By the time it took off, Mohammed Atta was just four minutes away from hitting the North Tower of the World Trade Center. [73][74] He drove east out of Madrid towards the Mediterranean beach area of Tarragona. Atta's family moved into an apartment block in 1990; it was to him but "a shabby symbol of Egypt's haphazard attempts to modernize and its shameless embrace of the West. Bin al-Shibh explained that he passed along instructions from Osama bin Laden, including his desire for the attacks to be carried out as soon as possible. Flesh or bone from 13 of the 19 Al Qaeda terrorists who flew passenger jets into . By this view, Atta's political and religious beliefs affected the method of his suicide and his choice of target, but they were not the underlying causes of his behavior. [9] He was known as Abd al-Rahman al-Misri by al-Qaeda. In the spring of 2000, Atta entered the United States and enrolled in an aviation school in Venice, Fla. On Sept. 10, 2001, Atta picked up another 9/11 terrorist, Abdul-Azzia Al-Omari, at the Milner Hotel in Boston. The Israeli Supreme Court later overturned his extradition and set him free. As it turned out, the employee said, a spark plug had needed tightening and the two pilots had probably flooded the engine. Hardball takes a look at the top mysteries surrounding the deadliest terror attack on American soil starting with the activities al-Qaida ring leader Mohammed Atta on the evening of Sept. 10, 2001. Jarrah was the first of the Hamburg group to enter the United States, settling in Venice, Florida, where he began flight training. One theory suggests that Mohamed Atta and the other pilots who led the hijacking teams were here planning the Sept. 11 attacks in New York and Washington, D.C. A secret police intelligence report . Atta flew Flight 11 into the North Tower of the World Trade Center. [77] On July 19, Atta returned to the United States, flying on Delta Air Lines from Madrid to Fort Lauderdale, via Atlanta. "[113] In turn, political scientist Robert Pape has claimed that Atta was motivated by his commitment to the political cause, that he was psychologically normal, and that he was "not readily characterized as depressed, not unable to enjoy life, not detached from friends and society. - United Airlines Flight 175 (traveling from Boston to Los Angeles) strikes the South Tower of the World Trade Center . He also began teaching classes both at Al-Quds and at a Turkish mosque near the Harburg district. [73][74] After bin al-Shibh returned to Germany on July 16, 2001, Atta had three more days in Spain. "He said he was an engineer and he wanted to build a chemical . ", The other possibility is that Atta went to Portland for a final meeting with an unknown supporter. The luggage included a copy of Atta's will, written in Arabic, as well as a list of instructions, called "The Last Night". Mohammed Atta, 33, and Marwan al-Shehhi, 23, piloted the planes that hit the World Trade Center, the North and South Towers, respectively. Atta phoned his graduate advisor, Machule, and mentioned family problems at home, saying, "Please understand, I don't want to talk about this. [58], On May 17, Atta applied for a United States visa. They inquired about multi-engine planes and told the instructor that "they wanted to move quickly, because they had a job waiting in their country upon completion of their training in the U.S." In mid-October, Atta and Shehhi returned to Huffman Aviation to continue training. [110] In an interview on September 24, 2001, Atta Sr. stated, "My son is gone. There, Atta and bin al-Shibh held a meeting to complete the planning of the attacks. Mr. Pursell later posted a sign inside the flight school forbidding novice pilots from flying into Miami International. Financial records and bank video show Atta and Al-Omari made two ATM withdrawals in Portland, and the men were reportedly spotted at an area Wal-Mart, as well as in the parking lot of a Pizza Hut restaurant. They had problems following instructions and were both very upset when they failed their Stage 1 exam at Jones Aviation. [26] While in Syria, he met Amal, a young Palestinian woman who worked for a planning bureau in the city. The remains of the 9/11 killers are now held in deep freeze. "I suspect they were casing a fallback position to launch from if, for weather or security, they