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Hijackers in same hotel as Saudi minister By David Rennie in Washington (Filed: 03/10/2003) A senior Saudi Arabian official, now minister for the holy places, stayed at the same hotel as three September 11 hijackers the night before the suicide attacks. American investigators are trying to make sense of the disclosure that Saleh Ibn Abdul Rahman al-Hussayen, who returned to Saudi Arabia shortly after the attacks, stayed at the Marriott Residence Inn in Herndon, Virginia. Three of the attackers stayed at the hotel that night and crashed a plane into the Pentagon the following day. His nephew's American lawyer, David...

A Saudi national, Omar al-Bayoumi, wanted for questioning about his links to the September 11 hijackers, says he is ready to talk to US officials. He agreed to the interview but only in his homeland, and in the presence of officials from his government. Advertisement On Sunday, al-Bayoumi appeared on Dubai-based Al Arabiya television, saying he had written to the Saudi interior minister telling him he was ready for the questioning. His name was raised in a US congressional report that recounted that he had befriended and helped two of the suicide hijackers, Khalid al-Mihdhar and Nawaf al-Hazmi. Al-Bayoumi said...

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Saudi Arabia's foreign minister says FBI and CIA agents in his country may question an employee of the Saudi civil aviation authority who befriended two of the Saudis involved in the 9-11 hijackings. That concession made, Foreign Minister Saud al-Faisal expressed disappointment that President Bush would not declassify parts of a congressional report on the 9-11 hijackings. He said the refusal deprives the Arab kingdom of a chance to clear its name. Fifteen of the 19 hijackers were from Saudi Arabia, but the Saudi government has asserted it had no involvement in the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks....

ASHINGTON, Sept. 26 — An F.B.I. account of the Sept. 11 plot disclosed today that Mohamed Atta, known to other hijackers as the "boss," met monthly with an associate before the attacks. The account also told of how one hijacker coordinated the so-called muscle hijackers who kept passengers on the airliners at bay.The account said a hijacker who crashed into the Pentagon and who was tracked by the Central Intelligence Agency in the months before the attacks, Khalid al-Mihdhar, organized the travel to the United States for the hijackers who helped seize the flights and who in some instances...

How strangeMona Charen (archive) June 17, 2003 | Print | SendIsn't it strange that the very same people who were prepared to give the United Nations weapons inspectors months and even years to find weapons of mass destruction in Iraq are screaming after just a few weeks that our failure to discover them is proof of a hoax? And isn't it amazing that the very same people who believe Saddam never had weapons of mass destruction also believe that Hillary found out the truth about Monica only two days before Bill Clinton's grand jury testimony? And isn't it odd that...

<p>WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Just before boarding one of the planes that was flown into the World Trade Center, September 11 hijacker Waleed Alshehri left behind a poem.</p> <p>Discovered by investigators in his rental car at Logan International Airport in Boston, Massachusetts, the poem speaks of traveling into the "face of death with our heads held high."</p>

A wedding video shot in a Hamburg mosque has been broadcast for the first time and shows grainy scenes of Sept. 11 al-Qaida suicide pilots celebrating with other alleged plotters, possibly including suspects still not formally identified. The video of the October 1999 wedding of Said Bahaji being celebrated in a large room at the al Quds mosque suspected as a recruiting center for al-Qaida operatives has been in the hands of investigators since shortly after the Sept. 11 attacks on New York and Washington. In the immediate aftermath of the terror attacks, the Bahaji wedding video provided investigators critical...

Agent: FBI Never Got 9/11 Data By Bill Gertz The Washington Times | September 23, 2002 An FBI agent told Congress yesterday that days before September 11 he complained to FBI headquarters that "someone will die" because senior bureau officials refused to permit him to pursue one of the men who later took part in the Pentagon suicide attack. The New York-based FBI agent told a joint House-Senate hearing on the intelligence failures of September 11 that he and other FBI agents were denied CIA intelligence information on Khalid Al-Mihdhar and Nawaf Al-Hazmi. The two al Qaeda terrorists would end...

<p>Two U.S. Marines avert their eyes as they pass the sickening tribute to the 9/11 terror strikes painted on the wall of Iraq's abandoned military headquarters at Nasiriyah.</p> <p>WASHINGTON - More than 1,000 American paratroopers dropped into northern Iraq last night to open up a new front, while a column of fierce Republican Guards desperately rushed south from Baghdad, aiming for a violent showdown with American ground forces.</p>

<p>New York medical examiners using DNA samples have identified the remains of two of the 10 suicide hijackers who crashed jetliners into the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001, officials said Thursday.</p> <p>The FBI provided the medical examiners' office with DNA profiles of the 10 hijackers, said Ellen Barakove, a spokeswoman for the New York Medical Examiner's office. Examiners "a few days ago" matched two of the profiles to remains collected after the twin towers' collapse, she told CNN.</p>

WASHINGTON – The brother-in-law of alleged terrorist co-conspirator Sami al-Arian attended engineering classes at the same college and time as the suspected mastermind behind the Sept. 11 terror plot, records at the North Carolina college show. The overlap raises questions about the extent of al-Arian's ties to terrorist groups. He and his brother-in-law, Mazen al-Najjar, have been accused by federal authorities of supporting Hamas, a Palestinian militia responsible for anti-Israeli suicide bombings, through an elaborate network of terrorist front groups and fund-raising arms. Mazen al-Najjar Al-Najjar, a Palestinian refugee, was arrested in 1997 and deported last year. Al-Arian, who also...

