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Also why the confusion over it being Attas passport.?
I have another question..Did you need to show ID when travelling on domestic flights in the US prior to 911, would foreign nationals have to produce their passports??
I doubt they had US driver’s licenses. Just like any international traveler you should always keep your passport on your person.
A fourth passport was recovered from luggage that did not make it from a Portland flight to Boston on to the connecting flight which was American Airlines flight 11. This is the passport of Abdul Aziz al Omari.
According to flight attendants Amy Sweeney and Betty Ong, who contacted American Airlines during the hijacking, the hijackers had stabbed flight attendants Karen Martin and Barbara Arestegui and slashed the throat of passenger Daniel Lewin. Lewin, an Internet entrepreneur, had served as an officer in the elite Sayeret Matkal special operations unit of the Israeli military. Lewin was seated in 9B, and Suqami was directly behind him in 10B. The 9/11 Commission suggested that Suqami may have stabbed and killed Lewin after he attempted to stop the hijacking. During a four-minute call to the American Airlines operations center, Ong provided information about lack of communication with the cockpit, lack of access to the cockpit, and passenger injuries. She provided the seat locations of the hijackers, which later helped investigators to determine their identities
Originally posted by xstealth
The fire was so hot it was the first case in documented history that they claim the blackboxes were destroyed, yet a specific passport survived and was easily found.
Come on, duhhhhh how can you question that? ;-)
The flight manifest would be a good place to start. The hijackers made no attempt to hide their names, as they knew they were on a suicide mission and wouldn't have to face the consequences. Once the FBI had the names of those involved, it was fairly easy to unravel the whole thing.
Originally posted by msdesertrat
I believe the passport was planted.
However, here is a video describing the shock wave and air movement inside the building after the plane impacted. It attempts to answer your question and makes some interesting points.
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edit on 17-10-2011 by msdesertrat because: fix video link
edit on 17-10-2011 by msdesertrat because: (no reason given)edit on 17-10-2011 by msdesertrat because: embed didn't work, added link
Originally posted by Praetorius
reply to post by LogiosHermes27
The question you should be asking is - how in the hell did they ID the passport as belonging to one of the hijackers, in any honest situation?
Instead of "Hey, I found someone's passport, they probably freaked out and dropped it what with all the planes crashing into buildings and whatnot", it's "Hey, I found one of the terrorist's passport!" Why on earth would they bring this to a news reporter on TV...reeks of fabrication to me.
How on earth does one make that jump - then how does one substantiate it, exactly? Can anyone even point me to where I need to look to see how they proved who the hijackers were, passport issue aside?edit on 10/17/2011 by Praetorius because: (no reason given)
reply to post by roboe
Although we know that Mohammad Atta was using a variation of his name (after all, his full name was Mohamed Mohamed el-Amir Awad el-Sayed Atta
MS. SUSAN GINSBURG: Beginning with passports. Four of the hijackers passports have survived in whole or in part. Two were recovered from the crash site of United Airlines flight 93 in Pennsylvania. These are the passports of Ziad Jarrah and Saeed al Ghamdi. One belonged to a hijacker on American Airlines flight 11. This is the passport of Satam al Suqami. A passerby picked it up and gave it to a NYPD detective shortly before the World Trade Center towers collapsed. A fourth passport was recovered from luggage that did not make it from a Portland flight to Boston on to the connecting flight which was American Airlines flight 11. This is the passport of Abdul Aziz al Omari.
It's widely known that Al Qaeda had some expert document forgers working for them, but there's no evidence that any of the hijackers were using a forged identity.
In addition to these four, some digital copies of the hijackers passports were recovered in post-9/11 operations. Two of the passports that have survived, those of Satam al Suqami and Abdul Aziz al Omari, were clearly doctored. To avoid getting into classified detail, we will just state that these were manipulated in a fraudulent manner in ways that have been associated with al Qaeda.
Originally posted by maythetruthbeknown
reply to post by roboe
Although we know that Mohammad Atta was using a variation of his name (after all, his full name was Mohamed Mohamed el-Amir Awad el-Sayed Atta
Where in the 911 commission report does it say anything about Mohamed Mohamed el-Amir Awad el-Sayed Atta passport or variation of that name???
They weren't using aliases or stolen identities, I haven't a clue where you came up with that one.
Expert: Hijackers likely skilled with fake IDs
FBI Director Robert Mueller has acknowledged that some of those behind last week's terror attacks may have stolen the identification of other people, and, according to at least one security expert, it may have been "relatively easy" based on their level of sophistication.
Resurrected Hijackers
Suicide Hijackers Identified by the FBI Proclaim Their Innocence
It's widely known that Al Qaeda had some expert document forgers working for them, but there's no evidence that any of the hijackers were using a forged identity.
There was some confusion in the early days, before the FBI released their list of suspects, when the media started making their own list of names and photos. One of those named by the media turned out to be an innocent person, who was unfortunate in that he was actually a pilot by profession.
I haven't a clue where you came up with that one
Originally posted by douwa12
This may have been dealt with before but do we know who the woman is who found the passport? Has she been questioned more thoroughly about how and exactly where she found the passport? What is her background? What are her connections?
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was standing in the middle of what were the remains of a passenger aircraft. There were seats and engine parts smashed through car windows everywhere. What seemed to be an engine was embedded into the sidewalk and body parts were strewn all over the street. Then I looked down to my feet and picked up a passport. It was a Saudi passport. It was green with Arabic writing and as I opened it and saw the man's face inside it I felt as if I were looking into the eyes of someone that may have been part of the terror that I was witnessing around me and I later learned that I was right. I passed it off to an FBI agent that was standing a block away on West side Hwy who immediately took it from me. He then instructed me to leave the area but before he could notice, I had run back to the side of the Bankers Trust building determined to help find survivors that may have been hurt in the streets or in the cars. Then my life was changed forever.
If the hijackers were indeed still alive, how come noone has heard from them in the past 10 years?
As in, after the FBI made the photos of the suspects public? Lord knows I'd be proclaiming my innocense from the rooftops if I had been fingered as a suicide hijacker.
ETA: Not to mention, it's hardly surprising that there are people who share the hijackers' names. Presumably the international press went into overdrive, trying to find anyone with that name and getting the first story. I have a fairly unique name full name, and a quick look at the white pages shows that there are at least 6 other persons who share that.edit on 19-10-2011 by roboe because: (no reason given)
" It was a Saudi passport. It was green with Arabic writing and as I opened it and saw the man's face inside it I felt as if I were looking into the eyes of someone that may have been part of the terror that I was witnessing around me and I later learned that I was right...."
Originally posted by NightGypsy
reply to post by waypastvne
" It was a Saudi passport. It was green with Arabic writing and as I opened it and saw the man's face inside it I felt as if I were looking into the eyes of someone that may have been part of the terror that I was witnessing around me and I later learned that I was right...."
This quote by Wozniak is too ridiculous for words.