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Sept. 14, 2001 | WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Justice Department on Friday released the names of the 19 hijackers involved in Tuesday's terrorist attacks. Many of the 19, several of whom are believed to have had pilot's training, apparently had lived in Florida, New Jersey, Massachusetts.
All had Middle Eastern names.
Among them was Mohamed Atta, 33, of Hollywood and Coral Springs, Fla., identified by German authorities as being tied to an Islamic fundamentalist group that planned attacks on American targets. The Justice Department said Atta was aboard American Airlines Flight 11 that took off from Boston's Logan Airport and crashed into the north tower of the World Trade Center.
The Justice Department had originally said there were 18 hijackers, but there were five hijackers instead of four on American Airlines Flight 77, which hit the Pentagon.
Besides Atta, the hijackers who were believed to be pilots were:
--Hani Hajour, who was on the flight that crashed into the Pentagon.
--Two other hijackers from one of the Boston flights, Wail Alshehri and Abdulaziz Alomari.
--Marwan Al-Shehhi who was on United Flight 175 out of Boston, which crashed into the south tower of the Trade Center.
--Ziad Jarrahi, who flew on United Flight 93 out of Newark, N.J., which crashed in a field 80 miles from Pittsburgh.
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