"Atta left the United States again from Miami International Airport on July 7, 2001, headed for Zurich, Switzerland."

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1 1 of review Atta page 1 Atta page 2 Atta page 3 July 7, 2001: "A July 7 flight that Atta took from Miami to Spain" (Boston Globe, 9/23/01) "Atta left the United States again from Miami International Airport on July 7, 2001, headed for Zurich, Switzerland." [i]comment: Why would he go to Madrid via Zurich? As he arrived July 8 in Madrid there would have been basically no time to leave the Zurich Airport. [/I] Atta used his true name for the travel. (CR, 229) July 8-19, 2001: Mohamed Atta travels to Spain. Three others cross the Atlantic with him but their names are not known, as they apparently use false identities. July 8, 2001 A: "Atta arrived in Madrid on July 8." CR, 244 July 8, 2001 B: Atta "was in Madrid and shared a hotel there with an Arab whom the workers at the establishment have recognized as Marwan al-shehhi" (BBC, 2/12/01) July 8, 2001 C:

2 of 37 They "spent the night at the Diana Cazadora, a three-star hotel about 500 metres - five minutes by car - from Barajas airport Madrid on the Barcelona road". (BBC, 2/1/02) July 8, 2001 D: Atta and Al-Shehhi "had dinner together and then spent drank vodka for a time in the hotel bar." (BBC, 2/1/02) [i]comment: Welcome to Atta the vodka drinker we know from Shuckums on September 7.[/i] July 8, 2001 E: Atta "met up with a man named as Iqbal Afzal Admat, 44, who is described as being of Arab appearance but carrying an Irish passport. Atta twice rang a mobile phone number in Germany, "probably in Hamburg", from the hotel while Admat phoned Britian several times, El Pais said. Admat returned to the airport and dropped out of sight, while Atta drove in a rented car to Tarragona." (Agence France Press, 6/30/02) July 8, 2001 F: "According to the Swiss Federal Police, during his 2 1/2-hour layover in Zurich, Atta withdrew about $1,000 in Swiss francs from an airport cash machine. Atta's purchases at the airport, two Swiss Army knives and some chocolate, were paid for with a credit card, not cash. Swiss francs would have been useless in Spain, raising the possibility that Atta may have given the money to someone he met at the Zurich airport." (Orlando-Sentinel, 10/28/01) "At some point in the summer, Atta and al-shehhi checked into a hotel in Zurich. They bought knives and box-cutters used in the hijackings, according to the Swiss newspaper SonntagsBlick." "In Switzerland, the SonntagsBlick newspaper said Atta and Al-Shehhi, accused of seizing the planes that smashed into the World Trade Center, spent time in Switzerland during the summer and stayed in a Zurich hotel. It said they bought the pocket knives and box cutters used to commandeer the four jetliners Tuesday." [i]comment: Officially Atta only spent two hours at Zurich airport.[/i] July 9, 2001 A: "Atta checked in at the San Jordi hotel in Tarragona (Spain) under the name Mohamed el Amir and met up on July 10 with Ben al Shibh and the latter's companion. Marwan al Shehhi, 23, joined them later." (Agence France Press, 6/30/01)

3 of 37 [i]comment: Why wasn t Al-Shehhi around?[/i] July 9, 2001 B: "The next day, Atta rented a car and drove to Reus to pick up Binalshibh; the two then drove to the nearby town of Cambrils." CR, 244 July 13-15, 2001: "He stayed in this provincial capital (Tarragona) on 13, 14 and 15 July at the Sant Jordi hotel." (BBC, 12/2/04) July 16, 2001 A: The Spanish newspaper La Vanguardia later reports that Atta also meets with fellow hijackers Waleed Alshehri and Wail Alshehri on July 16. abclocal.go.com/wabc/news/wabc_092701_njconnection.html July 16, 2001 B: Atta "slept at the Casablanca Playa hotel in Salou northeast Spain". (BBC, 12/2/04) July 17, 2001 A: Atta slept at the Residencia Montsant hostel, in Salou (Spain) (BBC, 12/2/04) July 17, 2001 B: "Atta s application to change his immigration status from tourist to student was approved to September 1, The application was approved by the same person who adjudicated Shehhi s change of status application in September 2000." (Terrorist Travel, 28) July 19, 2001 A: Atta arrives at Hartsfield International Airport in Atlanta. He was "routinely questioned and admitted There is a limited written record and the inspectors recalled little if anything, Inspector General Glenn A. Fine said." (AP, 5/20/02)

