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The Blood Of Heroes
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watch, read the info. comment. with all the crap being posted in this forum, i thought this was more than relevant.
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doubt it's worth downloading flash for this 
watched it, i was expecting the goatse.cx man to flash on the screen with a high pitched squeel and scare the crap out of me, so i turned down the volume and braced myself, but the goatse man never came? 
what a bad flash cartoon
Have we forgotten Iraq was about WMDs
Have we forgotten Iraq had nothing to do with 9/11
Have we forgotten Al Qaeda was based in Afghanistan
Have we forgotten Osama bin Laden
Herman Goering, yes Nazi Herman Goering once retorted the way to garner the support of the people is to tell them what they want to hear and question their patriotism in order to fulfill your policies.
No American has forgotten 9/11, what does that have to do with Iraq when Afghanistan wasn't even finished and Bin Laden and his henchmen are still hiding in the mountatains in ratholes.
We speak of liberties and freedoms yet it took this nation under many of those men quoted centuries to bring that to all of its citizens, if we are going to get historic and quote Franklin and Adams about liberties.
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| Originally posted by NYCTrancefan Have we forgotten Iraq was about WMDs Have we forgotten Iraq had nothing to do with 9/11 Have we forgotten Al Qaeda was based in Afghanistan Have we forgotten Osama bin Laden Herman Goering, yes Nazi Herman Goering once retorted the way to garner the support of the people is to tell them what they want to hear and question their patriotism in order to fulfill your policies. No American has forgotten 9/11, what does that have to do with Iraq when Afghanistan wasn't even finished and Bin Laden and his henchmen are still hiding in the mountatains in ratholes. We speak of liberties and freedoms yet it took this nation under many of those men quoted centuries to bring that to all of its citizens, if we are going to get historic and quote Franklin and Adams about liberties. |
there's still a war in afganistan.
buy you must have forgotten that.
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| Originally posted by JM there's still a war in afganistan. buy you must have forgotten that. >JM< |
hence my statement "what does that have to do with Iraq when Afghanistan wasn't even finished and Bin Laden and his henchmen are still hiding in the mountatains in ratholes."Re: The Blood Of Heroes
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| Originally posted by JM http://members.cox.net/classicweb/email.htm watch, read the info. comment. with all the crap being posted in this forum, i thought this was more than relevant. >JM< |
Iraq is about a greater strategic goal. something i ahve not forgotten.
its somehting you have failed to realize.
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| Originally posted by Q5echo Iraq is about a greater strategic goal. something i ahve not forgotten. its somehting you have failed to realize. |
"no one has yet tied the Taliban to a direct attack on the United States, although no one doubts for a moment that deposing the Taliban post-9/11 was absolutely the right thing to do."
the ties between Al Queda and Iraq are well documented and corroberated. disputing them is backwards thinking and defeatist.
given Al Qaeda's undisputed motives and doctrine, to collaberate with Iraq in any fashion means those collaborations were terrorist in nature. plain and simple.
"a greater strategic motive for elimination" deny that and you fool yourself into a position of weakness.
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| Originally posted by Q5echo the ties between Al Queda and Iraq are well documented and corroberated. disputing them is backwards thinking and defeatist. |
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| Originally posted by Massive84 Lol http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2004...l?oneclick=true |
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| http://edition.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLI...911.commission/ http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dy...-2004Jun16.html |
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| ya few links after just typing Ties between iraq and binladen |
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| but of cource your right and the rest is wrong. |
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| Originally posted by JM http://members.cox.net/classicweb/email.htm watch, read the info. comment. with all the crap being posted in this forum, i thought this was more than relevant. >JM< |
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| Originally posted by Q5echo whats this? subscription link these two are premature in their determination. the report wasn't released yet and have since been disproved by said report. maybe you should be more careful when you make a point. of course my sources are correct |
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| Originally posted by Massive84 your sources then? i would like to read them. |
My grandfather's enlisted to fight the Nazi's in WWII while Prescott Bush was directing the Union Banking Corporation for his Nazi financier friend Fritz Thyssen.
http://www.melbourne.indymedia.org/...476_comment.php
Believe me, I haven't forgotten my history.
It was a most tragic event in which I can draw no comparison, but 15 out of the 19 hijackers were Saudi Arabian and the Bush administration has blocked all attempts at investigating them. Don't you think that should arouse at least a little bit of suspicion?
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/3067215/
Atrocities against humanity are committed all of the time, it's just that on this occasion it struck home.
American's in general are so ignorant in regards to what happens in the rest of the world that we don't even entertain the notion that we're quickly bringing ourselves into disrepute amongst other nations.
It hurts me deep inside because I want to see America as a beacon of liberty and justice - that in which it was originally intended to be. I don't think that these current warmongers are what the founding fathers had envisioned when they set up the framework for the leadership of our country!
* Abdul Rahman Yasin was the only member of the al Qaeda cell that detonated the 1993 World Trade Center bomb to remain at large in the Clinton years. He fled to Iraq. U.S. forces recently discovered a cache of documents in Tikrit, Saddam's hometown, that show that Iraq gave Mr. Yasin both a house and monthly salary.
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2002...ain510795.shtml
1. * Bin Laden met at least eight times with officers of Iraq's Special Security Organization, a secret police agency run by Saddam's son Qusay, and met with officials from Saddam's mukhabarat, its external intelligence service, according to intelligence made public by Secretary of State Colin Powell, who was speaking before the United Nations Security Council on February 6, 2003.
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* Sudanese intelligence officials told me that their agents had observed meetings between Iraqi intelligence agents and bin Laden starting in 1994, when bin Laden lived in Khartoum.
* Bin Laden met the director of the Iraqi mukhabarat in 1996 in Khartoum, according to Mr. Powell.
* An al Qaeda operative now held by the U.S. confessed that in the mid-1990s, bin Laden had forged an agreement with Saddam's men to cease all terrorist activities against the Iraqi dictator, Mr. Powell told the United Nations.
http://www.washtimes.com/national/2...23723-4738r.htm
http://www.weeklystandard.com/Utili...378&R=798D1B52B
* In 1999 the Guardian, a British newspaper, reported that Farouk Hijazi, a senior officer in Iraq's mukhabarat, had journeyed deep into the icy mountains near Kandahar, Afghanistan, in December 1998 to meet with al Qaeda men. Mr. Hijazi is "thought to have offered bin Laden asylum in Iraq," the Guardian reported.
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/ht...inattack15.html
* In October 2000, another Iraqi intelligence operative, Salah Suleiman, was arrested near the Afghan border by Pakistani authorities, according to Jane's Foreign Report, a respected international newsletter. Jane's reported that Suleiman was shuttling between Iraqi intelligence and Ayman al Zawahiri, now al Qaeda's No. 2 man.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1157764/posts
(Why are all of those meetings significant? The London Observer reports that FBI investigators cite a captured al Qaeda field manual in Afghanistan, which "emphasizes the value of conducting discussions about pending terrorist attacks face to face, rather than by electronic means.")
* As recently as 2001, Iraq's embassy in Pakistan was used as a "liaison" between the Iraqi dictator and al Qaeda, Mr. Powell told the United Nations.
* Spanish investigators have uncovered documents seized from Yusuf Galan -- who is charged by a Spanish court with being "directly involved with the preparation and planning" of the Sept. 11 attacks -- that show the terrorist was invited to a party at the Iraqi embassy in Madrid. The invitation used his "al Qaeda nom de guerre," London's Independent reports.
* An Iraqi defector to Turkey, known by his cover name as "Abu Mohammed," told Gwynne Roberts of the Sunday Times of London that he saw bin Laden's fighters in camps in Iraq in 1997. At the time, Mohammed was a colonel in Saddam's Fedayeen. He described an encounter at Salman Pak, the training facility southeast of Baghdad. At that vast compound run by Iraqi intelligence, Muslim militants trained to hijack planes with knives -- on a full-size Boeing 707. Col. Mohammed recalls his first visit to Salman Pak this way: "We were met by Colonel Jamil Kamil, the camp manager, and Major Ali Hawas. I noticed that a lot of people were queuing for food. (The major) said to me: 'You'll have nothing to do with these people. They are Osama bin Laden's group and the PKK and Mojahedin-e Khalq.'"
* In 1998, Abbas al-Janabi, a longtime aide to Saddam's son Uday, defected to the West. At the time, he repeatedly told reporters that there was a direct connection between Iraq and al Qaeda.
*The Sunday Times found a Saddam loyalist in a Kurdish prison who claims to have been Dr. Zawahiri's bodyguard during his 1992 visit with Saddam in Baghdad. Dr. Zawahiri was a close associate of bin Laden at the time and was present at the founding of al Qaeda in 1989.
* Following the defeat of the Taliban, almost two dozen bin Laden associates "converged on Baghdad and established a base of operations there," Mr. Powell told the United Nations in February 2003. From their Baghdad base, the secretary said, they supervised the movement of men, materiel and money for al Qaeda's global network.
* In 2001, an al Qaeda member "bragged that the situation in Iraq was 'good,'" according to intelligence made public by Mr. Powell.
* That same year, Saudi Arabian border guards arrested two al Qaeda members entering the kingdom from Iraq.
* Abu Musaab al-Zarqawi oversaw an al Qaeda training camp in Afghanistan, Mr. Powell told the United Nations. His specialty was poisons. Wounded in fighting with U.S. forces, he sought medical treatment in Baghdad in May 2002. When Zarqawi recovered, he restarted a training camp in northern Iraq. Zarqawi's Iraq cell was later tied to the October 2002 murder of Lawrence Foley, an official of the U.S. Agency for International Development, in Amman, Jordan. The captured assassin confessed that he received orders and funds from Zarqawi's cell in Iraq, Mr. Powell said. His accomplice escaped to Iraq.
*Zarqawi met with military chief of al Qaeda, Mohammed Ibrahim Makwai (aka Saif al-Adel) in Iran in February 2003, according to intelligence sources cited by the Washington Post.
* Mohammad Atef, the head of al Qaeda's military wing until the U.S. killed him in Afghanistan in November 2001, told a senior al Qaeda member now in U.S. custody that the terror network needed labs outside of Afghanistan to manufacture chemical weapons, Mr. Powell said. "Where did they go, where did they look?" said the secretary. "They went to Iraq."
* Abu Abdullah al-Iraqi was sent to Iraq by bin Laden to purchase poison gases several times between 1997 and 2000. He called his relationship with Saddam's regime "successful," Mr. Powell told the United Nations.
* Mohamed Mansour Shahab, a smuggler hired by Iraq to transport weapons to bin Laden in Afghanistan, was arrested by anti-Hussein Kurdish forces in May, 2000. He later told his story to American intelligence and a reporter for the New Yorker magazine.
* Documents found among the debris of the Iraqi Intelligence Center show that Baghdad funded the Allied Democratic Forces, a Ugandan terror group led by an Islamist cleric linked to bin Laden. According to a London's Daily Telegraph, the organization offered to recruit "youth to train for the jihad" at a "headquarters for international holy warrior network" to be established in Baghdad.
* Mullah Melan Krekar, ran a terror group (the Ansar al-Islam) linked to both bin Laden and Saddam Hussein. Mr. Krekar admitted to a Kurdish newspaper that he met bin Laden in Afghanistan and other senior al Qaeda officials. His acknowledged meetings with bin Laden go back to 1988. When he organized Ansar al Islam in 2001 to conduct suicide attacks on Americans, "three bin Laden operatives showed up with a gift of $300,000 'to undertake jihad,'" Newsday reported. Mr. Krekar is now in custody in the Netherlands. His group operated in portion of northern Iraq loyal to Saddam Hussein -- and attacked independent Kurdish groups hostile to Saddam. A spokesman for the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan told a United Press International correspondent that Mr. Krekar's group was funded by "Saddam Hussein's regime in Baghdad."
* After October 2001, hundreds of al Qaeda fighters are believed to have holed up in the Ansar al-Islam's strongholds inside northern Iraq.
Some skeptics dismiss the emerging evidence of a longstanding link between Iraq and al Qaeda by contending that Saddam ran a secular dictatorship hated by Islamists like bin Laden
the above is not mine
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| Originally posted by Trancer-X Believe me, I haven't forgotten my history. It was a most tragic event in which I can draw no comparison, but 15 out of the 19 hijackers were Saudi Arabian and the Bush administration has blocked all attempts at investigating them. Don't you think that should arouse at least a little bit of suspicion? http://msnbc.msn.com/id/3067215/ |
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May 12, 2001�JARRAH registers a red 1990 Mitsubishi Eclipse.
May 13, 2001�ATTA and AL-SHEHHI move into a shabby, $600-a-month apartment at 1808 Jackson Street in Hollywood, FL.
May 23, 2001�MOUSSAOUI has nearly 57 hours of flying time, but still cannot fly solo and would have to pay more to continue at Airman. Looking for another option, he contacts an office of the Pan Am International Flight Academy in Miami, FL by e-mail. He says he wants to �pilot one of these Big Bird�After all we are in AMERICA, and everything is possble.� [sic]
May 24, 2001, morning�AL-SHEHHI takes a United Airlines flight from JFK Airport in New York. He travels first-class to San Francisco, where he boards a flight to Las Vegas. He rents a car from Enterprise. He spends the night at a Travelodge. LVR-J 10/31/01 http://www.lvrj.com/lvrj_home/2001/...s/17340538.html The same source reported that JARRAH is also in Las Vegas around this time. LVR-J 9/28/01
May 25 and 26, 2001�As the new hijackers arrive from Saudi Arabia, it is apparently entrusted to AL-SHEHHI to arrange housing. Through the spring and summer, he makes scores of cellphone calls to rental agents, motels, apartments, car-rental desks and the Palm Beach driver's-license office. On the two dates in question, while he is in Las Vegas, nearly 20 calls are placed from his cellphone to various real-estate owners and agents in and around Hollywood, Fla. Link
May 25, 2001�AL-SHEHHI moves to a room at the St. Louis Manor at 2000 Paradise Road. He is visited by at least one Middle Eastern man while he is there.
