9-11/The 19 Hijackers
 9-11/The 19 Hijackers    | |
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| Type | front |
| Interest of | Kit Klarenberg, Mounir el-Motassadeq |
| Membership | •  Mohamed Atta•  Abdulaziz al-Omari• Wail al-Shehri •  Waleed al-Shehri•  Satam al-Suqami• Marwan al-Shehhi •  Fayez Banihammad• Mohand al-Shehri • Hamza al-Ghamdi • Ahmed al-Ghamdi •  Hani Hanjour•  Khalid al-Mihdhar• Majed Moqed •  Nawaf al-Hazmi•  Salem al-Hazmi•  Ziad Jarrah• Ahmed al-Haznawi • Ahmed al-Nami •  Saeed al-Ghamdi |
Official narrative
These were the 19 men who hijacked 4 planes on September 11th, 2001. The first hijackers to arrive in the United States were Khalid al-Mihdhar and Nawaf al-Hazmi, who settled in the San Diego area in January 2000. They were followed by three hijacker-pilots, Mohamed Atta, Marwan al-Shehhi and Ziad Jarrah mid-2000 to undertake flight training in south Florida. The fourth hijacker-pilot, Hani Hanjour, arrived in San Diego in December 2000. The rest of the "muscle hijackers" arrived in early and mid-2001.
Problems
The BBC reported on 23 September, 2001 that 4 of the hijackers were alive and well.[1] In 2006 it concluded by quoting the official position from the FBI (in bold): "The FBI is confident that it has positively identified the nineteen hijackers responsible for the 9/11 terrorist attacks."[2]
Flight Training
One interesting venue that three of the hijackers were reportedly trained in flying small aircraft was Huffman Aviation in Venice, Florida, owned by Wallace_J._Hilliard and Rudi Dekkers, both of whom have been accused of drug trafficking.[3]
