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Several 911 hijackers, including Mohammed Atta, were on a terrorist
watchlist prior to 9/11. Mohammed Atta had been under FBI surveillance for
stockpiling bomb-making materials and was known to have taken flight
training. Why was this man allowed to board a U.S. airliner?
Several 911 hijackers were, according to a report in Newsweek magazine,
trained at US military installations.
Mohammed Atta received $100,000 from a top Pakistani official -- who met
with top U.S. intelligence officials, in Washington D.C., on and just prior
to 9/11.
For substantiation of these allegations, read what follows.
According to the official Bush administration account of the terrorist
attacks, only 2 of the 19 alleged suicide hijackers were known to US
authorities before September 11. These two, Kahlil Almihdhar and Nawaf
Alhamzi, had been placed on an FBI "watch list" at the request of the CIA,
after Almihdhar was linked to a bin Laden operative in Malaysia.
Innumerable accounts in the American media sought to answer the questions
that were inevitably raised by this version of events. How was it possible
for two men being sought by the FBI and CIA, with alleged ties to the man
the US government had branded the most dangerous terrorist in world, to buy
expensive first-class one-way tickets for an airline flight, then board and
hijack a jetliner on September 11?
Almihdhar and Alhamzi apparently lived in southern California, in the San
Diego area for nearly two years, leaving and reentering the United States at
least once -- only a few weeks before the "watch list" alert was issued.
According to one press report, Alhamzi was even listed in the San Diego
phone book -- a fact that certainly calls into question the media portrayal
of the suicide hijackers as master conspirators who covered their tracks and
were essentially undetectable. (Source: Washington Post, December 29, 2001)
Whatever the circumstances in which these two future hijackers escaped
detection, however, the basic premise of the official story -- that these
two were the only hijackers identified as terrorist suspects before
September 11 -- is false. Several other hijackers or men now believed to be
their accomplices had come to the attention of US police and intelligence
agencies before the destruction of the World Trade Center, but they were
allowed to go their way.
There is the strange case of Ziad Samir Jarrah, one of the suspected
hijackers on board the United Airlines jet that crashed in Pennsylvania.
Officials in the United Arab Emirates acknowledge that Jarrah arrived in the
UAE on January 30, 2001, after two months in Afghanistan and Pakistan, and
was questioned for several hours at Dubai International Airport, at the
request of the US government. He was then permitted to leave, traveling on
to Hamburg via Amsterdam. Later he flew to the United States.
Despite official US interest sufficient to have him detained in the UAE, he
was allowed to enter the country and then enrolled in a flight school.
Jarrah was stopped for speeding on Interstate 95 in Maryland on September 9,
two days before the hijacking, ticketed and released. The Maryland State
Police apparently ran his name through their computers and found nothing.
In response to post-September 11 inquiries, FBI and CIA officials claimed
that neither agency had been aware of Jarrah or placed him on any watch
list, although some US government agency had sought his detention eight
months before in Dubai. (Sources: Chicago Tribune, December 14, 2001;
Baltimore Sun, December 14, 2001)
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Newsweek magazine, in its special edition published immediately after the
September 11 attack, made a startling claim about ties between the hijackers
and the American national security apparatus. Citing US military sources,
Newsweek reported that "five of the alleged hijackers of the planes that
were used in Tuesday's terror attacks received training at secure U.S.
military installations in the 1990s." Three had listed addresses at the
Naval Air Station in Pensacola, Florida when they applied for driver's
licenses or car registrations. Another trained at the Air War College in
Montgomery, Alabama, while the fifth took language instruction at Lackland
Air Force Base in San Antonio, Texas. The three men who trained at
Pensacola were named as Saeed Alghamdi and Ahmad Alnami, both aboard United
Flight 93, which crashed in Pennsylvania, and Ahmed Alghamdi, aboard United
Flight 75, which hit the south tower of the World Trade Center.
