As the FBI and other investigative agencies probe the terrorist attacks on America, the Department of Justice has identified dozens of people as suspects, material witnesses, or people they want to question in connection with the investigation. Here are some:American Airlines Flight 11 Hijackers
The following have been named as the men who hijacked AA Flight 11, which left Boston's Logan Airport bound for Los Angeles before being piloted into the North Tower of the World Trade Center.
Abdulaziz Alomari
(www.fbi.gov)
Varying dates of birth used.
Possible residence: Hollywood, Fla.
Listed as a passenger in seat 8G. Alomari flew from Portland, Maine, to Boston, where the two flights that struck the World Trade Center towers originated, with Mohamed Atta. Alomari was believed to be one of the pilots of the hijacked plane. But a Saudi man has reported to authorities that he is the real Abdulaziz Alomari, and claims his passport was stolen in 1995 while he studied electrical engineering at the University of Denver. Alomari says he informed police of the theft."The name [listed by the FBI] is my name and the birth date is the same as mine, but I am not the one who bombed the World Trade Center in New York," Abdulaziz Alomari told the London-based Asharq Al-Awsat newspaper.
Wail M. Alshehri
(www.fbi.gov)
Date of birth used: July 31, 1973.
Possible residences: Hollywood and Boynton Beach Fla., and Newton, Mass.
Listed as a passenger in seat 2A. Believed to be one of the pilots of the hijacked flight. Came to the United States two weeks before the attacks from Saudi Arabia, where he left a suicide note. He was a member of Osama bin Laden's al Qaeda terrorist network. Father claims Wail, in December 2000, left home and work to travel for medical treatment. The Associated Press reports that the FBI has raided a hotel in Newton, a Boston suburb, where Alshehri and his brother Waleed were believed to have stayed the night before the Sept. 11 attacks. The FBI has obtained the phone records from his mobile phone.
Waleed M. Alshehri
(www.fbi.gov)
Varying dates of birth used.
Possible residences: Hollywood, Orlando, Daytona Beach, Fla.
Listed as a passenger in seat 2B. From Saudi Arabia and a younger brother of Wail M. Alshehri. He studied at a Saudi Arabian teachers college and was a former airline pilot. Officials tell The Associated Press he has been linked to Osama bin Laden's al Qaeda network.
Satam M. A. Al Suqami
(www.fbi.gov)
Date of birth used: June 28, 1976
Possible U.S. residence: Boynton Beach, Fla.
Listed as a passenger in seat 10B. A Saudi Arabian national whose passport was recovered in the rubble. The address on his Florida driver's license is the same as one found on Wail Alshehri, another hijacker on the same flight.
Mohamed Atta
(www.fbi.gov)
Date of birth used: Sept. 1, 1968
Possible residences: Hollywood, Coral Springs, Venice and Nokomis, Fla., and Hamburg, Germany.
Listed as a passenger in seat 8D. An Egyptian national who investigators believe was the primary U.S. operative overseeing and directing the attacks. Believed to be one of the pilots of the hijacked flight.Prior to coming to the United States, Atta and his cousin, Marwan Al-Shehhi, lived in Hamburg, Germany, a country federal authorities say has been used often as a base by a number of terrorist mastermind Osama bin Laden's operatives. The general manager of a crop-dusting airfield in Florida told the FBI Atta and other men visited the facility as recently as the Saturday before the attacks, asking questions about crop-dusting planes, including how big of a load of chemicals they could carry.
The two men earned their private pilot licenses at an airfield in Venice, Fla. and in December, 2000, spent thousands on jet training, taking flight simulator lessons for large commercial jets at a private flight school at Opa Locka, Fla. Atta's car was found abandoned at Boston's Logan Airport.
Investigators are trying to determine whether he is the same Mohamed Atta who received U.S. military training, intended for members of foreign military services, in how to use E-2 Hawkeye radar aircraft at Norfolk Naval Air Station, Va. The FBI has obtained the phone records from his mobile phone.
Atta's father claims his son had nothing to do with the attacks, hated bin Laden and made contact with family days after the attacks.
United Airlines Flight 175 Hijackers
The following have been named as the men who hijacked UAL Flight 175, which left Boston's Logan Airport bound for Los Angeles before being piloted into the South Tower of the World Trade Center.
Fayez Rashid Ahmed Hassan Al Qadi Banihammad
(www.fbi.gov)
Possible residence: Delray Beach, Fla.
