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Originally posted by kmrod
Or, maybe they're mistaken and that's just a picture of someone else.
Funny how you're claiming that's not him (and it might not be) but the other guys he was traveling with and who helped hijack the plane aren't in question.
www.cooperativeresearch.org...
July 20, 2005
(CNN) -- A surveillance video from Washington's Dulles International Airport the morning of September 11, 2001, shows four of five hijackers passing through security checks before boarding the plane they would crash into the Pentagon.
The US introduces the “Visa Express” program in Saudi Arabia, which allows any Saudi Arabian to obtain a visa through his or her travel agent instead of appearing at a consulate in person. An official later states, “The issuing officer has no idea whether the person applying for the visa is actually the person in the documents and application.” [9/11 Congressional Inquiry, 9/20/02; US News and World Report, 12/12/01]Five hijackers—Khalid Almihdhar, Abdulaziz Alomari, Salem Alhazmi, Saeed Alghamdi, and Fayez Ahmed Banihammad—use Visa Express over the next month to enter the US. [9/11 Congressional Inquiry, 9/20/02]
The real Salem Al-Hazmi, however, is alive and indignant in Saudi Arabia, and not one of the people who perished in the American Airlines flight that crashed on the Pentagon. He works at a government-owned petroleum and chemical plant in the city of Yanbu.
"The Salem Al-Hamzi we have is 26 years old and has never been to the United States," Gaafar Allagany told the Washington Post. "He has said he is willing to come to the United States if anyone wants to see him."
February 2001: Two Hijackers Seen Living in San Antonio with Swapped Identities Complete 911 Timeline
At least six people with no connections to one another later claim they recognize hijackers Satam Al Suqami and Salem Alhazmi living in San Antonio, Texas, until this month. The management of an apartment building says the two men abandoned their leases at about this time, and some apartment residents recognize them. However, all the witnesses say that Suqami was going by Alhazmi's name, and vice versa! [KENS 5 Eyewitness News, 10/1/01] One pilot shop employee recognizes Alhazmi as a frequent visitor to the store and interested in a 757 or 767 handbook, though he also says Alhazmi used Suqami's name. [KENS 5 Eyewitness News, 10/3/01] The apartment-leasing agent also recalls a Ziad Jarrah who once lived there in June 2001 and looked the same as the hijacker. [Associated Press, 9/22/01 (B); San Antonio Express-News, 9/22/01] Local FBI confirm that a Salem Alhazmi attended the nearby Alpha Tango Flight School and lived in that apartment building, but they say he is a different Salem Alhazmi who is still alive and living in Saudi Arabia. [KENS 5 Eyewitness News, 10/4/01] However, that “Salem Alhazmi” says he has never been to the US and has proven to the authorities that he did not leave Saudi Arabia in the two years prior to 9/11. [Washington Post, 9/20/01] The FBI does not explain Satam Al Suqami's presence. Neither hijacker is supposed to have arrived in the US before April 2001.
May be an assumed name; there are reports he is still alive [CNN]
Officials, speaking on condition of anonymity, said they were exploring several possibilities. One was that al-Midhar never entered the country and his name was simply used as an alias by one of the hijackers who died. Another possibility was that he allowed his name to be used on the flight by another hijacker, so that U.S. officials might assume he died, giving him time to escape the country. A third was that he did in fact die in the crash as a hijacker. [Guardian]
Badr Mohammed H. Hazmi, a San Antonio radiologist under arrest as a material witness, has used the alias of Khalid Al-Midhar, who is listed by the FBI as a hijacker on the flight that struck the Pentagon, according to documents distributed to law enforcement agencies. [Washington Post]
Three pictures of Almihdhar shown by the media
Eight days after the planes went down, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. distributed a "special alert" to its member banks asking for information about 21 "alleged suspects" in the attacks. The list said "Al-Midhar, Khalid Alive," raising the possibility that the real Almihdhar never died on the plane. But one Justice Department official called the listing a "typo." [Cox News Service]
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While the FBI's confusion over Arabic names and identities was largely ignored in the American press, each blunder has made huge news in Saudi Arabia, casting doubt on U.S. intentions and convincing many Saudis that their country has been slandered.
"I want to think all this is a mistake," said a bewildered Khalid al-Mihammadi, 24, a computer programmer from Mecca who was named wrongfully in an early list of hijackers released by the U.S. Justice Department. "We are America's friends, and they do this to us. It isn't fair."
Al-Mihammadi, who spent nine months studying English in the U.S., said he was watching television at home when shaken friends saw his photograph on the news and began to call to see if he was still alive. [Chicago Tribune]
After the attacks, reports began emerging saying that al-Mihdhar was still alive. On September 19, the FDIC distributed an official document clearly stating that al-Mihdhar is alive. The Justice Department says that this was a typo.[29][30] The BBC and The Guardian have since reported that there was evidence al-Mihdhar was still alive. This al-Midhar may have been a man with the same name.