4 of 37 "Atta was admitted as a business visitor until November 12, The primary inspector who screened him did not recall the entry. Because Atta had only been out of the United States for three weeks during the previous 13 months, he should have been flagged as an intending immigrant and was a candidate for a secondary inspection. There was no secondary inspection, however, and Atta was now legally in the United States until the day of the planned attack." (Terrorist Travel, 28) July 19, 2001 B: "At 12 o'clock on 19, Atta left Spain from Barajas (Madrid) bound for Atlanta. He had covered 1,908 km in the car which he hired." (BBC, 12/2/04) July 19, 2001 C: "Hotel records show Atta renting rooms in the same area until July 19, when he returned his rental car in Madrid and flew back to Fort Lauderdale." CR, 244 Starting sometime around the latter half of July, 2001: "Willie Lee, general manager of South Florida Crop Care (Belle Glade), a single-plane crop-dusting business at the airport, said groups of two or three Middle Eastern men came by nearly every weekend for six or eight weeks prior to the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks -- including the weekend just prior to the assaults." [i]comment: Please note that many accounts explicitly state that Lee identified Atta. This might not be true given the next quote. [/i] "Lee said he didn't pay much attention to the visitors, and didn't recognize any of them when the FBI showed him pictures early last week." (Palm Beach Post, 9/24/01) (Sun-Sentinel, 9/28/01) [i]please note that worker James Lester did identify Atta at Belle Glade inquiring about crop dusters. See: "Late-March 2001" and "Mid-February 2001". And please compare to "September 8, 2001 B" when the group visited Belle Glade the last time. Does this mean we don t have here an example of the double at work? Given the extremely similar background and behaviour to Atta the person who inquired Lee I consider this a strong example of the double being around. See the following quote Lee described his previous encounters. [/i] "(Willie Lee) said they described themselves as flight students, with several mentioning a South Florida flight school where investigators initially believed some of the hijackers might have trained.

5 of 37 "They pull in the gate there and get out and ask you all about the airplane," Lee said. "How much does it haul? How hard is it to fly?... They would want to get up on the wing and look at it." (...) He also said he thinks the visits involved as many as 12 to 15 people, who came in groups of two or three at a time." [i]comment: Please compare this to Atta s behaviour witnessed by Lester in Late March and Mid-February In any case: Who are these 12 to 15 people?[/i] For further details see: BELLE GLADE! July 25, 2001: "When Jarrah departed Miami (to Germany) on July 25, Atta appears to have driven him to the airport". CR, 246 A few days before July 30, 2001: "Atta traveled to Newark, probably to coordinate with Hazmi and give him additional funds. Atta spent a few days in the area before returning to Florida on July 30." CR, 248 Summer 2001 A: "In the weeks leading up to the assault, they used a Boeing 727 flight simulator at Opa Locka Airport, Miami. They paid $ 1,500 (pounds 1,070) for a six-hour course. Owner Henry George, a former Eastern Airlines pilot, remembers their odd behaviour. He said: Most people who come here want to do take-offs and landings. All they wanted to do was turns. " (Mirror, 9/17/01) Separately, it is reported that Al-Shehhi and Atta were spotted in Switzerland last summer, buying pocket knives and box cutters, the weapon of choice in the Sept. 11 hijackings. [i]comment: Switzerland? People ressembling Atta and Al-Shehi and buying boxcutters (just in case Atta arrives too late at the Portland Wal-Mart on September 10, 2001)? [/I] Summer 2001 B: "There were other reported sightings (in Portland) (...) former state Rep. Herb Adams, who believes he saw Atta at the Big Apple convenience store on Park Street this summer " (Portland Press Herald, 10/5/01) Summer of 2001 C:

6 of 37 "Some of the hijackers, specifically Mohamed Atta and Nawaf al-hazmi appear to have met face-to-face on a monthly basis to discuss the status of the operation, and ultimately the final preparations for the attack." intelligence.senate.gov/0209hrg/020926/witness.htm August 1, 2001: A motel owner in Oklahoma City later claims that Zacarias Moussaoui and hijackers Mohamed Atta and Marwan Alshehhi all come to his motel on this day. Although the FBI has investigated this lead, they have not [i]commented on it. [/I] Early August 2001: "My hands," Atta grumbled rudely one day. "They're itching and they're burning." Gregg Chatterton recites the words, using a slight Middle Eastern accent to imitate the serious, square-jawed Egyptian. The co-owner of an independent pharmacy along Atlantic Avenue in downtown Delray Beach, Chatterton approached Atta and al-shehhi one afternoon in early August 2001 after they spent a suspiciously long time in the skin cream aisle. He asked what happened to make Atta's hands raw, but the patient was evasive. The pharmacist handed him a 1-ounce tube of Acid Mantle, priced at $5.49, to replenish the natural acid content in his hands. Chatterton began walking away when Atta, who stood 5 feet 8, slapped an intimidating hand against the druggist's chest. It stopped him cold. "My friend," Atta barked, motioning to al-shehhi. "He's got a cough." The friendlier al-shehhi planned a violent death in less than a month. He would be told to praise Allah and hold out his chest as the plane hit the World Trade Center's south tower, creating the fireball that would land on every front page in the world. Until then, however, he wanted something that would get him through the night. Chatterton gave him a bottle of Robitussin DM. The incident ensured that he would remember the pair when the FBI came calling a few weeks later. "When somebody touches you like that," he said of Atta, "you remember that customer." By his count, Chatterton has told that story to reporters 112 times. It has given rise to the theory that Atta irritated his hands while handling anthrax. terror_s_lau.shtml August 4, 2001: "Atta drove to the Orlando airport to meet Kahtani. Upon arrival, however, Kahtani was denied entry by immigration officials because he had a one-way ticket and little money, could not speak English, and could not adequately explain what he intended to do in the United States." CR, 248 "A Saudi named Mohammed Al-Qahtani is stopped at the Orlando, Florida, airport and denied entry to the

