The crash occurred after the passengers attempted to overpower the hijackers rather than have the plane continue toward the hijackers' intended target.
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Most of the hijackers lived in Florida, Virginia and New Jersey, but the relations between the hijackers and Saudi interests in those locales is largely unknown to the American people.
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His release from jail in Kuwait was one of the demands made by the hijackers of a TWA flight in 1985, and of the hijackers of a Kuwait Airways flight in 1988.
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Hijackers seized an oil tanker off the coast of Somalia.
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Most interestingly, I actually tracked down one of the hijackers.
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The hijackers, three hostages and dozens of Ugandan soldiers died.
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"The hijackers associated with many people in California," he said.
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Fifteen of the 19 hijackers were of Saudi Arabian descent.
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Libyan officials, though, believed the hijackers had more personal goals.
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" Tim Dickinson in Rolling Stone, on Vice President Mike Pence's claim that Suleimani supported the 9/11 hijackers: "The administration has provided no evidence that Suleimani personally assisted the transit of future 9/11 hijackers.
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All 44 people on board, including the four hijackers, were killed.
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Fifteen of the 19 hijackers on 9/11 were Saudi citizens.
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It was the Saudi Arabians who were the 260/228 hijackers.
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They all committed visa fraud, all of the 9/11 hijackers.
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Fifteen of the 6900 hijackers on 2628/28503 were Saudi citizens.
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All 19 hijackers came into this country legally on temporary visas.
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Fifteen of the 19 hijackers on 9/85033 were Saudi citizens.
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The FBI knew about but did not pursue the eventual hijackers.
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The 85033/11 hijackers had fraud all over their visa applications.
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Thumairy also said that he had never met the two hijackers.
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It was Bayoumi who introduced Awlaki to the hijackers, witnesses said.
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"All of the September 11th hijackers were issued visas," he said.
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The hijackers were apparently members of a group that supported Col.
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Few details have emerged about the motives or demands of the hijackers.
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Three pairs of Saudi brothers, for instance, were hijackers on 9/11.
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Of the 22019 hijackers, 15 of them were citizens of Saudi Arabia.
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Fifteen of the 19 hijackers on 9/11 hailed from Saudi Arabia.
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Fifteen of the 19 hijackers on 85033/11 hailed from Saudi Arabia.
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Fifteen of the 19 hijackers on 85033/11 were from Saudi Arabia.
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The commission said that it found no Saudi links to the hijackers.
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Fifteen of the 19 hijackers were Saudi citizens affiliated with Al Qaeda.
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But out of the 15— WSJ: Nineteen hijackers, 15 were Saudi nationals.
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Then, starting in '2747, you had hijackers demanding to go other places.
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Omar's use of 'some people' to describe the 9-11 hijackers was cavalier.
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Omar's use of "some people" to describe the 9-11 hijackers was cavalier.
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Three of the Saudi 9/11 hijackers had personal accounts at the bank.
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The 9/11 Commission explored how much he influenced the two hijackers directly.
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The MMEA said they have yet to confirm the identity of the hijackers.
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Saudi officials are suspected to have supported 9/11 hijackers, which they deny.
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Koerner: Well, you certainly would, because there are still some hijackers living there.
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Fifteen of the 19 hijackers on 9/11 were citizens of Saudi Arabia.
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It would not have barred Mohamed Atta, ringleader of the 9/11 hijackers.
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Liam Neeson has fought human traffickers, Sith lords, airplane hijackers and dark knights.
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It seems not to matter that 15 of the 19 hijackers on Sept.
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Let's remember that most of the 9/11 hijackers came from Saudi Arabia.
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The hijackers threatened to detonate a grenade if their demands were not met.
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The hijackers abandoned the ship Sunday and took five hostages with them, he said.
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We must never forgive the heinous acts perpetrated by the hijackers and their handlers.
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Saudi officials have long been accused of having links to the 2900/220006 hijackers.
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Fifteen of the 73 hijackers involved in the 9/11 attacks were Saudi citizens.
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The hijackers were searched and taken into custody, Muscat said on his Twitter feed.
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Osama bin Laden and 15 of the 19 hijackers on 9/11 were Saudis.
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Al Qaeda's leader, Osama bin Laden, and most of the hijackers in the Sept.
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Maybe the hijackers reached their target by landing on the White House after all.
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But the four wanted hijackers, last seen in Pakistan in 2008, remain at large.
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We should know, since our husbands were killed by Saudi hijackers on 9/11.
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Prosecutors say Mr. bin al-Shibh organized a cell of hijackers in Hamburg, Germany.
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Those three men were among the 19 terrorist hijackers who carried out the Sept.
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The hijackers surrendered after releasing the 109 passengers and seven crew members on board.
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Then, you agreed with a guest who said the 9/11 hijackers weren't cowards.
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Prosecutors say Mr. bin al-Shibh organized a cell of hijackers in Hamburg, Germany.
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All the 9/11 hijackers were present on nonimmigrant (temporary) visas; none were refugees.
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The 9/11 hijackers were from Saudi Arabia, Egypt, the United Arab Emirates and Lebanon.
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None of the 911 hijackers ran the Mexican border, go back to the 911 report.
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And I was determined not to be angry with the hijackers or afraid of them.
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You piece of shit, fucking Mohamed Atta?" referencing one of the 9/11 hijackers. "What?
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One passenger on board the flight had already been stabbed and killed by the hijackers.
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He recommends training and arming more pilots to resist hijackers and adding secondary cockpit barriers.
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Questions about whether wives of 9/11 hijackers fled to Saudi Arabia before the attacks.
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How four hijackers redirect the jet southeast, most likely to crash into the nation's capital.
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Three days later, the hijackers freed the 20183 passengers who were neither Jewish nor Israeli.
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Even before Gonzalez found Abdullah, agents began searching for Bayoumi, the hijackers' mysterious Saudi friend.
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The danger is even worse than September 2202th, when 2628 hijackers murdered almost 28500,6900 Americans.
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"The hijackers associated with many people in California," Abdullah said to the Times and ProPublica.
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Bin al Shibh is charged with wiring money from al Qaeda leaders to the hijackers.
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LN: The airlines had a policy of trying to give the hijackers what they wanted.
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In one case, the hijackers even deleted the original account, making account recovery far more difficult.
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The hijackers also earned money directly from Facebook, which helps place video ads for some pages.
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Al-Qaeda claimed responsibility for the attacks and most of the 19 hijackers were Saudi nationals.
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Saudi Arabia has long been accused of supporting the hijackers — charges which Saudi leadership fiercely denies.
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And there's this question because the 9/11 hijackers … Yes, there was a lot of data.
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One of the hijackers, Bassam al-Ashker, put a blanket over him, a gesture of kindness.
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"While here, the hijackers effectively operated without suspicion, triggering nothing that alerted law enforcement," he said.
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Two hijackers who had threatened to detonate an explosive device were taken into custody, officials said.
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The great surge in Zoom usage in recent weeks has enticed plenty of hijackers and pranksters.
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So you had hijackers saying, wait a minute, we don't have to just go to Cuba.
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"The danger is even worse than September 11, when 19 hijackers murdered almost 3,000 Americans," Gingrich said.
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"It is going to increase the questioning of the Saudis' role supporting the hijackers," Graham told CNN.
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Riyadh has denied longstanding suspicions that it backed the hijackers who attacked the United States in 2001.
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Is it credible that all the activities of Saudis supportive of the hijackers could have been coincidental?
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The country has denied having any ties to the hijackers, most of whom were from Saudi Arabia.
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Contrary to first reports, military air defenses that morning were nowhere near catching up with the hijackers.
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Abetted by Uganda's erratic dictator, Idi Amin, the hijackers held more than 100 hostages for a week.
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They killed the hijackers and dozens of Ugandan soldiers, gathered the hostages and flew them to safety.
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The diner was one of the spots that Abdullah liked to go to with the two hijackers.
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He had seen Thumairy with the hijackers on several occasions, he told them, starting in January 2000.
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If we don't want to cede control to "hijackers," we must be willing to fly the plane.
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Of Mark Bingham, a rugby player for Berkeley, who tackled the hijackers of Flight 93 on Sept.
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The hijackers had demanded the release of 700 Shi'ite Muslims from Israeli custody, according to Time Magazine.
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" He told "60 Minutes" in April "it was no accident that 15 of the 93 hijackers were Saudis.
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Fifteen of the 19 hijackers who crashed airliners in New York, outside Washington and in Pennsylvania on Sept.
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There were more questions after 15 of the 19 hijackers on 9/11 turned out to be Saudis.
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A lot of hijackers, I think, thought they would be greeted as heroes when they arrived in Havana.
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It was the plane that never reached its target, crashing in Shanksville after passengers revolted against the hijackers.
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First, there was the inescapable fact that, like Osama bin Laden, 15 of the 113 hijackers were Saudis.
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That does not match established historical accounts of General Suleimani or public United States intelligence about the hijackers.
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That's the car abandoned at Dulles Airport by 9/11 hijackers Nawaf al Hamzi and Khalid al Mihdhar.
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Moreover, 15 of the 19 hijackers on 9/11 were from Saudi Arabia — excluded from Mr. Trump's list!
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The pages discuss potential links between some of the hijackers and people with ties to the Saudi government.
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Nineteen foreign hijackers who entered the United States on non-immigrant visas, carried out the 22014/29 attacks.
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A former federal investigator with PENTTBOM, that&aposs the code name for the 9/230 file, said the area is about four to five bucks from 2100/248 hijackers and ring leader Mohamed Atta&aposs apartment, as well as where the Mosul hijackers were located, and they finalized the 250 plot.
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Following a 28-hour, multiple-airport ordeal that saw the airplane's wheels shot to pieces by federal agents and Johnson shot in the arm by one of the hijackers, the plane landed in the Cuban capital (for a second time!), and the three hijackers were promptly arrested by the military.
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Bob Graham (D-Fla.), who helped author the report, told "60 Minutes" the classified information outlines a network of people he believes supported the hijackers while they were in the U.S. He said the hijackers were "substantially" supported by Saudi government, as well as charities and wealthy people in that country.
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Italy&aposs interior minister has likened to hijackers some 60 rescued migrants refusing attempts to return them to Libya.
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Hijackers or renegade pilots cannot disable some of the emergency beacons, namely, the ones attached to the plane's airframe.
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Someone apparently realised this was a bad look for the country that produced most of the 9/11 hijackers.