May 27, 2001�AL-SHEHHI checks out of the hotel and returns the rental car. Then for some reason he takes a flight back to San Francisco and from there flies first-class back to JFK. LVRJ 10/31/01
May 28, 2001� Mohand AL-SHEHRI, Hamza ALGHAMDI, and ALNAMI enter the U.S. on a flight from London using tourist visas.
May 28, 2001�ATTA�s court appearance for his April traffic stop is scheduled for 8:45 a.m. at the Broward County West Satellite Courthouse on Pine Island Road in Plantation. He does not show up. South Florida Sun-Sentinel 9/15/01
Around May 28, 2001�Waleed AL-SHEHRI leaves the Bimini Motel. (Orlando Sentinel 9/15/01) along with one other hijacker, allegedly.
May 29, 2001�MOUSSAOUI leaves the Airman Flight School without obtaining a pilot�s license. Witnesses report him �piling everything he owns into a white Ford Taurus� but apparently he remains in the Norman area until August. Link He vacates the room he has been staying in, but stays in Oklahoma City for two more months. MOUSSAOUI moves into an apartment with Mukarram ALI and Hussein al-ATTAS, both of whom were later detained by the FBI because of their contacts with MOUSSAOUI. (WP, 12/12/01).
May 31, 2001� AL-SHEHHI purchases a one-month membership Gold�s Gym in Hollywood, FL. But he only works out once in early June. AL-SHEHHI uses an alias and pays by credit card when signing up for the $70 membership. Link
June 2001�Ahmed AL-HAZNAWI (93), having obtained a tourist visa in Saudi Arabia, enters the U.S. (Florida, presumably) on an unknown date in June 2001.
June 2001�AL-SHEHHI and ATTA join a Jim Woolard�s World Gym in Delray Beach, and Wail M. AL-SHEHRI, Waleed M. AL-SHEHRI and Satam al-SUQAMI join another location at the corner of Hypoluxo Road and Congress Avenue in Boynton Beach. ATTA catches people's attention by wearing dress shirts and jeans while jerking weights around like a novice. ATTA is also a member at L.A. Fitness on University Drive in Coral Springs and works out at the upscale gym for about two months. All pay $60 cash for short-term memberships that last through July and August. Link Link
Around this time AHMED/BANIHAMMAD, Saeed ALGHAMDI, Hamza ALGHAMDI, Waleed ALSHEHRI, JARRAH, SUQAMI, Mohand ALSHEHRI (175), Ahmed ALNAMI (93) and Ahmed AL-HAZNAWI (93) each open a Florida SunTrust bank account with a cash deposit. At some point ALOMARI and ATTA rent two safety deposit boxes at a Miami Bank of America branch. The Age, 9/20/01.
Early June�AL-SHEHHI and Saeed ALGHAMDI arrive at the Pelican Properties office of real estate agent Gloria Irish (whose husband Michael Irish is an editor at The Sun, a tabloid published by American Media) in Delray Beach, FL. They say that they need two apartments. �AL-SHEHHI, she said, did all the talking, and ALGHAMDI glared at her, making her uncomfortable.� AL-SHEHHI tells Mrs. Irish he was visiting the U.S. for pilot training. He and his friend were looking for three-month rentals �near a gym.� Within a couple of days, she finds the two visitors apartments in separate Delray Beach country-club communities. The men secure the properties with $6,000 in cash and even walk Mrs. Irish to the bank to deposit it. �The hijackers often operated in complementary pairs: the jarring brusqueness of one canceled out by the affability of his partner..� notes a reporter. While apartment hunting, a glowering Alghamdi never speaks to Mrs. Irish, who concluded he was "a creep." The genial AL-SHEHHI apologizes that his friend doesn't speak English. "He was just the friendliest guy," Mrs. Irish says. He would greet her, she remembers, with a big smile and a warm, "Good morning, Gloria." (WP, 10/15/01).
Sometime in June 2001�Nawaq ALHAZMI and HANJOUR reportedly rent a sedan from Borough Jeep Eagle Chrysler Plymouth in Wayne, N.J for $35 a day. This is the first of three vehicles rented by one or both of them this summer. One of the three is driven 1000 miles. They pay with a combination of cash, personal checks, and a MasterCard. The identification ALHAZMI uses is a Florida drivers� license with a nonexistent address on Lindell Avenue in Delray Beach. HANJOUR reportedly signs the rental contract as �Hani Saleh Hassan.� Link Link
Also sometime in June�Nawaq ALHAZMI buys a one-way ticket at Apollo Travel in Paterson from New York to Miami. LAT 11/23/01
June 4, 2001�A warrant is issued for ATTA�s arrest for failure to appear in court, related to the 4/26 traffic stop.
Around June 8, 2001�As arranged by Gloria Irish, Ahmed ALNAMI and Saeed ALGHAMDI rent Apartment 1504 at the Delray Racquet Club condominiums, 755 Dotterel Road, Delray Beach, FL. One neighbor recalled that the men often went swimming between 10 and 11 p.m., wearing swimsuits and carrying their briefcases to the pool. Hamza ALGHAMDImoves into a $900-a-month fifth-floor apartment in the same complex.
�It could not be determined whether Irish ever told the two men that her husband was editor of the Sun�there is no indication whether Irish or [future anthrax fatality] Stevens ever crossed paths with ATTA.� (WP, 10/15/01) At one apartment complex in Delray Beach, Fla., two neighbors said they regularly heard odd, late-night "banging noises" coming from one of the suspects' apartments. "Like a hammer hitting metal," Randy Ferris recalled, "but you can't very well call the police for that. Believe me, I wish I had." Chicago Tribune, 9/17/01 Link
Around this time, there is at least one report that ATTA and AL-SHEHHI further their pilot instruction at the Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University near their new environs. But Embry-Riddle has never publicly confirmed or denied that the two hijackers had been at the school. (The Age, Australia, 9/14/01)
June 12, 2001�AL-SHEHHI moves into a gated community in Delray Beach called the Hamlet Country Club, another rental arranged by Gloria Irish. Witnesses believe ATTA came along too. (ATTA is apparently there so much that neighbors believed they were living in the same apartment). The parking places for their cars--the red Pontiac and a Toyota--are next to hers, she said. On his rental application, AL-SHEHHI, when asked his permanent residence, writes: "NONE. I'm wandering." LAT 9/27/01
June 13, 2001�ATTA moves into the Tara Garden condo at 10001 W. Atlantic Blvd. in Coral Springs, FL. This month he makes several phone calls to a Madrid telephone number.
June 19, 2001� AL-SHEHHI, having reported his first Florida driver�s license lost, receives a duplicate license.
June 20, 2001�MOUSSAOUI buys flight deck plans for the Boeing 747, Models 400 and 200, from the Ohio Pilot Store.
June 21, 2001�Waleed AL-SHEHRI moves into Room B-308 of the Homing Inn on Federal Highway in Boynton Beach, FL, along with, it is believed, Wail AL-SHEHRI and AL-SUQAMI. The latter two would use the motel as their drivers� license address. Link
June 22, 2001�JARRAH leaves the Hollywood apartment and moves into another flat attached to a private home at 4641 Bouganvilla in Lauderdale-by-the-Sea for $200 a week. His roommate is AL-HAZNAWI . PBP 10/15/01 The landlord, Charles Lisa, notices that the �skinny and frail� AL-HAZNAWI has what appears to be an �infected gash� on his left leg. He directs the two men to nearby Holy Cross Hospital for treatment. Link
June 22 or 23, 2001, most likely�JARRAH accompanies AL-HAZNAWI to the emergency room of Holy Cross Hospital at 4725 N. Federal Highway in Fort Lauderdale, FL, on an unspecified evening in June. They both used their own names, not aliases. AL-HAZNAWI had to be treated for a black lesion on his leg. Dr. Christos Tsonas cleaned the wound and prescribed the antibiotic Keflex. AL-HAZNAWI tells Tsonas a dark lesion he had on his leg had developed after bumping into a suitcase two months earlier. It later occurred to Tsonas that the lesion was consistent with cutaneous anthrax and he reported this information to the FBI in October 2001. The New York Times story that broke these details also mentioned that Holy Cross is �relatively near� the American Media building, where the first anthrax cases would be discovered. See Link
Summer 2001� For much of the summer, a group of four of the hijackers rent scooters by the hour from AAA Car Rental in Ft. Lauderdale. They killed time tooling up and down the city's famous beaches. Link
Summer 2001�At some point this summer, HANJOUR is spotted with another man on a regular flight from Washington to California, undoubtedly as a dry run for Flight 77. HANJOUR+washington+california+summer&hl=en&ie=UTF8�> Link
June 23, 2001�HANJOUR reportedly trains at the Sawyer School of Aviation in Phoenix. According to the FBI, an Algerian pilot named Lotfi Riassi helps train him, though they later back away from this story Link
June 25, 2001�AL-HAWSAWI opens a checking account at a Standard Chartered Bank branch in Dubai, UAE, with a cash deposit. The same day, Fayez AHMED/BANIHAMMAD (175) has a savings account and a checking account opened for him at the same Standard Chartered Bank branch. The MOUSSAOUI indictment is not clear on whether AHMED/BANIHAMMAD opens the account in person, or if he�s already in the USA and AL-HAWSAWI is using a power of attorney.
June 27, 2001, approximately�JARRAH travels to Las Vegas around this time. On the car rental form at Payless Car Rental, he lists Circus Circus, 2880 Las Vegas Blvd., as his destination hotel.
June 27, 2001�Hamza ALGHAMDI, living at the Delray Beach Racquet Club, gets his Florida driver�s license; later, he receives two duplicates, the latest in August.
June 28, 2001� ATTA flies into McCarran International Airport in Las Vegas. He rents a Chevrolet Malibu from an Alamo Rent-a-Car. It is not known where he stays this first night.
June 29, 2001�The tall, slim ALOMARI and the apelike Salem ALHAZMI arrive together at Kennedy Airport on a Swissair flight from London. It is believed that ALOMARI stays at ATTA�s Coral Springs condominium. They are the final two hijackers to arrive in the USA. NYT 11/6/01
June 29, 2001�Ever frugal, ATTA moves into Room 122 at the Econo Lodge at 1150 S. Las Vegas Blvd. Making sure he gets the 10% AAA discount, ATTA pays $49.50 a night in cash. He uses his Florida drivers� license as ID. Investigators believe that he met with HANJOUR, AL-SHEHHI, and JARRAH in this trip. Several change planes in Denver during this and the next Vegas trip. http://www.thedenverchannel.com/den...016-071016.html There are some reports that AL-SHEHHI visits the Olympic Garden strip club at 1531 Las Vegas Blvd. during this trip. They order a takeout �The Works� pizza without ham from Hungry Howie�s pizza parlor at Vegas and Buffalo Drives. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/536870/posts http://extratv.warnerbros.com/refra..._01/10_19a.html They meet at least once at a Starbucks at 1340 E. Flamingo Road, near UNLV. Most interesting, several hijackers visit the Cyber Zone store at 4440 S. Maryland Parkway. A Cyber Zone employee told the Review-Journal he believed JARRAH and ATTA visited the store. The employee said he believed ATTA used computers to visit Web sites. Employees of the West Charleston Library have told the FBI that terrorists who visited Las Vegas may also have visited the library, though the FBI doubts it. LVRJ 10/10/01 There is one report in the Las Vegas Sun 9/20/01 that one of ATTA�s two Vegas car rentals this summer is returned with more than 1000 miles on it.
June 29, 2001�Using the Dotterel Road address in Delray Beach, ALNAMI gets a Florida driver�s license. Link
July, 2001�Sometime this month, someone named Mohamed ATTA uses a bad credit card at the Government Printing Office in Washington to try to purchase the official Air Force magazine, giving an address in Egypt. ATTA26.html�>Link
July 2001�There is an �unsubstantiated report� according to USNWR in their 5/6/02 issue that two unspecified hijackers met in an Oklahoma City motel with MOUSSAOUI.
July 1, 2001�ATTA departs from Las Vegas. He flies first to Newark and goes to Paterson, NJ, where he buys his July 7 ticket from Florida to Madrid from Apollo International Travel on Main Street, paying $550 cash for a one-way fare. SPT 10/18/01 Within two days he is back in Florida.
Around this time, says the LA Times, ATTA, AL-SHEHHI and HANJOUR�all make brief, separate, trips abroad. The only one whose itinerary is publicly known (mostly) is ATTA�s Madrid trip.. LAT9/27/01
July 3, 2001�Both Wail AL-SHEHRI and al-SUQAMI receive Florida driver�s licenses using the Homing Inn address. Link
July 4, 2001�ALHAZMI (77-5) and ALMIDHAR (77-2) arrive at LAX on B-1 business visa after a flights from abroad. ALMIDHAR is on Saudi Arabia Airlines Flight 53 from Riyadh. Both use different Saudi passports than they used before. They arrive together. AL-HAZMI give �Marriott in New York City� as his destination. ALMIDHAR leaves the address portion of his I-94 incomplete, yet the business visa ALMIDHAR obtained at the consulate in Jedda allows him to stay in the country until October 3.Time, 11/1/01.