A Saudi Arabian national. The address on his pilot's license was for a flight school in Tulsa, Okla., but the school has no record of his attendance. A person with that name attended the Lackland Air Force Base Defense Language Institute in San Antonio, Texas. The Guardian of London reports Ahmed took flight training classes in Florida with Mohamed Atta.
Ahmed Alghamdi
(www.fbi.gov)
Possible residences: Daytona Beach and Pensacola, Fla.
Authorities tell The Associated Press Alghamdi was linked to Osama bin Laden's al Qaeda terrorist network. He studied engineering in Mecca before moving to Chechnya in 1999. Investigators are also trying to determine whether he is the same Ahmed Alghamdi who received electronics, communications and computer training at U.S. military installations in Florida, Maryland, Illinois and Virginia. The Washington Post reports an Ahmed Alghamdi is listed at a housing facility for foreign military trainees at Pensacola, Fla.
Hamza Alghamdi
(www.fbi.gov)
Date of birth used: Nov. 18, 1980
Possible residence: Delray Beach, Fla.
Officials tell The Associated Press he was linked to Osama bin Laden's al Qaeda terrorist network. The Washington Post reports that someone with a name very similar to Hamza Alghamdi is listed in public records as having lived at a housing facility for foreign military trainees at Pensacola, Fla.
Marwan Al-Shehhi
(www.fbi.gov)
Date of birth used: May 9, 1978.
Possible residence: Hollywood, Fla.
Came to the United States from Saudi Arabia about two weeks before the attacks. Left a suicide note with his family. Trained in Afghanistan in hand-to-hand combat and is believed to have been assigned to control passengers, while other hijackers broke into the pilot's cabin. Lived as a student in Hamburg, Germany with Mohamed Atta until summer, when the two moved to Florida. Investigators believe he, along with Atta and others, paid thousands for flight-training classes in Florida.
Mohand Alshehri
(www.fbi.gov)
Possible residence: Delray Beach, Fla.
Little is known about Alshehri. The Guardian of London reports that, like his cousin Marwan Al-Shehhi, he took flight training classes in Florida with Mohamed Atta.
American Airlines Flight 77 Hijackers
The following have been named as the men who hijacked AA Flight 77, which left Washington's Dulles International Airport bound for Los Angeles before being flown into the Pentagon.
Khalid Almihdhar
Possible residences: San Diego and New York.
Listed as a passenger in seat 12B. A Yemeni national who is known to have met in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia with a senior aide to terrorist mastermind Osama bin Laden who was a principal suspect in the bombing of the USS Cole in Yemen. According to a law enforcement source, the CIA transmitted the information about Almidhar to the FBI and the Immigration and Naturalization Service and his name was placed on the INS watch list. However, he had already entered the United States by the time his name was placed on the list Aug. 24. The FBI has obtained the phone records from his mobile phone.Newsweek reports the FBI had begun searching for Almihdhar before the attacks. The INS reportedly checked its databases and realized that he and associate Salem Alhazmi had entered the United States earlier in the year on business visas, giving a Marriott Hotel in New York as their address. The INS also learned the two men had entered the country in 2000 and had listed a Los Angeles hotel chain as their address.
One of five hijackers who worked out at a Gold's Gym in Greenbelt, Md., for a few days in September. The Associated Press quotes an instructor at Sorbi's Flying Club in San Diego as saying Almihdhar was interested in flying large planes, particularly Boeings.
Nawaf Alhazmi
(www.fbi.gov)
Possible residences: Fort Lee, N.J., Wayne, N.J., and San Diego, Calif.
Spent time in Chechnya with Salem Al-Hamzi. The Associated Press reports a flight instructor at Sorbi's Flying Club in San Diego said Al-Hamzi trained in a twin-engine Cessna in May 2000 with Khalid Almihdhar. They were interested in flying large planes, particularly Boeings, the flight instructor said. A car dealer in Wayne, N.J., confirms the FBI has confiscated his records on cars Alhazmi had rented.
Salem Alhazmi
(www.fbi.gov)
Possible residences: Fort Lee and Wayne, N.J.
Listed as a passenger in seat 5F. Spent time in Chechnya with Nawaf Alhazmi. Was on a U.S. government watch list, along with his associate Khalid Almihdhar, before the attacks. Newsweek reports the Immigration and Naturalization Service checked its databases and realized he and Al-Midhar entered the United States earlier this year on business visas, giving a Marriott Hotel in New York as their address. The INS also learned the two men had entered the country last year and had listed a Los Angeles hotel chain as their address.