7 7 of 37 US. Jose Melendez-Perez, the customs official who stops him, later says he was suspicious of Al-Qahtani because he had arrived with no return ticket, no hotel reservations, spoke little English, behaved menacingly, and offered conflicting information on the purpose of his travel. At one point, Al-Qahtani said that someone was waiting for him elsewhere at the airport. After 9/11, surveillance cameras show that Mohamed Atta was at the Orlando airport that day." August 6, 2001: "That was the first of three times Mohamed Atta walked into the agency in Pompano Beach wanting a car. He presented a Florida driver license, a Coral Springs address, a Visa card and evidence of Allstate car insurance. He left with a 1995 white Ford Escort. He paid $ for a week's rental and drove 254 miles before returning it on Aug. 13." (Palm Beach Post, 9/14/01) Image of car rental: August 7, 2001: "Atta flew from Fort Lauderdale to Newark, probably to coordinate with Hazmi." CR, 248 August 13-14, 2001 A: "Like Shehhi, Jarrah, Atta, and Waleed al Shehri before them, Hazmi and Hanjour each flew in first class on the same type of aircraft they would hijack on 9/11 (a Boeing 757), and on transcontinental flights that connected to Las Vegas. This time, however, Atta himself also flew directly to Las Vegas, where all three stayed on August " CR, 248 August 13, 2001 B: Atta "stays overnight at an Econo Lodge motel in Las Vegas." (Sun-Sentinel, 9/28/01) "Atta paid extra to stay in a room with two beds, motel clerks said. (...) He paid with cash and hung a 'Do Not Disturb' sign on the door of his room. (...) He checked in with a Florida driver's license issued in May." August 13, 2001 C: Atta returned the white Ford Escort at Pampona Beach.

8 of 37 August 14, 2001: Atta flies from "Las Vegas to Houston." (Sun-Sentinel, 10/7/01) The same day also Hani Hanjour and Nawaf Alhazmi leave Las Vegas. August 15, 2001: Pompano Beach: "Atta was back on Aug. 15. This time he left with a blue 1996 Chevrolet Corsica, keeping it until Aug putting 1,915 miles on the 14-day rental, which is the longest period for which Warrick would lease a car. Because a dashboard service light had come on, Atta asked for the Escort back." (Palm Beach Post, 9/14/01) Image of car rental: August 16-19, 2001: "Last August, Atta moved on to Palm Beach Flight Training at another airport in Lantana. He rented a four-seat Piper Archer from Aug. 16 to 19, said Marian Smith, owner of the school. A different companion accompanied Atta each time he flew, Smith said, adding that none of these men was identified with Tuesday's attack." (Orlando Sentinel, 9/14/01) (Boston Globe, 9/23/01) terror_s_lau.shtml August 19, 2001: "An instructor at Palm Beach County Airport in Lantana heard Atta speaking in Arabic over the airplane's radio. The instructor, who speaks Arabic himself and asks to remain anonymous, believes Atta intended to turn on the craft's intercom to talk to his passenger. Instead, Atta keyed the plane's radio. He exclaimed, God is Great! " (Desert News, 10/21/01) August 23, 2001: "Atta again flew to Newark, probably to meet with Hazmi and select flights." CR, 249 Between August 23 and September 11, 2001: "Charmain Mungo, 21, lives at the Valencia Motel (Laurel, Md) in a room next to where five men stayed

9 of 37 from late August through Monday, Sept. 10. FBI agents showed Mungo seven or eight photos, from which she said she was able to identify three men, including Mohamed Atta". chronicle.augusta.com/stories/091901/ter_ shtml August 25, 2001: "Then, on Aug. 25, Atta filled out an Internet form on the American Airlines Web site to open a frequent-flier account, a requirement for making reservations over the Internet at the airline's Web site." (Boston Globe, 9/23/01) [i]comment: Where did Atta purchase the tickets: on the net, at Kinko's or at La Guardia? [/I] Late August 2001: "There were other reported sightings (in Portland, too, including a worker at Micucci's Grocery on India Street who is convinced he saw Atta in late August " (Portland Press Herald, 10/5/01) August 28, 2001 A: "Suspected hijacker Mohamed Atta bought tickets for a connecting flight from Portland, Maine, to Boston and for American Airlines Flight 11 out of Boston on Aug. 28, two weeks before Flight 11 hit the World Trade Center." (Dayton Daily News, 9/14/01) Atta booked his ticket for AA 11 on American Airlines homepage according to an official letter send to German authorities on September 12, "What I can't tell you regarding that is on the day Atta booked his flight for Flight 11, he also booked that flight from Portland." August 28, 2001 B: Atta flies "from Baltimore to Fort Lauderdale". (Sun-Sentinel, 10/7/01) August 29, 2001: Pompano Beach: "Atta returned the Chevrolet Corsica at Warrick and asked the white Escort back. He left again, saying he would return the Escort on Sept. 5. Later, he called and asked to keep the car until Sept. 9." (Palm Beach Post, 9/14/01)

