Posted on 02/09/2002 11:12:21 PM PST by Wallaby
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Spain: Two 11 September suicide pilots met in Madrid in July 2001 La Vanguardia web site, Barcelona, in Spanish 1 Feb 02 BBC Monitoring Europe - Political Supplied by BBC Worldwide Monitoring February 1, 2002, Friday
E xcerpt from report by Fernando Garcia, "Second World Trade Centre suicide pilot was also in Madrid and saw Atta", published by the Spanish newspaper La Vanguardia web site on 1 February Madrid: Mohamed Atta, the pilot of the first of the aircraft crashed into the World Trade Centre in New York on 11 September,
was in Madrid and shared a hotel there with an Arab whom the workers at the establishment have recognized as Marwan al-Shehhi, the suicide pilot of the aircraft which destroyed the south tower of the World Trade Centre. Atta and his colleague had dinner together and then spent drank vodka for a time in the hotel bar. This information is in the hands of the FBI, as are the details on Atta's presence at Port Aventura theme park (Tarragona) revealed by La Vanguardia yesterday.
They spent the night at the Diana Cazadora, a three-star hotel about 500 metres - five minutes by car - from Barajas airport Madrid on the Barcelona road
The testimony gathered by the investigators concerns the night of 8 July 2001... They spent the night at the Diana Cazadora, a three-star hotel about 500 metres - five minutes by car - from Barajas airport Madrid on the Barcelona road...
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