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leadership
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sanctioned
opinions
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or "the Base,"
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the
dates
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1988
refer
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of
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guesthouses,
where the Mujahidin
that
came
to fight
in Afghanistan
were required
to register.
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registration
records
later
provided
with extensive
contacts
to
Islamist
fighters
around the world.
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in addition
to the warriors
present at
UsAMA
BIN LADEN S camps,
a
loose network
of terrorist
cells
throughout
the world.
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AL QAEDA
features
are
financial
resources,
wealth
and financial
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high
wealthy,
its
international
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profile,
outreach
from
USAMA
derived
mainly
dealings.
LADEN was raised
family
in
Saudi
of Yemeni origins.
his
radicalization
dates
back to his
Saudi
Arabia,
where he was linked
to
Brotherhood.
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his involvement
the Soviet
occupation
played
a
major
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Muslim
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role in shaping his ideology.
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he found a sense of purpose and became deeply
religious.
USAMA
BIN LADEN also made contacts
with Islamic
fighters
from around the world and participated
in a victorious
struggle
against
a secular
superpower.
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of
USAMA
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wealth,
radical
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a
connection
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Islamic
militants,
serious
threat
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command over experienced,
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anti-U.S.
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U.S.
national
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countries.
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make
security.
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motivated,
orientation
allegedly
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as many as 5,000
created
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cells
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agents,
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populations.
members
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familiar
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modern
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Dhahran June
1996!, Saudi
Arabia; the
assassination attempt
Egyptian President
Mubarak in
Ethiopia June
1995!; the
on
near simultaneous bombings
Kenya
of the
U.S. embassies
in Nairobi,
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and .Dar es Salaam, Tanzania August1998!; and the bombing
of the USS
Cole
in
Yemen
November 2000!.
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members. AL QAEDA
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network that
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point or
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as Egyptian
to several
thousand
umbrella organization
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Islamic Jihad,
Islamic Movement
some members
of Uzbekistan,
and
the HARAKAT UL-MUJAHIDIN. AL-QAEDA
has a worldwide reach,
has cells
in anumber
of countries,
and is
reinforced by
its ties
to Sunni
extremist networks.
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lieutenants reside
in
Afghanistan,
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departed Dulles
8:20 AM
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to Los
Angeles with
6 crew
members on
with the
board.
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unauthorized turn
lost. At
made and
to the
9:39 AM,
side of
58 passengers
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at 8:54
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south. Shortly
Flight 77
the Pentagon,
and
last routine
thereafter,
an
radar
contact
deliberately crashed
Alexandria,
radio contact
aircraft began
was
into the
southwest
Virginia.
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Investigation
to date
has determined
that Flight
77
Middle Eastern
males. The
hijackers have
been
was
hijacked
identified as
12B, Coach
date of
Section!; NAWAF
AL HAZMI, date
Seat SE,
Seat 1B,
First
Class!;
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1977 Seat
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HANNI HANJOUR,
SALEM AL-HAZMI,
Class; and
birth May
of birth
date of
date of
MAJED MOQED,
16, 1975
August 6,
birth August
birth February
date of
30, 1972
2, _
birth June
18,
Section!. "
T§ L The five Flight 77
hijackers
were
in
the United
States on
visas and
passports from
Saudi
Arabia.
HANJOUR is
the
earliest known
entry into
the United
States. He
entered the
United
States on
October 3,
1991,
from
Saudi Arabia
to
attend
the English
a Second
Language ESL!
program.at the
University of
Arizona.
Believed to
have returned
home to
Saudi Arabia
at the
beginning of
1992, HANJOUR
re-entered the
United States
in April
1996
and
in Florida
for one
month. HANJOUR
then moved
to California,
records indicate
August 1996.
he attended
ELS Language
HANJOUR began
School in
flight training
Sierra Aeronautical
Academy Airline
Oakland. HANJOUR
continued flight
at
the
end of
September
1996
when
at Cockpit
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Seat
1976
Resource Management
resided
where
Oakland until
in September
1996 at
Training Center,
also located
lessons after
he moved to
Arizona
he attended
one month
of training
CRM!
as
in
Scottsdale,
Arizona. He
in
then
returned to
Saudi
Arabia
for one
year. HANJOUR
returned to
the
United States
in November
1997
and
again resided
in Florida
for
approximately one
month. He
moved back
to Arizona
in December
1997
and resumed
flight training
Arizona Aviation
there until
in
Mesa,
his departure
MIHDHAR, N
aknown
entered the
2000,
and
Diego, both
HANJOUR then began training
March 3,
United States
1998, and
in April
at
continued
1999.
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of
1999, ALWAF AL HAZMI,
Saudi Arabia.
with
at CRM.
Arizona, on
from the
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USAMA
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the beginning
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United States
settled in
the San
AL MIHDHAR and
AL~HAZMI undertook
at Los
AL MIHDHAR and
Angeles, California,
Diego area.
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flight instruction.
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Jeddah,
of January
2000
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on January
while residing
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in aone hour
introductory lesson
at National
Diego and
then, along
with
instruction on
two occasions
at Sorbi
Flying
during
May
2000.
té!Q§ AL MIHDHAR departed
the United
States
in
June 2000.
