They were held without charge for many months and eventualy the FBI cleared them of suspicion. They might have been deported afterward, but I don't think there was any link established to any of the hijackers or any terroristsI think the bolded part is important.
I don't think any of the hijackers of the planes that actually did the attacks knew of the other ones.
That is the way they play this type of thing, on a need to know basis.
I think the box cutters were a dead giveaway, after all they were used on all of the hijackings.
I doubt if these guys just happened to have forgotten they had the boxcutters in their possesions cause they just got off work at the local 7-11...
"I think the box cutters were a dead giveaway, after all they were used on all of the hijackings."
There was a thread a while back that there may have been a gun on one of the flights. A draft memo was prepared that day to that effect; the final version did not have that detail. The guy who was shot was an MIT grad with an Israeli background, named Levin if I remember correctly.