July 5, 2001�ATTA is stopped again for speeding, in Delray Beach, FL. He now had the Florida driver's license, and the policeman's computer check did not reveal that a bench warrant was outstanding for ATTA for failure to appear in court related to his April 26 speeding ticket.
July 7, 2001�ATTA boards a Swissair jet at Miami International Airport, bound for Madrid.
July 8, 2001, morning�Rather than flying non-stop from Miami to Spain, ATTA goes out of his way to change planes in Zurich. According to the Swiss Federal Police, during his 2 1/2-hour layover in Zurich, ATTA withdraws about $1,000 in Swiss francs from an airport cash machine. ATTA's purchases at the airport--two Swiss Army knives and some chocolate--are paid for with a credit card, not with cash. Swiss francs would have been useless in Spain, raising the possibility that ATTA may have given the money to someone he met at the Zurich airport. At least one of the other hijackers, Salem ALHAZMI, flies from Zurich to New York a few days before ATTA stopped there. Link According to at least one source, AL-SHEHHI is with ATTA. http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/lo...tprofiles.story There was an early incorrect report that he and AL-SHEHHI spent the night at a hotel in the Zurich area but this does not appear to be correct�the stopover in Zurich was only for a few hours at most.
July 8, 2001, afternoon�ATTA flies into Barajas Airport in Madrid. He rents a car that he�d previously reserved over the Internet.. According to one report in a Spanish newspaper, ATTA meets AL-SHEHHI and they spend the night at the Diana Cazadora, a three-star hotel about 500 metres - five minutes by car - from Barajas airport on the Barcelona road. ATTA and his colleague have dinner together and then allegedly drink vodka for a time in the hotel bar. Link Some believe that ATTA�s trip to Spain was prompted by the June 22 arrest of Mohammed Bensakhria, chief of a terror cell in Frankfurt, Germany. Bensakhria had been hiding in Spain since a Christmas plot to bomb a Strasbourg, France, market was exposed and thwarted. Spanish police believed that the trip had to have been vitally important if ATTA took time off from his planning for the 9/11 attacks to come to a meeting that had to be held face-to-face for maximum security. LAT 11/23/01 Apparently BINALSHIBH was in Spain at this time, also, so there was undoubtedly some 9/11 discussion. Link
There is also one report that ATTA makes a side journey to Rome on this trip. Italian security sources have reported that Iraq made use of its Rome embassy to foster and cultivate Hussein�s partnership with al-Qaeda. Habib Faris Abdullah al-Mamouri, a general in the Iraqi secret service, and from 1982 to 1990 a member of the �Special Operations Branch,� (M-8) charged with developing links with Islamist militants in Pakistan, Afghanistan and the Gulf states, was stationed in Rome as an �instructor� for Iraqi diplomats. Al-Mamouri supposedly met with ATTA in Hamburg and Prague in addition to July�s visit in Rome. Al-Mamouri has not been seen in Rome since July, shortly after he last met ATTA. [Daniel McGrory, �Hijacker �Given Flask by Iraqi Agent�,� The Times (London), October 27, 2001.]
July 10-11, 2001�MOUSSAOUI makes credit card payments to the Pan Am International Flight Academy in Miami for a simulator course in commercial flight training.
July 12, 2001�In a one-page interview in Pravda entitled �The Dollar and America Will Fall Down on August 19,� Russian economist Tatyana Koryagina predicts an �attack� on American financial institutions by unnamed �international� groups with �mystical and religious components� on August 19. �The U.S. has been chosen as the object of financial attack because the financial center of the planet is located there. The effect will be maximal. The strike waves of economic crisis will spread over the planet instantly, and will remind us of the blast of a huge nuclear bomb. Some fluctuation in this date is possible. Serious forces are acting against those who are now preparing the attack on the United States. August, with very high probability, will bring the financial catastrophe to the U.S.... The last 10 days of August have especial importance from a religious-sensible point of view.� Link
Mid-July 2001�An FBI agent in Arizona writes a multi-page memo to FBI headquarters laying out information developed by his counterterrorism team has developed in an unrelated investigation, pointing out that a number of Middle Eastern nationals were training at Arizona flight schools. WP 5/3/02
July 14, 2001�It is believed that ATTA goes to the town of Tarragona, and tries unsuccessfully to visit Jague Cristian Homarin, an Algerian held in federal prison there on murder charges, officials said.. Link There is also a sighting at Port Aventura theme park inTarragona per La Vanguardia.
July 16, 2001�A Spanish newspaper has reported an uncorroborated sighting that ATTA met with Wail and Waleed AL-SHEHRI on this day. Link
July 17. 2001 �ATTA drives to the town of Salou. He stays at the Hotel Casablanca Playa for $32 a night. He meets another man, and a woman. According to Spanish newspaper accounts, the woman is believed to be a former girlfriend of MOUSSAOUI. Link He spends one night at the Casablanca Playa, and then checks out and moves to another hotel in the same town. Some believe he is meeting with alleged Al-Qaeda financier Ahmed Brahim at his luxury flat at Paseo Maritimo in the Barcelona area, which Brahim sells immediately after ATTA�s visit. Link
July 17, 2001�The INS approves ATTA�s student visa. The visa is not delivered to Huffman Aviation until March 11, 2002, long after the attacks. Link
July 18, 2001�Fayez AHMED/BANIHAMMAD gives power of attorney to Mustafa Ahmed AL-HAWSAWI for AHMED/BANIHAMMAD�s Standard Chartered Bank accounts in the UAE. On the same day, AL-HAWSAWI picks up AHMED/BANIHAMMAD (175)�s Visa and ATM cards in the UAE. Shortly after, AL-HAWSAWI ships them to Fayez AHMED/BANIHAMMAD in Florida.[apparently�the MOUSSAOUI indictment is a little unclear on this] Time Magazine has reported that the hijackers' credit cards are through the Dime Savings Bank of New York.. Link
July 18, 2001� ATTA spends his last night in Spain in Room 15 at a different hotel, the Montsant Hotel in Salou, where he pays the bill ($27) with his Visa card and registers under his own name and uses his own Egyptian passport. He leaves and returns to the hotel several times during the evening. Link
Italian anti-terrorist police have mentioned that Ben Khemais, from the terrorist cell in Milan, Italy, travels to Spain at about the same time ATTA was there. ATTA+taxi+Hamburg&hl=en�> Link
July 19, 2001� ATTA returns his rental car with 2000 kilometers (1250 miles) on it. The mileage would have been enough for the trip to Salou plus an additional trip to the coastal cities of Alicante and Valencia, which have active Al-Qaeda cells at the time. ATTA uses a public Internet terminal at Madrid Airport to send e-mails before he boards the plane to Atlanta. ATTA arrives at Hartsfield International Airport in Atlanta and is given permission to stay until November 2, 2001.
Starting sometime around the latter half of July, 2001�Per James Lester, an employee of South Florida Crop Care in Belle Glade, ATTA was among the Arab men who in groups of two or three visited the crop dusting firm nearly every weekend for six or eight weeks before the attacks. ATTA is a persistent questioner and "I recognized him because he stayed on my feet all the time. I just about had to push him away from me," Lester said. Link
July and August 2001�ATTA repeatedly visits the Shipping Post, a mom-and-pop mailing business in Punta Gorda, Fla., to obtain money orders in amounts of $100 to $200, according to the owner. Link
Late July 2001�ATTA receives two calls from a number in Madrid. Link
July 25, 2001�JARRAH flies from the U.S. to Germany.
�June or July� 2001�There are two witnesses from TUHH in Hamburg, Germany who say that they saw ATTA and AL-SHEHHI at this time in the ground-floor workshops of the architecture department on at least two occasions with a scale model, measuring about 3� square, of what appeared to be the Pentagon. After September 11, it was discovered that TUHH�s library�a short distance from the workshop in question�was missing between 60 and 80 slides of the World Trade Center and the Sears Tower in Chicago. This tantalizing report is difficult to work into the timeline except in early June or, more likely, late July, coinciding with JARRAH�s visit. Link
July 26, 2001�SUQAMI and Waleed and Wail AL-SHEHRI move out of the Homing Inn. South Florida Sun Sentinel 9/28/01
Late July, 2001-- MOQED is seen at the Adult Lingerie Center, an adult video store in Beltsville, MD. He visits two more times, all between 10:30 PM and 1:30 AM, for about ten minutes each time. Newsday 9/23//01
The latter part of July, 2001� Nawaq ALHAZMI rents a minivan (presumably the one they used to drive to Virginia to obtain the phony licenses, see August 1-2) for $60 a day.
July 29-August 2, 2001�From public telephones in Norman, OK, MOUSSAOUI makes several phone calls to a number in Duesseldorf, Germany.
July 29, 2001�HANJOUR leaves the Sawyer School. Link
July 30-31, 2001�BINALSHIBH, using the name �Ahad Sabet,� receives two wire transfers, totaling approximately $15,000, from �Hashim Abdulrahim� in the UAE.(MOUSSAOUI indictment)
August 1, 2001�Actor James Woods, taking American Airlines Flight 11 from Boston�s Logan airport to Los Angeles, reports four extremely suspicious Middle-Eastern men in the first-class section. They had no carry-on luggage and sat rigidly in their seats, and would not even look at the female flight attendants. They ate or drank nothing, and spoke to each other only in whispers. Woods mentioned his suspicions of a hijacking to the flight crew, and an FAA report was filed. Of the four he saw, he later identified one as one of the Flight 175 hijackers, and one as a Flight 77 hijacker. The other two were not 9/11 hijackers, but were positively identified as �terrorist-involved.� See Actor Woods Fingered 9/11 Kamikaze Terrorists. This was apparently one of several �dry runs.�
August 2001�The Israeli Mossad advises the FBI and CIA that as many as 200 Islamists are slipping into the USA for a �major assault� on a �large-scale target� which would be �very vulnerable.� USA Today 9/20/01
August 1-3, 2001�BINALSHIBH, as �Ahad Sabet,� wires approximately $14,000 in money orders to MOUSSAOUI in Oklahoma from train stations in Duesseldorf and Hamburg. By this time, BINALSHIBH was now presumably passing the torch to his �understudy� (as The Independent called him) MOUSSAOUI.
August 1, 2001�AHMED/BANIHAMMAD�s Visa card used for the first time, in Florida.
August 1, 2001�Following ALRABABAH�s advice, HANJOUR and ALMIDHAR arrive in a minivan at the parking lot of a 7-11 store in Falls Church, VA. There, they ask Luis Martinez-Flores, an illegal immigrant from El Salvador, if he will co-sign their residency forms to allow them to obtain Virginia drivers� licenses for $100, which ALMIDHAR withdraws from an ATM. He agrees and they travel with Martinez-Flores to the Virginia DMV Express office at the nearby Springfield Mall and they use Martinez-Flores�s 5913 Leesburg Pike #8 address in Falls Church as their own. 5913 Leesburg is the apartment building that abuts the 7-11. Link
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August 2. 2001�Ahmed ALGHAMDIpays $100 to one Herbert Villalobos to fraudulently obtain a Virginia drivers� license, in the same process as the day before, as does ALOMARI. Link ALOMARI and Ahmed ALGHAMDIi accompany Villalobos to a lawyer's office in Virginia and Villalobos signs an affidavit certifying that they live in Virginia. Link Another person, Kenys Galicia of Falls Church, is involved in the fraud. Link According to another source, other hijackers receive their Virginia licenses that day, namely MOQED, and Salem ALHAZMI, after the others, as �Virginia residents,� vouch for them. The WP 9/30/01 says that as many as seven hijackers received licenses that day. All of the Flight 77 hijackers get Virginia licenses except Nawaq ALHAZMI.
Sometime in August 2001-- Nawaq ALHAZMI and HANJOUR reportedly rent another vehicle from Borough Jeep Eagle Chrysler Plymouth in Wayne, N.J. This is the third vehicle rented by them this summer, one minivan (presumably the one they used to drive to Virginia to obtain the phony licenses) for $60 a day and two cars for $35 a day. One of them is driven 1000 miles. They pay with a combination of cash, personal checks, and a MasterCard. Link
August 2, 2001�Satam Al SUQAMI, Waleed M. ALSHEHRI, and Wail ALSHEHRI move into at the Panther motel on 715 S. Ocean Blvd. in Deerfield Beach, FL.. Link
August 3, 2001�MOUSSAOUI buys two knives in Oklahoma City, OK.
August 4, 2001�JARRAH returns to the U.S.
August 6, 2001�ATTA rents a white Ford Escort from Warrick�s Rent-a-Car in Pompano Beach, FL. Link
August 6, 2001�In the financial markets, trading begins on September 30 put options, showing the first sign of unusually-large volume in puts on UAL Corp, the parent company of United Airlines. Reuters, 9/20/01
August 6, 2001�From Britain, �SHAKUR� calls DAHDAH YARKAS and tells him cryptically, �in one month I may see you�I have prepared some threads and other things that you will like.�
August 9, 2001�AL-SHEHHI�s student visa is approved by the INS. It is sent to Huffman Aviation in March.
August 9-10, 2001�MOUSSAOUI is driven from Oklahoma to Minnesota by his roommate AL-ATTAS. He registers to take commercial flying lessons at the Pan Am International Flight School in Eagan, MN. On the 10th, MOUSSAOUI pays approximately $6300 in cash for the lessons.