couldn't get out of Boston, Drumhiller said. Something is not right. We would like to start training for the career of airline professional pilots. Mr. Kraus and Mr. Pursell said that the breakdown could have happened to any pilot on any airfield, but that the response by the two men was wrong. Now, we are living in Germany since a while for study purposes. Protection against purely domestic hijackers primarily was lodged with check-in personnel at the airport counter, then with security screeners, and finally with attendants at the gate. Initially, Mohamed Atta's identity was confused with that of a native Jordanian, Mahmoud Mahmoud Atta, who bombed an Israeli bus in the West Bank in 1986, killing one and severely injuring three. [79], On August 23, Atta's driver license was revoked in absentia after he failed to show up in traffic court to answer the earlier citation for driving without a license. Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, mastermind of the 9/11 plot says they began talking about the "planes operation" in 1995. This call was apparently to confirm that the attacks were ready to begin. The official, Mr. Kraus said, said the two pilots had abandoned the plane without radioing the tower and were walking across the airfield toward the main hanger used for general aviation. While in the United States he traveled to Lawrenceville, Georgia, where he and Shehhi visited an LA Fitness Health Club. A separate section of the video shows Osama bin Laden addressing his followers at a complex near Kandahar. Just stay quiet, and you'll be okay. [16][60] On July 6, 2000, Atta, Jarrah and Shehhi enrolled at Huffman Aviation in Venice, where they entered the Accelerated Pilot Program. Each day a new story will be published here. [7] In Germany, he registered his name as "Mohamed el-Amir Awad el-Sayed Atta", and went by the name Mohamed el-Amir at the Hamburg University of Technology. He said they wanted advice on trying to restart the plane. Bin Laden asked them to pledge loyalty and commit to suicide missions, which Atta and the other three Hamburg men all accepted. ''They were more concerned about being reimbursed for their rental car,'' he recalled. Atta, an Egyptian, and Omari, a Saudi, held $2,400 first-class tickets to fly from Portland to Boston to Los Angeles. "It is possible that he calculated that security would be less stringent in Portland, Maine, than it would be in Boston, said terrorism expert Steve Emerson. Between August 17 and September 5, he rented airplanes on 11 separate occasions in Florida, practicing his pilot skills. During that time Atta flew out of Briscoe Field in Lawrenceville with a pilot, and Atta and either the pilot or Shehhi flew around the Atlanta area. The Web . (L to R, top to bottom) Ahmed Alnami, Ahmed Ibrahim A. al-Haznawi, Ziad Samir al-Jarrah, and Saeed Alghamdi. [70], In July 2001, Atta again left for Spain in order to meet with bin al-Shibh for the last time. Waterboarded at a CIA Black Site, the "Number One Terrorist" Gave Up a Name, A Florida Motel Manager Let the "Clean-cut" Guest Have an Overnight Visitor, Atta chose the day: A surveillance camera photographs suspected hijackers Mohammed Atta (R) and Abdulaziz Alomari (C) passing through airport security September 11, 2001 at Portland International Jetport in Maine. [32] Atta Sr. rejected media reports that stated his son was drinking wildly, and instead described his son as a quiet boy uninvolved with politics, shy and devoted to studying architecture. By the time it took off, Mohammed Atta was just four minutes away from hitting the North Tower of the World Trade Center. [11] Atta was the only son; he had two older sisters who are both well-educated and successful in their careers one as a medical doctor and the other as a professor. Records on Atta's cellphone indicated that he phoned the Moroccan embassy in Washington on January 2, just before Shehhi flew to the country. "[62][63] Bryant contacted the authorities after recognising Atta in news reports. Thirty minutes later, Marwan al-Shehhi hit the South Tower. [55], A video surfaced in October 2006. Newsweek is reconstructing the road to 9/11 as it was constructed 20 years ago, day by day. This claim has been disputed; Terry McDermott has argued that it is unusual for someone to go on pilgrimage so soon after the first