10 0 of 37 Image of car rental: "Perhaps it should be Aug. 29, 2001, a year ago last week, when Atta and two other hijackers purchased their Sept. 11 airline tickets on a computer at a Kinko's copy store in Hollywood. " terror_s_lau.shtml Around August 30, 2001: "The manager of the low-priced Longshore Motel in Hollywood said he's almost positive that Jarrah and Atta paid $175 cash to rent a room for a week. Identifying themselves as Iranians from Canada in town to look for computer jobs, they brought laptop computers and asked for Internet access. The Longshore's Spartan rooms don't have phone lines, so manager Paul Dragomir said he ran one from the office to the room. But Dragomir began to have second thoughts, worrying that the men in Room 3 might run up a huge phone bill. He asked them to work out of the office instead. The men objected. "They were angry. They were insulting me," Dragomir said. The man Dragomir believes was Atta did most of the talking. But the man who looked like Jarrah chimed in as well, saying "You don't understand. We're on a mission," Dragomir recalled. "I kind of laughed," the manager said. "I said, 'What kind of mission is that? A mission of Islam?' They said, 'No, we want to stay out of that.' " The men left in a huff after getting a refund." (Palm Beach Post, 10/15/01) September 1, 2001 A: Atta was identified in Bangor by cab driver. (Bangor Daily News, 10/13/01) For further details on Bangor: September 1, 2001 B: "And 10 days before the tragedy, Atta bought a ticket on American Airlines Flight 11 - the plane he crashed into the World Trade Center's north tower - from an American Airlines ticket agent at La Guardia Airport. The investigators would not identify the man with whom Atta rented the Brooklyn and Bronx rooms." (New York Post, 12/9/01) [i]comment: Where did Atta purchase the tickets: on the net, at Kinko's or at La Guardia? [/I] September 5, 2001: "Atta booked airline flights at travel agency in Boca Raton (together with Al Shehhi). Atta booked U.S. Airways flight from Fort Lauderdale to Baltimore." intelligence.senate.gov/0209hrg/020926/witness.htm September 7, 2001 A: "Atta flew from Fort Lauderdale to Baltimore."

11 1 of 37 CR, 253. September 7, 2001 B: Many accounts report that he was drinking with Alshehhi in Shuckums (Hollywood). "Last Friday night Atta, Al-Shehhi and a third man spent hours drinking". contentid=a sep15 Found=true The duration of the drinking: "almost four hours" (Spiegel, 12/3/01) Last Friday night, Atta, Shehhi and an unidentified man spent 3 1/2 hours at a sports bar" contentid=a sep13 Found=true The Friday night before the attacks, Atta and two other men -- one of them another suspected hijacker, Marwan Al-Shehhi - spent 3 1/2 hours at a sports bar in Hollywood, Fla., called Shuckums" contentid=a sep21 Found=true Tony Amos, the manager of Shuckums Oyster Bar and Restaurant in Hollywood, just north of Miami, was interviewed by the FBI and he and his barman and a waitress all identified Atta and his cousin as some hard drinkers who propped up the bar last Friday. Atta's bill for three hours of vodka drinking came to $48 ( 33)." "Atta kept to himself, drinking cranberry juice and playing a video game. For three hours, his two companions knocked back Russian Vodka and orange juice, got loud and griped about the chicken wings." (NBC, 9/24/01) "On Friday evening, Amos said Atta and the other man came into the Shuckums. The pair had been in the restaurant several times before, Amos said. This time, they were there from about 4:30 p.m. until about 7 p.m. "My bartender said, 'These guys are giving me a hard time,' " Amos recalled yesterday. "I thought, 'Okay, here we go.' I was talking to the big guy, going back and forth. I said, 'Is there a money issue? Do you have enough money to pay the bill?' The guy arrogantly replied, 'I'm an airline pilot. Of course, I have the money.'"

12 2 of 37 terror_s_lau.shtml [i]comment: Strange that he describes Atta with his official 5-feet-8 as "the big guy"[/i] "On September 7, at about 3pm, Atta and Al Shehhi went with another man to Shuckums bar in Hollywood, Florida. The man went off to play a video machine, while Atta and Al Shehhi ordered the first of five rounds of Stolichnaya vodka with orange juice (for Atta) and Captain Morgan with Coke (for Al Shehhi). After 90 minutes, they were ready to leave, but argued over the $ 48 bill." (Daily Mail, 9/16/01) "We all were able to recognize both gentlemen," Amos said. The men visited the restaurant from about 4 to 5:30 p.m. Friday, and seemed drunk and unruly, he said. (Sun-Sentinel, 9/13/01) Beginning of the drinking: About 3 p.m. (Daily Mail, 9/16/01) 4 p.m. (Sun-Sentinel, 9/13/01) 4.30 p.m Found=true One account specify that the alleged hijackers and their unknown friend left at 7 p.m. Found=true [i]comment: If we do add the duration of the drinking to the supposed beginning then it is hard to see how the alleged hijackers managed to leave before 7 p.m. Only exceptions are Daily Mail, 9/16/01 that states the drinking only lasted 90 minutes and the Sun-Sentinel, 9/13/01 that gives 4 p.m p.m. As the last possible flight Atta could have taken to Baltimore (see "September 7, 2001 A") left Fort Lauderdale Airport (around 10 miles from Shuckums) at 7.30 p.m. it seems hardly possible that he could have actually made this flight. Please also note that Atta was witnessed in Sarasota the night of this day. See