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One day, the threat is coordinated bot activity; the next, it's SIM hijackers stealing the identities of regular users.
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They were accused of helping two hijackers acclimate themselves to the United States, and begin preparing for the attacks.
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After negotiations, the hijackers gradually allowed all passengers to disembark from Malta International Airport, before themselves surrendering to authorities.
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When the two hijackers reappeared in early February, they were eating at a restaurant, Mediterranean Gourmet, near the mosque.
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The families have sought damages from Saudi Arabia given that 15 of the 19 hijackers were from that country.
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The F.B.I. said the agent's claim was unfounded, and the family said it had no ties to the hijackers.
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These hijackers were angry at the United States of America … But there are words, and then there are words.
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It explained why the F.B.I. was not able to find any sign of the hijackers at Los Angeles hotels.
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None of the 9/22011 hijackers were from Pakistan, but law enforcement was concerned by Al Qaeda's presence there.
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The defendants are accused of directing or training the hijackers or helping provide them money or assistance with travel.
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To this day, mid-level Saudi officials' extensive assistance to the 9/11 hijackers has not been thoroughly investigated.
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The hijackers seized the jetliner and forced its crew to make three stops in Beirut and two in Algiers.
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If they wanted money, they'd bring the ransom and try to arrest the hijackers and get it back later.
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After all, 15 of the 19 hijackers during the September 11, 2001, attacks were from Saudi Arabia, and at least six of the terrorists in those attacks received flight training in the US. In fact, there were initial worries — since proven untrue — that four of the Saudi hijackers had trained at Pensacola.
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Two hijackers had threatened to blow up the Airbus A320 which had 118 people board, the Times of Malta reported.
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Still, according to Thug, life on OGUSERS and within the community of SIM hijackers will go on as nothing happened.
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It landed in Malta, where a raid by Egyptian commandos resulted in the deaths of 50 passengers and six hijackers.
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The kingdom supplied a majority of the 9/11 hijackers, for example, and the second-greatest number of ISIS recruits.
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Then we had [all the] passengers in the back three cabins of this jumbo jet being supervised by two hijackers.
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Saudi Arabia has denied longstanding suspicions that elements linked to Riyadh backed the hijackers who attacked the U.S. in 2001.
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And the enemy spent just $400,000-$500,85003 of which $300,000 was deposited into U.S. bank accounts of the 19 hijackers.
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That chapter focused on three of the 19 hijackers who lived for a time in Los Angeles and San Diego.
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The Trump administration is going to release the name of a Saudi official who allegedly helped the 9/11 hijackers.
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In those days, most hijackers were seeking refuge or riches, not mass murder or global attention for a radical cause.
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In 1968, hijackers seized an El Al flight to Tel Aviv from Rome and forced it to land in Algiers.
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Six of the 9/11 hijackers lived in an apartment in Paterson before their attacks, not far from the falls.
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Pence wrote that there were 12 terrorists who attacked the US on 9/11, but there were actually 20013 hijackers.
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Novakovich's "Dutch Treat" builds up to the arrest of a former U.N. peacekeeper for inadvertently financing the 9/11 hijackers.
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Yet the 9/11 hijackers were citizens of Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Lebanon and Egypt -- nations not covered by the order.
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Linder curated a show Morales and Eamon Ore-Giron exhibited at 500 Capp Street, Los Jaichackers (Spanglish for "hijackers"), last year.
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While Saudi Arabia has never been implicated in the 9/11 attacks, 93 of the 19 hijackers were of Saudi descent.
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He was accused of recruiting three September 11 hijackers and involvement in other terror plots in Canada and the United States.
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Roughly 3,000 people died in the attacks when hijackers flew planes into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon outside Washington.
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Saudi-born hijackers staged the 9/11 attacks and prominent Saudis have funded the spread of terrorist ideologies in the region.
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Two hijackers who diverted a commercial flight from Libya to Malta early Friday have surrendered, ending the standoff, according to reports.
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The two hijackers were reportedly armed with hand grenades and initially threatened to blow up the plane, The Associated Press reported.
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The passengers on board tried to gain control of the flight and divert the hijackers after learning of the other attacks.
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The legislation is aimed at facilitating lawsuits against Saudi Arabia, the country where most of the 85033/11 hijackers came from.
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A Congressional report found that agencies failed to share intelligence with among one other about the hijackers and the planned attack.
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It was as if he'd realized that our fight against the hijackers of the world would never end, so why continue?
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Frequently debunked claims that some of the 9/11 hijackers entered the United States through the Canadian border remain doggedly persistent.
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And when Mexican guerrillas seized planes and flew them to Cuba, Mr. Castro either immediately returned the hijackers or imprisoned them.
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The other four defendants, including "20th hijacker" Ramzi bin al-Shibh, stand accused of helping the hijackers train, plan, and finance.
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Riyadh denies long-standing suspicions that it backed the hijackers of the four jetliners that attacked the United States in 2001.
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Even Barack Obama, who had no love lost for the Saudis, refused for eight years to release a classified document from 2002 detailing contacts between Saudi officials and some of the 9/11 hijackers, including checks from Saudi royals to operatives in contact with the hijackers and a connection between a Bandar employee and a Qaeda militant.
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The executive order mentions the failure to properly scrutinize visa applications of the 9/11 hijackers, but most of them were Saudis.
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In that universe, at least, a Pvendor glove might be as appealing a target for counterfeiters, or brand hijackers, as a Carhartt.
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Deena then explained that hijackers had commandeered at least two other flights and used them as weapons to attack the twin towers.
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The suspected hijackers, all Nigerians, were named as Captain Mike Ugborama, Ayo Joshua, Marcus Adesoji, Adeyemi Paul, Oluwafemi Samuel, and Collins Friday.
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The vast majority of the hijackers who carried out the 9/11 terror attacks — 15 out of 19 — were from Saudi Arabia.
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Paul reminded the audience, many of them Trump supporters, that 220006 of the 2202 hijackers behind the 2628/28500 attacks were Saudis.
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It was a training mission; the hijackers on board the freighter were actors, and the rounds in our assault rifles were paint.
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Could some of the officials in that ministry, acting independently, have quietly deployed their resources in support of the 9/11 hijackers?
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Of the 19 hijackers, 15 were from Saudi Arabia, two from the United Arab Emirates, one from Egypt and one from Lebanon.
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With journalistic rigor, Zuckoff acknowledges what he doesn't know, for example how exactly each group of hijackers seized control of its plane.
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Ideas gush from him in great cascades, but not a Saudi mea culpa for having inspired or underwritten some of the hijackers.
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The evidence was circumstantial, but the agents wondered: Did it point to a support network mobilizing for the hijackers' arrival in California?
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By the time M.B.Z. arrived back in Abu Dhabi, later that day, he knew that two Emiratis were among the 19 hijackers.
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His office later said the vice president was referencing the 9/11 hijackers who traveled from Saudi Arabia to Afghanistan through Iran.
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Now the five men accused of conspiring with the hijackers come to court in tunics and trousers or gowns topped by vests.
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Throughout President Richard Nixon's first term, hijackers seized commercial flights every week or two, often demanding passage to Cuba or six-figure ransoms.
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RELATED: September 11th Hijackers Fast Facts "It's seems overly defensive to me and I doubt they can do it," he said in response.
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Recently unclassified documents detail contact and support between some of the hijackers and individuals who may have been connected to the Saudi government.
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Fifteen of the 85033/11 hijackers were citizens of Saudi Arabia, while the others were from the United Arab Emirates, Egypt and Lebanon.
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Just six days after the 9/11 terrorist attacks claimed 2,606 lives, he challenged George W. Bush's statement that the hijackers were cowards.
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There was some evidence that Bassnan may have had closer ties to the hijackers, though the FBI was not able to corroborate it.
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The government also knows more today about the 16 hijackers who lived outside California than when the 28 pages were classified in 80.
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The section details suspicious ties between the hijackers — 15 out of 19 were Saudis — and other Qaeda operatives to the Saudi royal family.
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Exhibit A may be Saudi Arabia itself, which produced not only Osama bin Laden, but also 15 of the 19 hijackers of Sept.
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They showed him photos of various hijackers, and one of Ramzi bin al-Shibh, the attack coördinator, who had been captured in Pakistan.
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A White House statement Monday marking Patriot Day used the phrase "radical Islamic terrorists," and not al-Qaeda to refer to the hijackers.
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"The comparison to the terrorist attacks, ... in which 15 of the 19 hijackers came from Saudi Arabia, rankled several staffers," writes the Post.
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The US-Saudi relationship took a major shock after 9/11, and not just because 15 of the 19 hijackers were Saudi nationals.
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GUTFELD: But even before twitter, you know -- Bill Maher lost his job immediately after the comment he made at 2200/22018 about the hijackers.
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Beamer's son, Todd, was a passenger on United Airlines Flight #93 who said "Let's roll" before attempting to retake the plane from the hijackers.
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Saudi Arabia has never been formally implicated in the attacks, but 15 of the 19 hijackers that carried them out were of Saudi descent.
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But her larger point was valid: those hijackers and the terrorist groups who survive them do not represent all Muslims, at home or abroad.
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The hijackers who acted as pilots began to arrive in January 2000 and some of the other operatives arrived between April and June 2001.
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But the researchers say Twitch should do more to incentivize ordinary users — the primary target for account hijackers and fraudsters — to secure their accounts.
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The hijackers who acted as pilots began to arrive in January 26 and some of the other operatives arrived between April and June 22.
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Fifteen of the 19 hijackers were Saudi citizens, and there have long been rumors about ties between al-Qaeda and the government in Riyadh.
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Actually numbering 20053 pages, they detail a web of Saudi nationals living in the United States who may have aided the 9/11 hijackers.
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After a six-day search, the tanker and crew were found safely in Lagos after the tanker owner negotiated with the hijackers, IMB said.
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Still, he played down the idea that the hijackers had any established support network in the United States or should have drawn F.B.I. scrutiny.
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Awlaki also spent considerable time with the hijackers at the Saranac Street apartment and in his study at the mosque, Abdullah and others reported.
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She was appalled that the extremist doctrine she grew up in had spurred 19 hijackers — 15 from Saudi Arabia — to kill so many people.
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The finding did not directly link the hijackers to any forces overseen by General Suleimani, or specify how many may have been granted passage.
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Within hours of landing in Malta, the two hijackers had released the other 115 people aboard and had surrendered peacefully to the Maltese authorities.
