(5)Suspects Caught Crashes on Camera (They Watched Crashes & Celebrated, Also Some Suspects Abroad)
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Germany Detains Man, Probes Hamburg Link to Attack<> September 13, 2001 8:01 am EST
By Erik Kirschbaum
HAMBURG, Germany (Reuters) - Germany has detained an airport worker in connection with Tuesday's U.S. terror attacks and three of the suicide hijackers may have belonged to a Hamburg-based extremist group, authorities said on Thursday.
Police declined to identify the detained man and did not say what his job had been or where he worked. He was in investigative custody because he was in an apartment that was used by several suspects, they said.
The Federal Prosecution Office said it was investigating an extremist Islamic group that had been active in Hamburg since the start of the year. One suspect with Arab links was known to them but had not been detained yet.
"These people were of Arabic background and lived in Hamburg and were Islamic fundamentalists and they formed a terrorist organization with the aim of launching spectacular attacks on institutions of the United States," said Kay Nehm, Germany's Federal Prosecutor.
"They are being investigated on charges of belonging to a terrorist organization, murder and launching an attack on air traffic," he said. "We suspect that at least since the start of this year these people lived in Hamburg."
Nehm said no evidence had been found yet connecting the suspects with Saudi-born exile Osama bin Laden, who several western intelligence agencies believe may be behind the attacks. He is said to have denied any involvement.
LEADS FOR THE U.S.
The developments should provide important leads to U.S. authorities trying to identify the mastermind behind the hijacking of two planes into New York's World Trade Center and the Pentagon in Washington on Tuesday.
U.S. agents served warrants on homes and searched businesses in southern Florida on Wednesday. The passenger lists of the four hijacked jets included the names of at least four Florida residents suspected of being supporters of Bin Laden.
The northern port city of Hamburg is home to about 80,000 Muslims of various nationalities. Security experts say Germany is regarded as a safe haven for Islamic extremist groups.
Authorities said three of the suspected hijackers who had been on the passenger lists were members of the Hamburg-based group. Two of them and a further suspect had studied electronics at the Technical University in the city's Harburg district.
A Hamburg state police chief, Gerhard Mueller, said: "We have in the search for a suspect of Moroccan origin searched an apartment in Hamburg and provisionally detained one person, a man."
ON THE PASSENGER LISTS
He said it was too soon to say if the detained man would remain in custody. Mueller said the man had been living in Germany legally.
Hamburg's interior minister, Olaf Scholz, said police had searched four apartments on Wednesday night and questioned a number of people in the city after getting leads from media reports and the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation.
Scholz said Mohammed Atta, 33, whose name had been cited in media reports as a suspect and who was on the passenger list of one of the hijacked planes used in the attack, had lived in Hamburg in one of the apartments that were searched.
He was registered as being from the United Arab Emirates, as was Marwan Yusef Mohammed Al-Shehhi, 23, who Scholz said was on one of the other attack planes.
Al-Shehhi had also lived in Germany, sometimes in the same apartment as Atta, Scholz said. He left Germany for the United States on May 2.
"It is evident that they avoided doing anything that would bring them to the attention of police or the immigration authorities," Scholz said. He said police had interviewed a number of people but made no arrests.
Scholz said police had checked eight apartments in the city and searched four.
"In one of the apartments, the people who were registered as living there were not found, but one woman was taken from the building to the police station as a witness."
Scholz said: "We have gathered a lot of information that will be very useful for the further investigation of the Federal Criminal Office but of course will also be of great significance for the FBI."
"Hopefully we have made a meaningful contribution to clearing up these dreadful attacks.
BBC
Thursday, 13 September, 2001, 15:24 GMT 16:24 UK
German police raided a Hamburg flat on an FBI tip-off
The FBI says the identities of many of those involved in the terror attacks on America are known. It is thought there were three to six hijackers, armed with knives, on each of the four planes that hit targets including the World Trade Center in New York and the Pentagon on Tuesday.
There have been unconfirmed reports that rescue teams have found the body of one of the terrorists involved in the attacks - and the body of an air stewardess with her hands tied behind her back.
About 7,000 FBI agents in biggest manhunt in US history Three to six hijackers thought to be on each of four planes The FBI says it has identified as many as 50 people involved in the suicide attacks and say some were trained as pilots in the US
About 7,000 agents involved in the biggest manhunt in American history are searching for as many as 50 others reported to have helped execute the plan.
German police, acting on an FBI tip-off, arrested a man on Thursday after a swoop on a Hamburg flat where two of the suspected terrorists are believed to have lived.
'Pilot' quizzed
The suspects, Mohamed Atta, 33, and Marwan Al-Shehhi, 23, were each on one of the two planes which smashed into the World Trade Center, said Hamburg security officials.
It is thought they were trained for their devastating mission at a flying school in Florida.
According to German records, both men are from the United Arab Emirates.
German prosecutors said they were investigating a Hamburg-based terrorist network formed "to attack the United States in a spectacular way through the destruction of symbolic buildings".
CNN reported that another suspect arrested in Florida is helping the FBI.
Adnan Bakhari, described as a Saudi pilot, was arrested on Wednesday, after police seized a rented car in Maine.
Mexico alert
Officials at Ciudad Juarez airport close to Mexico's border with the United States say that US authorities have asked them to look out for six people suspected of involvement.
Three of the six are said to hold Pakistani passports.
Airport security chief, Juan Carlos Martinez, said he believed that the US authorities had given similar information to other Mexican airports along the 2,000km border with the United States.
Law enforcement agents also searched homes and businesses in Florida in connection with the attacks, focusing on the Huffman Aviation School where two suspects may have received flight training.
In Boston, a car believed to belong to the hijackers was confiscated. Officials said it contained an Arabic-language flight manual.
Thailand search
Investigators also raided two Boston area hotels thought to have been used by the hijackers. In one room a link was found to a name on one of the flight passenger lists.
In Thailand, security police say they are on the lookout for 15 Arab men wanted by the CIA in connection with Tuesday's devastation.
Mr Mueller said the bureau had established command posts at the places of origin and destination of the flights, where the investigation was being assisted by:
4,000 special agents
3,000 support personnel
More than 400 laboratory personnel.
One group of hijackers is believed to have crossed from Canada and to have had ties to Mr Bin Laden.
The FBI is dealing with 700 leads from the public and has set up a website containing a form people can use to report any new information on the attacks.
US Attorney General John Ashcroft also said the government had "credible evidence" that both the White House and the presidential jet, Air Force One, had been targeted in the attacks.
So, apprently, is the United States, thanks to the open-borders globalist corpocrats on the right and the multiculturalist liberals on the left, who have inflicted millions of seething, resentful third-world immigrants on us over the last several decades---against the wishes of the American people.
Will the aproximately 1/2 of this country that always votes for the emasculated party have the emotional maturity / resolve to back the MAN in the White House?
We'll see.