13 3 of 37 "September 7, 2001 C" For further details see: [/I] According to Daniel Hopsicker Shuckum s manager Tony Amos and bartender Patricia Idrissi don t work in the bar anymore and have disappeared. Hopsicker was unable to find them. September 7, 2001 C: Atta stayed at the Holiday Inn (Sarasota). Perhaps meeting Al Shehhi. "Atta left the bar after another Middle Eastern man arrived, Sievers said. When the FBI released Atta s picture Sept. 27, Sievers called the FBI and told authorities what she saw, she told Longboat Key police. Local police left the investigation at that, but a waiter at the Holiday Inn said Atta did not go far from the bar. The waiter, Frank Boyal, said Atta and his companion had the hotel s $18.95 "Surf and Turf" buffet on Sept. 7. "They were just here. I remember the face." Boyal said he was struck by the two men s lack of appetite. The pair only picked at the buffet, Boyal remembered. Boyal didn t overhear the two men s conversation, because it was a busy night and he was "running around like a chicken with its head cut off," he said. Although he knew Sievers had spoken with the authorities about the sighting, Boyal chose not to mention it to anyone, he said." [i]comment: Keep in mind that this hotel is right around the corner of the hotel Bush will spend the night of September 10. The hotel where possibly an assassination on him was planned. Please note that in fact two witnesses recall having seen Atta and another Middle Eastern man [/I] September 7, 2001 D: "(Wynn) Errico(, owner of Wynn Motor Co. in North Lauderdale) said Atta drove into his used car lot around 2 p.m. on the Friday before the attacks, saying he wanted to sell the Grand Am because he did not need it anymore. Three men in a white minivan accompanied him and waited for about 45 minutes while Errico and Atta went back and forth about a price, Errico said Atta rejected his offer of $800 cash. "He said, 'I'd rather run it into a building than sell it for $800,'" Errico said. The law enforcement source said the cars were retrieved recently but wouldn't specify when." (Sun-Sentinel, 10/27/01) online: The same article mentions that also Al-Shehhi s care was found by the FBI but doesn t specify if it was sold on September 7 as well: "Al-Shehhi's car had been cleaned, limiting its use to investigators, but Atta's car had not been cleaned. Atta's

14 14 of 37 car was sitting in a warehouse, awaiting sale out of state, when the cars were confiscated. No further information was available about the second car" (Sun-Sentinel, 10/27/01) online: "Atta had apparently visited several car dealerships on State Road 7 in North Lauderdale trying to sell the car" (Sun-Sentinel, 10/27/01) online: [i]commenti: Please note that the article doesn t specify that Atta did this on September 7. Comment II: Atta s behaviour is strange to say the least. Doesn t he have anything more important to do on his last day in Florida than sell his car (with a typical please-remember-me-attitude) and getting drunk?[/i] Days before September 11, 2001: "Witnesses have said they saw Atta at the Willowbrook Mall in Wayne days before the attacks." (Bergen Record, 7/29/01) [i]comment: This might be a false reporting mistaking the accounts of witnesses who saw Almihdhar (?) in Wayne.[/i] September 8, 2001 A: "Atta and another man walk into this Giant supermarket in Laurel, Maryland. They peel off $10,000 in cash and wire it out of the country to two accounts in the Middle East. ( ) The two men are described as being angry, agitated. Their demeanor very sour, scowling. Some of the store employees were trying to joke with them as they were conducting these transactions, and the two men wanted nothing to do with that." (NBC, 9/24/01) For further details see: [u]september 8, 2001 B: "(Willie) Lee (chief pilot and general manager of South Florida Crop Care in Belle Glade) identified Atta to the FBI, telling agents the suspected hijacker came to the airfield as recently as the Saturday before the Sept. 11 attacks, asking questions about the capabilities of crop-dusters, including how big a load of chemicals they could carry. " abcnews.go.com/sections/us/dailynews/wtc_investigation html (Sun-Sentinel, 9/24/01) (Palm Beach Post, 9/24/01) transcripts.cnn.com/transcripts/0109/25/lkl.01.html

15 5 of 37 [i]comment: Please note that many accounts explicitly state that Lee identified Atta. This might not be true given the next quote. [/i] "Lee said he didn't pay much attention to the visitors, and didn't recognize any of them when the FBI showed him pictures early last week." (Palm Beach Post, 9/24/01) (Sun-Sentinel, 9/28/01) [i]please note that worker James Lester did identify Atta at Belle Glade inquiring about crop dusters. See: "Late-March 2001" and "Mid-February 2001". Does this mean we don t have here an example of the double at work? Given the extremely similar background and behaviour to Atta the person who inquired Lee I consider this a strong example of the double being around. See the following quote Lee described his previous encounters. [/i] "Willie Lee, general manager of South Florida Crop Care, a single-plane crop-dusting business at the airport, said groups of two or three Middle Eastern men came by nearly every weekend for six or eight weeks prior to the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks -- including the weekend just prior to the assaults. He said he did not pay much attention to them and could not identify any of the men from photos of the hijackers shown to him by the FBI. He said they described themselves as flight students, with several mentioning a South Florida flight school where investigators initially believed some of the hijackers might have trained. "They pull in the gate there and get out and ask you all about the airplane," Lee said. "How much does it haul? How hard is it to fly?... They would want to get up on the wing and look at it." (...) He also said he thinks the visits involved as many as 12 to 15 people, who came in groups of two or three at a time." washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/a sep23?language=printer [i]comment: Please compare this to Atta s behaviour witnessed by Lester in Late March and Mid-February In any case: Who are these 12 to 15 people?[/i] For further details see: BELLE GLADE! September 8, 2001 C: Few accounts put Shuckums drinking on this day. terror_s_lau.shtml (Boston Globe, 9/23/01) (Cox News Service, 9/13/01) September 8-9, 2001: "On Sept. 8 and 9, Atta transferred thousands of dollars to a contact in the United Arab Emirates." (Palm Beach Post, 10/17/01)