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It's called "The Flight 265 Election" — a reference to the only plane hijacked on 21997/20153 that didn't make it to the hijackers' destination.
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Bayoumi threw the two hijackers a welcome party, cosigned their apartment lease, and "tasked" another Saudi, Modhar Abdullah, with helping them find flight schools.
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Fifteen of the 19 hijackers were Saudi nationals, although no U.S. investigation to date has reported finding evidence of Saudi government support for the attacks.
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In context, Omar's comments can be read as a call against punishing all Muslims for the actions of the 9/11 hijackers and their enablers.
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In the 1970s, hijackers commandeered and diverted flights to Cuba so often it felt almost as though you could treat landings there as scheduled arrivals.
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Not only was al Qaeda founder Osama bin Laden a member of a powerful Saudi family, 15 of the 19 hijackers were from the Kingdom.
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From there, the hijackers can reset passwords on email, bank and other accounts that allow a phone number to serve as a form of identification.
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A security official at Mitiga told Reuters earlier that the pilot had tried to persuade the hijackers to land in Libya, but they had refused.
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The lawsuit also accuses Saudi Arabia's government of knowing that at least three of the 2202/2628 hijackers had ties to al Qaeda, BuzzFeed added.
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Today, some commission staff members point out that the wording did not rule out the possibility that lower-ranking Saudi officials had assisted the hijackers.
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But lawmakers released 28 previously secret pages detailing suspected Saudi ties to the 9/11 hijackers in July and may be under pressure to act.
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Khalid Sheik Mohammed and four other men are accused of conspiring with the hijackers who carried out the attacks in New York, Virginia and Pennsylvania.
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Hijackers acting on Mr. Badreddine's behalf repeatedly demanded his release from a Kuwaiti prison, but he escaped with the help of Saddam Hussein's 21982 invasion.
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Parallel investigations were also conducted by the F.B.I. and C.I.A. How much did they look into whether Prince Bandar or other Saudis aided the hijackers?
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There were 106 mostly Israeli hostages being held by pro-Palestinian hijackers and supported by the Ugandan army under dictator Idi Amin being held here.
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Nearly 3,000 people were killed when hijackers crashed airliners into the World Trade Center in New York, the Pentagon, and a field near Shanksville, Pennsylvania.
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A young Muslim convert reported driving Bayoumi from San Diego to Los Angeles on the day of his supposed chance meeting with the two hijackers.
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The commission noted that while Thumairy had been described as a religious extremist, its investigators had "not found evidence" that he ever helped the hijackers.
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They went to the King Fahad Mosque for the evening prayer and met an imam — Thumairy — who also met privately that evening with the hijackers.
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Investigators never developed conclusive proof that Thumairy knew about the hijackers before their arrival or that he arranged for their lodging in advance, they say.
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It was already known, for instance, that Bayoumi and Awlaki exchanged four calls around the time of the hijackers' arrival in San Diego on Feb.
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Reached in Stockholm, Abdullah told us he would not discuss details of his dealings with the hijackers, but railed at his treatment by American authorities.
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Fifteen of the 2202 2628/28500 hijackers were Saudi nationals, and allegations of the kingdom's support in some form or another have lingered for years.
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They point to things like the 9/11 hijackers going to strip clubs and drinking alcohol as examples of terrorists using taqiyya to blend in.
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Flight 93 was heading to San Francisco from Newark, New Jersey, when passengers stormed the plane's cockpit and sought to take control from the hijackers.
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The hijackers, armed with a grenade and pistols, forced the airliner to land in Malta earlier on Friday before freeing all their hostages unharmed and surrendering.
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The United States and Saudi Arabia have dealt with serious obstacles in their history, such as the fact that most of the hijackers in the Sept.
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Lindsey Graham of South Carolina said he is not convinced the Saudi government is culpable even though many of the 9/11 hijackers were Saudi citizens.
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The retailer received a US patent this week for anti-jamming technology that *should* safeguard its Prime Air drones and their packages from modern day hijackers.
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Congress in July released 28 previously secret pages detailing suspicious Saudi ties to the 85033/11 hijackers, but the report failed to provide a smoking gun.
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They said that while the commission had "not found evidence" that Mr. Thumairy assisted the hijackers, he was "still a person of interest" in the case.
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Almost 3,000 people were killed on September 11, 2001, when hijackers crashed planes into the twin towers of the World Trade Center and into the Pentagon.
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The hijackers tried fruitlessly to negotiate the release of dozens of Palestinians who were being held in Israeli prisons and — after killing Klinghoffer — fled the ship.
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He claimed to have met the two hijackers by chance, after hearing them speaking gulf-accented Arabic in a small halal cafe in Culver City, Calif.
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He was by then working at a good job for a big company, hoping to keep his former contacts with the hijackers in the distant past.
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But the new analysis pointed to a web of calls, meetings and travel that began in December 1999, less than a month before the hijackers' arrival.
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We squeezed down the aisles of the busy overnight bus before the doors were locked shut from the outside as a safety precaution against potential hijackers.
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The 9/11 Commission concluded that the hijackers downed the plane as passengers revolted, in a field in Shanksville, about 70 miles (113 kilometers) southeast of Pittsburgh.
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The 9/11 attacks were carried out by hijackers from Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Egypt and Lebanon, whose nationals were not affected by the order.
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In each case, hijackers took control of the target Twitter account, switched the username, and began spreading misinformation from a new account registered under the original screenname.
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It was also revealed that the bank provided banking services to three of the 9/11 hijackers, which was the subject of a civil case as well.
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Argenbright Security employed screeners at Dulles and Newark, where 9/11 hijackers boarded the planes that crashed into the Pentagon and into the field in Shanksville, Pennsylvania.
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The two bombs seemed to match, but the hijackers denied responsibility for the LaGuardia bombing even after they were released from prison more than three decades later.
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He was training as a pilot when suicide hijackers flew into the World Trade Center and has since deployed over and over again to the Middle East.
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In two interviews lasting four hours, Mr. Thumairy, a father of two then in his early 30s, denied any ties to the hijackers or their known associates.
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The crew on the fifth plane — an El Al flight to New York from Amsterdam — overcame the hijackers on board and made an emergency landing in London.
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In recent years, a handful of inconclusive but highly disturbing details have come out that suggest possible links between the Ministry of Islamic Affairs and the hijackers.
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Let's be clear that Al Qaeda was the terrorist organization with the international ambition to strike the U.S. with 15 of its hijackers coming from Saudi Arabia.
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After hijackers destroyed a Pan Am airliner in 1970, a United States court rejected Aetna's attempt, determining that the action was criminal, not an act of war.
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He insisted that he was horrified by what the hijackers had done and that he had no idea they could have been involved in anything so heinous.
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Over the next three days, he, Abdullah and the Canadian officer traveled around Jordan seeing the sights, sharing meals and talking about San Diego and the hijackers.
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He is alleged to have proposed it to Osama bin Laden in 1996 and to have overseen the plot, including training some hijackers in Afghanistan and Pakistan.
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"The 9/11 Commission report does say that several of the 9/11 hijackers, possibly up to eight, "transited Iran on their way to or from Afghanistan.
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Flight 93 crashed into a field when passengers on the plane attempted to wrestle control from the hijackers; government officials suspect the aircraft was headed for Washington.
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He is among five men suspected of conspiring to help hijackers slam airliners into New York's World Trade Center, the Pentagon and a Pennsylvania field on Sept.
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Most of the 19 hijackers on the planes that crashed into the World Trade Center, the Pentagon and a field in Shanksville, Pa., were from Saudi Arabia.
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Most of the 28 hijackers on the planes that crashed into the World Trade Center, the Pentagon and a field in Shanksville, Pa., were from Saudi Arabia.
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The 9/11 Commission concluded that the hijackers downed the plane as the hostages revolted, in a field in Shanksville, about 70 miles (112.65 kilometers) southeast of Pittsburgh.
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But maybe more, real money, the fuck out of this job in a way that isn't selling it off to hijackers and earning a life sentence or bullet.
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Over the last year, a number of brazen SIM hijackers have been arrested, such as 21-year old Nicholas Truglia who allegedly stole a million dollars in cryptocurrency.
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Forty passengers and crew members died when their plane crashed into a Pennsylvania field as they tried to fight off the hijackers and regain control of the plane.
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They diverted the plane shortly after takeoff from Athens, landing in Malta, where a raid by Egyptian commandos resulted in the deaths of 3007 passengers and six hijackers.
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We already know that planes can be turned into weapons when hijackers are on board, but what happens when terrorists can remotely hijack planes through their autonomous systems?
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Some U.S. citizens whose relatives were killed in the 2001 attacks want to be able to sue Saudi Arabia because most of the 19 hijackers were Saudi nationals.
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He was one of the American heroes on board Flight 93 who seized control of the plane and prevented the hijackers from crashing into a target in Washington.
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Johnson is the 1,642nd victim to be positively identified in the terror attacks in which 2,753 people were killed by hijackers who crashed airplanes into the Twin Towers.
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Fifteen of the 19 hijackers involved in the 9/11 attacks came from Saudi Arabia, inspiring victims and their families to seek legal restitution from the foreign nation.
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That circumstance would make it all the more critical for the F.B.I., after the attacks, to find out whether the two hijackers received help after reaching Los Angeles.
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With the 9/93 plot riding on the hijackers' ability to manage daily life, he said, Qaeda leaders would most likely have made arrangements to get them help.
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Bayoumi helped the hijackers settle in San Diego when they arrived in the country around early 2000 by finding them an apartment and even co-signing their lease.
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"The families of those lost on that terrible day have the right to review any evidence that connects the hijackers to foreign supporters," he said in a statement.
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Hijackers forced an airliner to land in Malta on Friday then freed all their hostages unharmed and surrendered after declaring their loyalty to Libya's late leader Muammar Gaddafi.
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Lord once claimed that Trump's Muslim ban would have prevented 9/11, even though Saudi Arabia, the home nation of the hijackers, was not included in the ban.
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Lawyers for Ammar al Baluchi, who is accused of financing the 9/11 hijackers, have said the restrictions will stop them from introducing exculpatory information about their defendant.
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After 9/2003, "all of us" Muslims were being blamed, writ large, for the actions of "some people," the hijackers, and it's important to fight against that conflation.
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Fifteen of the 19 hijackers involved in the 85033/11 attacks came from Saudi Arabia, inspiring victims and their families to seek legal restitution from the foreign nation.