August 10, 2001�Satam Al SUQAMI, Waleed M. ALSHEHRI, and Wail ALSHEHRI move out of the Panther motel. South Florida Sun-Sentinel 9/24/01.
August 13, 2001�ATTA is said to have checked out of the Hamlet Country Club apartment. ATTA returns the rental car with 254 miles on it and flies from Florida to Las Vegas again. He stays at the same Econo Lodge, but has to go out and buy incense at a store because his room smells. This visit he is remembered being accompanied by another man and a woman. The FBI believes that all four pilots are present, plus Nawaq ALHAZMI (77-4) and ALMIDHAR. It is believed that at this meeting they finalized the details of the ATTAck. Nawaq ALHAZMI is remembered in the lobby of the Days Inn at 4155 Koval Lane, near East Flamingo Road. He tells his a Days Inn employee that he is taking a trip to Los Angeles, and asks for information on Days Inn properties in the area, including Whittier. He appears to be waiting for someone. ALHAZMI�s name does not appear on the hotel register. Three of the hijackers eat at the Strip Sandwich Shop at 603 Las Vegas Blvd, ordering sandwiches with white bread on the side and building their own. LVRJ 10/26/01.
August 13, 2001�MOUSSAOUI begins flying lessons at the Pan Am International Flight School. He is looking for simulator training on the Boeing 747 Model 400 without having a pilot�s license, which arouses suspicion. (WP 9/23/01) Almost from the first moment of his training at Pan Am, employees wonder to each other if MOUSSAOUI is a hijacker.
August 14, 2001�ATTA, ALHAZMI (77-4) and HANJOUR (77-1) depart from Las Vegas. ATTA flies to Houston, and presumably from there to Florida.
Second week of August, 2001(date ref. WP 10/9/01)� ALMIDHAR, ALHAZMI and HANJOUR travel briefly to Maryland, the staging area for 77. HANJOUR, always an uncertain pilot, shows up at flight school at Freeway Airport in Bowie, Md. The goal is apparently a final �check flight� of the same type that ATTA and JARRAH are documented taking around this time. Three times, he attempts to rent a plane. Each time, a different instructor takes him on a test flight and deems him incompetent to fly alone. "We have a level of standards that we hold all our pilots to, and he couldn't meet it," said the manager of the flight school later. HANJOUR could not handle basic air maneuvers�landings are a particular problem�a even though HANJOUR has 600 hours in the air and a pilot�s license. HANJOUR pays the $400 bill in cash, and eventually gives the Valencia Motel as his address. Link And yet, says the instructor, �There�s no doubt in my mind that once that jet got going, he could have pointed that plane at a building and hit it.� Newsday, 9/23/01
August 15, 2001�ATTA, carrying a briefcase, and AL-SHEHHI rent a blue Chevy Corsica from Warrick�s Rent-A-Car in Pompano Beach, FL. Characteristically, ATTA asks for the cheapest car on the lot.
August 15, 2001�Suspicions finally get the better of the instructors at Pan Am and they call the FBI about MOUSSAOUI.
�Late summer� (mid-to-late-August?) 2001�ATTA and AL-SHEHHI go to Huber Drugs in Delray Beach, FL, where the owner Greg Chatterton later identified them as frequent customers. ATTA seeks treatment for �palms that appeared to be reddened from a chemical burn or raw from construction work.� Link Chatterton asks if he had been working with solvents or dipping his hands into chemicals such as ammonia or chlorine, which ATTA denied. When asked what he did for a living, ATTA replies that he was in computer work. ATTA is given a tube of Acid Mantle, a cream which restores acidity to skin that�s been exposed to too much base, such as ammonia. ATTA pays $5.49 for it. AL-SHEHHI complains of chest congestion and a cough and is given Robitussin and urged to seek medical treatment at Urgi-Med, a nearby walk-in clinic. Within a day or two, AL-SHEHHI returns with a prescription for an antibiotic, which Chatterton said he filled. Chatterton could not recall which drug was prescribed, only that it was not for Ciproflaxin, later famous as the anti-anthrax drug of choice. The FBI perused the store�s records, which are not computerized, and concluded that AL-SHEHHI must have used an alias. �That�s why they came here,� said Chatterton later. �Think about it�you go to a small-town pharmacy, not part of a computer bank� which would archive prescription records. Urgi-Med at first confirmed to a reporter that �at least one hijacking suspect� had been treated at the clinic, but a manager for the clinic later called the reporter back and said that clinic officials would have no comment on the matter.
August 16, 2001 (The Observer 9/16/01 says 8/19/01)�ATTA rents a single engine, four seat Piper Archer for $88 an hour from the Palm Beach County Airport at Lantana for three consecutive days of flying, four hours a day. Each day he has a different passenger. Aug. 19, an instructor at Palm Beach County Airport in Lantana hears ATTA speaking in Arabic over the airplane's radio. The instructor, who speaks Arabic himself, believes Mr. ATTA intended to turn on the craft's intercom to talk to his passenger. Instead, Mr. ATTA keys the plane's radio. He exclaims, "God is Great!" Link
August 16, 2001�At flight school., MOUSSAOUI is interviewed by the FBI. When they question his presence in the USA, he says he is simply interested in learning to fly. He tells them that, upon competing training, he �intended to engage in sightseeing in New York City and Washington." He insists that he is a successful salesman, but when they ask what company, he can�t recall the name (Infocus Tech) of the firm he works for. He is then placed under arrest for visa irregularities. He is found with: two knives; one pair of binoculars; flight manuals for the Boeing 747 Model 400; a flight simulator computer program; fighting gloves and shin guards; a piece of paper referring to a handheld Global Positioning System receiver and a camcorder; software that could be used to view pilot procedures for the Boeing 747 Model 400; a notebook listing two German telephone numbers, including the Duesseldorf number that MOUSSAOUI called on July 29th; a manual for a crop-duster; the name �Ahad Sabet,� and a laptop computer (see August 18-20). Letters indicating that MOUSSAOUI is a marketing consultant in the United States for Infocus Tech; a computer disk containing information on the aerial application of pesticides; a handheld aviation radio. For three weeks, Moussaoui, 33, sits in jail in Minnesota with "no-one coming near him", according to the administrator of the jail. ABC News 9/24/01 NYT 5/11/02 and Link
FBI Director Robert Mueller has said that the news media incorrectly have reported MOUSSAOUI's interest in learning to handle airplanes at a time when he was taking flight training. Mueller said Moussaoui wanted to learn how to take off and land, but not fly. "Newspapers have it the other way," Mueller noted. LinkLink Shortly after, the FBI asks the French intelligence services for information on MOUSSAOUI. NYT 10/7/01.
August 17, 2001�JARRAH takes a �check ride� at a flight school in Fort Lauderdale.
August 18-20, 2001�The FBI�s field agents in Minnesota urgently seek a search warrant to examine MOUSSAOUI�s laptop computer. According to the Washington Post, �during often heated debates�officials at headquarters opposed the request, arguing that investigators could not show probable cause that a crime had been committed.� The request is denied.
August 19, 2001�ATTA is finally put on the Watch List for Terrorists around this time.
Mid-August 2001�JARRAH tells Bert Rodriguez that he has to leave on a business trip. Rodriguez never sees him again.
August 21, 2001�The CIA informs the INS of its concerns regarding Nawaq ALHAZMI and ALMIDHAR. Link
August 22, 2001�In Miami, JARRAH buys an antenna for a GPS and schematics for Boeing 757 cockpit-instrument diagrams. Link
August 22, 2001�Fayez AHMED/BANIHAMMAD (175) uses his Visa card in Florida to obtain approximately $4900 in cash, which had been deposited into his Standard Chartered Bank account in the UAE the day before.
August 22, 2001�Nawaq ALHAZMI (possibly with HANJOUR) rents a sedan from Borough Jeep-Chrysler, the third and final time they�ve used Borough this summer.
August 23, 2001�ATTA�s driver�s license is suspended indefinitely as a consequence of his failure to appear in traffic court.
August 23, 2001�ALMIDHAR and NawaqALHAZMI are put on the FBI terrorist watch list to prevent them from entering the country�only twenty months after they were recorded plotting the Cole bombing, and when they had already been in the country for a month and a half. The FBI has no idea where they are. The San Diego FBI office is not notified of the two hijackers� change in status until September 13. Another official said the FBI did check out the information and concluded the man was no longer in the country. Link
August 23, 2001�Multiple hijackers are in Room 343 at the Valencia Motel in Laurel, MD, where they stay from Aug. 23 to Sept. 11.HANJOUR, ALMIDHAR and ALHAZMI join two others there. They would open the door only a crack to pass out dirty towels and receive clean ones. LAT 9/27/01 For a weekly rate of $280 plus tax, they have a kitchenette, a tiny living area and one bedroom. Their pressed khakis and button-down shirts make them stand out from other tenants, a crew mostly down on its luck. �We thought they were gay, five men living together,� says one neighbor. They drive off every day with large stand-up wheeled bags and carry-on luggage, then return and leave again with more luggage. Link They drive the blue Toyota later found in the Dulles parking lot, along with an unidentified white car. ATTA is also seen there around late August. There is a possibility that around this time, two of the hijackers visit the Al-Qaeda-connected cleric Moataz Al-Hallak at the Crestleigh Gardens apartment complex, also in Laurel. See Link
August 24, 2001� The vice president of Airman Flight School in Norman, Oklahoma later told The Boston Globe that FBI agents interviewed him about MOUSSAOUI around this date. Link
August 25, 2001�Using cash, ALMIDHAR and MOQED buy tickets for AA Flight 77, from Dulles International in Virginia, to Los Angeles, on September 11th, 2001. Salem ALHAZMI books his Flight 77 ticket on Travelocity.com, using an address on Linwood Plaza in Fort Lee, NJ., paying with a Visa Card. He then buys a second reservation on Travelocity as a backup, using a Wayne, NJ address. Link
August 25, 2001, approximately�ATTA sends two wire transfers of around $2000 back to the UAE from a branch of Mail Boxes Etc., and from a Giant supermarket in Laurel, MD. Two more wire transfers would be sent from Boston via Western Union.
Late August, 2001�AL-SHEEHI and Mohand AL-SHEHRI (who signed his name on the sign-in sheet) appear at the Delray Beach Public Library late one afternoon requesting Internet access.The two appear to be in their early 20s, �good-looking� men dressed in casual clothes. The men seem edgy and use the computers for about an hour. �They kept staring at the computers and then staring at me,� said a female employee. They leave shortly after a third Middle Eastern man arrives and speaks to them. It is believed that there were downloading a �significant� amount of information on crop dusters. Link
August 26, 2001 AL-SHEHHI moves into room 12 at the Panther Motel, paying $500 in advance. He gives his address as 9387 Sheridan Ct., #F266 in Hollywood, FL. [This is the address of the Mailboxes Etc. store that most of them have been using]. He is driving a blue Chevy. Panther Motel owner Richard Surma is so impressed by Marwan AL-SHEHHI's manners that he allows him to have a friend stay overnight, despite rules barring that. Another source says that Fayez AHMED/BANIHAMMAD was the person staying with him. Link<./a>
Meanwhile, three other hijackers are staying at the Crystal Cay Motel, also in Deerfield Beach. After spending months together in flight schools and apartments, ATTA and AL-SHEHHI appear to have parted company around Labor Day. AL-SHEHHI drives the three to and from the Crystal Cay Motel, where they had an upstairs corner room. Rooms at the pale yellow, two-story building with a faded white shingle roof rent for about $45 a night. Nearly every day, AL-SHEHHI comes by in a car to pick up the three men. Sometimes he drives a red car, sometimes a black one. Once, he brings the three back from grocery shopping. Despite having a telephone in their room, the men regularly uses the pay phone in front of the motel. AL-SHEHHI is a few blocks north, at the Panther Motel. They spend their days out, evenings closeted in the room.
August 26, 2001�Waleed AL-SHEHRI and Wail AL-SHEHRI make reservations on AA Flight 11, from Logan Airport in Boston, to Los Angeles on September 11th, 2001. The contact number they use is in Florida.
August 27, 2001�Around this time, according to one source, an article in the London Telegraph 9/23/01 ( Link , Saddam Hussein suddenly moves his wife Sadija and his �other wife� to Tikrit, far from Baghdad.
August 27, 2001�In Spain, BARAKAT-YARKAS receives a call from �SHAKUR� in England. In another call recorded by Spanish police, �SHAKUR� says, in the police�s translation: �We�ve entered the field of aviation. We�ve even cut the throat of the bird.� Another translation of the Arabic might be �We are going to cut the throat of the eagle.� LAT 11/23/01
August 27, 2001�Allegedly, the CIA sends a message coded �IMMEDIATE� (the second-highest priority) to the FBI, Justice Department, and Customs warning that ALMIDHAR and ALHAZMI are in the country. The FBI later claims that it took �aggressive action� in response to the warning. The LA Times later pointed out that the FBI�s �aggressive action� did not include checking California drivers� license records or VISA card records (the VISA cards are used the same day to buy Flight 77 tickets), on both of which the two were listed under their own names. ALHAZMI was listed in the 2001 San Diego phone book.
August 27, 2001--JARRAH registers at the Pin-Del Motel at 9060 Washington Ave. in Laurel, Maryland. The Pin-Del Motel is about a mile from the Valencia Motel. JARRAH pays $132 for three nights in advance with a Visa card. He uses a Florida address and drivers� license.