time and to spend three months there (more than Hajj requires). The crash and fire kill 59 on the plane and 125 on the . By early 1993, Atta had moved into university housing with two roommates, in Centrumshaus. Waleed purchased his ticket online with his debit card. On the morning of September 11, Atta boarded American Airlines Flight 11, which he and his team then hijacked. . [37] Atta was anti-Semitic, believing that Jews controlled the world's media, financial, and political institutions from New York City. On July 7, 2001, Atta flew on Swissair Flight 117 from Miami to Zrich, where he had a stopover. "There's a real question there because he took a tremendous risk in going to Portland the night before and then having to catch a commuter flight to Boston, said Roger Cressey, who was director of transnational threats for President Bush's National Security Council. Atta also started and led a prayer group, which Ahmed Maklat and Mounir El Motassadeq joined. An employee at Huffman confirmed that the flight school did send the agency the plane's maintenance records. [87], The connection between the two flights at Logan International Airport was within Terminal B, but the two gates were not connected within security. "[114] By contrast, criminal justice professor, Adam Lankford, has found evidence that indicated Atta was suicidal, and that his struggles with social isolation, depression, guilt, shame, hopelessness, and rage were extraordinarily similar to the struggles of those who commit conventional suicide and murder-suicide. This photo taken 12 September 2001 shows the crash site of United Airlines Flight 93 in Shanksville, PA. Why was Ziad Jarrah's plane the only one that failed to hit its target? "[105][106], Five witnesses who had worked on Able Danger and had been questioned by the Defense Department's Inspector General later told investigative journalists that their statements to the IG were distorted by investigators in the final IG's report, or the report omitted essential information that they had provided. His mother, Bouthayna Mohamed Mustapha Sheraqi, came from a wealthy farming and trading family and was also educated. 122 in Coral Springs, Florida, for $840 per month,[68] and assisted with the arrival of the muscle hijackers. Kersten said in an interview at the agency's headquarters in Wiesbaden that Atta was in Afghanistan from late 1999 until early 2000,[53][54] and that there was evidence that Atta met with Osama bin Laden there. Statements entered at . Wail al Shehri (28), Saudi Arabia - Elementary school teacher (brother of Waleed) Waleed al Shehri (22), Saudi Arabia - Student. [108], Atta's father, Mohamed el-Amir Awad el-Sayed Atta, a retired lawyer in Egypt, vehemently rejected allegations his son was involved in the September 11 attacks, and instead accused the Mossad and the United States government of having a hand in framing his son. "They conformed to all the guidelines of checking in." The only problem, Tuohey said, came when he told Atta that, after arriving in Boston, Atta and Omari would have to check in once again before transferring to American Airlines Flight 11. 8:24 am - Hijacker Mohammed Atta makes the first of two accidental transmissions from Flight 11 to ground control (apparently in an attempt to communicate with the plane's cabin). It is only Jarrah's connection to Bin al-Shibh and others that would have connected him to any plot, including his attendance at the al Quds mosque in Hamburg. They also discussed the personal difficulties Atta was having with fellow hijacker Ziad Jarrah. Almost all of these points discuss spiritual preparation, such as prayer and citing religious scripture. The two had arrived in the United States from Saudi Arabia in April 2001 and joined Atta's team. Although estimates range from 18 That month, Atta and Shehhi stayed in hotels and rented rooms in New York City on a short-term basis. Anyone can read what you share. On August 26, Saudi brothers Waleed and Wail al-Shehri also purchased tickets for the same flight. Mohamed Atta, 33, Egypt Atta was quickly identified as the ringleader of the 9/11 attacks. September 9, 2021 at 12:30 p.m. EDT. identifies as one of the 19 hijackers, taxied a small private plane toward a runway when, unexpectedly, it stalled. At the Hamburg University of Technology, Atta studied under the