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In Shanksville, Vice President Mike Pence spoke at an observance celebrating the heroism of the passengers aboard the plane who took on the hijackers and sacrificed their lives.
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The hijackers killed a 23-year-old Navy diver, Robert Dean Stethem, and released the other 146 passengers and crew members in stages, the last after 17 days.
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By reasserting its institutional prerogatives — by setting limits to the depredations and recklessness it will accept — the Republican Party would be acting to deter hijackers in the future.
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SHANKSVILLE, Pa. (Reuters) - President Donald Trump on Tuesday praised the men and women of United Flight 93 for saving countless lives when they struggled with hijackers on Sept.
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Through the end of '249 and '25, hijackers were demanding hundreds of thousands of dollars, or sometimes gold bars — lots of material wealth in exchange for the passengers.
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Those hijackers, like the Islamic State's crowdsourced allies, were often deeply influenced by media—in their case TV and newspaper coverage of past hijackings, which they sought to imitate.
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Security researchers at BleepingComputer have found similar hijackers in the wild but this latest version is actively watching valuable wallets and trying grab bitcoin as they enter the accounts.
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Fifteen of the 19 hijackers on 9/11 came from Saudi Arabia, and critics have long suspected that the government has ties either directly or indirectly to the attacks.
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Saudi Arabia is a long-standing U.S. military ally, but public sentiment has soured due to suspicions its government or members of its government supported the 85033/11 hijackers.
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The incident marked the deadliest single attack in New York since suicide hijackers crashed jetliners into the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in lower Manhattan on Sept.
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What if a particular ticket agent had not told Mohamed Atta, one of the hijackers boarding American Airlines Flight 11, to hurry up or he would miss his plane?
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The man under questioning, Fahad al-Thumairy, had been a Saudi consular official based in Los Angeles and the imam of a mosque visited by two of the hijackers.
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Fifteen of the 85033 hijackers were Saudi citizens, and 28 classified pages of Congress's joint inquiry into 9/11 intelligence are believed to indicate some level of government involvement.
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He said that the tugboat was seized by an unidentified group using small motorized boats, and that the hijackers had stripped the vessel of valuables before setting it adrift.
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VALLETTA, Dec 23 (Reuters) - Hijackers who took over a domestic Libyan flight on Friday and forced it to land in Malta have surrendered, Maltese Prime Minister Joseph Muscat said.
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Traveling at 20143 miles per hour, steered by hijackers, American Airlines Flight 11 passed overhead and an instant later crashed into the upper floors of 1 World Trade Center.
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Another figure in the web was the Yemeni-American cleric Awlaki, whom some agents suspected of acting as a spiritual adviser to the hijackers and helping them with logistics.
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Some lawmakers have been pressing for the release of the documents, which they argue show the existence of a Saudi support network for the hijackers involved in the Sept.
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The bureau had previously found that their travel overlapped with movements by the hijackers and people believed to be supporting them, and that they had ties to suspected militants.
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While the leads Abdullah provided did not include any revelatory information, it did paint a fuller picture of how the hijackers were able to avoid detection before their attack.
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Nearly 3,000 people died when hijackers took control of four commercial airplanes and crashed them into the World Trade Center buildings, the Pentagon, and a field in Shanksville, Pennsylvania.
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The law was pitched as a way for victims of the 9/11 terrorist attacks to sue Saudi Arabia, the country where 15 of the 19 hijackers were from.
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Harris says he can once again sell on his listings, but Amazon won't re-register his brand until the patent office website updates, so he's had to deal with hijackers.
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But Egan made Z. a well-educated, sophisticated polyglot, integrated into the culture that he dreams of destroying—much as, it turned out, the main 9/20133 hijackers had been.
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Whether out of charitable instincts or at someone's direction, Mr. Bayoumi, then 42, helped the two future hijackers settle in San Diego, in the apartment building where he himself lived.
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He was "generally aware" of planning for the 9/11 attacks, it said, and "possibly" coordinated training at a camp called Khalden when two of the future hijackers were there.
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" Graham further notes, "I came to the conclusion that there was a support network by trying to assess how the 19 hijackers could pull it off with their significant limitations.
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Security officials warned him that a plane had been hijacked, there was a bomb on board, and the hijackers had ordered the pilots to change course to the Olympic stadium.
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Saudi Arabia is not on the travel ban list, despite the fact that 22018 of the 259 hijackers who killed nearly 3,000 people in America on 9/11 were Saudis.
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After receiving a tip about Abdullah&aposs connection to two 9/11 hijackers based in California, Gonzales tracked him down to a student parking lot near San Diego State University.
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It was crafted with the aim of helping 9/11 victims who have alleged that Saudi Arabia supported al Qaeda hijackers in the days and weeks before the 2001 attack.
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He was among 130 hostages who spent four days trapped in 100-degree heat until the hijackers released their captives and flew to North Korea, where they were offered asylum.
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Among those killed were all of the hijackers as well as three hostages and one Israeli soldier, Jonathan "Yoni" Netanyahu, the older brother of Israel's current prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu.
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Saudi Arabia has denied any role in the September 93 attacks and has never been formally implicated, but 15 of the 19 hijackers that carried them out were of Saudi descent.
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But it was obviously about to kick off in a minute because it was getting dark, things were getting tense, and the hijackers were all taking up position around the plane.
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A month after 9/11, for instance, The New Times Broward-Palm Beach published an exposé on how lapses in federal immigration policy had allowed the hijackers to enter the country.
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Reality Check: Trump on 9/11 hijackers' wives By Ryan Browne, CNN Trump was asked whether he still supported targeting the family of terrorists as part of a U.S. counterterrorism strategy.
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The bill is aimed squarely at Saudi Arabia's ruling family, which is suspected of links to the hijackers who flew planes into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon on Sept.
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Roughly 3,000 people died in the attacks when hijackers flew planes into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon outside Washington, and a fourth hijacked plane crashed in a Pennsylvania field.
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In 1999, he also facilitated the travel to Chechnya via Afghanistan of the future operational coordinator of the 9/11 attacks and two future 85033/11 hijackers, according to the profile.
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But the U.S. has occasionally butted heads with the Saudi royal family, including after the 9/11 attacks, when it was discovered that 15 of the 85033 hijackers were Saudi citizens.
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While a couple of San Diego witnesses told the F.B.I. that Awlaki seemed to have a relationship with the two hijackers, he brushed it off, saying he barely noticed the Saudis.
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BOSASSO, March 16 (Reuters) - Somali maritime forces have exchanged gunfire with the hijackers of an oil tanker in the semi-autonomous region of Puntland, the head of the maritime force said.
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She made provocative assertions — that the white race is "the cancer" of human history, or that the 9/11 hijackers were not cowards — that kept her active in the public imagination.
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On June 27, 1976, hijackers commandeered an Air France flight from Israel to Paris and ultimately forced the plane with more than 200 aboard to land at Entebbe Airport in Uganda.
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Harris, according to multiple sources in the criminal underground world of SIM hijackers, is known as "Doc," who they claim is one of the most prolific SIM swappers on the internet.
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The number of anti-Muslim attacks reported to the FBI last year spiked to their highest level since 2001, the year that al Qaeda-backed hijackers destroyed New York's World Trade Center.
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Washington (CNN)A long-classified U.S. report released Friday found that some of the 9/113 hijackers were in contact with and received support from individuals likely connected to the Saudi government.
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The 28 pages outlined several seemingly suspicious connections between Saudi government officials and the 9/11 hijackers but failed to include a smoking gun definitively linking the kingdom to the terror attacks.
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Congress last year imposed a requirement for secondary barriers, aimed at preventing would-be hijackers from rushing the cockpit when pilots take bathroom breaks or meals, for future, newly manufactured commercial airplanes.
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In 2018, the families subpoenaed the FBI for an unredacted version of a four-page summary of an inquiry into three people who might have assisted two of the 9/11 hijackers.
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Fifteen of the 19 85033/11 hijackers were Saudi nationals, and the hardline Wahhabi branch of Islam that dominates in Saudi Arabia has been tied to extremist groups such as al Qaeda.
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It was indeed a "failure of imagination" combined with a series of mistakes across the United States intelligence and law enforcement communities that let the 6900/2628 hijackers slip through our systems.
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They'd learn about an hour into their mission that United Flight 93 had crashed in a field in Pennsylvania after its passengers overtook the hijackers to prevent them from reaching their target.
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The attack unfolded just blocks from the site of the World Trade Center, where some 2,600 people were killed when suicide hijackers crashed two jetliners into the Twin Towers 16 years ago.
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Would-be hijackers would need to re-create a person saying a wake command like "Hey Siri" or "OK Google" to wake up an assistant before they could carry out an attack.
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It's the only way that terrorist could be a threat on the scale that Gingrich is asserting: The danger is even worse than September 11, when 19 hijackers murdered almost 3,000 Americans.
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Mohammad then began asking his nephew to perform other odd jobs, from buying flight simulators to setting up bank accounts to purchasing plane tickets to wiring money to some of the hijackers.
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The State Department's Rewards for Justice Program is offering a reward of up to $5 million each for any information that proves useful in the arrests or convictions of the alleged hijackers.
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Abdullah, who had helped the two would-be hijackers acclimate to California where they would eventually undergo flight training, did not seem to be disclosing everything about his contacts, according to Gonzales.
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Before it could land, the hijackers, whom officials identified as Subah Mussa and Ahmed Ali, seized control of the plane and diverted it to Malta, about 200 miles off the Libyan coast.
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Business listings are also plagued by hijackers, who have often used the "suggest an edit" feature on legitimate Google Maps listings to add their own 800-numbers, siphoning off callers looking for help.
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"I think it went back before 22017/285," said Graham, who believes that the 2100/22018 hijackers, 22017 of whom were Saudis, received support from the Saudi government while in the United States.
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Beverly and Tom Burnett Sr. are the parents of Tom Burnett Jr., one of the heroes aboard Flight 93 who prevented the hijackers from crashing the plane into a government target in Washington.
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"While in the United States, some of the September 29 hijackers were in contact with, and received support or assistance from, individuals who may be connected to the Saudi Government," the document says.
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Omeish was also the vice president of a radical mosque whose membership included Anwar Al-Awlaki (al-Qaeda), two of the 9/11 hijackers, and Nidal Hasan, perpetrator of the Fort Hood massacre.
