National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States
Outline of the 9/11 Plot
The muscle hijackers 'picked by bin Ladin':
Satam al Suqami
Wail and Waleed al Shehri (two brothers) Alive
Abdul Aziz al Omari Alive
Fayez Banihammad (from the UAE)
Ahmed al Ghamdi
Hamza al Ghamdi
Mohand al Shehri Alive
Saeed al Ghamdi Alive
Ahmad al Haznawi
Ahmed al Nami Alive
Majed Moqed
Salem al Hazmi (the brother of Nawaf al Hazmi)
How can the 9/11 Commission be taken seriously when they refer to 9/11 'hijackers' who are still alive?
Some of the suspects apparently used the stolen identities of at least five Saudis who worked in the airline industry as pilots, mechanics, and flight attendants — people who would have had increased access in airports, a Saudi government official told the Sun-Sentinel.
American Airlines Flight 11
Aircraft: Boeing 767-223ER
Fuel Capacity: 24,000 gallons
Seating Capacity: 181
Passengers: 81 (including hijackers)
Flight Attendants: 9
Pilots: 2
Alleged Hijackers:
Satam M.A. Al Suqami
Waleed M. Alshehri - Alive
Wail M. Alshehri - Alive
Mohamed Atta - Alive?
Abdul Aziz al Omari - Alive
Full details:
Scheduled flight: Boston - Los Angeles
Flight departed: 07:59 a.m.
Crashed into WTC 1: 08:46 a.m.
United Airlines Flight 175
Aircraft: Boeing 767-222
Fuel Capacity: 24,000 gallons
Seating Capacity: 181
Passengers: 56 (including hijackers)
Flight Attendants: 7
Pilots: 2
Alleged Hijackers:
Marwan Al-Shehhi
Fayez Rashid Ahmed Hassan Al Qadi Banihammad
Ahmed Alghamdi
Hamza Alghamdi
Mohand al Shehri - Alive
Full details:
Scheduled flight: Boston - Los Angeles
Flight departed: 08:14 a.m.
Crashed into WTC2: 09:03 a.m.
American Airlines Flight 77
Aircraft: Boeing 757-223
Fuel Capacity: 11,000 gallons
Seating Capacity: 200
Passengers: 58 (including hijackers)
Flight Attendants: 4
Pilots: 2
Alleged Hijackers:
Khalid Almihdhar - Alive?
Majed Moqed
Salem al Hazmi - Alive
Nawaf Alhazmi
Hani Hanjour
Full details:
Scheduled flight: Washington to Los Angeles
Flight departed: 08:20 a.m.
Crashed into the Pentagon: 09:38 a.m.
United Airlines Flight 93
Aircraft: Boeing 757-222
Fuel Capacity: 11,000 gallons
Seating Capacity: 200
Passengers: 38 (including hijackers)
Flight Attendants: 5
Pilots: 2
Alleged Hijackers:
Saeed al Ghamdi - Alive
Ahmed Ibrahim A. Al Haznawi
Ahmed al Nami - Alive
Ziad Samir Jarrah
Full details:
Scheduled flight: Newark to San Francisco
Flight departed: 8:42 a.m. (delayed 41 mins)
Crashed in Pennsylvania: 10:06 a.m.
The BBC reported a transcript of a phone call made by Flight Attendant Madeline Amy Sweeney to Boston air traffic controls in which she gave the seat numbers occupied by the hijackers, and these seat numbers did not correspond with those of the men claimed by the FBI to be responsible for the hijacking.
CNN reported that the men who hijacked the aircraft used phony IDs containing the names of real people living in Arab nations in the Middle East.
Even the FBI says there is no evidence to link the above men to the 9/11 hijackings.
So, one fact is apparent. If those who hijacked the 9/11 airplanes were using stolen identities, then we don't know who they were or who they worked for. We can't. It's impossible.
A Saudi embassy official said it was difficult to know for certain whether the hijackers used bogus names. "You cannot throw a stone in Saudi Arabia without hitting an Al Ghamdi," he said, referring to the alleged last name of three of the hijackers. [Chicago Tribune]
Now, people who are intending to commit suicide normally don't worry about whether anyone knows their real name, and it is here that some other odd aspects of this case take on a new meaning.
We are told that the group that planned and carried out the hijackings and subsequent attack on the World Trade Towers were highly trained (possibly by the CIA) experts, with knowledge of how to steal identities and forge fake IDs.
Yet at the same time, we are being told that these same hijackers spent the night before the attack getting drunk in bars, making noise, screaming insults at the "infidels", and doing everything they could to attract attention to themselves. They used the credit cards issued in their stolen names, allowed their driver's licenses with the stolen names to be photocopied, and used public library computers to send emails back and forth using their stolen names signed to unencrypted messages about their plans to steal aircraft and crash them into buildings, then decorated their apartments with absurdly obvious props such as a crop dusting manual to the point where the whole affair reads like a low-budget "B" detective movie from the 1930s.
In short, these men did everything they could to make sure everyone knew who they were, or more to the point, who they were pretending to be.
Because the IDs used by the hijackers were phony, we cannot know who they really were or who they really worked for. But what is apparent is that those who planned the hijackings and the 9/11 attacks went out of their way to leave plenty of clues pointing to citizens of Middle Eastern Arab nations.
Many of the investigators believe that some of the initial clues that were uncovered about the terrorists' identities and preparations, such as flight manuals, were meant to be found. A former high-level intelligence official told me, "Whatever trail was left was left deliberately—for the F.B.I. to chase." [The New Yorker]
Conclusion
We don't know who planned the 9/11 attacks. But we do know who they wanted us to think they were. We do know who they intended America to blame for the attacks.