guidance of the department chair, Dittmar Machule, who specialized in the Middle East. Atta was at the controls when the 767 collided with the . [59][60], From July 13 to 16, Atta stayed at the Hotel Sant Jordi in Tarragona. United States and Czech intelligence officials have since concluded that the person seen with Ani was mistakenly identified as Atta, and the consensus of investigators is that Atta never attended a meeting in Prague. Several clues have been found to link their stay in Spain to Syrian-born Imad Eddin Barakat Yarkas (Abu Dahdah), and Amer el Azizi, a Moroccan in Spain. Madam Speaker, I say to the Speaker and to the Members that the ghost of Mohamad Atta has attacked our Nation. His father, who kept the family ever insulated, forbade young Atta to fraternize with the other children in their neighborhood. Atta had lived in Germany for approximately five years and also had a "strong record as a student". [96] Mahmoud Atta, a naturalized U.S. citizen, was subsequently deported from Venezuela to the United States, extradited to Israel, tried and sentenced to life in prison. "Nothing they said or did raised any suspicions at all," he told the commission's investigators. A NATION CHALLENGED: THE SUSPECTS; Mohamed Atta in Close Call In Incident at Miami Airport, https://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/17/us/nation-challenged-suspects-mohamed-atta-close-call-incident-miami-airport.html. "This begs the question of why the pilots had not punched in the hijack code of 7500, also known as Squawking, if things were happening on the plane before the hijackers gained entry to the . He lived in Hamburg in the 1990's and is now believed to have trained at an Al-Qaida camp in Afghanistan in 1999. The night before, Atta went to Portland, Maine, a trip that has mystified terrorism experts for five years. Atta graduated from Cairo University with marks insufficient for the graduate program. Turning toward New York. [8], Atta was born on September 1, 1968, in Kafr el-Sheikh, located in the Nile Delta region of Egypt (then a part of the United Arab Republic). After six months, they asked him to leave.[20][21][22]. That aircraft hit the North Tower at 8:46 a.m. United Flight 175, also from Boston, hit the South Tower at 9:03 a.m. "One of the things we did at the White House was push the FBI to focus on Portland to determine whether or not there were people there that they might have met with, Cressey said. They instead traveled to Afghanistan over a two-week period in late November. [80] [81], On September 10, 2001, Atta picked up al-Omari from the Milner Hotel in Boston, Massachusetts, and the two drove their rented Nissan Altima to a Comfort Inn in South Portland, Maine. The date for the planes operation is set. [51] They met three or four times a week to discuss their anti-American feelings and to plot possible attacks. Atta flew to Spain on January 4, 2001, to coordinate with bin al-Shibh and returned to the United States on January 10. The reservation was not used and canceled on August 9 with the reason "Family Medical Emergency". At 2:12 p.m. on August 25, Mohammed Atta logged into his Travelocity account. We went through the logs of ferries leaving Maine, and we went through the logs of airlines and anything associated with potential for a terrorist cell to support Atta. The first chapter of the video showed bin Laden at Tarnak Farms on January 8, 2000. Make sure you know all aspects of the plan well, and expect the response, or a . [74], On July 22, 2001, Atta rented a Mitsubishi Galant from Alamo Rent a Car, putting 3,836 miles (6,173km) on the vehicle before returning it on July 26. Mohammed Atta, (born September 1, 1968, Kafr al-Shaykh, Egyptdied September 11, 2001, New York, New York, U.S.), Egyptian militant Islamist and al-Qaeda operative who helped plot and lead the September 11 attacks. After consulting with the other hijacker pilots about the flights they also booked on September 11, three days later Atta again visited aa.com and retrieved his reservations and paid for his flight for himself and A. al-Omari (one of his muscle men) using his VISA card. We are going back to the airport. [112], There are multiple, conflicting explanations for Atta's behavior and motivation. I have been planning and working with Bin Laden on the destruction of certain