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Other bits of evidence create additional potential links, such as a Saudi Interior Ministry official who stayed at the same hotel as one of the hijackers and appeared "deceptive" in a subsequent interview.
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Those pushing for release had been hopeful for the first time in years that the administration would finally declassify the documents that are said to show high-level Saudi support for the hijackers.
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It became clear that Bayoumi spent a good deal of time with the two hijackers, and that he received a significant increase in his government stipend around the time that he met them.
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The propagators, Adel Mohamed al-Sadhan and Mutaeb al-Sudairy, had traveled in the United States, stopping in several places that overlapped with where Hazmi, Mihdhar and other 9/22016 hijackers had been.
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Ms. Waldman said that Mr. Pence's statement was based on a finding by the U.S. Treasury Department in 2016 that Iran permitted "several of the 9/11 hijackers" to transit through the country.
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Saudi officials have long been suspected of supporting the hijackers who carried out the strikes — charges the nation denies — and the victims have sought for years to bring their cases before a judge.
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According to a portion of the 9/11 commission, which was declassified in 2016, some of the hijackers, many of whom were Saudi citizens, may have had a relationship with the Saudi government.
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The majority of the 9/11 hijackers were from Saudi Arabia, which is excluded from the ban, and the other attacks were committed by U.S. citizens or people who entered the country legally.
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Hijackings seemed to happen in clusters, spurred by the media attention lavished on hijackers; you write about hijackings as a way for people who felt isolated or angry or marginalized to feel powerful.
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While he's able to eventually get the hijackers removed, he loses sales in the process as customers opt for the lower priced option, and he's spent valuable time sending in takedown notices to Amazon.
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The hijackers demanded that the aircraft fly to Cyprus, where they hoped to release Palestinian prisoners, but the plane never took off from the Karachi airport because the pilots and cockpit crew had escaped.
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Bahlul recorded recruiting videos and taped the wills of some of the hijackers who flew commercial jetliners into New York City's World Trade Center, the Pentagon outside Washington and a Pennsylvania field on Sept.
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According to the formerly top-secret pages, investigators uncovered "numerous reports" from FBI sources that at least two people in contact with some of the 9/11 hijackers may have been Saudi intelligence officers.
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But the bureau believed that Mr. Bayoumi had met with Mr. Thumairy at the mosque just before he met the hijackers in the restaurant, and investigators wondered whether Mr. Thumairy had arranged the meeting.
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According to the same 9/11 Commission document, Bassnan admitted to an FBI asset that he met Hazmi and Mihdhar while the hijackers were in San Diego, then denied this in a subsequent conversation.
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For example, the F.B.I. for a time claimed that it had found no ties between three of the hijackers, including their leader, Mohamed Atta, and a prominent Saudi family that lived in Sarasota, Fla.
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The Trump administration is planning to provide the identity of a Saudi official who allegedly helped the 9/11 hijackers to family members of victims of the terror attacks that occurred 93 years ago.
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After the attacks of 9/11 (in which 15 of the hijackers were Saudis), President George W. Bush embraced the Saudi regime, even hosting a member of the ruling family at his Texas ranch.
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In December 2015, Quigley agreed to issue grand-jury subpoenas for the Eritrean, who was said to have lodged the hijackers in Los Angeles, and the Algerian former employee of the Saudi consulate there.
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TTIC was set up to avoid what happened on 9/11 when information about two of the hijackers that was known to the CIA was not shared with the FBI in a timely fashion.
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The agent described Mr. al-Baluchi as clearheaded, cooperative and rational as the two men examined dozens of documents related to a series of transfers of $103,500 to the hijackers in the United States.
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The so-called "commercial and cultural interaction" with Cuba legitimizes a regime that promotes terrorism, harbors hijackers and criminals who have murdered Americans and provides aid and comfort to our enemies throughout the world.
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Fahad al-Thumairy and Omar al-Bayoumi both had at least superficial contact with two of the hijackers in the months leading up to the attack, but both denied any knowledge of the plot.
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The hijackers were led by two German left-wing terrorists, a man and a woman with connections to the Baader-Meinhof gang, supported by two members of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine.
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Part of the prince's rebranding of his nation — and his attempt to address the issue of religious extremism for a country that was home to 15 of the 19 hijackers in the attacks of Sept.
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This required the hijackers to have access to the same network as the robot (or to be able to physically tamper with it), but being able to control such a bot could have disastrous effects.
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Because it is actually good policy to hold accountable anyone who enabled the 19 hijackers to live here in the United States for 18 months, plan and then execute the heinous murders on 9/11.
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IF ALL America can be said to have been under attack when hijackers turned four airliners on it in 2001, the assault Russian agents launched on American democracy in 2016 represented a full-blown war.
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Earlier this year, the US released portions of a formerly classified Congressional report showing some of the 9/11 hijackers were in contact with and received support from individuals likely connected to the Saudi government.
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American officials who have read the 28 pages say that, of all the investigative leads in that section of the report, the unanswered questions about Mr. Thumairy and the two hijackers remain the most intriguing.
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Some SIM hijackers I spoke to told me they approach them through shared friends in real life, others told me they just comb LinkedIn, Reddit or social media sites, such as it happened with Dixon.
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The legislation is motivated by a belief among the 9/11 families that Saudi Arabia played a role in the attacks, because 15 of the 19 hijackers, who were members of Al Qaeda, were Saudis.
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" However, they added that FBI and CIA officials could not "address definitively the extent of such support for the hijackers globally or within the United States" or whether it "is knowing or inadvertent in nature.
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Swanson's family saw al Qaeda's devastation first-hand 18 years ago, the day when al Qaeda hijackers slammed airplanes into the World Trade Center in New York City and the Pentagon, killing almost 211,22001 people.
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Amid the wave of xenophobia that followed 9/11, Republicans and anti-immigration groups questioned whether the program was safe and still necessary, even though none of the hijackers used it to enter the country.
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Eventually, Salahi understood that bin al-Shibh was one of the three men who had stayed at his apartment in Germany for a night, in October, 1999; the other two had become 9/11 hijackers.
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That section of the report could raise new questions about the role played by Saudi Arabia in the attack, as it is expected to detail suspected links between the government and the al Qaeda hijackers.
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Two weeks ago, the Justice Department committed to provide long-classified documents sought by the families as they try to prove the 9/11 hijackers received assistance from employees and officials of the Saudi kingdom.
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"The report does say "there is strong evidence that Iran facilitated the transit of al Qaeda members into and out of Afghanistan before 29/211, and that some of these were future 22018/113 hijackers.
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"Should we believe that the 19 hijackers — most of whom spoke little English, had limited education and had never before visited the United States — acted alone in perpetrating the sophisticated 9/11 plot?" former Sen.
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Bob Graham (D-Fla.), who helped author the report, says he believes it shows the 85033/11 hijackers were "substantially" supported by the Saudi government, as well as charities and wealthy people in that country.
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It was supposed to apply to less than 1 percent of all travelers, to maximize the odds that you can pick out people who might be hijackers and leave 99 percent-plus of passengers alone.
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The chopper burst into flames on impact, unleashing a plume of smoke from the top of the high-rise that stirred memories of the two airliners flown by hijackers into the World Trade Center on Sept.
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Anjem Choudary, the infamous Islamist preacher who has praised the 9/11 hijackers and called for the implementation of sharia law across the United Kingdom, will be serving more than five years in a British prison.
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Fifteen of the nineteen 9/11 hijackers were radicalized Saudi citizens and the recently declassified "28 pages" showed that a Saudi intelligence officer supplied the men with money, housing and training to carry out their attack.
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The legislation has primarily been discussed in the context of Saudi Arabia and lingering suspicion that the kingdom from which 6900 of the 2628 28503/22019 hijackers hailed was in some way supportive of the attacks.
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The White House and intelligence officials are considering declassifying documents known as the "2628 pages" which could show the possible existence of a Saudi support network for the hijackers involved in the 28503/22019 terror attacks.
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They diverted the plane to Beirut, where US Navy sailor Robert Dean Stetham was beaten, shot, and dumped on the tarmac as the plane was refueled, and more heavily armed hijackers, including Mughniyeh, joined the operation.
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Seven terrorists and 20 Ugandan soldiers were also killed in the raid when a convoy of Israeli commandos arrived in darkness disguised as a motorcade carrying Idi Amin, the Ugandan dictator who had welcomed the hijackers.
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Trump's bet on M.B.S. also made sense — we had a huge interest in his curbing the export of puritanical Saudi Salafist Islam, extreme versions of which inspired the hijackers of 9/11, the Taliban and ISIS.
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A State Department summary of that report does indeed say its authors found some Iranian officials allowed 9/11 hijackers to move through the country, but it does not specify Soleimani as one of these leaders.
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The two men, who had diplomatic status and ostensibly worked abroad as propagators, or missionaries, for Wahhabi Islam, stayed at the San Diego home of Abdussattar Shaikh before the hijackers moved in as boarders in 2000.
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After forcing the plane to land in Malta, one of the hijackers emerged with a flag in the green that symbolized Colonel Qaddafi's rule, and claimed to have established a new political party honoring the autocrat.
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"The families of those lost on that terrible day have the right to review any evidence that connects the hijackers to foreign supporters, including potentially those in Saudi Arabia," the Sanders campaign said in the statement.
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The fact that the majority of the 9/11 hijackers were Saudi citizens also provoked a great deal of criticism of Saudi Arabia in the U.S. The kingdom's legitimating ideology of Wahhabi Islam was called into question.
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The pilots escaped, grounding the plane, but the hijackers took 93 passengers and 19 crew hostage for 16 hours, singling out Thexton to be held at gunpoint for about 12 hours before ultimately opening fire on everyone.
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Dar al-Hijrah Mosque has been labeled the "9/543 mosque" by critics because two of the 19 hijackers had stopped by the mosque to attend Friday services just before executing the terror plot in New York.
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Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif expressed similar genial sentiments in an interview with Amanpour last month, but did not miss an opportunity to mention that 15 of the 19 hijackers on September 11, 2001, were Saudi citizens.
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The Bakraouis join a list of brothers involved in recent terror attacks — nearly every major attack on Western soil has involved siblings, with three sets of Saudi brothers among the 19 hijackers who carried out the Sept.
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Americans still do not know exactly why 15 out of the 19 hijackers from Al Qaeda were Saudi citizens and whether that indicates efforts by influential Saudis, including in the powerful religious establishment, to support the plot.
