Six men identified by FBI as dead hijackers are alive
2001-09-28 18:55:02

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Attorney General John Ashcroft and U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Director Robert Mueller on Thursday released 19 photographs and a new list of 19 individuals believed to be the hijackers of the four U.S. airliners that crashed into the World Trade Center in New York, the Pentagon in Virginia and in Stony Creek Township, Pennsylvania, USA, on Tuesday, September 11, 2001.

However, at least six men identified by the FBI as dead hijackers are still alive and the FBI list of 19 hijackers has become doubtful.

The FBI has requested the public's assistance in obtaining more information about the 19 suspected hijackers. In its official press release of September 27, FBI has pointed out: "It should be noted that attempts to confirm the true identities of these <19> individuals are still under way."

While launching "a national neighborhood watch" system on Thursday, Attorney General Ashcroft said investigators have received over 100,000 tips. FBI Director Mueller said his Bureau has "over 200,000 leads we are investigating."

Some of the names on the FBI new or second list of 19 hijackers have slightly different spellings and additional names/aliases have been added to it, compared to the first list released by the FBI on September 14, which was published in the Information Times.

"What we are currently doing is determining whether, when these individuals came to the United States, these were their real names or they changed their names for use with false identification in the United States," said the FBI Director.

"We are working hard to identify and locate associates of the hijackers who may pose a threat to this nation," Mueller said. "We are attempting to identify any associates of the hijackers and trace their movements within the United States, assuming they were still here, and overseas."

However, so far the FBI has not provided any legal evidence to the American people to prove its former and current claims about the identities of the 19 hijackers probably because the identities of at least 6 of the 19 hijackers released September 14 by the FBI have been challenged by people with the same or similar names.

Saudi Arabia's Foreign Minister Prince Saud Al-Faisal insisted on September 20 that the FBI mistakenly identified at least 5 of the 19 hijackers. He said an investigation in Saudi Arabia showed that the 5 Saudi men were not aboard the four jetliners that crashed in New York, Virginia and Pennsylvania on September 11. "It was proved that five of the names included in the FBI list had nothing to do with what happened," Al-Faisal told the Arabic Press in Washington after meeting with U.S. President George W. Bush at the White House.

FBI Chief Robert Mueller admitted on September 20 and on September 27 that at this time the FBI has no legal proof to prove the true identities of the suicidal hijackers. He said investigators think they have identified "several" of the hijackers correctly, adding: "We have several others that are still in question."

An official at the Saudi Arabian Embassy in Washington, DC recently confirmed to the Orlando Sentinel the names of four of the men to whom Al-Faisal referred on September 20, saying they are Saudis who are "alive and well." He was not confident enough to confirm the fifth name.

The Saudi Embassy source said the FBI should realize that the following four Saudi men are victims of mistaken or stolen identity: Saeed Alghamdi, Mohald Alshehri, Abdulaziz Alomari and Salem Alhamzi. Saudi Embassy official said someone stole Alomari's identity after he lost his passport while studying in Denver, Colorado.

Khalid Al-Midhar or Khalid Almihdhar, a "possible Saudi national" listed in the FBI first and second lists of 19 hijackers, is also still "alive", according to another FBI list of 21 hijackers sent to various banks across the USA.

Waleed Alshehri, a native of Saudi Arabia and a graduate of a Florida flight school who was originally named as one of the 19 hijackers in the FBI’s first list, is living in Casablanca and training with a Moroccan airline, an official of the Royal Air Moroc said Saturday, according to an AP news story of September 22. "On Friday, officials at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in Daytona Beach said the FBI told school officials that the real Waleed Alshehri is alive and talked to U.S. officials in Morocco earlier this week," the AP reported from Rabat, Morocco.

"We are very pleased that our Alshehri turned up alive and well, and that the link between Alshehri and this despicable act has been proven to be non-existent," University President George H. Ebbs said last Friday.

The vital, mysterious and extremely complicated issue of six living hijackers is not the only major problem with the FBI information and intelligence. The FBI’s first list of 19 hijackers includes 7 pilots, but the FBI’s second list of 19 hijackers includes only 6 pilots. The first list stated that Hani Hanjour is "believed to be a pilot," but the second list does not identify Hani Hanjour and four other suspected hijackers of American Airlines flight #77 as pilots. If Hanjour is no longer "believed to be a pilot," then who crashed the American Airlines flight #77 into the Pentagon, the U.S. military headquarters, at "9:39 a.m." on Bloody Tuesday?

Another critical problem with the FBI second list is that it identifies 8 possible citizens or nationals of Saudi Arabia and one possible national or citizen of Egypt as hijackers, but instead of launching the Bush Crusade against Saudi Arabia and Egypt, the U.S. military is preparing to attack Afghanistan after wrongly ignoring the fact that the FBI list of 19 hijackers does not include even one Afghani or Talebani hijacker.

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