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stayed in
the San
Diego area
until December
2000, at
which time
he moved
to Arizona
with HANJOUR
who had just returned
to
the United
States. HANJOUR
resumed his
flight instruction
at Arizona
Aviation, after
which he
continued training
at Pan
Am International
Flight Training
Center, also
known as
Jet Tech
International, in
Phoenix, Arizona.
In
March
their
Arizona
Virginia area
2001, NAWAF
AL HAZMI and
HANJOUR vacated
residence and
subsequently appeared
in April
2001.
in the
Northern
,:54
On May
2, 2001,
MOQED entered
thetraveling
United
States
at
rnational Airport,
Washington, D.C.,
from
Dubai,
Dulles Int
U.A.E., with
arrived in
AHMED'ALGHAMDI Flight 175!. NAWAF
AL HAZMI and
HANJOUR
New Jersey
during this
time and
leased an
apartment in
Patterson. On
June 29,
2001, SALEM
AL HAZMI arrived
States at
John F.
Kennedy International
Dubai, U.A.E.,
along with
ABDULAZIZ AL
HAZMI
also
proceeded to
United States
were located
New Jersey.
hijackers as
well as
from
AL-
After AL-MIHDHAR'sreturn to
the
Ef
five hijackers
has revealed
with those
In
the
of the
United
New York,
ll!. SALEM
at JFK,
New York,
on July
4, 2001,
in the
same area
of New Jersey. This
documented instance
that all
of each
other. Investigation
in the
Airport JFK!,
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Flight
all five
is the
hijackers
first
were in
close proximity
association between
other hijackers
these
flights.
weeks immediately preceding September 11,
2001, the
hijackers of
Flight 77
stayed
in
various
motels in
the area
of Laurel,
Maryland, and
utilized computers
to gain
Internet access
at the
local Kinko's.
During this
time period,
numerous documented
interactions occurred
in the
areas of
Laurel and
College Park,
Maryland, during
this time
period among
the Flight
77 hijackers
and
the hijackers
of the
other flights.
ZIAD JARRAH
Flight 93!
was
observed with
the Flight
77 hijackers
on occasion
and also
had
registered at
some of
the same
Flight 77
hijackers. Another
hijackers occurred
on August
13-14,
HANJOUR traveled
ATTA Flight
to Las
The
purchase their
Vegas, Nevada,
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arrangements for
August 8,
2001.
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hotels in
the Laurel
area as
the
notable interaction
between the
2001, when
NAWAF AL-HAZMI
and
at the
same time
as MUHAMMAD
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Flight 77
the September
August 8,
tickets through
hijackers commenced their travel
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afew
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purchased their
tickets with
cash on
counter at
September 5,
2001, at
the American
Baltimore washington International
2001, NAWAP
AL HAZMI and
through
the
web
site
Travelocity.com
-of NAWAF M. AL-HAZMI.
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purchase his
Services, Totowa,
the cost
for the
of the
ticket exceeded
ticket with
cash.
ihii Throughout
purchased
using
31, 2001,
ticket with
a VISA
New Jersey.
Airlines
Airport. On
SALEM AL HAZMI
debit card
After the
by
August 27,
their
tickets
aVisa
debit card
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in name
to
at Advanced
Travel
card was
rejected because
the card's credit limit,
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his stay in New Jersey and Maryland,
HANJOUR continued
to attend
flight
training at
various locations.
The lengthy
and extensive
flight training
obtained
by
HANJOUR
throughout his
years in
the United
States makes
it reasonable
believe that
HANJOUR was
Class
section.
he became
the pilot
of
Flight
seated in
Seat 1B,
the first
The other
hijackers were
to
77 on
September 11th.
row aisle
seat
of
the
First
seated inapairs
further
back in
the airplane.
Subsequent examination
of
FAA
radar plots
and
the flight
data recorder
indicate that
approximately thirty four
minutes after
take~off, the
aircraft made
a 180 degree turn
from its
westward flight
Washington, D.C.
make a
path near
Portsmouth, Ohio,
The aircraft
then executed
final descending
air
speed
in
later recovered
that it
was rendered
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crash site
the Pentagon
The flight
but sustained
at an
estimated
cockpit recorder
such severe
was
damage
unusable.
At 9:39 AM., AA Flight 77 deliberately crashed into
the southwest
side
addition to
hijackers, 189
their lives.
approach into
excess of
at the
to return
toward
a 360 degree turn
to
of
the
Pentagon, Alexandria,
the 53
passengers, 6
Pentagon employees,
Virginia. In
flight crew
both civilian
members, and
5
and military,
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Corolla
registered to
NAWAF AL-HAZMI was found
in
subsequent search
of this
vehicle revealed
items associated
with the
hijackers, including
-handwritten
in Arabic.
luggage belonging
. Airlines
Flight 93
Translation
prepare for
into the
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was identical
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that they
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2001.
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truthful
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from
of
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EBJ
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United
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2002.
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contribute funds
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manner
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in training. In
others
and
conducted extensive
flight simulator
hindsight
these
instructors wish
they had
called the
FBI to
report
their
suspicions.
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believes that
the purpose
for these
individuals extensive
use of
the flight
simulator was
to gain
the
necessary knowledge
to
manually control
an
aircraft
the terrorists,
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town/village of
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interests in
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or Yemen.
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Rand Mc
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Saudi Arabian
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the
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