Posted on 10/29/2001 12:16:01 AM PST by CommiesOut
October 28 2001 | TERRORISM |
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Hijackers were from wealthy Saudi families |
MOST of the hijackers in the terrorist attacks on America were recruited from wealthy Saudi families and were bound by family ties, the first detailed account of their background has revealed. Rather than being hired "muscle" or terrorists posing as Saudis with false identities, as previously thought, an investigation has revealed a close-knit group that had links stretching back many years. Fifteen of the 19 hijackers are now known to be Saudis, including the brother of a police commander, the son of a tribal chief, two teachers and three law graduates.
Blood brothers: Nawaf al-Hamzi, Majed Moqed, Wail al-Shehri and Satam al-Suqami
Well-educated, intelligent and in their mid-twenties, most were joined in the attack by at least one close male relative. Many of them had a history of making trips both to America and Afghanistan. As the focus of the worldwide inquiry shifts to Saudi Arabia, with security sweeps across the country launched in collaboration with the FBI, the discovery of the hijackers' backgrounds is causing consternation in the kingdom. More than 80 people have been detained by the Saudi security police for alleged links to Osama Bin Laden and hundreds more have been questioned. Until now the world's understanding of the hijackers and their motives has been based on information released publicly about three hijackers who lived in Hamburg, and led by Mohammed Atta, an Egyptian. But information obtained from within Saudi Arabia has provided a detailed profile of the fundamentalist Muslims prepared to die to inflict massive casualties on the United States. Predominantly from the western provinces of the kingdom, they were also all adherents to the Salafist school of Islam, which believes in following literally the doctrines and practices of the earliest disciples of the Prophet Mohammed. "The recruits, whatever you may think of what they did, were talented people," said Saad al-Fagih, a leading moderate Saudi dissident in London last week. "They were not only credible, but had good communication skills." Al-Fagih, the leader of the London-based Movement for Islamic Reform in Arabia, said contact with dozens of local sources confirmed visits by at least 11 of the hijackers to training camps of Bin Laden's Al-Qaeda. One hijacker now identified as a ringleader on September 11 is Nawaf al-Hamzi, who sat in seat 5F of American Airlines flight 77, which crashed into the Pentagon. Al-Hamzi, according to local sources, is the brother of a police chief from the coastal town of Jizan, in southwest Saudi Arabia. He was the earliest hijacker to make an appearance in the United States when he turned up on records of an apartment complex in San Diego, California, in November 1999. Al-Hamzi had already aroused the suspicion of the CIA before September 11 when he was spotted with Khalid al-Midhar, another Saudi, at a meeting with suspected Al-Qaeda members in Malaysia in January 2000. Shortly afterwards, al-Hamzi and al-Midhar began flying lessons together in San Diego. Al-Midhar was in seat 12B on the flight. Another al-Hamzi brother, Salem, was on the same plane, in seat 5E. Hani Hanjour, a trained commercial airline pilot and the son of a wealthy businessman from Ti'af, 50 miles east of Mecca, was also on the flight, as was Majed Moqed, a law student at the King Saud University in Riyadh. He is the son of ahead of the Baniauf tribe and from Annakhil, a village near Medina. Friends have said that he was known for his desire to join a jihad and was a relative of an extremist leader who took part in the 1979 storming of Mecca's Grand Mosque, Islam's most holy shrine. A former college room-mate of Moqed was Satam al-Suqami, a hijacker on American Airlines flight 11, which crashed into the north tower of the World Trade Center. Also a law student at the King Saud University, he was from a northern Saudi province. Brothers Waleed and Wail al-Shehri, also on the same flight, came from Khamis Mushayt, east of Abha. Described by friends as "peaceful and devout", Wail had graduated from an institute of teachers. Last week, the brothers' father, Muhammad Ali al-Shehri, said Wail had started working as a teacher but left his job because of mental illness and never returned. Waleed, who was still a student teacher, left with his brother nine months ago to consult a Muslim holy man about Wail's illness. Their whereabouts were unknown to their family until the hijackings. Ahmed al-Nami, a hijacker on board United Airlines flight 93, which crashed in Pennsylvania, was identified last week as another law student, trained at the King Khaled University Islamic law school in Abha. The Saudi ruling family has been so disturbed at the scale of the involvement of some of its citizens that it has given a team of FBI agents unprecedented access to interviews with suspected detainees and they have been allowed to collect statements from relatives and acquaintances of the hijackers.