16 6 of 37 (Toronto Star, 9/22/01) September 9, 2001 A: "Boston's Logan Airport. Mohamed Atta was watching American Airlines flight 11 prepare for departure. A passenger on that flight considered his behavior suspicious. JANICE SHINEMAN, Passenger: He walked very aggressively, with his head held very high, looking around. When I was actually boarding the airplane, he was standing at the gate counter, writing in a card. Really, the only thing he could see of the airplane was the pilots and the front of the airplane. I thought to myself, "This is very strange," and I was actually afraid." [i]comment : AA 11 departed as we know very early in the morning but Atta only arrived at the late afternoon in Boston. So how can he have watched AA 11 departing? Who is this person?[/i] September 9, 2001 B: "Atta flew from Baltimore to Boston." CR, 253 September 9, 2001 C: "Atta also checked into the Milner Hotel (Boston), staying that night where he met with Marwan Al Shehhi" intelligence.senate.gov/0209hrg/020926/witness.htm CR, 253 "Messrs. Atta and al-shehhi rented the room next to Mr. Banihammad's (in the Milner Hotel, Boston). They made a call from their rooms to Western Union, which authorities believe was one final attempt to refund unneeded cash to their contact in the United Arab Emirates." (Wall Street Journal, 10/16/01) online: s3.amazonaws.com/911timeline/2001/wallstreetjournal html September 9, 2001 D: "Although Atta had forbidden the hijackers to contact their families, he apparently placed one last call to his own father". CR, 249 September 9, 2001 E: Three hijackers, Atta, Waleed Alshehri, and Marwan Alshehhi, transfer about $15,000 back to "Mustafa's" account.

17 7 of 37 (Los Angeles Times, 10/20/01) September 9, 2001 F: Dr. Mohamed Atta lving in Baltimore is in New York s Helmsley Hotel on this day. Although it is later explained that he is not the alleged hijacker it is amazing to notice that he was seen with nobody else but Marwan Alshehhi in the Helmsely Hotel. (New York Post, 10/14/01) For further details see: September 10, 2001 A: "Mohamed Atta calls Khalid Shaikh Mohammed in Afghanistan. Mohammed gives final approval to Atta to launch the attacks. This call is monitored and translated by the US, although it is not known how quickly the call is translated, and the specifics of the conversation haven't been released." (Independent, 9/15/02) September 10, 2001 B: "A tip led agents to a Deerfield Beach motel, where Atta and Alshehhi may have stayed Monday. Federal agents and crime-scene specialists from the Broward Sheriff's Office converged on the Panther Motel, 715 South A1A, Thursday afternoon. FBI agents walked the transient beach neighborhood, showing photos of four Arab men who, they said, could have been in the area on Monday. Joe Carroll, 33, a neighbor, said two of the photos were of Atta and Alshehhi. Agents were asking hoteliers if any of the men - or anyone with an Arabic name - had stayed at their properties between August 23 and September 10." (Miami Herald, 9/14/01) [i]comment: And I thought it was beyound question that neither Atta nor Al Shehhi were in Florida on September 10. [/I] September 10, 2001 C: "The FBI has found credit card receipts that appear to place September 11 hijacker Mohamed Atta in Manhattan the day before the attacks, a source close to the investigation told CNN Wednesday." archives.cnn.com/2002/us/05/22/hijack.paper.trail/ [i]comment: The presence of a Mohamed Atta on September 9 has been explained with Dr. Mohamed Atta from Baltimore. But this person had left New York on September 9 (New York Post, 10/14/01) and therefore can t be the reason why a credit card was used in New York on September 10. [/i] September 10, 2001 D: "The day before the attack they may also have been in the lapdancing bar, The Pink Pony, in Daytona Beach. One man matching the description of Atta and two other Arabs were overheard voicing anti-american sentiments, and speaking of 'coming bloodshed'. "

18 18 of 37 [i]comment: Please note that most account don t identify the person. Till today no definite names have been given. Needs a detailed analysis. [/I] September 10, 2001 shortly after noon: "Shortly after noon ( ) Atta left the Milner Hotel, (Boston) picked up Al Omari at the Park Inn, and drove to Portland, Maine. " intelligence.senate.gov/0209hrg/020926/witness.htm [i]comment: For a few days all accounts after 911 were in doubt whether Al Omari was actually in the car with Atta. See also the Portland timeline: /content.php?article.16 [/I] September 10, 2001 after noon: Atta "was stopped at a toll booth at Exit 13 of the Massachusetts Turnpike. He boiled over in anger when the operator demanded that he pay the toll. When Atta refused and sped away, the operator wrote down the license plate number of his rented white Mitsubishi." newsday.com/ny-ushija sep30.story [i]comment I: Why does remind me this of the "please-remember-me!"-attitude several alleged hijackers were eager to show just before 911? Comment II: Very intriguing is that (if the witness is correct) Atta uses the white Mitsubishi that was found in Boston the next day and not the Nissan that he is supposed to have used to get to Portland and that was found at Portland Jetport the next day. How can this be explained? Please also note that the witness does not mention Al Omari. [/I] September 10, 2001: For all details after Atta arrived in Portland: September 10, :43 p.m.: "Atta and AL-OMARI checked into the Comfort Inn, 90 Maine Mall Road, South Portland, Maine."