Hani Hanjour
(www.fbi.gov)
Possible residences: Phoenix, Ariz., San Diego, Calif., New York
A Saudi Arabian national who went to live in the United Arab Emirates in 1999. Federal Aviation Administration records show someone named Hani Hanjour received a commercial pilot's license in 1999, listing a P.O. box in Saudi Arabia as his address.An instructor at CRM Flight School in Scottsdale, Ariz., said Hanjour received training there from September through November of 1996. Hanjour returned again in December of 1997. He was trying for his private pilot's license but, the instructor says, was a very poor student who skipped homework and missed flights.
According to The Associated Press, Hanjour flew three times from a flight school at Freeway Airport in Bowie, Md., in August. He ultimately received an FAA pilot's license. One of five hijackers who worked out at a Gold's Gym in Greenbelt, Md., for a few days in September.
Majed Moqed
(www.fbi.gov)
Listed as a passenger in seat 12A.
One of five hijackers who worked out at a Gold's Gym in Greenbelt, Md., for a few days earlier this month. The FBI has obtained the phone records from his mobile phone.United Airlines Flight 93 Hijackers
The following have been named as the men who hijacked UAL Flight 93, which left Newark, N.J., bound for San Francisco before crashing in Stony Creek Township, Pa.
Saeed Alghamdi
(www.fbi.gov)
Date of birth listed: Dec. 19, 1960
Possible residence: Daytona Beach and Pensacola, Fla.
Investigators are trying to determine whether he is the same Saeed Alghamdi who received electronics, communications and intelligence training at U.S. military installations in Florida, Maryland, Illinois and Virginia. A man by this name also attended the Defense Language Institute at Lackland Air Force Base, Texas. The Washington Post reports that a Saeed Alghamdi was listed at a housing facility for foreign military trainees at Pensacola, Fla. The training sessions in question are intended for members of foreign military services. The Associated Press reports investigators have linked him to Osama bin Laden.
Ahmed Ibrahim A. Al Haznawi
(www.fbi.gov)
Date of birth used: Oct. 11, 1980
Possible residence: Delray Beach, Fla.
Little is known about Al Haznawi.
Ahmed Alnami
(www.fbi.gov)
Date of birth used: December 1977
Possible residence: Delray Beach, Fla.
Little is known about Alnami.
Ziad Samir Jarrah
(www.fbi.gov)
Date of birth listed: Dec. 2, 1968
Possible residence: Hollywood, Fla.
Jarrah was a Lebanese national and a Sunni Muslim. He was listed as having a valid pilot's license. Hours after the attacks, the FBI searched an apartment in Hollywood, Fla., in which he was thought to have lived. From 1996 to 2000, he studied aeronautical engineering in Hamburg, Germany.Jarrah left Germany the first time in June 2000, traveling to the United States briefly to attend an aviation seminar sponsored by Boeing. He returned to the United States again about six months before the attacks. About 10 days before the attacks, he called his father asking for $2,000, and then called back two days later to thank him. Jarrah's father and uncle both said he was not a religious man and denied a CNN report he had been to Afghanistan.
Other Suspects or Wanted Individuals
The FBI and other law enforcement agencies have arrested or detained hundreds of individuals in connection with the investigation into the attacks and are still seeking to question hundreds more. Here are some of them:
Moataz Al-Hallak
An Islamic cleric who has been linked to Wadih El-Hage, a top lieutenant of Osama bin Laden who was sentenced to life in prison for his role in the 1998 bombings of U.S. embassies in Africa. The FBI raided his home in Laurel, Md. soon after the attacks. He is also a resident of Arlington and the former head of the Islamic Society in Arlington, Texas.Al-Hallak was accused in 1999 by federal prosecutors of being a contact between members of bin Laden's al Qaeda terrorist network, but the government has never charged him. Prosecutors also said he once helped purchase a jet for bin Laden. In a court filing, federal prosecutors in New York alleged that Al-Hallak provided cover for the business activities of El-Hage.
