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Alleged hijackers:
Original hijacker list Final named hijackers
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American Airlines Flight 11, Reexamined
Alleged hijackers:
Marwan Al-Shehhi
Fayez Rashid Ahmed Hassan Al Qadi Banihammad
Ahmed Alghamdi
Hamza Alghamdi
Mohand Alshehri - Alive
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American Airlines Flight 77
Scheduled flight: Washington to Los Angeles
Boeing 757-223. Fuel capacity 11,000 gallons
Flight departed 08:20 a.m.
Seating Capacity 200
58 passengers (including hijackers) Crashed into the Pentagon 09:38 a.m.
4 flight attendants, 2 pilots
Alleged hijackers:
Original hijacker list (ph) Final named hijackers
[CNN 9/14/2001]
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Flight 93 was delayed, so why didn't the hijackers
head straight for Washington to make up time?
The following video provides an explanation for why the planes took extended journeys to their
targets.
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A lingering question is why the passenger loads on the four planes hijacked in U.S. skies are
being described by industry officials as "very, very low.'' ... Through July, airlines in the United
States reported flights on average were 71 percent capacity this year. [CNN 9/20/2001]
The total passenger seating capacity of the four 9/11 airliners was 762 people. There are 229
passengers and crew members on the four death lists issued by CNN (although this figure varies). The
total number of passengers on the four airliners was only 26 percent of capacity.
The authorities are examining the possibility that if they knew what was coming, traders were
intent on taking their profits immediately, before regulators had woken up to any possible scam.
But investors failed to foresee that the first response of the US stock markets to the disaster was
to suspend all trading for four days, thereby denying them the chance of cashing in their profits.
[Independent 10/14/01]
It just so happens that pre-9/11 insider trading leads to the CIA's highest ranks.
Several major news organizations wrongly identified at least four pilots of Middle Eastern descent
as likely hijackers. Two of the wrongly suspected pilots had Arabic names similar to those of two
dead hijackers. A pilot living next door to one of them became a third wrong suspect. A pilot
with the same last name became the fourth wrong suspect -- even though he'd been dead for a
year. [Wall Street Journal]
The BBC reported a transcript of a phone call made by Flight Attendant Madeline Amy Sweeney to
Boston air traffic controls in which she gave the seat numbers occupied by the hijackers, and these
seat numbers did not correspond with those of the men claimed by the FBI to be responsible for the
hijacking:
The FBI has named five hijackers on board Flight 11, whereas Ms Sweeney spotted only four.
Also, the seat numbers she gave were different from those registered in the hijackers' names.
[BBC News]
CNN reported that the men who hijacked the aircraft used phony IDs containing the names of real
people living in Arab nations in the middle east.
The Saudi Airlines pilot, Saeed Al-Ghamdi, 25, and Abdulaziz Al-Omari, an engineer from
Riyadh, are furious that the hijackers' "personal details" - including name, place, date of birth and
occupation - matched their own. [Telegraph]
The FBI says there is no evidence to link the above men to the 9/11 hijackings.
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In September 2002, [FBI Director Robert Mueller] told CNN twice that there is "no legal proof
to prove the identities of the suicidal hijackers." [Insight]
So, one fact is apparent. If those who hijacked the 9/11 airplanes were using stolen identities,
then we don't know who they were or who they worked for. We can't. It's impossible.
A Saudi embassy official said it was difficult to know for certain whether the hijackers used
bogus names. "You cannot throw a stone in Saudi Arabia without hitting an Al Ghamdi," he said,
referring to the alleged last name of three of the hijackers. [Chicago Tribune]
Now, people who are intending to commit suicide normally don't worry about whether anyone knows
their real name, and it is here that some other odd aspects of this case take on a new meaning.
We are told that the group that planned and carried out the 9/11 attacks were highly trained (possibly
by the CIA) experts, with knowledge of how to steal identities and forge fake IDs, yet at the same
time we are being told that these men were incapable of correctly filling in US visa applications.
We are also being told that they spent the night before the attack getting drunk in bars, making noise,
screaming insults at the "infidels", and doing everything they could to attract attention to themselves.
They used the credit cards issued in their stolen names, allowed their driver's licenses with the stolen
names to be photocopied, and used public library computers to send emails back and forth using their
stolen names signed to unencrypted messages about their plans to steal aircraft and crash them into
buildings, then decorated their apartments with absurdly obvious props such as a crop dusting manual
to the point where the whole affair reads like a low budget "B" detective movie from the 1930s.
In short, these men did everything they could to make sure everyone knew who they were, or more to
the point, who they were pretending to be.
Because the IDs used by the hijackers were phony, we cannot know who they really were or who
they really worked for. But what is apparent is that those who planned the hijackings and the 9/11
attacks went out of their way to leave plenty of clues pointing to citizens of middle eastern Arab
nations.
Many of the investigators believe that some of the initial clues that were uncovered about the
terrorists' identities and preparations, such as flight manuals, were meant to be found. A former
high-level intelligence official told me, "Whatever trail was left was left deliberatelyfor the F.B.I.
to chase." [The New Yorker]
See also:
The Mother of All Lies About 9/11 - Barbara Olson's "Phone Call" From Flight 77
Tracking All Hijackers
9/11 Index of What Really Happened
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