19 9 of 37 The hotel is a mile from the airport. (Portland Press Herald, 9/13/01) "They" took a no-smoking room" (Evening Standard, 10/5/01) "At reception Atta asked if he could have 15 copies of USA Today, intending perhaps to bulk up his luggage, but had to make do with four copies instead." (Independent, 9/8/02) [i] Comment: The Independent account is very bizarre and has some mistakes. Nonetheless I inserted this. What are all the USA Todays for? [/i] September 10, :00 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.: "There were reports the two were sighted at two nearby restaurants - a Pizza Hut and Weathervane Seafood Restaurant - between 7 and 8:30 p.m." (New York Post, 10/12/01) [i] Comment: The second Restaurant is not mentioned by the FBI! [/i] "A waitress at Weathervane said two Middle Eastern-looking men - one who resembled Atta - dined at the restaurant that night and asked for the details of how the fish and chicken were cooked. Sue Paquette, a spokeswoman for Weathervane, said the two men may have been part of a group of five Muslim men - wearing traditional Middle Eastern dress, including turbans - who dined at the restaurant two nights before, on Saturday." (New York Post, 10/12/01) [i] Comment: A group of five. We will meet them again!remark that only Atta is recognized. Who is the second person? [/i] September 10, 2001 After 8:00 p.m.: "Sometime between 8:00 pm and 9:00 pm, two Middle Eastern males were seen at Pizza Hut, 415 Maine

20 0 of 37 Mall Road, South Portland, Maine, for approximately fifteen (15) minutes." [i] Comment: This is the only time the FBI doesn t say Atta and Al Omari but "two Middle Eastern males". [/i] "Employees at a Pizza Hut in South Portland, Maine, recall seeing two Arab men that could have been Atta and Alomari stop in between 8 and 9 p.m. They stayed only 15 minutes." (Cox News, 10/4/01) The following statement hints at but does not prove that they paid with credit card: "Larry Ponemon of Privacy Council, a Dallas consulting firm, said in an interview in June that one study reportedly done on the 19 airline hijackers involved in the Sept. 11 attacks found a pattern in their orders for pizza. "Most college kids order pizza all the time," Ponemon said. "But most people pay cash for pizza. These guys paid with a credit card. That was an odd thing. That became one of the correlates for doing a profile." (San Diego Union-Tribune, 9/3/02) "Employees at the Wal-Mart and Pizza Hut have been instructed by the F.B.I. not to comment on what the men bought or ordered. ( )Today in South Portland and Scarborough, employees at the Comfort Inn, Pizza Hut and other places in the chronology said they had been told not to talk. Most said they had no recollection of the men anyway." (New York Times, 10/5/01) [i] Comment I: It s rather difficult to see what kind of national security is at stake if we know if Atta eat "Pizza Hawai" or preferred more the Mexican style? Comment II: Atta and Al Omari seem to have been very hungry. But they most likely went to another restaurant, too. [/i] "They (agents) checked Dimillo's floating restaurant, where a waitress reportedly served the men the night before the attack." (Portland Press Herald, 10/14/01) "Steven DiMillo, the owner of DiMillo's Floating Restaurant in Portland, said an FBI agent last Saturday interviewed about 40 of his employees. DiMillo said he was busy at the time and did not learn why the agency

21 1 of 37 was interested in talking to his workers." (Portland Press Herald, 9/21/01) [i] Comment: This makes three restaurants in one and a half hour! [/i] September 10, :31 p.m.: "ATTA and AL-OMARI were photographed by a Key Bank drive-up ATM located at 445 Gorham Road, South Portland, Maine. They were driving a 2001 blue Nissan Altima rental car bearing Massachusetts license 3335VI." [i] Comment: But this photo is not released by the FBI on their homepage. [/i] September 10, :41 p.m.: Picture: "ATTA and AL-OMARI were photographed by a Fast Green ATM located in the parking lot of UNO's restaurant, 280 Maine Mall Road, South Portland, Maine." [i] Comment : This seems to imply that they demanded twice money at a bank machine within ten minutes. What did they need all this cash for? And why not once simply take the whole amount of money one wishes to have?[/i] September 10, 2001 Time unknown: «An official at the Kittery Trading Post told The Associated Press that he turned over surveillance tapes made the night before the attacks showing two men inquiring about items, including knives and rubber bullets. " (Portland Press Herald, 9/20/01) "They (Agents) checked out the Kittery Trading Post, where some men from the Middle East had reportedly sought to buy knives and rubber bullets." (Portland Press Herald, 9/14/01) [i] Comment: Why did the FBI not release the photos of this surveillance tape? And if theses are not Atta and Al Omari then who else (who has strong resemblance to the hijackers) is

22 2 of 37 interested in knifes on 910? [/i] September 10, :15 p.m.: Pitcure: Please note that the complete image looks like this: [i]comment: Why does it show "October 10"? It can t be a simple mistake of the date cause it also shows "Monday". (Thanks to Brad)[/i] "ATTA and AL-OMARI were at Jetport Gas Station, 446 Western, Avenue, South Portland, Maine. ATTA was wearing a half dark, half light colored shirt with light colored slacks." "(T)hey asked directions to the local Wal-Mart." (New York Times, 10/5/01) September 10, :22 p.m.: Picture: "ATTA was at Wal-Mart, 451 Payne Road, Scarborough, Maine, for approximately twenty minutes." "Atta spent 17 minutes in the store. One security picture appears to show him in the store's electronics department. He is seen leaving at 9:39 p.m., carrying a plastic bag with his purchases. The FBI refused to say what Atta bought during one of his final encounters with American capitalism. A store manager and a Wal-Mart spokesman at the company's Arkansas headquarters refused to give details of Atta's visit, and said only that they are cooperating with the FBI." (New York Post, 10/5/01) (Cox News, 10/4/01)