Mohamed Abdi
Abdi, a Virginia man originally from Somalia, was arrested after his first name and phone number were found written on a map discovered in a car registered to suspected hijacker Nawaf Alhazmi. Abdi appeared at a hearing in federal court on Sept. 26 and, according to The Associated Press, was described by a prosecutor as an essential witness. He is being held without bond on check-forging charges unrelated to the attacks.Mohdar Abdullah
Abdullah, a Yemini or Somalian national, is one of four men arrested the weekend of Sept. 22-23 and who appeared at a federal court hearing in San Diego the week of Sept. 23 as a material witness. He is a student at the United States International University near San Diego.Ibrahim Al- Feraihi
Date of birth used: Nov. 18, 1963
Al-Feraihi was taken into custody in Denver on Sept. 12, the day after the attacks, and arrested for possessing dozens of fake passports reportedly containing Arabic names. The FBI is trying to determine whether he was connected to the hijackers.Mohamed Al-Hadi
Date of birth used: Jan. 1, 1966
Al-Hadi, a Yemeni national, was arrested in Toronto on Sept. 11, the day of the attacks, after his airline flight to Chicago was diverted there. He had three different passports and two pilot's uniforms. He appeared at a hearing in a Canadian court on Sept. 25 and a warrant for his arrest has been issued in the United States.Farouk Ali-Haimoud
Date of birth used: July 23, 1980
One of three men arrested at Nabil Al-Marabh's Detroit apartment Sept. 18 and charged with possessing false identification documents.Nabil Al-Marabh
Date of birth used: Nov. 6, 1966
Al-Marabh was arrested on an outstanding weapons violation Sept. 19 in Burbank, Ill., just outside Chicago. Sources tell ABCNEWS investigators believe Al-Marabh, who has lived in the United States for 11 years at a number of different locations, including Boston and Detroit, has ties to at least two of the suspected hijackers. The U.S. Customs Service has linked money transfers from Al-Marabh to Raed Hijazi, a suspect in a failed plot to kill American tourists in Jordan during the 2000 millennium celebration. Al-Marabh attended truck-driving school near Detroit and obtained a license allowing him to transport hazardous materials.When agents searched Al-Marabh's apartment in Detroit on Sept. 18, they found notes relating to an airport in Jordan, a diagram of an airport and fake identification badges. Three men — Karim Koubriti, Ahmed Hannan, and Farouk Ali-Haimoud — were arrested at the residence and charged with possessing false identification documents.
Mahmoud Al-Raqqad
Al-Raqqad, 37, is one of three men who were taken into FBI custody in Elizabeth, N.J. following the attacks. The men had $11,000 in cash and one-way airline tickets to Syria. According to The Washington Post, the men were driving a car matching an FBI description of a vehicle connected to the attacks.Yazeed Al-Salmi
Al-Salmi, a Saudi Arabian national, is one of four men arrested the weekend of Sept. 22-23 and who appeared at a federal court hearing in San Diego the week of Sept. 23 as a material witness. He is a student at San Diego State.Osama Awadallah
Awadallah, a Jordanian national, is one of four men arrested the weekend of Sept. 22-23 and who appeared at a federal court hearing in San Diego the week of Sept. 23 as a material witness. He is a student at San Diego State.Mohammed Jaweed Azmath
The 47-year-old is one of two men detained on an Amtrak train by immigration officials in Texas on the day of the attack and subsequently placed under arrest as material witnesses. Azmath, along with Ayub Ali Khan, was found with more than $20,000 in cash and box-cutter knives — the same type of weapon used by hijackers to commandeer the airplanes.
Mohammed Jaweed Azmath (AP Photo)
Omer Bakarbashat
According to San Diego Union Tribune, Bakarbashat is suspected of financially helping three suspected San Diego-based hijackers. He is believed to be a Yemeni national who was living in the United States on an expired student visa. He was arrested over the weekend of Sept. 15-16 for suspected immigration violations and taken to New York on Sept. 19 where he is being held as a material witness.Tarek Mohamed Fayad
According to The Los Angeles Times, Fayad was held at the L.A. County Jail for possible immigration violations and subsequently transferred to a federal detention center for questioning because he was once a roommate of one of the suspected hijackers.Ahmad Hannan
Date of birth used: Aug. 1, 1968
One of three men arrested at Nabil Al-Marabh's Detroit apartment on Sept. 18 and charged with possessing false identification documents. Koubruti, like Al-Marabh and Karim Koubriti, attended a truck-driving school, but never obtained a license to transport hazardous materials, as the other two men did.Ayub Ali Khan
The 51-year-old is one of two men detained on an Amtrak train by immigration officials in Texas on the day of the attack and subsequently placed under arrest as material witnesses. Khan, along with Mohammed Jaweed Azmath, was found with more than $20,000 in cash and box-cutter knives — the same type of weapon used by hijackers to commandeer the airplanes.