FBI officials told the office of Senator Bill Nelson (D-Florida) that the
agents assigned to the World Trade Center/Pentagon case were "investigating
any connection to the military facility," but that no determination had been
made, because of uncertainty over whether the hijackers had stolen the IDs
of other Middle East visitors to the US, especially from Saudi Arabia.
Pensacola has been the site of military training for foreign aviators,
including many from Saudi Arabia and other US clients in the Middle East.
Saudi officials also sought to dispute the reports that 15 of the 19
hijackers were Saudi citizens, but these have proven to be true. There has
been no further press reporting on the Pensacola story, either in Newsweek
itself, which never did a follow-up, or any other major media outlet.
The case of Mohammed Atta
Even more extraordinary is the treatment of Mohammed Atta, the alleged
ringleader of the hijackings. Atta was reportedly an object of attention
for the Egyptian, German and American police and yet traveled without
hindrance between Europe and America throughout 2000 and 2001.
According to a report on the German public television channel ARD, Atta was
the subject of telephone monitoring by the Egyptian secret service, which
had learned that he had made at least one recent visit to Afghanistan from
his home in Hamburg, Germany. The German program, broadcast November 23,
said that the American FBI had monitored Atta's movements for several months
in 2000, when he traveled several times from Hamburg to Frankfurt and bought
large quantities of chemicals potentially usable in making explosives.
Atta's name was also mentioned in a Hamburg phone call between Islamic
fundamentalists monitored by the German police in 1999. The BBC, commenting
on the German report, said, "The evidence ... reinforces concerns that the
international intelligence community may have known more about Atta before
September 11 than was previously thought, but had failed to act." (Source:
British Broadcasting Corporation report, November 26, 2001)
Atta came to the attention of US authorities on several occasions in the
course of 2001. In January he was allowed to reenter the United States
after a trip to Germany, despite the fact that he was in violation of his
visa status. He landed in Miami January 10 on a flight from Madrid, on a
tourist visa, although he told immigration inspectors that he was taking
flying lessons in the US, for which an M-1 student visa is required. Jeanne
Butterfield, executive director of the American Immigration Lawyers
Association, told the Washington Post, "Nine times out of 10, they would
have told him to go back and file [for that status] overseas. You're not
supposed to come in as a visitor for pleasure and go to work or school."
The recipient of this indulgent treatment, it must be emphasized, had
previously been under FBI surveillance for stockpiling bomb-making
materials! (Source: Washington Post, October 28, 2001)
According to a report on Canadian television, Atta had been implicated in a
terrorist bombing in Israel and the information passed on to the United
States before he was first issued a tourist visa. (Source: Canadian
Broadcasting Corporation, September 14, 2001, reported by Diana Swain from
Vero Beach, Florida)
Atta made other trips to Europe, returning to Germany in May and visiting
Spain in July, each time returning to the United States and being admitted
by US customs and immigration. Another British press report notes that Atta
"was under surveillance between January and May last year after he was
reportedly observed buying large quantities of chemicals in Frankfurt,
apparently for the production of explosives and for biological warfare. The
US agents reported to have trailed Atta are said to have failed to inform
the German authorities about their investigation. The disclosure that Atta
was being trailed by police long before 11 September raises the question why
the attacks could not have been prevented with the man's arrest." (Source:
The Observer, September 30, 2001)
During the summer of 2001, Atta received a wire transfer of $100,000 from an
account in Pakistan allegedly controlled by a representative of Osama bin
Laden. This transfer has been cited repeatedly by US officials as proof
that bin Laden inspired the September 11 attacks, but they have not
explained how such a large sum of money could be transmitted with impunity
to someone under FBI surveillance.
Another remarkable fact: according to an Indian newspaper, the man who
actually authorized the wire transfer to Atta was General Mahmud Ahmed, head
of the Pakistani intelligence agency ISI, the principal sponsor of the
Taliban regime in Afghanistan. Ahmed was forced to resign after India made
his role public, and it was confirmed by the FBI. Coincidentally or not,
Ahmed was in Washington, DC on September 11, for consultations with American
intelligence officials. (Source: CNN report, October 1, 2001; The Times of
India , October 11, 2001).
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