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Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2001 17:28:29 -0400
From: Bill Friend <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Subject: [PalestineDiary] Your FBI, CIA, NSA, DIA in inaction.
Report: terror plot in works 5 years
BOSTON, Sept. 14 (UPI) -- Plans for the terror attacks on the United States
may have been in the works for at least five years, the Boston Globe
reported Friday.
The paper also said investigators have evidence indicating some of the
hijackers took advantage of the U.S.'s good relations with Saudi Arabia to
avoid close scrutiny in entering this country to take flight training in
Florida.
At least five of the 10 men who hijacked two jet passenger planes after
takeoff Tuesday from Boston's Logan International Airport and crashed them
into the World Trade Center in New York had ties to Saudi Arabia, an Arab
ally, the Globe said.
One of them, Mohamed Atta, 33, who carried a Saudi passport, was able to get
into the United States despite being implicated in a bus bombing in Israel
in 1986. Atta and his cousin, Marwan Alshehri, 23, should have been denied
visas because the two hijackers had been linked to Islamic extremists when
they studied at the Technical University in Hamburg, Germany, the Globe
said.
Flight instructors in Florida told the Globe it was common for students
linked to Saudi Arabia to get visas to come to the United States for flying
lessons with very little scrutiny or background checks by the State
Department.
"They basically got a free pass," said Globe reporter Kevin Cullen.
Chuck Clapper, who owns Lantana Air charter in Lantana, Fla., said several
Florida flight schools have contracts with Saudi Arabian Airlines, and some
have exemptions from visa checks.
He told the Globe that while some Arab nationalities need to satisfy the
State Department of their suitability to obtain flight instructions in the
United States, "Saudis don't. Iranians do. Libyans do. But the Saudis are
allies, so they don't."
Some of the hijackers had pilot licenses that indicated they were sponsored
or employed by Saudi Arabian Airlines.
While Atta had a Saudi passport, two other hijackers, Waleed Alshehri and
Marwan Alshehri, lived in Saudi Arabia before going to Florida last year for
flight training.
The five hijackers on American Airlines Flight 11, the first to crash into
the WTC Tuesday morning, were identified by sources to the Globe as Atta,
Abdulrahman Alomari, Waleed Alshehri, Wail Alshehri, and Satam Al Suqami.
Those on United Airlines Flight 175, the second plane to crash, were
identified as Fayez Ahmed, Ahmed Alghamdi, Hamza Alghamdi, Marwan Alshehri,
and Mohaid Alshehri.
The Globe said Waleed Alshehri graduated from Embry-Riddle Aeronautics
University in Daytona Beach, Fla., in 1997, and his arrival at the
prestigious flight school the year before indicates the suicide mission was
in the planning stages in 1996 if not earlier.
While officials so far have not been able to find concrete links between the
hijackers and suspected terrorist Osama bin Laden, he is considered by many
to be the prime suspect in the plot.
The Globe also said evidence gathered by investigators in the Boston area
indicates hijackers began casing Logan International Airport as much as a
year ago.
At least eight of the hijackers are believed to have stayed in Boston area
hotels the night before the attack, according to reports.
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