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.
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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.
Almihdhar was named an unindicted co-conspirator in the indictment against Zacarias Moussaoui.
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Nawaf Alhazmi
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.
Nawaf Alhazmi was named an unindicted co-conspirator in the indictment against Zacarias Moussaoui.
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Salem Alhazmi
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.
Salem Alhazmi was named an unindicted co-conspirator in the indictment against Zacarias Moussaoui.
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Hani Hanjour
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.
He was named an unindicted co-conspirator in the indictment against Zacarias Moussaoui.
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Majed Moqed
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.
He was named an unindicted co-conspirator in the indictment against Zacarias Moussaoui.