Late in 2005, Army Lt. Col. Anthony Shaffer and Congressman Curt Weldon alleged that the Defense Department data mining project Able Danger had kept al-Mihdhar, Mohamed Atta, Nawaf al-Hazmi and Marwan al-Shehhi all under surveillance as Al-Qaeda agents.
The three photographs of al-Mihdhar released by the FBI do not appear to be the same person.
en.wikipedia.org...
Khalid al-Mihdhar has been called an "al-Qaida veteran" by the CIA, and has fought in several major conflicts throughout his life. He was born in Mecca, Saudi Arabia, and in 1995 he went with Nawaf al-Hazmi (another alleged 9/11 hijacker) to Bosnia to join the fight between Muslims and Serbs.
en.wikipedia.org...
Originally posted by The Zodiac
I would like people to take a look at this huge thread started by CatHerder before continuing the discussion, it might change your mind. 142 pages of it discussion...
9/11: A Boeing 757 Struck the Pentagon
Originally posted by The Zodiac
I would like people to take a look at this huge thread started by CatHerder before continuing the discussion, it might change your mind. 142 pages of it discussion...
Been here at this point in this discussion a dozen times in a short ATS career.
Try ATS Search too!
Originally posted by The Zodiac
Don't let this forum be so full of junk like War on Terrorism with more than 10,000 threads.
Originally posted by bsbray11
Originally posted by The Zodiac
Don't let this forum be so full of junk like War on Terrorism with more than 10,000 threads.
Too late.
Every time a new debate on the Pentagon or WTC develops, it is mostly the same things all over again.
Originally posted by Jack Tripper
I thought I just heard you say you flip-flopped again on this issue.
Apparenly you're still learning despite the "rehash"!
Originally posted by Jack Tripper
That crusty old moldy piece of debunked garbage??
Where have YOU been?
Time to take a look at THIS thread:
9/11: A Boeing 757 *DID NOT* Strike the Pentagon
It is also quite easy to read and RIPS CATHERDERS NONSENSE TO SHREDS point by point.
Originally posted by LeftBehind
Perhaps you're convinced by the nonsensical ranting in the Joe Quinn article, but that doesn't mean the rest of us can't bring up the valid evidence presented by Catherder.
Calling people agents and dismissing evidence that you disagree with does not make your information any more correct.
Originally posted by Jack Tripper
Both Merc and I have read that thread inside and out long before we ever joined ATS. He joined and contributed SIGNIFICANTLY to that thread and then I joined in order to participate in the debunk thread.
Originally posted by Jack Tripper
catherder's thread is finished. Done.
Originally posted by Jack Tripper
The info is incomplete and incorrect. It has been thoroughly debunked and catherder doesn't show his/her face in this forum any longer. I can't blame him/her though. I'd hide in shame after posting such blatant misinformation also.
Originally posted by The Zodiac
Kind of like 9/11? It was almost 5 years ago, and the people are long dead. It wouldn't suprise me if the Bush adminstration was involved in another cover-up, the amount of scandals lately isn't even funny, but proving a 9/11 conspiracy isn't as important to me as seeing justification for the 30x that which died in Iraq more recently. Why not try to prosecute the Bush-admin as war criminals for going to war in Iraq under knowingly false pretenses against the approval of the U.N.?
If a drug-dealer kills someone, the crown wants a conviction for murder more than trafficking.
After re-reading my post I can see why you may think I was promoting Catherder. It's not that his info was correct or incorrect but all points that could possibly be discussed, were. The members who are starting these threads are perfectly within their "rights", I just don't understand why so many are needed.
Originally posted by Jack Tripper
This is where you are wrong. 9/11 is the pretext for the iraq war and all of the wars to come in this PERMANENT GLOBAL WAR on terror. They continue to use this pretext to brainwash the minds of the world into accepting their neoconservative agenda and unamerican "doctrine of pre-emption". No real patriot can sit back and allow them to do this when we know that 9/11 was a lie.
You asked so I will tell. It's because that catherder deception has been pushed up to the top of any search that is made for the word pentagon or anything related. This is wrong, dangerous, and shameful. It is pure deception and if you read the debunk that I linked you to first you would know this. Have read the debunk? I hold catherder responsible for causing a rift in the truth movement.Whether it was deliberate or not....that is what happened. Just like they did for "project serpo".
Originally posted by ZeddicusZulZorander
If this was all a government conspiracy, why go to the bother of using a missile or fighter to hit the Pentagon when a 757 would do just fine, make a bigger bang, and there would be no need for a cover-up? Just one question. Should be easy to answer.
Originally posted by Nerdling
Shh! No rational thought allowed. They're all experts.
Originally posted by Zaphod58You can't even get the information about the engines right, but yet you know everything about what happened that day. If you can't even get THAT right, then what ELSE of your "debunking" is wrong. It took me less than a minute to find that info about the engines. Great job of researching that. Notice also that it weighs THREE TONS not six.
Originally posted by 12m8keall2c
Not to hijack the thread, but I obviously gave you much more credit than due.
Troll plain and simple.