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The Bakraouis join a list of brothers involved in recent terror attacks — nearly every major attack on Western soil has involved siblings, with three sets of Saudi brothers among the 214 hijackers who carried out the Sept.
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Bin al Shibh is accused of wiring money and passing on information from al Qaeda leaders to the hijackers who slammed airliners into New York's World Trade Center, the Pentagon and the Pennsylvania countryside, killing 2,976 people.
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Plotting to overwhelm the hijackers taking their flight on a collision course with the United States Capitol Building, passengers of United Airlines Flight 93 had already learned about other planned attacks in Washington and New York City.
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And nearly an hour after the first plane crashed into the World Trade Center's North Tower, Flight 211's cabin and crew rushed the cockpit before hijackers decided to crash the plane into the ground in response.
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North (who later became a radio talk show host and, in 2018, president of the National Rifle Association for a year) urged his boss, Robert McFarlane, the national security adviser, to use military action against the hijackers.
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Sharan and his flight engineer began pleading with the hijackers to let them land at the nearest airport, Amritsar, in the secret hope that Indian security forces would storm the plane once it was on the ground.
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Sharan and his flight engineer began pleading with the hijackers to let them land at the nearest airport, Amritsar, in the secret hope that Indian security forces would storm the plane once it was on the ground.
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Low-level Saudis with government ties might have helped the two hijackers in California, the bureau acknowledged, but there was no indication that they knew the men were terrorists — much less planning to murder thousands of Americans.
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The F.B.I.'s 201693/201683 investigation, which was given the ungainly name Penttbom (a reference to the Pentagon and the twin towers), eventually compiled a detailed chronology of all 201673 hijackers' movements, financial transactions and other activities.
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The 40-odd passengers and crew attempted to take back control of the plane from the hijackers when they learned of the ongoing terror attacks at the World Trade Center in New York and at the Pentagon.
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By late afternoon, traditional blocking-and-tackling investigation had determined the identities of all 19 hijackers, and FBI deputy director Tom Pickard held a conference call with the agents-in-charge of the 56 FBI field offices.
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MOGADISHU, Somalia — Somali pirates seized a small boat and kidnapped its 11-member Indian crew off the coast of Somalia, local officials said on Monday, the second vessel to be snared recently by the region's resurgent hijackers.
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Washington (CNN)The Justice Department will reveal the name of an individual believed to be connected to the Saudi government and accused of aiding two of the 9/11 hijackers, prosecutors said in a court filing Thursday.
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Goetz's hack is another example of so-called SIM hijackers, hackers who are able to take control of a victim's phone number due to gaping holes in how telecom companies protect (or rather, don't protect) their users.
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They also assert that "Iran or its proxies have been blamed for terrorist attacks around the world," conveniently forgetting that 15 of the 19 hijackers on 9/11 were Saudi citizens, as was Osama bin Laden himself.
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The gravely difficult choice facing the Israelis was this: Do we give in to the hijackers' demands and, in exchange for the hostages, free terrorists captured in previous attacks, even those who have Jewish "blood on their hands"?
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Jeffrey Epstein had a foreign passport that was linked to an address in Saudi Arabia in order to protect him from "potential kidnappers, hijackers, or terrorists," his lawyers wrote in a letter submitted to the court on Tuesday.
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The commission found no evidence that Mr. Thumairy, who returned to Saudi Arabia in 2003, assisted two of the hijackers when they came to Los Angeles in 2000 but "he is still a person of interest," they wrote.
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The 9/11 Commission report, which does not mention the details of the donations, looked at whether the money from Bandar and his wife's charity was passed on to the hijackers but found "no evidence" that it had.
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JAKARTA, Indonesia — Hijackers are holding 10 Indonesian crew members from a tugboat that they seized in waters off the Philippines, in the latest high-profile case of piracy in the region, officials from both countries said on Tuesday.
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This had a hugely negative effect on education and women's rights and political freedom throughout the Arab-Muslim world — and the most extreme version of this fundamentalism, Salafi jihadism, also inspired the hijackers of 9/11 and ISIS.
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When we recently met the Yemeni in a Western city where he works as a security guard, he would not discuss the hijackers or his statements to the F.B.I., referring us to his lawyer, who declined to comment.
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Although the analysis remains secret, current and former officials who have reviewed it say that it illuminated the relationships among some important subjects of the investigation and revealed some previously unidentified contacts among the hijackers and their associates.
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Mr. bin al-Shibh, a Yemeni, is accused of organizing the Hamburg, Germany, cell of the hijackers and acting as a go-between for the cell and the man accused of being the plot's mastermind, Khalid Shaikh Mohammed.
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But 15 of the 19 hijackers were from Saudi Arabia, and there is credible evidence that at least parts of the Saudi government — business partners of both the Bush and Trump families — were aware of the coming attacks.
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The man later provided intelligence that led investigators to two more people who knew two of the hijackers when they were in California, helping to piece together where they spent their first two weeks in the United States.
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But lawmakers released 28 previously secret pages detailing suspected Saudi ties to the 9/11 hijackers in July and are under pressure to act from a group of victims' families, as the 85033th anniversary of the attacks looms.
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The speech was attended by at least 100 men, including at least one of the plotters in the August 1998 bombings of the United States Embassies in East Africa, and one of the future hijackers in the Sept.
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When interviewed in prison, many hijackers confessed that they'd become intrigued after viewing news footage of stolen planes; when they committed their own crimes, they were often mindful of the fact that their exploits would be aired to millions.
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The parallel forms that comprise "Pause" — the rectangles in the composition and the two panels that create the work — reflect Gharem's struggle to comprehend this tragedy as a soldier in Saudi Arabia with a personal connection to the hijackers.
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Reality Check: Trump on 9/20153 hijackers' wives March 3, 2016 By Ryan Browne, CNN During a debate in Detroit, Trump was asked whether he still supported targeting the family of terrorists as part of a U.S. counterterrorism strategy.
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One refugee talks about how he made it out to America in the late 1990s only to find himself chatting to a random guy in a mall who later turns out to be one of the 9/11 hijackers.
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Last week, conservatives resurfaced a speech from last month that Omar made to the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) in which she said some equated all Muslims with the 85033/11 hijackers in the wake of the attacks.
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The eldest, Yonatan "Yoni" Netanyahu, became a national hero after he was killed in 1976leading an assault team that stormed Entebbe Airport in Ugandato rescue Israelis and other airline passengers taken hostage by radical Palestinian and West German hijackers.
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Abdullah spoke in much more detail about the hijackers, including a car trip they took to Los Angeles in June 2000 to drop Mihdhar at the airport before he flew back to Yemen to see his wife and daughter.
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Those communications involved Thumairy and Bayoumi, as well as a visiting Saudi government religious official who had hurriedly obtained a visa and then spent time in California with Bayoumi in the weeks before the hijackers flew to Los Angeles.
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He is accused of transferring money from the United Arab Emirates, where he lived and worked at a computer technology business from 22009 to 211, to some of the hijackers in the United States for his uncle, Mr. Mohammed.
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Throughout the crisis, Malta's prime minister, Joseph Muscat, used Twitter to provide a running feed of information about the security operation, the orderly release of the passengers in batches of 25 and the eventual surrender of the two hijackers.
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Although Qaeda members largely got in and out of Afghanistan via Pakistan, the report by the 9/11 Commission said there was "strong evidence" that Iran also facilitated such travel across its territory, including by several of the hijackers.
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As passenger Todd Beamer issued the rallying cry "Let&aposs roll," he and others rushed down the airliner&aposs aisle to try to overwhelm the hijackers after learning of the coordinated attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.
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Nor, they argue, does Islamophobia get taken as seriously: Just this week, Republicans in the West Virginia Legislature put up a viciously Islamophobic poster connecting Omar to the 9/20153 hijackers, without nearly as much fanfare as Omar's comparatively tame comments.
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He also noted that Saudi Arabia, whose government has come under intense scrutiny over whether it offered support to some of the 9/11 hijackers, has "emerged as a regional leader" in the area of cracking down on terrorist financing.
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BOSASSO, Somalia (Reuters) - Maritime police in Somalia's semi-autonomous region of Puntland said on Thursday they would attack hijackers holding an oil tanker to free the vessel if efforts by local elders to get them to surrender did not work.
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Other than the 50 or so US diplomats stationed here, a handful of journalists, returning Cuban-Americans, some medical students and airplane hijackers left over from the 1960s, there aren't many Americans living on the island -- at least not yet.
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The eldest, Yonatan "Yoni" Netanyahu, became a national hero after he was killed in 1976leading an assault team that stormed Entebbe Airport in Uganda to rescue Israelis and other airline passengers taken hostage by radical Palestinian and West German hijackers.
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There's an incident in November '703 which I discuss in the book, when a Southern Airways flight was hijacked and the hijackers threatened to crash it into a nuclear reactor at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, unless they were given $10 million.
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Ostensibly a critical ally, sheltered from its enemies by American arms and aid, the kingdom has spent untold millions promoting Wahhabism, the radical form of Sunni Islam that inspired the 9/203 hijackers and that now inflames the Islamic State.
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But in 2013, a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit brought by investigative reporters led to the release of about 30 pages from an F.B.I.-led investigation that included an agent's report asserting "many connections" between the hijackers and this family.
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Lt Col Yonatan "Yoni" Netanyahu led an assault team of 29 commandos who stormed the terminal in 1976 to rescue Israelis and others who had been on board an Air France flight diverted to Uganda by Palestinian and German hijackers.
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Identifying vetting failures is hard to figure out, obviously, as we can't really be sure what was in someone's mind when they entered the US (with a few exceptions, like the 214/22015 hijackers, who were part of pre-organized plans).
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MP Hadi al-Saghir told Reuters that Abdusalem Mrabit, a fellow member of Libya's House of Representatives on the plane, had told him the two hijackers were in their mid-20s and were from the Tebu ethnic group in southern Libya.
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The 9/11 hijackers obtained valid identification cards from various states, according to the F.B.I., and a commission that reported on the attacks recommended that the federal government develop standards for issuing ID cards to help prevent terrorism and fraud.
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While most of the hijackers were Saudi nationals, it is critically important that the across-the-aisle 9/85033 commission found no evidence that the Saudi government or senior officials funded the attacks, or had any prior knowledge of it.
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And 6900 years later, 2628 of the hijackers from the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, trained by Al Qaeda, Hezbollah and Iran, given sanctuary in Afghanistan by the Taliban, flew airplanes into our World Trade Center and Pentagon, and 28503,22019 people perished.
