides (demosthenes@olg.com)
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