August 27, 2001�Reservations for electronic, one-way tickets are made for Fayez AHMED/BANIHAMMAD and Mohand AL-SHEHRI for UA Flight 175, from Logan Airport in Boston to Los Angeles for September 11th, 2001, listing the same Florida contact number that Waleed AL-SHEHRI and Wail AL-SHEHRI used. Nawaq ALHAZMI and Salem ALHAZMI book flights on AA Flight 77. Mohand AL-SHEHRI and Fayez Rashid Ahmed Hassan al- Qadi BANIHAMMAD buy tickets for United Flight 175 on Sept. 11. They use a Delray Beach Mail Boxes Etc. address. Link ALMIDHAR, Moqed, Nawaq ALHAZMI, Salem ALHAZMI buy tickets for the Pentagon-bound plane through the online travel agency Travelocity and giving a Mail Boxes Etc. address in New Jersey, according to CNN. Link
August 28-- Hamza ALGHAMDIand Ahmed ALGHAMDI, using another Mail Boxes Etc. address in Delray Beach, buy their tickets for Flight 175. Link
August 28, 2001�ATTA flies from Baltimore to Fort Lauderdale. He reserves two tickets for American Airlines Flight 11 on the American Airlines website, using the same frequent flyer number., for himself and for ALOMARI. ALOMARI gives a Mail Boxes Etc. address in Hollywood. That same day, AL-SHEHHI buys a ticket for Flight 175 and AL-SUQAMI buys a ticket with cash for AA Flight 11. Some of the hijackers use the pay-per-use public Internet terminals in the Kinko�s in Hollywood, FL to buy their tickets through (Wired 9/20/01) Travelocity.com around this time. Also, around this time, ATTA reserves a ticket on an October 13 flight from BWI to San Francisco, presumably as a backup.
August 28, 2001�JARRAH checks out of the Pin Del Motel. (Palm Beach Post, 10/15/01) He returns to Florida.
August 29, 2001�ATTA and AL-SHEHHI return to Warrick-Rent-A-Car, having put 1915 miles on the Corsica. http://www.webcom.com/hrin/magazine/la-ATTA.html Having exceeded the rental contract�s mileage limits, he protests when Warrick charges him an extra $61.80, but pays it eventually. Link
The Corsica is apparently having some problems, so they exchange it for a white Ford Escort, to be returned Sept. 9. The actual car rental documents are downloadable at ATTA/resources/documents/rentacar1.htm�> Link
August 29, 2001�Ahmed ALGHAMDIand Hamza ALGHAMDIreserve electronic one-way tickets for UA Flight 175. AL-HAZNAWI purchases a ticket on United Airlines Flight 93, from Newark International Airport to San Francisco, scheduled for September 11th, 2001.
August 31, 2001�CNN has reported that on this date HANJOUR buys his ticket in person accompanied by MOQED who �did all the talking.� The buy is made at ATS Travel in Totowa, NJ, only two miles down the road from the Paterson apartment. None of the hijackers had done business with ATS before. MOQED requests an aisle seat as far forward as possible on Flight 77, and HANJOUR is given seat 1B, directly behind the cockpit. HANJOUR tries to pay with his Visa card, but it is rejected. HANJOUR and MOQED go to the Hudson Union Bank branch a few blocks away. They return to the travel agency and pay $1800 cash for HANJOUR�s ticket. The agent tells them that the flight from Dulles is $400 cheaper than the Newark flight. For ID, HANJOUR uses the Virginia drivers� license with Martinez-Flores�s Falls Church address that he had fraudulently obtained earlier in the month. Link Link
August 30, 2001�ATTA buys a box-cutter.
August 30, 2001, noon�According to the manager, JARRAH and ATTA rent a room at the Longshore Motel in Hollywood, FL, paying $175 cash in advance for the week. The Florida motel manager is puzzled by his guests' insistence upon 24-hour Internet access in their room. "They were very agitated and they said, 'You're wasting our time. We are here on a mission,'" When asked �What kind of mission is that? A Mission of Islam?' They �kind of paused� and said, 'No, no, no, we want to stay out of that.'" [PBS] Dragomir solves the problem by running a wire from the office to their rooms, which are not themselves equipped with phones. When, worried about huge phone bills, Dragomir asks them to work out of the office instead, they become angry and insulting, demanding their money back. (Palm Beach Post, 10/15/01) Dragomir takes two calls for the men from a woman who says she is calling from Canada. They drive a Honda Civic, which �was registered to the wife of a man in Thornhill, who said he and his friend had traveled to Florida in search of a job. Both are computer programmers, which is why they had the laptops.� National Post , 9/18/01
August 31, 2001 (approximately)�The residents of 486 Park Avenue in Paterson, including HANJOUR, Nawaq and Salem ALHAZMI, leave around this time. They depart in Nawaq ALHAZMI�s blue Toyota Corolla with California plates, the same car later discovered in the Dulles parking lot on September 11.
September 1, 2001--Nawaq ALHAZMI checks into the Pin-Del Motel. He rents Room 7 for $42.90 a night. As identification, he uses a phony New York drivers� license listing 161 Lexington Avenue (a hotel where he�d never stayed) as his address. Newsday 9/23/01
The same day, according to CNN, Nawaq ALHAZMI returns the sedan to Borough Jeep-Chrysler in Wayne, NJ CNN, 9/26/01
September 1, 2001� British authorities later released a document indicating, among other things, that Bin Laden had warned around this time that he was about to launch a major attack on America. The British document, based on telephone intercepts and information gleaned from interrogations in Europe since the attacks in New York and Washington, reveals that orders were sent to a number of the network's key operatives to return to Afghanistan by September 10. Link
September 1, 2001--BAHAJI goes to his wife�s stepfather and asks to have DM 1000 to fly to Pakistan, where he will be taking a new �internship.� He gives his father-in-law power of attorney over his affairs in the event he didn�t return. He obtains visas for travel to Pakistan from the consulate.
September 1, 2001�ATTA goes to the American Airlines ticket counter at LaGuardia Airport in New York and purchases a ticket for an American Eagle flight from New York to Portland, ME that day. He also pays $1300 cash for an advance ticket for a one-way flight from Boston to Los Angeles on American Airlines Flight 11 on September 11th. When asked if he is coming back, says �No.� See Hijack Boss was in NY
There are stories that ATTA, AL-SHEHHI, and unspecified other hijackers are seen at Harry�s Bar in the Helmsley New York Hotel on East 42nd Street in ManhATTAn around this time. Link
By Sept. 2, All five of the 77 crew temporarily join a nearby Gold's Gym on Greenbelt Road.. Making conversation, a gym employee asked the meanings of their names. The 5�4� HANJOUR says his given name, Hani, means �warrior.� warrior. It really means �content.� Each of the men pays cash to work out at the gym during the week of Sept. 2 and signs the guest register with their own names. ALMIDHAR, MOQED, and HANJOUR buy weekly memberships for $30 apiece on September 2. Each returned several times, sometimes accompanied by one of the ALHAZMIs, who paid $10 daily memberships. None visited after September 6. They work out in groups, always with weights or resistance machines. (WP 9/18/01 and Link
September 3, 2001�According to the MOUSSAOUI indictment, ATTA, AL-SHEHHI, and Waleed ALSHEHRI wire $15,000 to �Mustafa Ahmed�s� account in Sharjah, UAE. They are returning unspent cash from the approximately $500,000 with which Al-Qaeda financed the operation. In the days preceding September 11, four separate payments were sent to the United Arab Emirates by the alleged hijackers. All four were made through Western Union Financial Services Inc. agents in the U.S., according to law enforcement officials. Link But according to Time magazine, in the 10 days leading up to the Sept. 11 hijackings, ATTA receives at least two wire transfers of cash from Egypt through a small Florida money-wiring business. Link
September 3, 2001�Abandoning his wife and six-month-old child, BAHAJI takes Turkish Airways from Hamburg to Istanbul and from there to Karachi, Pakistan. He spends one night at the Embassy Hotel in Karachi (from which he makes several calls to Hamburg) and is last reported in Quetta, on the Afghanistan border. Pakistani authorities report that he traveled with two Arab men with European passports. They are Abdellah Hosayni, a Belgian citizen of Algerian descent, and Ammar Moula, of Moroccan origin but travelling on a French passport. None of them show any signs of familiarity with each other until they are safely outside Karachi's Quaid-e-Azam airport. Link Other reports place him in Bahrain. The same day, BINALSHIBH, using the name �Ahad Sabet,� receives approximately $1500 by wire transfer from �Hashim Ahmed� in the UAE.
September 4-7, 2001�Around this time, a Frankfurt, Germany banker receives inquiries from French banks on the costs of borrowing extremely-high stakes�millions of shares�in Munich Re, an international reinsurance company, but he does not receive an order. Volume in Munich Re shares increases sharply (30 percent) at that time. The stock declines 16 percent in trading before the attacks. Munich Re�s reinsurance losses from September 11 are $910 million.
September 4, 2001�JARRAH receives $700 from his family in addition to his regular monthly stipend of $2,000. According to his uncle, Jammal JARRAH, he only told his family it was for "fun". He had earlier asked his family to urgently wire him $2,000 on top of his monthly stipend of $2,000, according to his uncle, Jamal JARRAH. Link
September 4, 2001�ATTA sends a FedEx package from Florida to the UAE.
September 5, 2001�Sakher �Rocky� Hammad, who works for Magic Plumbing and Heating on 93rd Street in Brooklyn, is known to have done work on the sprinkler system in the World Trade Center, and when arrested he has a photo ID WTC visitor�s pass for this date. The identity of the tenant who hired him is not known. On 2/5/02, Hammad is one of five Arab men arrested in connection with the fiery murder of Tennessee drivers� license examiner Katherine Smith several days earlier. Hammad also spent time in the Bay Ridge section of Brooklyn in 2000. Link �The sprinkler system had turned on and had started to do something, but it wasn't doing its job as it should, so there was water sloshing down the stairways.� Link
September 5, 2001�BINALSHIBH flies to Madrid, Spain and has not been seen again. The New York Post speculated that he had fled to Afghanistan. ZAMMAR also disappeared around this time and is believed to be in Morocco.
September 5, 2001�Khalid ALMIDHAR uses a Daytona Beach address to book a reservation over the American Airlines Web site, using his frequent-flier number, which he had established the day before, according to FBI documents. MIDHAR(77-2) and MOQUED(77-3) attempt to buy tickets online, but their card fails to go through because of a mismatched mailing address on the Visa card. They drive to BWI airport , about a 20-minute drive from the Valencia motel, and pay cash for their one-way tickets. In spite of ALMIDHAR�s name being on the terrorist watch list, there is no problem. Link
September 5, 2001�JARRAH and AL-HAZNAWI visit Passage Tours on Commercial Boulevard on Lauderdale-by-the-Sea, a few blocks from their apartment on Bougainvilla Street. They buy one-way tickets on a Sept. 7 flight to Newark. They buy box-cutter knives with blades under the four-inch maximum that can be carried onto a plane before September 11. Across the street at Mile High Travel, Saeed ALGHAMDI and ALNAMI pay cash for 9/7 tickets to Newark. PBP 10/15/01
September 5-6, 2001�French intelligence informs the Americans about MOUSSAOUI�s al-Qaeda links in a bilateral meeting of intelligence agents in Paris.
September 6, 2001�ESSABAR flees Germany by unknown means. He and BAHAJI are last seen together in the camps in Afghanistan in late September. Link
September 6, 2001�Approximately $8,055 is wired from Fayez AHMED/BANIHAMMAD�s (175) Florida SunTrust account to the Standard Chartered Bank account over which AL-HAWSAWI had power of attorney.
September 6, 2001�Trading begins on October 30 puts, again showing unusually-high activity in put options on UAL Corp. On September 6-7 The Chicago Board Options Exchange sells 4,744 put options on UAL versus 396 call options. There is also sudden high volatility on American Airlines. Reuters 9/20/01 The brokerage Morgan Stanley, the largest single WTC tenant, has seen on average 27 put options a day purchased on it; in the five days before the attacks, 2,157 are sold.
September 6, 2001�At New Utrecht High School in the Bensonhurst section of Brooklyn, a freshman, the son of Pakistani immigrants, points out the window to the twin towers of the WTC and says, �Do you see those two buildings? They won�t be standing there next week.� Link
September 6, 2001�Security cameras capture a white Mitsubishi Mirage sedan rented from an Alamo agency near the airport entering a parking garage at Logan International Airport in Boston. It stays there from 2:15 PM to 4 PM. The same car appears there multiple times in the next several days. At first the assumption was that the hijackers were casing the ariport. (On September 11, investigators later find a "ramp pass" to enter restricted areas of the airport in the car.) But they could just be picking up other hijackers as they arrive. Link
September 7, 2001�At a wedding in Todi, Italy, Jean-Marie Benjamin, 55, a priest with multiple contacts in the Muslim world, especially Iraq, ( Link) explains informally to a judge and several politicians that he had been told that a terrorist team was preparing an attack, with hijacked airplanes, on US and British population centers. Link
September 7, 2001�AL-SUQAMI(11) and ALOMARI (11) fly from Florida to Boston.
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September 7, 2001� Hamza ALGHAMDI(175-2) and Mohand ALSHEHRI (175-5) travel from Fort Lauderdale to Newark on Spirit Airlines. They paid a travel agent (Mile High Travel in Lauderdale-by-the-Sea) $139.75 in cash each for one-way tickets.
September 7, 2001�About 10:30 a.m., all five of the 77 team (HANJOUR, ALMIDHAR and ALHAZMI and two others) leave the Valencia for good. The San Diego crew stays intact right onto their aircraft.