For a variety of obvious reasons, the federal government today is cracking down on aviation security nationwide. Whether or not the attempt will succeed is anyone's guess. I speak from experience. A few months back, I successfully bid on an E-Bay item, advertised as a CD-ROM B-737 ground-school course. I was sure that Boeing had made such a CD-ROM, but there was no particular indication that such an object would contain sensitive or even proprietary information. The ad described the manual as "siimilar to that used by major airlines." So I made the purchase and, in good time, the instructional...

Sitting on the floor of his Karachi apartment, Ramzi bin al-Shieb laid out in stunning detail the anatomy of the 9/11 attacks. As one of the masterminds of September 11, he had a lot to share. Talking this June with a reporter from al-Jazeera--the Arab-language network of choice for Qaeda terrorists--bin al-Shieb discussed everything from the "conquests and heroism of Islam" to America's support for Israel, in addition, of course, to the particulars of 9/11. With close ties to both Mohammed Atta, the ringleader of the 9/11 hijackers, and Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, believed to be the new operational leader of...

Saudi Calls Report on Gifts to Hijackers 'Crazy' Senators Fault Kingdom for Lax Control of Funds By Dan Morgan Washington Post Staff Writer Monday, November 25, 2002; Page A09 A senior Saudi official yesterday branded as "outrageous" and "crazy" reports that charitable gifts from the wife of the Saudi ambassador in Washington may have ended up with two Sept. 11 hijackers, but senior U.S. lawmakers of both parties faulted the Persian Gulf kingdom for continued lax financial controls.

Mystery men link Saudi intelligence to Sept 11 hijackers Julian Borger in Washington Monday November 25, 2002 The Guardian Two mysterious Saudi citizens living in California before the September 11 attacks may link the al-Qaida hijackers to Saudi intelligence, according to reports yesterday which are likely to provoke a new row between the US and Riyadh. The possibility of a Saudi intelligence link emerged just hours after widespread reports of bank cheques indirectly linking two of the hijackers to a bank account under the name of a Saudi princess, the wife of the kingdom's ambassador to Washington. The Saudi embassy...

Saudis Say Cash to Friend of Hijackers Was Charity By PHILIP SHENON WASHINGTON, Nov. 23 — The wife of the Saudi ambassador to Washington provided tens of thousands of dollars in what she believed were charitable gifts to the family of a Saudi man in San Diego who befriended and assisted two of the Sept. 11 hijackers, the Saudi government said today. Saudi officials and American friends of the Saudi government said that the payments from Princess Haifa al-Faisal, the wife of Ambassador Bandar bin Sultan, began more than four years ago, and that they were typical of the charitable...

Tuesday, 19 November, 2002, 20:04 GMTSuicide hijacker's phone call to girlfriend Jarrah called his girlfriend on 11 September By Rob Broomby BBC correspondent in Berlin The girlfriend of one of the alleged 11 September attackers has told a German court how she received a phone call from him on the day of the attack. Aysel Sengun, a German-born doctor of Turkish origin, spoke at length about her close relationship with Ziad Jarrah, who investigators believe piloted the hijacked plane which crashed in Pennsylvania. Aysel Sengun admitted speaking on the phone with Mounir el-MotassadeqThe testimony came in the trial of a...

In what may be the strongest Canadian connection yet to the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, a Mauritanian who was questioned but released by Canadian authorities three years ago has been identified as having recruited two of the key suicide hijackers. Mohamedou Ould Slahi, who calls himself the imam of a Montreal mosque, was investigated by Canadian intelligence agents after he arrived in Montreal from Germany in 1999, but officials lacked evidence for an arrest and let him go. He subsequently fled Canada. Yesterday, a German magazine reported that a captured al-Qaeda operative had admitted that Mr. Slahi, who lived at...

P AUL Deakin studied the pictures of the 9/11 terrorists with disbelief as he realised that among them was the man who had become his friend.For four weeks the maths teacher from the North of England and Ziad Jarrah, the man who seized controls of the fourth hijacked plane that crashed in Pennsylvania, had shared a bungalow as they learned how to fly in Florida.They had watched Friends together on TV and gone out to local bars at weekends to play pool.But while all Paul had wanted was a private pilot's licence Jarrah had another purpose. He was to become...

Your tax dollars at "work": The State Department incompetent who was forced to retire because her office allowed most of the Sept. 11 hijackers into the country has received a $15,000 bonus for "outstanding performance." "The bonus to Mary Ryan, the former head of the State Department's consular service, was awarded for the period beginning April 16, 2001 — nearly five months before the suicide attacks — and ending April 15, 2002," the Washington Times revealed today. 'Serving Their Country' State Department flack Richard Boucher had the nerve to make this statement, apparently with a straight face: "The performance of...