Hijackers may have taken Saudi identities

Boston Globe ^ | September 15, 2001 | Kevin Cullen and Anthony Shadid

[sarcasm]

Evidence surfaced yesterday that some of the suicide hijackers who commandeered airliners originating in Boston, Washington, and Newark on Tuesday may have used aliases and adopted the identities of legitimate Saudi Arabian pilots to gain entry to the United States and access to the flight training they needed to carry out their attacks.

[independentmind]

This is very interesting. I have been wondering why it was so easy to figure out who the perpetrators were.

Anonymity is one of the hallmarks of asymmetrical warfare.