September 7, 2001 (some sources say September 8, but most specifically mention Friday, which was 9/7) Link )�ATTA goes to Shuckum�s Oyster Bar and Grill in Hollywood, FL., with AL-SHEHHI. According to bar staff, ATTA spends almost four hours playing video Trivial Pursuit and drinking cranberry juice, (earlier sources Link said that ATTA had five Vodka and orange juices ��They were wasted� said the bartender--Time, Link while AL-SHEHHI drinks rum and cokes with an still-unidentified third male. AL-SHEHHI sends his food back to the kitchen. After they dispute the bill and the waitress thinks they don�t have the money, ATTA, miffed, says, �You think I can�t pay? I�m a pilot for American Airlines. I can pay my fucking bill.�
September 8, 2001�Facing international sanctions, the top banking authorities of Oman and the UAE hold a news conference to announce that they would enact laws to combat money laundering by the end of the year. LAT 1/21/02
September 8, 2001�In Dubai, UAE, an Arab male retrieves the FedEx package sent by ATTA from Florida on 9/4.
September 7 or 8, 2001�Nawaq and possibly Salem ALHAZMI reportedly shop at the Champs and Macy�s stores in the Willowbrook Mall in Wayne, NJ, this weekend. Link
September 8, 2001, morning�ATTA visits South Florida Crop Care in Belle Glade for the last time. Link Later in the day, ATTA wires $2800, then $5000, to �Mustafa Ahmed� in the UAE.
September 8, 2001, evening�Germany's daily 'Bild' reported on October 16, quoting FBI information, ATTA and Al- Shehhi meet at Harry's Bar at the four-star Helmsley Hotel in Manhattan, four kilometers (2.5 miles) from the WTC. As the story goes, ATTA and AL-SHEHHI meet two other men at the bar "at a small table next to the piano" and stay for several hours, the paper said. ATTA pays for drinks with a credit card while AL-SHEHHI pays in cash. ATTAcks/16suspects.html+ATTA+Helmsley&hl=en�> Link
September 8, 2001�As they prepare to strike, the hijackers split up and stay in moderately priced hotels in Boston. At around 8 p.m., Fayez AHMED/BANIHAMMAD, having left the Panther Motel and flown up from Florida, shows up at the Milner Hotel on the edge of Boston's downtown theater district. Accompanied by another man, AHMED/BANIHAMMAD asks a hotel employee to fill out a registration card for him, explaining that his English is poor. Link
Waleed ALSHEHRI and Wail ALSHEHRI stay in room 432 at the Park Inn in Newton, MA; two others spend Sept. 9 and 10 at the Milner Hotel in Boston; Ahmed ALGHAMDIand Hamza ALGHAMDI stay at the Day's Hotel in Brighton; two others are at the upscale Charles Hotel in Cambridge.
September 8-9�The three unknown current residents of HANJOUR�s old apartment in San Diego suddenly move out. Link
September 9, 2001�Just after midnight, JARRAH receives a speeding ticket for driving 90 mph in a 65 mph zone on Interstate 95. JARRAH is driving a rental car at that time. Link JARRAH makes his final phone call to his family. He confirms receipt of the money sent on the 4th. The family reports he was cheerful and normal and said he'd see them Sept. 22 for a family wedding.
September 9, 2001�Northern Alliance commander Ahmed Shah Massoud is assassinated by two al-Qaeda operatives pretending to be Arab journalists.
September 9, 2001�Foreign intelligence officials intercept a telephone call on between Osama bin Laden and his adoptive mother Al-Kalifa in Syria, according to a report by NBC. "In two days, you're going to hear big news, and you're not going to hear from me for a while," says bin Laden. AJC 10/2/01 Link
September 9, 2001�The owner, Richard Surma, notices that AL-SHEHHI, another tenant, (AHMED/BANIHAMMAD, presumably) and one other visitor who was constantly with them, have left the Panther Motel. AL-SHEHHI shaves his goatee before he departs, leaving only a mustache. AL-SHEHHI then returns the rental Corsica to Warrick�s for good., with an additional 1,035 miles on it. Link AL-SHEHHI flies to Boston. After they leave, owner Surma, cleaning out the rooms at the Panther, finds a tote bag in the trash. It is packed with aeronautical maps of the entire East Coast, martial arts books, a protractor, an English-German dictionary, Boeing 757 flight manuals, books from a flight school, and computer printouts with a detailed list of airline flights and times. A maid, cleaning the room, finds a box cutter. --Chicago Tribune 9/17/01
In Boston, AL-SHEHHI rents the room next to AHMED/BANIHAMMAD at the Milner. He makes a call from the room to Western Union, which authorities believe was one final attempt to refund unneeded cash to their contact in the United Arab Emirates. At some point in the day AL-SHEHHI wires $5400 to �Mustafa Ahmad� in the UAE. Link
September 9, 2001�Waleed AL-SHEHRI (11) wires $5000 to �Ahamad Mustafa� in the UAE. At some point in the day Wail and Waleed AL-SHEHRI order a call girl and pay her $180 for a 20-minute session.
September 9, 2001, 8:27 AM�The white Mistubishi appears at Logan airport again, remaining until 9:13 AM. Boston Globe 9/23/01
September 9, 2001� ATTA arrives in Boston. At Logan Airport, he watches that day�s American Airlines Flight 11 as it prepares for departure. He stands there at the gate with no luggage or briefcase, only a folder. A passenger remembers: �When I was actually boarding the airplane, he was standing at the gate counter writing on a card�the only thing he could see of the airplane was the pilots and the front of the airplane.� Link The same witness had seen him at curbside, asking �strange� questions. Later, he meets up with ALOMARI. They rent a blue 2001 Nissan Altima with Massachusetts license 3335VI at an Alamo Rent-a-Car in Boston at around 6 PM. They spend the night in a Boston hotel.
September 9, 2001, 4:15 PM�The white Mitsubishi returns to Logan again. It leaves at 5:39 PM.
September 10, 2001�There are 4,526 put options bought on UAL versus 748 call options. For American Airlines, the number of puts is 60 times the daily average.
September 10, 2001, afternoon�One of the Flight 93 hijackers goes to Nardone�s, a go-go bar on Route 1 in Elizabeth, NJ., about two miles from Newark International Airport. He has one beer and pays $20 to watch a dancer in the private VIP room. Link
September 10, 2001, 4:25 PM�The white Mitsubishi returns to Logan again. It leaves at 5:05 PM.
September 10, 2001�ATTA and ALOMARI drive 100 miles north to Portland, ME in the afternoon. At a toll booth at Exit 13 of the Massachusetts Turnpike, ATTA �boils over in anger� when the operator demands that he pay the $3.10 toll. He speeds away without paying, and the toll taker writes down their tag number.
September 10, 2001�Hamza ALGHAMDIchecks into the Days Hotel in Boston's Brighton neighborhood. He is signed in as "Ghamdi." ATTA+taxi+Hamburg&hl=en�> Link
September 10�Sometime today, JARRAH writes a farewell letter to his girlfriend. "You should be very proud, because it is an honor and in the end you will see that everyone will be happy." According to Der Spiegel, the four-page letter is dated Sept. 10. Because of a mistake in the address, the package was returned to the United States and fell into the hands of the FBI.
September 10, 2001, 6:59 PM�A message is posted to a Yahoo financial message board reads �to the deapest part called the center of the earth by this wekend north east region will be destroyed new providance soon to fall apart.� Link
September 10, 2001�ATTA and ALOMARI arrive in Maine and check in to the Comfort Inn in South Portland, about a mile from the Portland International Jetport, at about 5:45 PM.
Sometime between 8:00 pm and 9:00 pm, ATTA and ALOMARI are seen at Pizza Hut, 415 Maine Mall Road, South Portland, Maine, for approximately fifteen (15) minutes. This is apparently their last meal on earth.
8:31 PM --ATTA and ALOMARI make a cash withdrawal at a Key Bank drive-up ATM, 445 Gorham Road, South Portland.
8:41 PM�they are next recorded at a Fast Green ATM, located in the parking lot of a Pizzeria Uno restaurant, 280 Maine Mall Road, South Portland. They leave the account almost empty.
9:15 PM�They buy gasoline for their car at the Jetport Gas Station on 446 Western, Avenue, South Portland.
9:22 PM�ATTA enters a Wal-Mart on 451 Payne Road in Scarborough and spends twenty minutes there. ATTAck/investigation/ausport10042001.htm http://www.webdesk.com/terrorists-in-maine/�> Link
Others believe ATTA viewed the Portland flight as a final test run for the plan to carry small knives onto planes.
September 10, 2001�AL-SHEHHI, AHMED/BANIHAMMAD, Mohand ALSHEHRI, and AL-SUQAMI price prostitutes, but found their prices too high.
Two of ATTA's bags, bearing his name tags, don't make the transfer. http://www.suntimes.com/terror/stor...hijack16s1.html According to Der Spiegel, the FBI examines the bags and finds, among other things, a videotape on how to fly a Boeing 757 and 747.and airline uniforms. The immediate speculation is that the hijackers or some of their associates used the uniforms to gain access to areas of Logan Airport that would normally be secure. The FBI also wonders whether the uniforms were connected to an April 2001 break-in at the Hotel Nazionale in central Rome, in which two American Airlines pilots said they were robbed of their uniforms, badges, and airport access badges. An unidentified third vehicle, rented from a local Dollar Rent a Car franchise, is also found at Logan. Previously, investigators had identified two cars rented from the Boston office of Alamo Rent a Car. Link
September 10, 2001�At the Pink Pony Nude Theater in Daytona Beach, FL, a man with a Middle-Eastern accent sitting with two other men says �Tomorrow America will see bloodshed.� They leave a Koran behind at the strip club. Orlando Sentinel, 9/14/01
In NawaqALZHAMI�s car at Dulles, police find a cashier�s check made out to a flight school in Phoenix., four drawings of the cockpit of a Boeing 757, a box cutter, a map of Washington, and a handwritten note with the name �Mohumed� and ABDI�s northern Virginai phone number. ABDI had entered the USA as a Somali refugee on an I-94 visa. He had formerly worked for Caterair, an airline caterer at National Airport. When ABDI is picked up a few days later, on his person was a newspaper article about Ahmed Ressam�;s 1999 attempt to smuggle explosives across the border. (Human Events, 10/15/01) There was apparently another handwritten note saying �OSAMA 5895316,� AWADALLAH�s first name and old phone number on it (CNN 2/18/02)
September 11, 2001, just after midnight�Outside Newark International Airport, three men park a red Mitsubishi Galant at the entrance to the Airport Marriott hotel while two of them check in. The third man drives the car to a nearby Days Inn. All three were later positively identified as Flight 93 hijackers. One of the men in the Marriott is JARRAH, who paid $450 in cash for two no-smoking rooms, each with a double bed. The one with him is probably his roommate AL-HAZNAWI, though this is just a guess. The rooms JARRAH chooses have a clear view of the New York skyline. Link Link AL-HAZNAWI's final bank statement, opened after Sept. 11 by his former landlord, showed that he left behind just $14. Link
At some point on the evening of the 10th, all of the hijackers, as required, read the �Instructions for the final night,� which were found in multiple places after the attacks, including in the wreckage of Flight 93. There are 16 in all. They begin:
1. Renew your convenant with God.
2. Know all aspects of the plan well and expect reaction and resistance from the enemy.
Instruction No 3 is to read the ninth sura of the Koran. This sura, usually known as al-Tawba (penitence) or al-Bara'at (immunity), is the only one among the 114 suras in the Koran which does not begin with the words: "In the name of God, the compassionate, the merciful." Some have suggested that this is because of the stern injunctions it contains: "When the sacred months have passed away, slay the idolaters wherever you find them, and take them captive and besiege them and lie in wait for them in every ambush� Link According to Bin Laden on the captured video, the �soldiers� knew that this was a martyrdom operation, but were not told until just before they boarded the plane. Clearly the four pilots, plus Nawaq ALHAZMI and ALMIDHAR, knew all. �Be calm and resolute, young man,� says ATTA�s letter to the hijackers, �For you will soon be going to paradise.� Link
September 11, 2001�In the UAE, approximately $16,348 is depositied into AL-HAWSAWI�s Standard Chartered Bank account. Then, at 9:22 AM local time, AL-HAWSAWI moves approximately $6534 from the $8,055 in Fayez AHMED/BANIHAMMAD�s (175) Standard Chartered Bank account into his own account, using a check dated September 10, 2001 and signed by Fayez AHMED/BANIHAMMAD; AL-HAWSAWI then withdraws approximately $1361, nearly all the remaining balance in AHMED/BANIHAMMAD�s account, by ATM cash withdrawal. Later that day, AL-HAWSAWI left the UAE for Karachi, Pakistan.
5:30 AM�ATTA and ALOMARI check out of the Comfort Inn, putting the $135 charge on ATTA�s Visa card. They leave an airline timetable on their room. After driving less than a mile to the airport, they park their Nissan and enter the airport. They drive the short distance to the Portland International Jetport and leave the Nissan there. Police find the �final night� instructions, plusemaps of New England and Boston, facial tissues, a toothpick, and an empty bag of Chips Ahoy crumpled in the ashtray. Link
5:40 AM�ATTA and ALOMARI enter Portland International Jetport Airport parking lot. They park on the first floor directly across from the airport entrance.
5:43�ATTA and ALOMARI check in at the U.S. Airways counter.