American targets. He mentioned Al Qaeda and said the organization "could use memberships from Americans". He led the team of hijackers who took control of American Airlines flight 11 and flew it into the north tower of New York City's World Trade Center. [1][2][3][4][5] Having just turned 33 at the time of the attacks, he was the oldest of the 19 hijackers who took part in the mission. He rented a Chevrolet Malibu from an Alamo Rent A Car agency. ; Azrbaycanca; Catal; etina; Dansk; Deutsch; Espaol; ; Franais; ; Hausa; Bahasa Indonesia; Italiano; . Shave excess hair from the body and wear cologne. Report Suggest Cover-Up of 9/11 Findings", "Father Denies 'Gentle Son' Could Hijack Any Jetliner", "Father insists alleged leader of attack on WTC is still alive", "He Never Even Had a Kite" Mohamed Atta's father talks about his son, the alleged hijacker, " 11 ", New video shows 9/11 hijackers Mohammed Atta, Ziad Jarrah at Al-Qaida meeting., Interviews with those who interacted with Atta prior to 9/11, October 2001 interview with Dittmar Machule, "MUGSHOTS: Mohammed Atta - Soldier of Terror", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mohamed_Atta&oldid=1140797922, Four Corners, Australian Broadcasting Corporation, broadcast November 12, 2001, Documentary series from Court TV (now TruTV), This page was last edited on 21 February 2023, at 21:12. [49] The Hamburg group did not stay in Wilhelmsburg for long. There was some confusion regarding who Mohamed Atta was, and cases of mistaken identity. For an optimal experience visit our site on another browser. He inquired about flight training, "Dear sir, we are a small group of young men from different Arab countries. There seem to be two primary reasons for his choosing that particular day: that it fell after Labor Day when most Americans (and the George W. Bush administration) would be back at work, maximizing the impact in terms of killing people; and that it was a Tuesday when air travel was easier and the planes less full (that is, fewer hostile passengers to deal with). [16], Atta continued with flight training that included solo flights and simulator time. The incident joins the short but tantalizing list of near-miss encounters involving Mr. Atta. The two other "muscle men," intended to take over the plane, were also Saudi citizens: Abdulaziz al-Omari (A. al-Omari on the flight manifest) and Satam al-Suqami. Ong provided information about lack of communication with the cockpit, lack of access to the cockpit, and passenger injuries. On June 28, Atta arrived at McCarran International Airport in Las Vegas to meet with the three other pilots. Had Atta or any of these men been on international watchlists, their names would have been flagged upon making a domestic reservation. On the morning of 9/11, Atta and Al-Omari drove to Portland International Jetport and boarded a 6 a.m. commuter flight to Boston's Logan International Airport. Just after 9:03 a.m., United 175 crashed into the World Trade Center's South Tower. There are two separate concourses in Terminal B; the south concourse is mainly used by US Airways and the north one is mostly used by American Airlines. On November 29, 1999, Mohamed Atta boarded Turkish Airlines Flight TK1662 from Hamburg to Istanbul, where he changed to flight TK1056 to Karachi, Pakistan. of 20-25 sons of Mohamed bin Laden, who had 52-54 children in total.2 Originally an immigrant from Yemen, Muhamed bin Laden, by befriending the royal family, had established a major construction company and had amassed a fortune of some 2-3 billion dollars by the time of his death in a 1967 plane crash. So, did Mohammed Atta go to Portland because of security issues? Jan 28, 2004 at 3:00 am. Atta was directly responsible for the deaths of more than 1,600 people during the attacks. [30], In Hamburg, Atta was intensely drawn to al-Quds Mosque which adhered to a "harsh, uncompromisingly fundamentalist, and resoundingly militant" version of Sunni Islam. The two al-Shehri brothers selected seats 2A and 2B in first class. The hijacked airliner came down . In August 2001, Atta traveled as a passenger on several "surveillance" flights, to establish in detail how the attacks could be carried out. [38] Even before bin al-Shibh had arrived, Atta, Shehhi, and Jarrah were sent to the House of Ghamdi near bin Laden's home in Kandahar, where