Ayub Ali Khan (AP Photo)
Ali Hassan Al Attes Hussein
Date of birth used: Jan. 23, 1978
Hussein was arrested by the FBI in Oklahoma City on Sept. 11, the day of the attacks. He was the roommate of Habib Zacarias Moussaoui.Atallah Fuad Khoury
According to The Associated Press, Khoury is a Palestinian with a pilot's license and was arrested Sept. 18 in Texas. A car rental clerk reportedly told authorities that Khoury told her on Aug. 16 that he was two weeks away from getting his pilot's license and that she should "watch the news."Ahmed Kilfat
Kilfat, 45, is one of three men who were taken into FBI custody in Elizabeth, N.J. following the attacks. The men had $11,000 in cash and one-way airline tickets to Syria. According to The Washington Post, the men were driving a car matching an FBI description of a vehicle connected to the attacks.Karim Koubriti
Date of birth used: Aug. 25, 1978
One of three men arrested at Nabil Al-Marabh's Detroit apartment Sept. 18 and charged with possessing false identification documents. Koubruti attended a truck-driving school and, like Al-Marabh, obtained a driver's license allowing him to transport hazardous materials.Nicholas Makrakis
Makrakis, 27, is one of three men who were taken into FBI custody in Elizabeth, N.J. following the attacks. The men had $11,000 in cash and one-way airline tickets to Syria. According to The Washington Post, the men were driving a car matching an FBI description of a vehicle connected to the attacks.
Habib Zacarias Moussaoui
Zacarias Moussaoui (AP Photo)
Date of birth used: May 30, 1968
The Algerian national had been detained since August and was placed under arrest as a material witness in September. He was taken into custody on immigration charges after raising suspicions at the Pan AM Flight School in Minnesota. Flight instructors said they called the FBI on Aug. 17, after Moussaoui showed up offering cash and asking for lessons on a 747 flight simulator. They said Moussaoui was not interested in takeoffs and landings, only how to fly plane in a horizontal position.Three days after the attacks, he was transferred from Sherburne County Jail in Minnesota to New York City, where he's being held now as a material witness. Law enforcement sources have confirmed he is connected to a top lieutenant of Osama bin Laden. A manual for a crop-dusting plane was found among Moussaoui's belongings.
Herbert Villalobos
Villalobos is one of two Virginia men who has been charged with helping five of the suspected hijackers try to fraudulently obtain Virginia driver's licenses in August. Law enforcement officials suggested Villalobos likely did not know the hijackers, but routinely offered to falsely affirm that people were Virginia residents in exchange for a $100 fee. The other man's identity has not beeen released because he is a confidential witness.'Hazmat' Suspects
Authorities have arrested a number of individuals accused of fraudulently obtaining or attempting to obtain so-called "hazmat" licenses, which allowed them to drive large tanker trucks carrying hazardous materials.Ten individuals were arrested on Sept. 26: Four men — Mustafa Al-Aboody, Haider Al-Tamimi, Hussain Sudani and Ali Al-Azawi, aka Al-Gazawi — were arrested in Seattle; one man, Wather Al-Atabi, was arrested in Kansas City, Mo.; and four people were taken into custody in Detroit. The location of the 10th arrest was not immediately known. Two additional individuals were arrested on Sept. 27: Mohammed Alibrahimi and Ali Alubeidy. Authorities indicated none of the men had ties to the hijackers.
Individuals Arrested or Wanted Outside the United States
Authorities overseas have arrested or detained scores of individuals and are seeking to question hundreds more. Here are some of them:
Djamel Begal
Begal, an Algerian national and a former operative of Osama bin Laden was captured in Dubai in the United Arab Emirates in the summer of 2001. Sources say he divulged the list of intended targets and the identities of other members of the terrorist ring.European Terror Plot Suspects
Authorities in several countries have arrested individuals suspected of involvement in a plot to attack American interests in Europe, including the U.S. Embassy in Paris, the U.S. Consulate in Marseilles, France, buildings at NATO headquarters in Brussels, Belgium and the European Parliament building in Strasbourg, France.Six Algerian men — Mohamed Belaziz, Mohamed Boualem Khnouni, Ocine Khouni, Madjid Sahouane, Yasin Seddiki and Hakim Zerzour — were arrested in Spain on Sept. 26; three individuals were arrested in Britain on Sept. 25; seven men were arrested in France on Sept. 21; five men were arrested in Belgium on Sept. 13, including a Belgian man of North African origin and Nizar Trabelsi, a Tunisian man; four men, including Jerome Courtailler, a Frenchman, were arrested in the Netherlands on Sept. 13 and a fifth was arrested there on Sept. 26.