5:53 AM�The final pictures of ATTA and ALOMARI are taken by the security cameras at the airport in Portland, as they pass through security before boarding a flight to Boston. Each carries a shoulder bag. ATTA and ALOMARI board separately, keep quiet and don't draw attention to themselves. Link However, once on the plane, they are described as �joined at the hip.� The Age, 9/17/01. The wi
tness b
elieved that
they were business travelers, as it seemed that they were going over paperwork.
6:00 AM�ATTA and ALOMARI depart on their Colgan Air flight to Boston.
6:30 AM�The Colgan Air flight arrives at Logan Airport. ATTA and ALOMARI apparently clear another security checkpoint. At Logan, the pair sit by themselves in the waiting area by Gate 11, leaning forward in their seats and talking quietly, other passengers recall. ATTA is in seat 8A, next to ALOMARI, and across the aisle from David Angell and his wife Lynn. Link AL-SUQAMI is in 10B. The AL-SHEHRI brothers are in 2A and 2B.
After checking out the Valencia, Nawaq and Salem ALHAZMI board 77 together, checking in at the coach line rather than the first-class line. One of them shows a Massachusetts drivers� license. Link
As Flight 11 is in line for takeoff, ATTA calls AL-SHEHHI, further back on the tarmac on UA 175, on his cellphone for the last time. The conversation lasts less than a minute, and is believed to have been a final confirmation that the plot was a go. AL-SHEHHI is in seat 6C. Ahmed ALGHAMDIis in 9D. AHMED/BANIHAMMAD is in 2A. Hamza AGHAMDI is in 9C.
JARRAH calls his girlfriend from the airport hotel in Newark. ALMIDHAR�s seat on 77 is 12B. Salem ALHAZMI 5E. Nawaq ALHAZMI 5F. HANJOUR is in 1B. MOQED 12A.
7:59 AM�AA Flight 11, a Boeing 767, departs Logan Airport with 81 passengers and 11 crew.
8:14 AM�UA Flight 175, a Boeing 767, departs Logan Airport with 56 passengers and 9 crew.
Approximately from 8:15-8:20 AM� Using box-cutters and small knives, ATTA and his team seize control of Flight 11. According to flight attendant Madeline Amy Sweeney, four attackers had cut the throat of a passenger in business class, killing him. They also stabbed the two flight attendants in First Class, including Karen Martin (who was given oxygen by the other flight attendants) and a pilot, she said. Flight attendant Betty Ong reported that two men in the eighth row [ATTA and ALOMARI] killed a man sitting behind them.. Ong also stated that the hijackers had sprayed something in her face�mace, presumably�that made her eyes burn and made breathing difficult. Three of the hijackers had been sitting in business class themselves and one [this could only be ATTA] spoke very good English.
That Sweeney mentioned four hijackers rather than five supports the theory that they used topographical cues to decide on when to make their move. It has been theorized that Flight 11 had the easiest navigation to the target, as its original route took it straight west, across the Hudson River valley. Following the river would have given ATTA a straight line of navigation to New York City, so for this reason the plane was seized early in the flight, since the landmark of the Hudson would be impossible to miss as long as the plane continued to the west. The hijackers didn�t need to keep the original pilots around after the climbout period. The fifth hijacker, therefore, would be needed to watch for the Hudson valley during the seizure period. Almost certainly this function was performed by one of the AL-SHEHRI brothers sitting in 2A. The dry runs the terrorists took during the summer would have been necessary to allow them to familiarize themselves with the topography.
The hijackers get into the cockpit, presumably, by drawing one of the flight crew out with their attacks on the flight attendants. Possibly by accident, someone keys the microphone so that their conversations could be heard by flight control in Nashua, NH. ATTA is heard saying, �Don�t do anything foolish. You�re not going to get hurt.� ATTA is also heard to say, �We have more planes, we have other planes.� It is possible that one of the hijackers falsely mentions to one of the American pilots an intention of heading toward LaGuardia or JFK airports in New York City.
Both cell phone calls reported that most of the coach passengers had no idea that anything was wrong.
8:20 AM�AA Flight 77 departs Dulles Airport.
Around 8:25 AM�Flight 11 makes a sharp right turn over Albany, NY. Its transponder is turned off.
Approximately 8:32 AM--Flight 175 is seized. 175 traveled a more southeasterly route, passing within easy visual range of the WTC towers. By this theory, the plane would have been seized the moment the towers became visible, as the towers themselves would have been the only necessary landmark. Again, this would have required the hijackers to have taken the flight previously, and to have sat in a window seat on the left side of the plane. On September 11, AHMED/BANIHAMMAD in 2A would have been the one to give the signal. The one call from 175 that we know of mentioned that men with knives were stabbing flight attendants in an attempt to force the crew to unlock the cockpit doors.
Around this time, multiple bomb threats are called in to the Boston and Cleveland Air-Traffic Control centers, which happen to be the ones handling the three flights currently in the air.
8:36 AM�Flight 175, now piloted by AL-SHEHHI, makes its first turn toward New Jersey. Shortly after, its transponders are turned off.
8:40 AM�FAA informs NORAD that Flight 11 has been hijacked.
8:42 AM�UA Flight 93�UA Flight 93 Departs Newark Airport with 38 passengers and 7 crew..
8:43 AM�FAA informs NORAD that Flight 175 has also been hijacked.
8:45 AM�Flight 11 crashes into the North Tower of the World Trade Center. It is believed that all of the hijackers congregated in the cockpit at the final stages of the flight to shout their �Allahu akbars� together.
8:55 AM�Flight 77 suddenly turns to the east. Flight 77�s transponder is turned off just after it crosses the Ohio River, so this is probably the landmark the hijackers used. Barbara Olson�s phone call indicated that the hijackers had herded the passengers to the rear of the jet.
9:02 AM�Flight 175 crashes into the South Tower of the World Trade Center.
9:05 AM�Flight 77 appears as an unidentified blip on radar over West Virginia.
9:24 AM�FAA informs NORAD that Flight 77 has also been hijacked.
Approximately 9:30�Flight 93 is seized. Flight 93�s nearly 180-degree turn just before Cleveland indicates that the hijackers may have used the sighting of Lake Erie as a landmark and a signal to seize the plane. The route the hijackers took strongly suggests that its intended target was in Washington, DC. Link
The Flight 93 hijackers put on red bandannas just before they take over the plane. The headbands are a signature of Egyptian Islamic Jihad, who are known for wearing them during their machine-gun massacres on Coptic Christians and tourists at Luxor and elsewhere. It is not known whether any of the other three hijacker teams did this, but it is likely. The hijacker who is entrusted with guarding the passengers at the back of the plane wears a red box strapped to his waist, and claims to the passengers that it is a bomb. At least one passenger is murdered, along with the pilots.
9:37 AM�Ground controllers in Cleveland hear someone in broken English announce to the Flight 93 passengers that there was a bomb on board and that the plane was returning to the airport. The plane makes a sharp turn to the southeast at this time. The transponder is turned off at this time.
Freeper chris in nj says that the CVR tapes from Flight 93 �are an incredible amount of evidence against the 20th hijacker.� Link
9:30 AM�The �leader� of the Flight 77 hijackers, possibly ALMIDHAR, tells the Flight 77 passengers to call home because they are all about to die.
9:38 AM�Flight 77 crashes just short of the Pentagon.
10:03 AM�After an uprising by the passengers, Flight 93 crashes in Shanksville, PA.
There was an early theory that the hijackers had obtained access to the �jump seats� in the cockpits of the planes, but there is no hint of this in any of the recent accounts of the contents of the Flight 93 CVR. Link
Bin Laden tunes in to the radio to hear American news broadcasts of the event. "They were overjoyed when the first plane hit the building," he said on a video later obtained by American forces, talking about others listening with him that day. "So I said to them: Be patient." He said, "At the end of the newscast, they reported that a plane just hit the World Trade Center." "Allah be praised," replied one of the other men in the videotape. "After a little while, they announced that another plane had hit the World Trade Center," bin Laden recalled. "The brothers who heard the news were overjoyed by it." Bin Laden also mentions on the same video that �one group of people did not know the other,� but this was not essentially true.
Another flight out of Newark Airport that day, American Airlines Flight 43 to Los Angeles, is forced to land in St. Louis when the FAA grounds all commerical air traffic. Two passengers on this flight, Ayub Ali KHAN and Mohammed Jaweed AZMATH, board a train for San Antonio, but they are taken off the train by the FBI. They have boxcutters, disguises, and large amounts of cash with them. Khan and Azmath had lived at 6 Tonnele Ave., Jersey City, a four-story building with rooftop views of lower Manhattan, for about 2 1/2 years. Link It has been theorized that the two were part of a hijack team that lost its nerve. Given the very significant differences in age and ethnicity, and the apparent lack of contact that the two men had with the hijackers or their immediate associates�and also given the apparently wide circle in the American Muslim community who knew about the plot�one wonders if this was not an unofficial, �unsanctioned� hijacking.
MOUSSAOUI is seen cheering as he watches television pictures of the destruction from his secure unit. Shortly afterwards the FBI connects him with the attacks via BINALSHIBH. Finally, the FBI gets around to searching MOUSSAOUI�s computer, and find that it contains information about "dispersal of chemicals" as well as about crop-duster planes. MOUSSAOUI�s former roommate AL-ATTAS is arrested
September 13, 2001�The Visa card connected to AL-HAWSAWI�s account is used to make six ATM withdrawals in Karachi, Pakistan.
September 14, 2001�The Islamic prayer room at TUHH is shut down and the computer seized by German police.
September 16, 2001-- In India, Saudi diplomat Ahmed Alshehri, based in Bombay, denies he was the father of hijacker Waleed M. ALSHEHRI. Reports from a Saudi newspaper editor say that both Waleed and Wail ALSHEHRI were Ahmed's sons.
Around September 20�ATTAR leaves Germany for Sudan, where he lives openly.
November 9, 2001�A video is recorded in Afghanistan on which Osama Bin Laden names many of the hijackers, including Nawaq ALHAZMI, Salem ALHAZMI, and Wail ALSHEHRI, along with JARRAH and ATTA, and commends them to Allah. He mentions the AL-SHEHRI family name seven times, and the ALHAZMI and ALGHAMDI family names multiple times. He acknowledges that ATTA ran the operation: "Not everybody knew (...inaudible...). Mohammad (ATTA) from the Egyptian family (meaning the al-Qaida Egyptian group), was in charge of the group," bin Laden said on the tape.The tape is found in Jalalabad a week or two later.CBS News 12/20/01
November 16, 2001�BINALSHIBH�s suicide video is discovered in the rubble of Mohammed Atef�s house in Kabul. He and four others are seen on the tape wearing red cloth knotted around their heads, as the hijackers of Flight 93 (and likely the others) did.
December 9, 2001�SUFAAT is arrested as he returns to Malaysia from Afghanistan.
December 11, 2001�MOUSSAOUI is indicted by the Justice Department. BINALSHIBH is named in the indictment.
December 18, 2001�The Czech government issues a rather oddly-worded debunking of the story of ATTA�s visit to AL-ANI in April 2001, saying that that �there were no documents showing that ATTA visited Prague at any time this year, although he had visited twice in 2000.� Link
December 21, 2001�The U.S. government releases the November 9 Bin Laden tape. Link
December 22, 2001�Richard Reid attempts to blow up AA Flight 63.
January 17, 2002�The U.S. Government releases a portion of the BINALSHIBH tape found in Afghanistan on November 16.
February 14, 2002-- Sameer Mohammed Ahmed al-Hada, a brother-in-law of ALMIDHAR, blows himself up after being cornered by security forces in a suburb of San�a, Yemen.
March 11, 2002�Exactly six months after the attacks, Huffman Aviation receives paperwork from the INS announcing that student visas had been approved for ATTA and AL-SHEHHI.
March 13, 2002� It is revealed that the FAA is still sending e-mails toJARRAH at the apartment in Lauderdale-by-the-Sea. Link
March 29, 2002� The white 1995 Ford Escort and 1996 faded-blue Chevrolet Corsica from Warrick Rent-a-Car. that were driven by ATTA are put up for sale, attracting offers up to $250,000. Link
ABBREVIATIONS: NYT=New York Times; WP=Washington Post; BG=Boston Globe; SPT=St. Petersburg Times; LVRJ=Las Vegas Review Journal; LAT=Los Angeles Times; SMH=Sydney Morning Herald; LVS=Las Vegas Sun
this was unofficial. corroberrated extensively.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/683026/posts
or you can go here http://www.9-11commission.gov/report/index.htm
geez that's a lot of reading 
How come you didn't include the links?
Some seemingly odd activities for Muslim extremists. Isn't the consumption of alcohol strictly prohibited throughout the Muslim world under their Sharia law?
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Interview with former German Defense Minister Andreas von Buelow
[Source: Tagesspiegel, Jan. 13] PARTIAL TRANSLATION
Q: You seem so angry, really upset.
Von Buelow: I can explain what's bothering me: I see that
after the horrifying attacks of Sept. 11, all political public
opinion is being forced into a direction that I consider wrong.
Q: What do you mean by that?
Von Buelow: I wonder why many questions are not asked.
Normally, with such a terrible thing, various leads and tracks
appear that are then commented on, by the investigators,
the media, the government: Is there something here or not?
Are the explanations plausible? This time, this is not the case
at all. It already began just hours after the attacks
in New York and Washington and--
Q: In those hours, there was horror, and grief.
Von Buelow: Right, but actually it was astounding:
There are 26 intelligence services in the U.S.A.
with a budget of $30 billion--
Q: More than the German defense budget.
Von Buelow: --which were not able to prevent the attacks.