he was waiting to meet them. In mid-1998, Atta worked alongside Shehhi, bin al-Shibh, and Belfas, at a warehouse, packing computers in crates for shipping. The family had few relatives on the father's side and kept their distance from Bouthayna's family. This piece of information was passed on to the FBI as "unevaluated raw intelligence". Hanjour piloted the plane. But more likely it is that the origination of his flight in Newark, delayed on the ground for 40 minutes, that made his flight more vulnerable. They continued to inquire about flight schools and personally visited some, including Airman Flight School in Norman, Oklahoma, which they visited on July 3, 2000. [8] He then worked for several months at the Urban Development Center in Cairo, where he joined various building projects and dispatched diverse architectural tasks. He provided the first official confirmation that Atta and two other pilots had been in Afghanistan, and he also provided the first dates of the training. They drove a rented Nissan to Portland, Maine, and arrived at the Comfort Inn Hotel at 5:43 p.m. At the time, Tyler Drumhiller was a top official at the CIA, responsible for all European Operations. IE 11 is not supported. Al-Omari chose 8G and al-Suqami chose 10B in Business Class. For Mohamed Atta, the meticulous and intensely disciplined figure who is believed to have helped organize the Sept. 11 attacks, mistakes did happen, or at least nearly did. Jarrah had arrived in the United States on June 27, 2000, after his flight landed at Newark, New Jersey, and Jarrah had decided to go with Shehhi and Atta to search for different flight schools in the US. Instead, he went to Central Office & Travel in Pompano Beach to purchase a ticket for a flight to Newark, leaving on the evening of August 7 and schedule to return in the evening on August 9. [42] He made acquaintances at al-Quds; some of whom visited him on occasion at Centrumshaus. The 33-year-old grew up in a strict household in Egypt where he was made to study hard. Mahmoud Atta was 14 years older than Atta. [39], On August 1, 1995, Atta returned to Egypt for three months of study. In the first attack at 8.46am, American Airlines Flight 11, travelling from Boston to Los Angeles and piloted by plot leader Mohamed Atta, smashed into the North Tower of the World Trade Centre in . There, Mr. Atta and Marwan al-Shehhi, another man the F.B.I. [30], By mid-1998, Atta was no longer eligible for university housing in Centrumshaus. Atta stayed in Cairo awhile with his family after Hauth and Bodenstein flew back to Germany. The same day, he booked a one-way first-class ticket via the Internet on America West Flight 244 from Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport to Las Vegas. They lived in the area for several months. Many al-Qaeda members lived in this apartment at various times, including hijacker Marwan al-Shehhi, Zakariya Essabar, and others. This was the last transmission heard from Flight 11. The investigator, Klaus Ulrich Kersten was the director of Germany's federal anticrime agency, the Bundeskriminalamt. Both enrolled at Jones Aviation in Sarasota and took training there for a brief time. On the morning of September 11, 2001, 46 minutes into United Airlines Flight 93, a nonstop flight from Newark, New Jersey to San Francisco, four hijackers took control of the Boeing 757-222. LA Times Archives, Tracking the Flights Hijacked on 9/11, Last edited on 21 February 2023, at 21:12, [mmmd elmi wd essj.jed t], Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport, Computer Assisted Passenger Prescreening System, "On Path to the U.S. On July 25, Atta dropped Ziad Jarrah off at Miami International Airport for a flight back to Germany. [60][61], On June 6, 2002, ABC's World News Tonight broadcast an interview with Johnelle Bryant, former loan officer at the U.S. Department of Agriculture in south Florida, who told about her encounter with Mohamed Atta. ''Any time the tower calls, they are not in the best of moods.''