Britain
Lotfi Raissi
Raissi, 27, was arrested at his flat near Heathrow Airport on Sept. 21, according to the British newspaper The Guardian. He was a licensed commercial pilot and reportedly on the FBI's watch list.Mohammed Raissi
Raissi, Lotfi's brother, was arrested on Sept. 21, but was released later that same day, according to the British newspaper The Guardian.Sonia Raissi
Raissi, 25, was arrested with her husband Lotfi at their flat near Heathrow Airport on Sept. 21, according to the British newspaper The Guardian. She reportedly works for Air France on the customer service desk at Heathrow. Raissi has since been released.Egypt
Aiman Al-Zawahri
Date of birth used: June 9, 1951
Interpol issued an arrest warrant, called a Red Notice, for Al-Zawahri on Sept. 25 at the request of Egyptian authorities. He is described as a "key figure" in Osama bin Laden's al Qaeda terrorist network and is believed to have masterminded several terrorist operations in Egypt.Al-Zawahri entered the United States in 1995 under the name of Dr. Abdel Moez and raised money for victims of the civil war in Afghanistan. Some of the funds are believed to have financed a 1995 terrorist attack on the Egyptian embassy in Islamabad, Pakistan. He is also believed to help establish a group based in Peshewar, Pakistan known as the Islamic Army to Liberate Muslim Holy Sites in 1998.
Al-Zawahri is also known to have lived in Saudi Arabia, Sudan and Yemen.
France
Yves Ekwella, Raymond Loeb and Serge Salfati
According to the British newspaper The Guardian, French police arrested these three men in possession of what investigators believe is uranium-235, a material used in the construction of atomic weapons. The men were also reportedly in possession of airline tickets to Kazakhstan at the time of their arrest.Germany
Al-Sabbagh
Al-Sabbagh (first name unknown) attended school in Germany with suspected hijacker Ziad Samir Jarrah. Al-Sabbagh's room was found empty after the attack.Said Bahaji
Bahaji, 26, is a German citizen of Moroccan descent. A German warrant has been issued for his arrest on "charges of forming a terrorist organization and at least 5,000 counts of murder."Ramzi Binalshibh
Binalshibh, 29, is a Yemeni national wanted on "charges of forming a terrorist organization and at least 5,000 counts of murder."Mamoun Darkazanli
Darkazanli's name is on the FBI watch list as well as the list of individuals and organizations whose financial assets in the United States were frozen by President Bush's Sept. 24 executive order. He owns an import-export business and is a resident of Hamburg.Darkazanli, who was born in Syria, was questioned in 2000 in connection with the investigation into the 1996 bombing of a U.S. military barracks in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. He has admitted involvement in business deals conceived by suspected terrorists who have been linked to Osama bin Laden — including Mamduh Mahmud Salim, who was arrested in Munich in 1998 and believed to have been bin Laden's finance chief.
Italy
Unidentified Suspects
Five Afghan men were arrested on Sept. 24 near the U.S. embassy to the Vatican in Rome. They were carrying a map with an itinerary outlined in pencil, an article from an Italian newspaper about bin Laden, a copy of the Koran, and a document written in English giving instructions of what to do in case of arrest.Two Afghanis were arrested on Sept. 14 in Ventimiglia and are under investigation for a possible connection to bin Laden and terrorist cells in Europe. The two were arrested after Interpol police officers in France alerted Italian authorities the two men were headed for Italy. They are currently being held in a prison in Sanremo, Italy.
According to a report in the Italian newspaper La Republlica, the two men, 26 and 38, were carrying false passports, copies of the Koran, detailed maps of the city of Brussels, audio cassettes in Arabic.
Jordan
Raed M. Hajazi
According to The New York Times, Hajazi, 32, is a former Boston cab driver of Palestinian descent and has ties to two of the suspected hijackers. He is now on trial in Jordan as an alleged in the foiled plot to kill American tourists in the country during the millennium celebration.
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