In fact, they didn't even have an inkling they would happen.
For 60 decisive minutes, the military and intelligence agencies
let the fighter planes stay on the ground, 48 hours later,
however, the FBI presented a list of suicide attackers.
Within ten days, it emerged that seven of them were still alive.
Q: What, please?
Von Buelow: Yes, yes. And why did the FBI chief take no position
regarding contradictions? Where the list came from,
why it was false? If I were the chief investigator
(state attorney) in such a case,
I would regularly go to the public, and give information
on which leads are valid and which not.
Q: The U.S. government talked about an emergency situation
after the attacks: They said they were in a war.
Is it not understandable that one does not tell the enemy
everything one knows about him?
Von Buelow: Naturally. But a government which goes to war,
must first establish who the attacker, the enemy, is.
It has a duty to provide evidence.
According to its own admission,
it has not been able to present any evidence
that would hold up in court.
Q: Some information on the perpetrators has been proven
with documents. The suspected leader, Mohammad Atta,
left Portland for Boston on the morning of Sept. 11,
in order to board the plane that later hit the World Trade Center
Von Buelow: If this Atta was the decisive man in the operation,
it's really strange that he took such a risk of taking a plane
that would reach Boston such a short time before
the connecting flight. Had his flight been a few minutes late,
he would not have been in the plane that was hijacked.
Why should a sophisticated terrorist do this?
One can, by the way, read on CNN (Internet)
that none of these names were on the official passenger lists.
None of them had gone through the check-in procedures.
And why did none of the threatened pilots
give the agreed-upon code 7700 over the control stick to the ground station?
In addition: The black boxes which are fire and shock proof,
as well as the voice recordings, contain no valuable data--
Q: That sounds like--
Von Buelow: --like assailants who, in their preparations,
leave tracks behind them like a herd of stampeding elephants?
They made payments with credit cards with their own names;
they reported to their flight instructors with their own names.
They left behind rented cars with flight manuals in Arabic
for jumbo jets. They took with them, on their suicide trip,
wills and farewell letters, which fall into the hands of the FBI,
because they were stored in the wrong place
and wrongly addressed. Clues were left like behind
like in a child's game of hide-and-seek,
which were to be followed!
There is also the theory of one British flight engineer:
According to this, the steering of the planes
was perhaps taken out of the pilots' hands, from outside.
The Americans had developed a method in the 1970s,
whereby they could rescue hijacked planes
by intervening into the computer piloting
[automatic pilot system]. This theory says,
this technique was abused in this case. That's a theory....
Q: Which sounds really adventurous, and was never considered.
Von Buelow: You see! I do not accept this theory,
but I find it worth considering. And what about
the obscure stock transactions?
In the week prior to the attacks,
the amount of transactions in stocks in American Airlines,
United Airlines, and insurance companies, increased 1,200%.
It was for a value of $15 billion.
Some people must have known something. Who?
Q: Why don't you speculate on who it might have been.
Von Buelow: With the help of the horrifying attacks,
the Western mass democracies were subjected to brainwashing.
The enemy image of anti-communism doesn't work any more;
it is to be replaced by peoples of Islamic belief.
They are accused of having given birth to suicidal terrorism.
Q: Brainwashing? That's a tough term.
Von Buelow: Yes? But the idea of the enemy image doesn't
come from me. It comes from Zbigniew Brzezinski and Samuel
Huntington, two policy-makers of American intelligence
and foreign policy. Already in the middle of he 1990s,
Huntingon believed, people in Europe and the U.S.
needed someone they could hate--
this would strengthen their identification
with their own society. And Brzezinski, the mad dog,
as adviser to President Jimmy Carter,
campaigned for the exclusive right of the U.S.
to seize all the raw materials of the world,
especially oil and gas.
Q: You mean, the events of Sept. 11--
Von Buelow: --fit perfectly in the concept
of the armaments industry, the intelligence agencies,
the whole military-industrial-academic complex. This is in fact
conspicuous. The huge raw materials reserves of the former Soviet
Union are now at their disposal, also the pipeline routes and--
Q: Erich Follach described that at length in {Spiegel}:
``It's a matter of military bases, drugs, oil and gas reserves.''
Von Buelow: I can state: the planning of the attacks
was technically and organizationally a master achievement.
To hijack four huge airplanes within a few minutes
and within one hour, to drive them into their targets,
with complicated flight maneuvers!
This is unthinkable, without years-long support
from secretapparatuses of the state and industry.
Q: You are a conspiracy theorist!
Von Buelow: Yeah, yeah. That's the ridicule heaped
[on those raising these questions] by those who would prefer
to follow the official, politically correct line.
Even investigative journalists are fed propaganda
and disinformation. Anyone who doubts that,
doesn't have all his marbles! That is your accusation.
Q: Your career actually speaks against the idea
that you are not in your right mind.
You were already in the 1970s, state secretary
in the Defense Ministry; in 1993 you were the SPD
[Social Democratic Party] speaker
in the Schalk-Golodkowski investigation committee--
Von Buelow: And it all began there!
Until that time, I did not have any great knowledge
of the work of intelligence agencies.
And now we had to take note of a great discrepancy:
We shed light on the dealings of the Stasi
and other East bloc intelligence agencies
in the field of economic criminality,
but as soon as we wanted to know something
about the activities of the BND [German intelligence]
or the CIA, it was mercilessly blocked.
No information, no cooperation, nothing!
That's when I was first taken aback.
Q: Schalck-Golodkowski mediated, among other things, various
business deals abroad. When you looked at his case more closely--
Von Buelow: We found, for example, a clue in Rostock,
where Schalck organized his weapons depot.
Well, then we happened upon an affiliation of Schalck in Panama,
and then we happened upon Manuel Noriega,
who was for many years President, drug dealer,
and money launderer, all in one, right?
And this Noriega was also on the payroll of the CIA,
for $200,000 a year.
These were things that really made me curious.
Q: You wrote a book on the dealings of the CIA and Co.
In the meantime, you have become an expert
regarding the strange things
related to intelligence services' work.
Von Buelow: ``Strange things'' is the wrong term.
What has gone on, and goes on, in the name of intelligence services, are true crimes.
Q: What would you say determines
the work of intelligence services?
Von Buelow: So that we don't have any misunderstandings:
I find that it makes sense to have intelligence services....
Q: You don't think much of the earlier proposals
by the Greens, who wanted to dismantle these agencies?
Von Buelow: No. It is right to take a look
behind the scenes. Getting intelligence about the intentions
of an enemy, makes sense. It is important when one tries
to put oneself into the mind of the enemy.
Whoever wants to understand the CIA's methods,
has to deal with its main tasks, {covert operations}:
below the level of war, and outside international law,
foreign states are to be influenced, by organizing insurrections,
terrorist attacks, usually combined with drugs and weapons trade,
and money laundering. This is essentially very simple:
One arms violent people with weapons.
Since, however, it must not under any circumstances come out,
that there is an intelligence agency behind it,
all traces are erased, with tremendous deployment of resources.
I have the impression
that this kind of intelligence agency spends 90% of its time
this way: creating false leads. So that, if anyone suspects
the collaboration of the agencies,
he is accused of the sickness of conspiracy madness.
The truth often comes out only years later.
CIA chief Allen Dulles once said:
In case of doubt, I would even lie to the Congress!
Q: The American journalist Seymour M. Hersh,
wrote in the {New Yorker,} that even some people in the CIA
and government assumed, that certain leads had been laid
in order to confuse the investigators.
Who, Herr von Buelow, would have done this?
Von Buelow: I don't know that either. How should I?
I simply use my common sense, and--
See: The terrorists behaved in such a way to attract attention.
And as practicing Muslims, they were in a strip-tease bar,
and, drunken, stuck dollar bills into the panty of the dancer.
Q: Things like that also happen.
Von Buelow: It may be. As a lone fighter,
I cannot prove anything, that's beyond my capabilities.
I have real difficulties, however,
to imagine that all this all sprung
out ofthe mind of an evil man in his cave.
Q: Mr. von Buelow, you yourself say
that you are alone in your criticism.
Formerly, you were part of the political establishment,
now you are an outsider.
Von Buelow: That is a problem sometimes,
but one gets used to it. By the way,
I know a lot of people, including very influential ones,
who agree with me, but only in whispers, never publicly.
Q: Do you still have contact with old SPD companions,
such as Egon Bahr and former Chancellor Helmut Schmidt?
Von Buelow: There are no close contacts any more.
I wantedto go to the last SPD party congress, but I was sick.
Q: Can it be, Mr. von Buelow, that you are a mouthpiece for
typical anti-Americanism?
Von Buelow: Nonsense, this has absolutely nothing to do
with anti-Americanism. I am a great admirer of this great,
open, free society, and always have been. I studied in the U.S.
Q: How did you get the idea that there could be a link
between the attacks and the American intelligence agencies?
Von Buelow: Do you remember the first attack
on the WorldTrade Center in 1993?
Q: Six people were killed and over a thousand wounded,
by a bomb explosion.
Von Buelow: In the middle was the bombmaker,
a former Egyptian officer.
He had pulled together some Muslims for the attack.
They were snuck into the country by the CIA,
despite a State Department ban on their entry.
At the same time, the leader of the band was an FBI informant.
And he made a deal with the authorities:
At the last minute, the dangerous explosive material
would be replaced by a harmless powder.
The FBI did not stick to the deal.
The bomb exploded, so to speak, with the knowledge of the FBI.
The official story of the crime was quickly found:
The criminals were evil Muslims.
Q: At the time Soviet soldiers marched into Afghanistan,
you were in the cabinet of Helmut Schmidt. What was it like?
Von Buelow: The Americans pushed for trade sanctions,
they demanded the boycott of the Olympic games in Moscow....
Q.... which the German government followed...
Von Buelow: And today we know: It was the strategy
of the American security adviser, Zbigniew Brzezinski,
to destabilize the Soviet Union from neighboring Muslim countries
They lured the Russians into Afghanistan,
and then prepared for them a hell on earth, their Vietnam.
With decisive support of the U.S. intelligence agencies,
at least 30,000 Muslim fighters were trained
in Afghanistan and Pakistan, a bunch of good-for-nothings
and fanatics who were, and still are today, ready for anything.
And one of them is Osama bin Laden. I wrote years ago: `
`It was out of this brood, that the Taliban grew up
in Afghanistan, who had been brought up in the Koran schools
financed by American and Saudi funds,
the Taliban who are now terrorizing the country and destroying it
Q: Even though you say, for the U.S.
it was a matter of raw materials in the region,
the starting point for the U.S. aggression,
was the terrorist attack which cost thousands of human lives.
Von Buelow: Completely true. One must always keep this
gruesome act in mind. Nonetheless, in the analysis of political
processes, I am allowed to look and see who has advantages
and disadvantages, and what is coincidental. When in doubt,
it is always worthwhile to take a look at a map,
where are raw materials resources, and the routes to them?
Then lay a map of civil wars and conflicts on top of that
--they coincide. The same is the case with the third map:
nodal points of the drug trade.
Where this all comes together, the American intelligence services
are not far away. By the way, the Bush family is linked to oil,
gas, and weapons trade, through the bin Laden family.
Q: What do you think of the Bin Laden films?
Von Buelow: When one is dealing with intelligence services,
one can imagine manipulations of the highest quality.
Hollywood could provide these techniques.
I consider the videos inappropriate as evidence.
Q: You believe the CIA is capable of anything,
[wouldn't stop at anything].
Von Buelow: The CIA, in the state interests of the U.S.,
does not have to abide by any law in interventions abroad,
is not bound by international law;
only the President gives orders.
And when funds are cut, peace is on the horizon,
then a bomb explodes somewhere. Thus it is proven,
that you can't do without the intelligence services;
and that the critics are {nuts,} as Father Bush called them,
Bush who was once CIA head and President.
You have to see that the U.S. spends $30 billion
on intelligence services, and $13 billion on anti-drug work.
And what comes out of it?
The chief of a special unit of the strategic anti-drug work declared, in despair, after 30 years of service,
that in every big, important drug case,
the CIA came in and took it out of my hands. (Rosalinda: Michael Levin)
Q: Do you criticize the German government
for its reaction after Sept. 11?
Von Buelow: No. To assume that the government
were independent in these questions, would be naive.
Q: Herr von Buelow, what will you do now?
Von Buelow: Nothing. My task is concluded by saying,
it could not have been that way [according to the official story]
Search for the truth!
Von Buelow: No. To assume that the government
were independent in these questions, would be naive.
Q: Herr von Buelow, what will you do now?
Von Buelow: Nothing. My task is concluded by saying,
it could not have been that way [according to the official story]
Search for the truth!
http://pl.indymedia.org/pl/2003/01/181.shtml
you really should read the 9/11 report. it totally blows that german dudes outside perspective completely out of the water. and yes, the 9/11 report is more real than you will ever know.
Ramsi Yousef? any opinions?
Kahlid Sheik Mohamed? any opinions?
Mohhamed Atta? any opinions?
the answers to 9/11 do not come from guys like Andreas von Buelow.
a real, objective thinker dismisses his accounts about radio controlled airplanes, NORAD response (which he's clearly is wrong about) UAL an AA stocks http://www.themodernreligion.com/te...ualtrading.html
http://www.nationalreview.com/rose/rose200407260700.asp
they immediately answer that paranoid speculation. (The national review link is very informative and explains it in detail)
all in all, Von Beullow has fallen by the wayside of conspiracy theories and this interview has not withstood the test of time and truth (its old) and will continue to float on the many nutjob websites of the misinformed.
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