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Almost All Hijackers Identified; Probe Points to Bin Laden
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BOSTON -- Terrorist mastermind Osama bin Laden has strong family ties and a group of supporters in Boston, where the two hijacked airliners that demolished the World Trade Center took off.
One of bin Laden's brothers set up scholarship funds at Harvard, while another relative owns six condominiums in an expensive complex in Charlestown, just outside Boston. Two bin Laden associates once worked as Boston cab drivers, including one who was jailed in Jordan on charges of plotting to blow up a hotel full of Americans and Israelis.
Bin Laden's ties to Boston are now being closely scrutinized as authorities focus their investigation on terrorist cells with possible ties to him, said Robert Fitzpatrick, the former second-in-command at the FBI's Boston office.
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The officials confirmed a car believed to belong to the hijackers was confiscated in Boston and contained an Arabic language flight manual.
Law enforcement officials said a hotel room in the Boston area believed to have been used by one of the hijackers was searched by the FBI Wednesday afternoon but no arrests were made. The officials said the room was vacant but included information linking it a name on the manifest of one of the hijacked flights. They declined to identify the man.
The FBI in Miami issued a national bulletin for law enforcement agencies to look out for two cars. Records with the Florida Division of Motor Vehicles show that one of the vehicles the FBI was pursuing - a 1989 red Pontiac - was registered to Atta.
Authorities also were developing intelligence linking the suspected attackers to a band of bin Laden sympathizers in Canada, some of Algerian origin, who are suspected of planning an unsuccessful terrorist attack in the United States during the millennium celebrations.
However, a Venice, Fla., man who was interviewed by the FBI said agents told him two men who stayed in his home while training at a local flight school were the hijackers. Charlie Voss said the agents identified the men as Mohamed Atta and one known as Marwan.
The FBI interviewed Voss, the Venice, Fla., about two men who stayed with him and his wife for a week in July 2000 while taking small-plane flight training at the municipal airport.
FBI agents "informed me that there were two individuals that were students at Huffman Aviation, my employer, and FBI told me they were involved in yesterday's tragedy," Voss said.
The couple accepted the two men as house guests as a favor to the company, Voss said. The men, who stayed just a few days, trained at the airport and came to the house to sleep, he said.
The government believes the hijackers were trained pilots and that three to five were aboard each of four airliners that crashed in the worst terrorist attack ever in the United States, said Justice Department spokeswoman Mindy Tucker. She said the conclusion was based on information gathered from frantic phone calls made by passengers on the doomed jets.
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Easy Access to U.S. Flight Schools
By Adam Geller The Associated Press
Published: Sep 12, 2001
NEW YORK (AP) - Where does a terrorist learn to pilot a plane? There's no better place than the United States, a worldwide magnet for students looking for flight training that's cheap, fast and available with limited scrutiny, aviation educators say.
With officials now saying the attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon relied on terrorist pilots, possibly from overseas and trained in the United States, investigators are examining the role that may have been played by flight schools.
That comes as little surprise to aviation instructors, who acknowledge that U.S. flight schools draw scores of students from overseas, in some cases actively recruiting them. The main requirement for entry, they say, is the ability to pay.
"It's accessible to everybody as long as you have money in your pocket," said Victor Richard, a flight instructor-in-training at Alpha Tango Flying School in San Antonio.
At Alpha Tango, students from Mexico, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and Germany study to become pilots. For about $5,000, they can earn the right to fly single-engine private planes.
There are hundreds of such schools nationwide, although only about two dozen offer training in how to fly the large jets involved in Tuesday's attack.
But for a student who wants to fly smaller craft, and even for those with dreams of piloting the biggest jets, the United States is the place to come. It is far cheaper here to get such training and experience than in most countries, educators say, an advantage that starts with the fact that jet fuel is so much less expensive than elsewhere.
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Almost All Hijackers Identified; Probe Points to Bin Laden
www.worldnetdaily.com/
BOSTON -- Terrorist mastermind Osama bin Laden has strong family ties and a group of supporters in Boston, where the two hijacked airliners that demolished the World Trade Center took off.
One of bin Laden's brothers set up scholarship funds at Harvard, while another relative owns six condominiums in an expensive complex in Charlestown, just outside Boston. Two bin Laden associates once worked as Boston cab drivers, including one who was jailed in Jordan on charges of plotting to blow up a hotel full of Americans and Israelis.
Bin Laden's ties to Boston are now being closely scrutinized as authorities focus their investigation on terrorist cells with possible ties to him, said Robert Fitzpatrick, the former second-in-command at the FBI's Boston office.
www.nandotimes.com/world/story/77752p-1087461c.html
The officials confirmed a car believed to belong to the hijackers was confiscated in Boston and contained an Arabic language flight manual.
Law enforcement officials said a hotel room in the Boston area believed to have been used by one of the hijackers was searched by the FBI Wednesday afternoon but no arrests were made. The officials said the room was vacant but included information linking it a name on the manifest of one of the hijacked flights. They declined to identify the man.
The FBI in Miami issued a national bulletin for law enforcement agencies to look out for two cars. Records with the Florida Division of Motor Vehicles show that one of the vehicles the FBI was pursuing - a 1989 red Pontiac - was registered to Atta.
Authorities also were developing intelligence linking the suspected attackers to a band of bin Laden sympathizers in Canada, some of Algerian origin, who are suspected of planning an unsuccessful terrorist attack in the United States during the millennium celebrations.
However, a Venice, Fla., man who was interviewed by the FBI said agents told him two men who stayed in his home while training at a local flight school were the hijackers. Charlie Voss said the agents identified the men as Mohamed Atta and one known as Marwan.
The FBI interviewed Voss, the Venice, Fla., about two men who stayed with him and his wife for a week in July 2000 while taking small-plane flight training at the municipal airport.
FBI agents "informed me that there were two individuals that were students at Huffman Aviation, my employer, and FBI told me they were involved in yesterday's tragedy," Voss said.
The couple accepted the two men as house guests as a favor to the company, Voss said. The men, who stayed just a few days, trained at the airport and came to the house to sleep, he said.
The government believes the hijackers were trained pilots and that three to five were aboard each of four airliners that crashed in the worst terrorist attack ever in the United States, said Justice Department spokeswoman Mindy Tucker. She said the conclusion was based on information gathered from frantic phone calls made by passengers on the doomed jets.
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Easy Access to U.S. Flight Schools
By Adam Geller The Associated Press
Published: Sep 12, 2001
NEW YORK (AP) - Where does a terrorist learn to pilot a plane? There's no better place than the United States, a worldwide magnet for students looking for flight training that's cheap, fast and available with limited scrutiny, aviation educators say.
With officials now saying the attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon relied on terrorist pilots, possibly from overseas and trained in the United States, investigators are examining the role that may have been played by flight schools.
That comes as little surprise to aviation instructors, who acknowledge that U.S. flight schools draw scores of students from overseas, in some cases actively recruiting them. The main requirement for entry, they say, is the ability to pay.
"It's accessible to everybody as long as you have money in your pocket," said Victor Richard, a flight instructor-in-training at Alpha Tango Flying School in San Antonio.
At Alpha Tango, students from Mexico, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and Germany study to become pilots. For about $5,000, they can earn the right to fly single-engine private planes.
There are hundreds of such schools nationwide, although only about two dozen offer training in how to fly the large jets involved in Tuesday's attack.
But for a student who wants to fly smaller craft, and even for those with dreams of piloting the biggest jets, the United States is the place to come. It is far cheaper here to get such training and experience than in most countries, educators say, an advantage that starts with the fact that jet fuel is so much less expensive than elsewhere.
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