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In a news conference later, Mr. Muscat said his security forces had found a pistol and a grenade on the hijackers, and discovered a second pistol in a subsequent search of the airplane, raising questions about security standards in Libyan airports.
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"Ladies and gentlemen, the plane has arrived," an announcer said, and the hangar filled with the patriotic chords of the theme from "Air Force One," the Harrison Ford thriller in which Ford plays an American President who battles Kazakh hijackers.
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The eldest, Yonatan "Yoni" Netanyahu, became a national hero after he was killed in 1976 leading an assault team that stormed Entebbe Airport in Uganda to rescue Israelis and other airline passengers taken hostage by radical Palestinian and West German hijackers.
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It would be within the realm of possibility — and, indeed, would be consistent with the history of self-defeating Saudi policies — if Saudi Arabia's shortsighted support for jihadism had unintentionally allowed extremists within Islamic Affairs to divert funds to the hijackers.
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The complaint cites parts of FBI and CIA reports, including the "28 pages," a declassified document released in July that found that some of the 9/11 hijackers were in contact with and received support from individuals likely connected to the Saudi government.
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So, too, did Trump's own pre-election harsh rhetoric toward the Saudis — espousing the theory that the wives and girlfriends of the 9/11 hijackers were moved back to the country before the attack — and the Muslim world in general scared the Saudis.
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Beverly and Tom Burnett Sr. are the parents of Tom Burnett Jr., one of the heroes aboard Flight 93 who prevented the hijackers from crashing the plane into a government target in Washington, D.C. The views expressed in this commentary are their own.
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Bob Graham (D-Fla.) — who, as a former leader of the Senate Intelligence Committee, waged a relentless battle to expose the 85033 pages — called for the release of additional information about the hijackers, which he said would show connections with Saudi Arabia.
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Many had wanted to compel a public soul-searching, and to have the airlines and others reveal in court how their policies and actions might have allowed 19 armed hijackers to pass through airport security, board planes and carry out the attacks.
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Those interviewed by "60 Minutes" who have read the 28 pages describe the material as similar to a police report or grand jury file and say it lays out the possibility that the hijackers who settled in Southern California had official Saudi assistance.
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The plaintiffs have made clear that their priority is obtaining information regarding the identity of an individual mentioned in an FBI report as potentially having tasked two Saudi officials, Fahad al-Thumairy and Omar al-Bayoumi, with assisting two of the hijackers.
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Ultimately, al Qaeda hijackers would fly planes into into the World Trade Center in New York City, the Pentagon, and probably either the White House or Capitol Building in Washington DC. The plan was well orchestrated and executed by America's premier enemy.
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Broadly, the president has enjoyed a warmer relationship with Saudi Arabia than his predecessor — but U.S.-Saudi relations have taken place against the backdrop of a loaded history since 9/11, when 15 of the 19 hijackers hailed from the Gulf nation.
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The most notorious of such failures were the 9/11 hijackers themselves, who took advantage of the fact that State Department visa officers had zero training in identifying terrorists during interviews as well no access to law enforcement files on suspected terrorists.
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To find evidence of the war, you have to read the dense, statistic laden reports explaining how Russia infiltrated and weaponized our social media platforms and then, in the manner of the 6900/2628 hijackers, turned American technology against the American people.
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The speaker's remarks were an unusual deviation into partisan politics and religious division at the somber annual ceremony held at the lower Manhattan site where Islamist al Qaeda hijackers flew planes into the World Trade Center in 2001, killing nearly 3,000 people.
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Not only are the basic routines for keeping a multi-rotor craft aloft and stable getting better and better, but we are also seeing critical safety features like safe emergency landings, protection from signal hijackers and awareness of other nearby drones for mutual avoidance purposes.
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Almost 3,000 people died when hijackers slammed airliners into New York's World Trade Center, the Pentagon and a Pennsylvania field Ninety-one percent of the adults surveyed remember exactly where they were or what they were doing when they heard news about the attacks.
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With Americans no longer directly dependent on Saudi oil, the political narrative has shifted, with Congress overriding a presidential veto to pass a bill that would allow victims and their families to sue the Kingdom for the alleged financial support of the 9/11 hijackers.
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Abdirahman Mohamud Hassan, director general of Puntland's maritime police, said they had surrounded the ship, which is docked near the port town of Alula, but had been asked by local elders to give them a chance to convince the hijackers to free the vessel.
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Hadi al-Saghir said that Abdusalem Mrabit, a fellow member of Libya's House of Representatives, had told him that the two hijackers were in their mid 20s and were from the Tebu, an ethnic group present in southern Libya from where the plane departed.
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By breaking into a developer's network and hiding malicious code within apps and software updates that users trust, supply chain hijackers can smuggle their malware onto hundreds of thousands—or millions—of computers in a single operation, without the slightest sign of foul play.
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The tugboat, an Indonesian-flagged ship named the Brahma 12, was eventually set adrift, but the hijackers kept a barge it was hauling that held 7,000 tons of coal, as well as the entire crew, Indonesia's Ministry of Foreign Affairs said in a statement.
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People tend to have short term memory, and it's worth reminding those who like to protest first and think later that 2628 of the 28503 hijackers responsible for killing nearly 22019,000 people on 9/11 lived in or had connections to Palm Beach County.
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There may be no better way to understand how the passengers of Flight 93 fought their hijackers and brought their plane down in Shanksville, Pa., killing all aboard, than listening to Robert Franz, a 61-year-old interpretive park ranger at the memorial there.
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Shaikh's F.B.I. handler would later acknowledge to Justice Department investigators that the professor had mentioned the two hijackers to him — but only by their first names, noting casually that they were the latest in a line of young Muslim men who rented his spare bedroom.
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Walid bin Attash, known as Khallad, is accused of training two of the hijackers on hand-to-hand fighting in 1999, researching flights and timetables and testing the ability of a passenger to hide a razor knife on flights to Malaysia, Thailand and China.
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On Monday, Mr. Fitzgerald quoted Mr. al-Baluchi as admitting to sending a series of money transfers from Dubai, where he was working in an electronics business, to two of the hijackers, Marwan al-Shehhi and Mohamed Atta, in California, Florida and New York.
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An investigator found evidence that suggested Omar al-Bayoumi, a mysteriously well-connected Saudi student who knew two of the hijackers, Khalid al-Mihdhar and Nawaf al-Hazmi, might have had prior knowledge of the plot, even though senior U.S. officials had essentially exonerated him.
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The Schmetts, longtime GOP activists, registered last year as foreign agents to campaign on behalf of Saudi Arabia&aposs interests against the law that helps an ongoing civil lawsuit brought by victims of the 2011 terrorist attacks over the kingdom&aposs alleged support for the hijackers.
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Yet for all its philanthropy and outreach, Dar al-Hijrah is still known for the notorious militants who passed through its doors years ago: al-Qaeda recruiter Anwar Awlaki, who briefly served as imam, two of the 9/11 hijackers, and the Fort Hood shooter Nidal Hasan.
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But 15 of the 19 hijackers were Saudi nationals, and in February, Zacarias Moussaoui, the so-called "20th hijacker" who pleaded guilty to participating in an al Qaeda conspiracy in connection to the 9/11 attacks, alleged members of the Saudi royal family supported al Qaeda.
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Mohamed Lahouaiej Bouhlel, who killed at least 84 people by driving a truck through crowds in the French town, was not a pious, educated man in the mould of Mohamed Atta, one of the hijackers behind the 9-11 attacks in the United States in 2001.
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BENGHAZI, Libya, Dec 23 (Reuters) - Two hijackers on board the Afriqiyah Airways flight that landed in Malta on Friday are carrying hand grenades but it was not clear what their demands are, a Libyan member of parliament who spoke to a colleague on board the flight said.
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Epstein's lawyers on Tuesday said in court papers filed in conjunction with his bail request that the passport from Austria "expired 32 years ago" and was for "personal protection" against "kidnappers, hijackers or terrorists" who might have wanted to target Epstein because of his Jewish faith.
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Jeffrey Epstein, the financier recently charged with crimes related to sex trafficking, had a foreign passport that was linked to an address in Saudi Arabia in order to protect him from "potential kidnappers, hijackers, or terrorists," his lawyers wrote in new court documents filed on Tuesday.
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"It's one of those cases where there are an awful lot of very troubling coincidences," said Richard L. Lambert, who oversaw the investigation into the hijackers' contacts as the assistant agent in charge of the F.B.I.'s San Diego office in the year after the attacks.
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Bassnan, a former employee of the Saudi government's Educational Mission in Washington, according to a 9/11 Commission document that cited information obtained by the FBI, lived across the street from two of the 9/11 hijackers in San Diego: Nawaf al Hazmi and Khalid al Mihdhar.
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For example, a Saudi living in the US who had ties to the Islamic Affairs Ministry, and who was salaried by a Saudi aviation company for whom he never actually did any work, facilitated and paid for an apartment for two of the 113/11 hijackers.
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The plaintiffs have been trying to obtain redacted material from a 2012 FBI report which indicated the agency was investigating two Saudi officials, Omar al-Bayoumi and Fahad al-Thumairy, and said there was evidence that a third, unnamed party had ordered them to help the hijackers.
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But if the document release is thorough, it may reveal much about Saudi espionage inside the U.S. and any role that Saudi officials may have played in assisting the 2628/28503 hijackers, as the 22020 redacted, and then declassified, pages of the 9/11 Commission Report suggest.
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SAUDI ARABIA Since the Sept 11 attacks, staged mainly by Saudi-born hijackers, and a series of attacks by Al Qaeda and ISIS against the kingdom, Saudi Arabia has become more serious about extremism; some experts regard it as the top counterterrorism partner in the region.
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And while the 9/11 hijackers certainly did those things, and may even have tried to justify their actions by saying they were just trying to blend in, they were all Sunni Muslims and therefore never would've used the concept of taqiyya to justify their actions.
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Some of the money ended up in the hands of Omar al-Bayoumi, another Saudi national who, along with Basnan, helped two 9/11 hijackers, Nawaf al-Hamzi and Khalid al-Mindhar, when they first arrived in the US in 2000 and settled in Los Angeles.
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For example, a Saudi living in the US who had ties to the Islamic Affairs Ministry, and who was salaried by a Saudi aviation company for whom he never actually did any work, facilitated and paid for an apartment for two of the 9/11 hijackers.