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Just a couple of observation:
Also known by its more familiar name: Wahhabism. Most of the mosques in America are Wahhabi/Salafi controlled.
America's Fifth Column ... watch PBS documentary JIHAD! In America -- here
When these families are snuffed, a major supplier of money and kamikazies will be eliminated, and our Government Agencies are cleared to proceed.
It's harsh to say it, but it must be followed-through. THESE are the people that helped kill over 6000 Americans, and even though we SAY that we're not in the revenge business, we all know that reality is different!
There's a huge fifth-column of Islamic-Terrorist-Sympathizers in America, and they MUST be neutralized quickly. When their relatives at 'home' start taking dirt-naps, perhaps they'll wake-up and leave. Maybe it'll smoke 'em out - either way, they're gone.
Ada, to answer your question, we need a secured Forward-Land-Base in the Region, to operate from. USAF Base-Kandahar, Afghanistan fits the bill. We'll be going Westward from there through Iran, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, and every other terrorist-supporting Country.
Ada, you have to print-out maps of each country in the Region, and tape them together. Then color them as 'friendly', and 'un-friendly'. Colour Turkey as a 'friendly'. Colour a chunk of Southwest-Pakistan, from the Indian Ocean to Afghanistan as Texico!
Bet on Kandahar, Ada. Stay well and vigilant...FRegards
1) the US military is targeting civilians, aiming with deadly accuracy to kill women, children and the elderly.
2) When not killing innocent civilians, the US kills UN and Red Cross workers.
3) When not bombing women, children, the elderly and UN workers, the US bombs mosques and schools.
4) Despite killing thousands of men, women, children, clerics, UN workers and students, the US has not managed to kill any Taliban fighters.
Perhaps, Ada Dear, you would like to explain this method of war fighting for us? By the way are there any non-civilians in Afghanistan that we may have hit, just as collateral damage in our attack on the civilian population[sarcasm off]
I believe I saw you at the entrance to the downtown tunnel with the other church ladies holding up a "Peace Now" sign.
And, as Muslim terrorists could tell you, no civilians would die unless Allah willed it.
It elevates their sense of self importance and allows them to parade their moral superiority. It has the same effect as the Aids Awareness ribbon (remember those?) as a self identifyer of superior sensibilities.
under a different name, perhaps. I don't think we've met under your current moniker.
1) the US military is targeting civilians, aiming with deadly accuracy to kill women, children and the elderly.
If so, they are playing a dangerous game. We are currently depending on other Muslim nations like Pakistan who will withdraw support if you are correct.
2) When not killing innocent civilians, the US kills UN and Red Cross workers.
And 10 soldiers from our ally, the Northern Alliance.
3) When not bombing women, children, the elderly and UN workers, the US bombs mosques and schools.
While Rumsfeld admits that the alleged target of this whole operation probably will not be caught.
4) Despite killing thousands of men, women, children, clerics, UN workers and students, the US has not managed to kill any Taliban fighters.
Now that you bring it up, the operation so far has been less than successful.
Perhaps, Ada Dear, you would like to explain this method of war fighting for us? By the way are there any non-civilians in Afghanistan that we may have hit, just as collateral damage in our attack on the civilian population[sarcasm off]
If we are targetting civilians like we did in Kossovo, the object the same as it was there.
I believe I saw you at the entrance to the downtown tunnel with the other church ladies holding up a "Peace Now" sign.
That's me. I'll continue to hold it until the U.S. government targets those responsible for the 911 attack. Let me know if we ever get serious about holding the proper parties responsible.
What's the point? Do you think that killing Afghanis will deter Saudi terrorists?
Damn straight. Enjoy your war!
[you replied]If so, they are playing a dangerous game. We are currently depending on other Muslim nations like Pakistan who will withdraw support if you are correct."
I feel like Johnathan Swift who, when he satirically recommended eating Irish children, was sent a recipe for stewing them.
You have a seriously disturbed mind.
Sure we are. I mean drop enough of those million dollar smart bombs and you're due to hit a target once in a while. Of course, there is no proof that we got even one terrorist by accident.
What about those who were involved in 911. Have we made the slightest effort to catch those who remain at large and/or supported them? If not, why not?
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