The Hijackers

From 911myths

Background

At some point I'll summarise the background to the hijackers here. Right now this is really just a starting point to read more about the individual or theory of your choice, though. Keep reading to find out more.

Controversies

• Some suspects were trained by the US military?
• Several suspects were identified by the Able Danger project in 2000?
• Israeli "art students" spied on the hijackers before the attacks?
• Mohamed Atta received $100,000 on orders of the chief of Pakistan's ISI?
• The hijackers used drugs, drank alcohol, went to strip clubs?
• There were no hijackers on the 9/11 passenger manifests?
• Amer Kamfar was originally on the manifest, but had to be dropped when it was found that he was still alive?
• Could these flight school dropouts really have flown the 9/11 planes?
• The passport recovered from the WTC must have been planted?
• The hijackers couldn't have been identified so quickly?
• Some of those named as hijackers are still alive?
• The FBI chief Robert Mueller said there's doubt over the hijackers identities?
• The hijackers remains can't have been identified by DNA?

Photos

American Airlines Flight 11

Mohamed Atta

Abdulaziz al-Omari

Wail al-Shehri

Waleed al-Shehri

Satam al-Suqami

American Airlines Flight 77

Hani Hanjour

Nawaf al-Hazmi

Salem al-Hazmi

Khalid al-Mihdhar

Majed Moqed

United Airlines Flight 93

Ziad Jarrah

Saeed al-Ghamdi

Ahmed al-Haznawi

Ahmed al-Nami

United Airlines Flight 175

Marwan al-Shehhi

Fayez Banihammad

Ahmed al-Ghamdi

Hamza al-Ghamdi

Mohand al-Shehri

Videos

Since 9/11, al-Qaeda have released footage of several of the hijackers. These include a number of video wills, where they talk about jihad and attacking America. Reportedly all but one of the hijackers made a will, so we'd anticipate that others will appear in future 9/11 anniversary releases.

Questions

• Who was to have been the 20th hijacker?

Documents

Finances

• FBI summary on the hijackers finances
• A spreadsheet of expenditure on the hijacker's band accounts
• "CitiGroup PowerPoint on Hijackers" contains a useful presentation on hijackers finances, showing the amount spent in several accounts and overall
• "Account Summaries" contains brief details of the hijacker's bank accounts

Travel

• A single page table listing the hijackers, their country and date of birth, and where and when they got their US visas
• A timeline of hijacker travel to the US

Timelines

• A chronology of hijacker events in South Florida
• Timeline of hijacker activities for the days running up to the attacks

Others

• Various FBI interviews relating to the hijackers (possible sightings and so on)
• FBI interviews with or about airport checkpoint screeners, their procedures, and possible contact with the hijackers. There's also information on further airport videos showing the hijackers
• Purchases of knives by the hijackers, and details of knives found at the Flight 93 crash scene
• A Flight Standards Service briefing on the training of the hijacker pilots, including some innocent pilots with similar names who were victims of mistaken identity
• Extensive details on hijacker IDs and includes documents recovered from the crash sites
• This 9/11 Commission folder contains detailed information on the hijackers, like passenger name records and FBI reports, as well as lists of items recovered from everything from hotels to the crash scenes
• FBI summary of the PENTTBOM case
• September 17 list of plot suspects
• A Finnish list of FBI terrorist suspects circa October 2001
• Brief summaries for all suspects on a single page
• Discussion of data mining, including details of how the hijackers were linked
• Jeff Jonas presents a quick guide to how the hijackers were linked
• The Zacarias Moussaoui indictment is interesting as a quick summary of the case against the hijackers
• Newsweek article discussing the background to how the hijackers remains were identified through DNA
• Armed Forces DNA Identification Laboratory paper, including a brief discussion on what can be learned from the Flight 77 and Flight 93 hijackers DNA samples (see pages 82-84)
• FAA report on check of hijackers medical certification, Jan 22nd 2004
• A summary of the 9/11 Commission investigation into the hijackers activities in Las Vegas
• Various FBI interviews relating to the hijackers (possible sightings and so on)

Timelines

• When and how did the hijackers buy tickets for the 9/11 flights?

Links and Related

Where can I find law enforcement, 9/11 Commission and mainstream media information about the hijackers?

• The first FBI list of suspects (without photos) appeared on September 14th
• The second list, with photographs, was released on September 27th
• The Zacarias Moussaoui trial exhibits provided significant new information on the 9/11 attacks
• This New York Times page is an index to many stories on Atta, the other hijackers and 9/11 in general
• The Global Security page makes it easy to view the movements, activities and associations of each of the hijackers. Primarily based on the 9/11 Commission Report