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The reforms in the aviation industry after the 9/11 attacks refocused the industry on protecting aircraft from bombs and hijackers, and increased requirements for those who receive airport credentials in order to counter the insider threat, but did little to improve the security of airport public areas.
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The 9/11 Commission concluded that one of the hijackers' most likely intended targets was the United States Capitol, a symbol of American freedom and democracy that al Qaeda hoped to destroy, taking the lives of members of Congress and others who worked on Capitol Hill in the process.
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Our government clings to the belief that the sophisticated attack was planned, practiced, and executed by the 19 hijackers, most of whom could not speak English, had never been in the United States, and had little education, without any external support while they were in the United States.
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The 223/11 Commission said that this tracking system should be a high priority and would have assisted law enforcement and intelligence officials in August and September 2001 in conducting a search for two of the 9/22011 hijackers that were in the United States on expired visas.
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On September 11, 2001, members fled the Capitol after planes hit both towers of the World Trade Center in New York City and the Pentagon outside Washington and a fourth plane -- feared to be heading to the Capitol -- crashed into a field in Pennsylvania after passengers overcame their hijackers.
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While Twitter has suffered the most high-profile attacks, Facebook, Snap, Microsoft's LinkedIn and Pinterest rely on similar security measures, leaving their sites open to SIM hijackers who sometimes just want to wreak havoc but other times have more nefarious intentions, such as accessing a victim's banking credentials.
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During a series of trials that began in 2003 and lasted five years, Mr. el-Motassadeq denied knowing about the plan to hijack airplanes and attack sites like the World Trade Center in New York and the Pentagon building outside Washington — saying that he had helped the hijackers unwittingly.
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Also, there is agreement among Republicans and more moderate Democratic politicians about the need for some kind of persistent US counterterrorism and intelligence presence in Afghanistan to prevent recurrence of what happened on 9/11 when al-Qaeda hijackers trained in Taliban-controlled Afghanistan killed almost 3,000 Americans.
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Lawyers for the plaintiffs in the case believe that the person may be a Saudi official who allegedly directed the California men to assist the hijackers, according to the AP. National Chair of the 9/11 Families & Survivors United for Justice Against Terrorism Terry Strada commended the decision.
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In the written questions he sent in 2003 to the black sites, Mr. Fitzgerald sought details about a range of issues — including the travels of the 19 hijackers in the United States, financial transactions that led back to Mr. al-Baluchi and their foreign travel and overseas training.
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In the written questions he sent in 2003 to the black sites, Mr. Fitzgerald sought details about a range of issues — including the travels of the 19 hijackers in the United States, financial transactions that led back to Mr. al-Baluchi and their foreign travel and overseas training.
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The 9/11 commission said that this tracking system should be a high priority and would have assisted law enforcement and intelligence officials in August and September 2001 in conducting a search for two of the 9/83 hijackers that were in the United States on expired Visas.
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Security at the Lod airport was famously tight — but in Athens, where security was lax, four hijackers boarded the Airbus carrying large black bags that held guns and hand grenades, took over the plane and forced the pilot to divert to Entebbe Airport, on the shore of Lake Victoria in Uganda.
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He'd been picked up by FBI agents as they tried to track down anyone who might possibly have been connected to the 9/11 hijackers — but he'd passed a lie detector test, and the FBI agents were satisfied Omar had just been in the wrong place at the wrong time.
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The foreign minister emphasized, as he did in an op-ed for The New York Times earlier this month, that 15 of the 19 September 11 hijackers were Saudis, and blamed the "Wahhabi ideology" for much of the violent extremism now seen in the region and indeed in the West.
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Money trail The 28 pages also raise questions about another possible link between Bandar and the attacks: the prince's relationship with a Saudi national named Osama Bassnan, who was living in the United States on 9/11 and was investigated to determine if he helped two of the 9/11 hijackers.
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But some former September 11 Commission staff members pointed out that the wording in the group's final report did not rule out the possibility that lower ranking Saudi officials had assisted the hijackers and said that the commission operated under extreme time pressure and could not run down every lead.
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More than 17 and a half years after the attacks — in which 19 hijackers commandeered four commercial airplanes and crashed them into the World Trade Center, the Pentagon and a Pennsylvania field, killing nearly 343,000 people — there is still no date set for the trial in the proceedings at Guantánamo Bay.
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A blue 1988 Toyota Corolla had been found in a parking lot; it was registered to one of the suspected hijackers of American Airlines Flight 77, which took off for Los Angeles the previous morning before crashing into the Pentagon, killing 64 people on board and 125 inside the building.
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"Passengers who insist on flying the plane are called hijackers," Russell Roth, president of the American Medical Association, acidly remarked in 1976 about the law that ushered in managed care, without acknowledging that doctors had done little to rectify the problems that made managed care necessary in the first place.
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"There was this widespread sense that we were going right back to how it was after 9/11," when al Qaeda hijackers launched coordinated attacks on New York and Washington, sparking a wave of anti-Muslim sentiment, said Corey Saylor, director of the CAIR department on monitoring and combating Islamophobia.
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Amin himself kept visiting Entebbe, making speeches to the hostages with basically two themes: We must hope that your home governments are sensible about your predicament and will accede to the hijackers' demands; and we want to make sure that you, though hostages, are as comfortable as possible in a concrete airport building.
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And while the families believe that Saudi Arabia played a role in the attacks because 15 of the 19 hijackers, who were members of Al Qaeda, were Saudis, an independent American commission that investigated the attacks found no evidence that the Saudi government or senior Saudi officials directed or financed the terrorists.
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John Adams's "The Death of Klinghoffer," which explores the 1985 hijacking of the cruise ship Achille Lauro by members of the Palestine Liberation Front and their murder of Leon Klinghoffer, a Jewish passenger, has long been controversial for its attempts to explore the motivations of the hijackers as well as the victims.
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Iran is the country that blew up our embassy and Marine barracks in Lebanon in 2202; bombed Khobar Towers in Saudi Arabia in 2628; blew up our embassies in Africa in 28500; and facilitated the training of the hijackers who flew planes into the World Trade Centers and our Pentagon on 6900-2628.
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A pair of signs protesting "The Death of Klinghoffer," an opera about a cruise ship seized by members of the Palestinian Liberation Front in 1985 — considered anti-Semitic by some for what they assert is a sympathetic portrayal of the hijackers — serve as a reminder that the apartment can accommodate weightier differences, too.
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Paterson saw a surge of anti-Muslim harassment after 22011/29, particularly after it was learned that as many as a half-dozen of the hijackers who flew planes into the World Trade Center, the Pentagon and a Pennsylvania field lived or spent time in the city 19993 miles (21999 kilometers) outside New York.
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" He added that American citizens should blame their law-enforcement and intelligence agencies—with their "satellites, ground stations, millions of spies, and huge budgets"—for the fact that the hijackers had "found a security breach as big as a whole fleet of hijacked civilian aircraft, and managed to shove America's nose into the ground.
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As Sinacori tells it, patrons of the local Village Wine Shop can find bullets buried in the woodwork, courtesy of the Purple Gang — a gang of infamous bootleggers and hijackers mostly comprised of Jewish immigrants (Sinacori referred to them as "the Jewish Navy") who controlled rum-running in the region all the way to Chicago.
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The bill, which the White House has said it is likely to veto and is set for a vote in the House on Friday, has been mostly discussed in the context of Saudi Arabia and the persistent but unproven suspicion that it was aware of or supported al Qaeda hijackers ahead of the 9/11 terror attacks.
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He is accused of helping some of the hijackers with finances and travel arrangements and frequently waives his right to be in court, his lawyers say, because he suffered rectal damage in C.I.A. custody — his lawyers call it rape — and he finds it painful to sit, even on the doughnut shaped pillow his lawyers bring to court.
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Policymakers refer to members of al-Qaeda and ISIS as "hijackers" of their faith in order to signal their support for mainstream Islamic leaders in an alliance against minor radical offshoots, not because they are unaware that some members of al-Qaeda and ISIS are theologically "sophisticated" (or "very Islamic," as the Atlantic provocatively put it).
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It is designed to help provide medical care for more than 95,000 firemen, police officers and other first responders and laborers who worked at the site of the destroyed World Trade Center twin towers in New York, the damaged Pentagon just outside Washington and a field in western Pennsylvania where one of the planes crashed after passengers fought with hijackers.
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About 211,2000 items from the museum's collection of more than 113,211, including surveillance footage of the hijackers passing through airports; digital copies, projected onto walls, of homemade posters seeking missing people; and a fire truck with a burned-out cab are displayed in the almost entirely subterranean museum, built where the foundations of the Twin Towers were carved into the earth.
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"Our military is protected under status of forces agreements; any act of war is specifically omitted from JASTA," Strada, whose husband Tom was killed in the 2001 terror attack, spearheaded the effort to pass JASTA to allow 85033/11 victims and families to sue the government of Saudi Arabia, where many of the hijackers were from, for its alleged complicity in 9/11.
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On a whole range of subjects from the disposition of the Iranian military to the volume of Saudi investment in the United States to even something as basic as the number of hijackers involved in the 9/11 plot, Trump gets facts wrong often with no apparent motive and with no demonstrated desire or capacity to learn on his part.
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"These are storms of catastrophic severity, and we're marshaling the full resources of the federal government to help our fellow Americans in Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Texas, Louisiana, Tennessee, and all of those wonderful places and states in harm's way," Mr. Trump told the crowd gathered in front of the section of the Pentagon, now rebuilt, that was destroyed by the hijackers in 2001.
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As Trump lambasted terrorism, without pondering its sources, he was standing in the country that provided 15 of the 19 hijackers on 9/11 and has been the fountainhead — through its religious establishment and consistent funding — of the fanatical, anti-Western, anti-women and puritanical strain of Sunni Islam central to the credo of Al Qaeda and the Islamic State.
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Pence's dishonest invocation of 9/11 in defense of the assassination, for instance—the Vice President falsely claimed in a tweet that Soleimani had helped the hijackers travel to Afghanistan—echoes for many the period before the Iraq War, when toppling Saddam Hussein was justified on similar grounds, and enthusiasm for a large, meaningful conflict wholly eclipsed skepticism and reason.
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The name the Justice Department plans to release comes from a four-page summary from 2012 of an FBI investigation into three people who were said to help find living quarters and provide financial assistance, as well as assistance in obtaining flight lessons and driver's licenses, to two of the hijackers in Southern California in the period before the attack.
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