ref 321
August 29, 2004
ref 442
August 6, 2004
ref 356
April 9, 2003
ref 2
June 5, 2002
ref 253
June 3, 2002
ref 129
December 13, 2001
ref 126
October 23, 2001
ref 240
October 18, 2001
ref 239
October 15, 2001
ref 190
October 2, 2001
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| 1 | A tale of 2 Attas: Mistaken identity muddied 9-11 probe | archived: ref 321 |
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| Chicago Tribune August 29, 2004 |
Consider the odds: two men named Mohamed Atta, total strangers with nothing to connect them, both arriving in Prague just as one, the Sept. 11 hijacker, was beginning his fateful journey to the United States. According to documents in the files of the German federal police, the improbable scenario of "The Two Attas" is precisely what transpired in the spring of 2000, confusing investigators for months and laying the groundwork for a spurious claim that Atta later met with an Iraqi intelligence agent. | |||||
| 2 | Did the 9/11 hijackers act alone? | archived: ref 442 |
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| Newsweek August 6, 2004 |
Commission's report cites 'worrisome' links to three California men | |||||
| 3 | Al-QaedaÃs Doomsday Document and Psychological Manipulation | archived: ref 356 |
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| presentation at Yale Center for Genocide Studies April 9, 2003 |
On reflection, then, it seems to me that the text was probably authored by Muhammad Atta himself, the only Egyptian on the hijacking team. Another possibility is that the document was pulled together from instructions by more than one person, some of them not native Arabic speakers, and not carefully edited by an Arab with a good style. | |||||
| 4 | The Hijackers We Let Escape | archived: ref 2 |
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| Newsweek June 5, 2002 |
The CIA tracked two suspected terrorists to an Al Qaeda summit in Malaysia in January 2000, then looked on as they re-entered America and began preparations for September 11. Inside what may be the worst intelligence failure of all. Michael Isikoff and Daniel Klaidman report. | |||||
| 5 | CIA Was Tracking Hijacker Months Earlier Than It Had Said | archived: ref 253 |
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| New York Times June 3, 2002 |
The Central Intelligence Agency says in a classified chronology submitted to Congress recently that it picked up the trail of a Qaeda operative who turned out to be a Sept. 11 hijacker months earlier than was previously known, government officials said today. The officials said the C.I.A. learned in early 2001 that Khalid al-Midhar, who died in the attack on the Pentagon, was linked to a suspect in the bombing of the Navy destroyer Cole in October 2000. The agency had said previously that it did not learn of Mr. Midhar's connections to Al Qaeda or his multiple visits to the United States until the month before the hijackings... | |||||
| 6 | Hijacker held, freed before Sept. 11 attack | archived: ref 129 |
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| Chicago Tribune December 13, 2001 |
Jarrah was a much more crucial figure, one of only five trained pilots among the 19 hijackers and, according to a federal indictment issued Tuesday, a co-founder of the Al Qaeda terrorist cell in Hamburg that also produced Mohamed Atta and Marwan Al-Shehhi, who are believed to have piloted the two hijacked planes that hit the World Trade Center. | |||||
| 7 | Friends of terror suspect say allegations make no sense | archived: ref 126 |
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| LA Times October 23, 2001 |
Jarrah and the other three men named by the FBI as hijackers of the flight -- Ahmed Ibrahim A. Al Haznawi, Ahmed Alnami and Saeed Alghamdi -- initially came to be on the list of 19 because they "have been identified as having 'Arabic' names ... on the UA93 manifest," according to the first FBI document alerting Hamburg police to their city's connection to the terrorist act, a copy of which was obtained by The Times. | |||||
| 8 | interview with Volker Hauth, friend of Mohamed Atta | archived: ref 240 |
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| ABC.net (Australian) October 18, 2001 |
Liz Jackson interviews Volker Hauth, who knew Atta well during the years he studied in Hamburg, and accompanied him on several trips to the Middle East.VIEW SHORT CLIP | |||||
| 9 | interview with Ralph Bodenstein, friend of Mohammed Atta | archived: ref 239 |
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| ABC.net (Australian) October 15, 2001 |
television interview with Ralph Bodenstein who studied urban planning with Mohamed Atta at the Technical University of Hamburg-Harbug. VIEW SHORT CLIP | |||||
| 10 | Atta's Will Found: Suspected Hijacker Left Strict Instructions | archived: ref 190 |
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| ABCnews.com October 2, 2001 |
Oct. 4 € Mohammed Atta, a suspected ringleader of the Sept. 11 attacks who is believed to have piloted the first plane that struck the World Trade Center, left behind a will with a list of strict instructions for handling his corpse. | |||||