. In April, he was ticketed in South Florida for driving without a license. They learned of a massive terrorist attack underway, concluding that they had to take action to down the plane: it was not being hijacked to land and for demands to be made. He was the only pilot who was married, to a German national of Turkish descent. She observed Muslim customs, taking taxis to and from the office so as not to come into close physical contact with men on buses. [8][29] Among other odd jobs to supplement his income, Atta sometimes worked at a cleaning company and sometimes bought and sold cars. Ziad Jarrah should demonstrate that intelligence collection needs to be a holistic endeavor and is highly complicated. Each day a new story will be published here. ''They said I'd hear back from them, which I never did.''. The leader of the nineteen was Mohamed Atta, and they were divided into four groups, one for each plane, each with a pilot who served as group leader: Atta, Marwan al-Shehhi, Ziad Samir Jarrah . Mr. Pursell, meanwhile, had already gotten a cellphone call from Mr. Atta and Mr. Shehhi. And they then took action, eventually making their way into the cockpit, forcing the plane down. Readers may recall the shaving custom from the media coverage of 9/11. [16] Atta and Shehhi established accounts at SunTrust Bank and received wire transfers from Ali Abdul Aziz Ali, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed's nephew in the United Arab Emirates. ET (approx.) before the crash, the . On April 16, Atta was given a citation for not having a valid driver's license, and he began steps to get the license. The Mohamed Atta Files. Twelve minutes later, at 8:46:40a.m., Atta crashed the plane into the North Tower of the World Trade Center in New York City. THE LAST NIGHT. Former Metro Sheriff Jerry Keller recounts the time 9/11 terrorists spent in Las Vegas. According to Bryant, Atta wanted to finance the purchase of a crop-duster. The Mossad killed him. [71] On July 8, Atta was recorded on surveillance video when he withdrew 1700 Swiss francs from an ATM. Bin Laden sent them to see Atef to get a general overview of the mission, and then they were sent to Karachi to see Khalid Sheikh Mohammed to go over specifics. Had his conversations been monitored, the NSA would have heard the conversations of a husband and wife, talking about day-to-day life, in the German language, probably raising no suspicions. [3] Immediately after returning to Germany, Atta, al-Shehhi, and Jarrah reported their passports stolen, possibly to discard travel visas to Afghanistan. [64] Law-enforcement officials said Bryant passed a lie-detector exam. Mohamed Atta had varied his name on documents, also using "Mehan Atta", "Mohammad El Amir", "Muhammad Atta", "Mohamed El Sayed", "Mohamed Elsayed", "Muhammad al-Amir", "Awag Al Sayyid Atta", and "Awad Al Sayad". He also said he assumed that they had taxied the plane back to the hangar; he was not aware, he said, that they apparently abandoned the plane and walked away. His travel to Pakistan and Afghanistan were also signs of radicalization, both of which were masked in the passports he used to enter the United States. [45], After leaving Plankontor in the summer of 1997, Atta disappeared again and did not return until 1998. About a minute later, he turned the plane southbound, on a course pointed in the direction of New York City. [99] Intelligence officials have concluded that such a meeting did not occur. [88] At 6:45a.m., while at the Boston airport, Atta took a call from Flight 175 hijacker Marwan al-Shehhi. that best enable air traffic controllers to follow a plane's path. ", "Staff Report "We Have Some Planes": The Four Flights a Chronology", National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States, "The Aviation Security System and the 9/11 Attacks Staff Statement No. Here's some background information about the 19 hijackers of September 11, 2001.. Timeline September 11, 2001 - Nineteen men hijack four commercial airlines loaded with fuel for cross country . Mohamed Atta's Story. [33], After coming to Hamburg in 1992, Atta grew more religiously fanatical and frequented the mosque with greater regularity. He asked about the Pentagon and the White House. '', See the article in its original context from. [40] Before this trip he grew out a beard, with a view to show himself as a devout Muslim and to make a political gesture thereby. Atta began adhering to the strictest Islamic diet, frequenting the most conservative mosques, socializing seldom, and acting disdainfully towards the couple's unmarried daughter who had a young child.
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