23 3 of 37 [i] Comment: Why is it a secret what Atta bought? Why does Atta spend much time in the electronic department? Why is this photo not released? Would it imply what (else) he bought? [/i] "In South Portland, Atta and Alomari had found a Wal-Mart and were on a spending spree. They blew about $ 200 on T-shirts alone, and Atta was so impressed with one of the sports shirts he had bought that he put it on before he left the store. " (Independent, 9/8/02) [i] Comment: Most likely this account is simply BS as the security photos show Atta leaving (alone) Wal Mart with his black and white shirt on. Did the "Independent" make up the story about the buying of a T-Shirt as well? [/i] One week later the workers at Wal-Mart finally reveal a piece of info: "Staff members at the Wal-Mart in South Portland told The Post yesterday that Atta bought the $1.84 boxcutters he used to hijack American Airlines Flight 11 less than 12 hours before he commandeered the plane. ( ) He got there just in time. The store closed for the day at 10. The staffers, who asked not to be identified, said they had been warned not to give details. "We all know what he bought," one of them said. "We're just not allowed to talk about it." The staffer was surprised the hijackers had not made their deadly purchase earlier. "It's unbelievable they would leave it to the last minute," the staffer said. Wal-Mart spokesman Tom Williams refused to talk about what Atta purchased." (New York Post, 10/12/01) [i] Comment: So, to make this clear: The hijackers wait till the very last second before buying the central weapon of their suicide mission and are even so little prepared that they have to ask the way to the Wal-Mart? Why are the workers not allowed to talk at all? Then a bit but their chief remains completely silent? Or is there another possibility? The staffer inventing the boxcutter story because it seemed plausible knowing Atta bought something else? How else to explain that they say what he bought and at the same time telling the journalist Atta bought cutters? [/i] "It was shocking to the employees that they were in the parking lot and in our store, but nobody has come out and said they saw anyone," said Cheryl Giordano, a photo lab technician at Wal-Mart." (New York Times, 10/5/01) [i] Comment I: Nobody saw anyone. Too bad although Atta had this eye-catching shirt. Comment II: But the secrecy surrounding Atta and Al Omari and their activity on September 10 goes even further: [/i] "The FBI has ordered a blackout on how much money the men withdrew from the bank and what they bought

24 4 of 37 at the Wal-Mart." (Evening Standard, 10/5/01) September 10, 2001 Time unknown: Apparently Atta threw his black and white shirt that can be seen on the FBI photos from Portland into the dumpster of the Comfort Inn: " The Dumpster needed to be moved," she said. "The picture of (Atta's) shirt on the FBI Web site? They pulled that out of our Dumpster at the Comfort Inn. " [i]comment: I take it Laura Wale means the shirt and not the photo of the shirt which would be a bit impossible.[/i] September 11, :33 a.m.: "ATTA and AL-OMARI checked out of the Comfort Inn." September 11, :40 a.m.: "The 2001 blue Nissan Altima rental car, bearing Massachusetts license 3335VI, entered Portland International Jetport Airport parking lot. It was parked on the first floor directly across from the airport entrance." "Inside the car were parking receipts showing that the men had arrived at the garage at 5:40 a.m., just minutes before their flight was scheduled to leave." (Portland Press Herald, 10/14/01) [i] Comment: Actually it is only assumed that the Nissan went from the Confort Inn to the jetport. It could have come from somewhere else as well. The fact that Atta and supposedly Al Omari checked out and then their Nissan entered the parking lot seven minutes indicates but doesn t prove that they are in the car as well. [/i] September 11, :43 a.m.

25 25 of 37 "ATTA and AL-OMARI checked in at US AIRWAYS counter." The US Airways ticket agent who does check in the two alleged hijackers is called Michael Tuohey. "At first I was looking down at the computer. I said, 'You're cutting it close,' " he said, noting it was 5:40 and the flight left at 6 a.m. (...) Tuohey asked the standard security questions, which he'd asked thousands of travelers: "Has anyone unknown to you asked you to carry an item on board the aircraft?" No. "Has any item you're carrying been out of your control since the time you packed them?" No." pressherald.mainetoday.com/news/local/050306terror.shtml [i]comment: Please note that this conversatio which is far from being finished is certainly longer than two minutes. But according to the FBI Atta and Al-Omari manage the check in with two bags and reaching the security check within two minutes. This is strictly impossible. Why is the FBI lying about this detail?[/i] "Tuohey then checked their driver's licenses, both issued in Florida. pressherald.mainetoday.com/news/local/050306terror.shtml "And as I'm looking at them, you know, they're holding their I.D.s up. And I'm looking at them. (...) I'm looking at their licenses and I'm looking at their -- and -- and that thought ran through my mind." transcripts.cnn.com/transcripts/0603/02/pzn.01.html [i]comment: In two interviews Tuohey makes clear that he sees the ID of both. But how come that in the luggage that they alleged hijackers are just about to check in and that later will be found surprisingly at Logan Airport not only Alomari s passport but also his international driver s licence is found? "Tuohey asked about the security camera behind his counter position, noting it would have caught the men's picture as they dealt with him. But he was told that camera was broken and had been out of service for some time." pressherald.mainetoday.com/news/local/050306terror.shtml [i]comment: That s pretty unfortunate.[/i] "As he watched the security video taken at the passenger screening area upstairs, he picked out the two men without a doubt. They were no longer wearing the coats and ties they had on when they approached the counter. Tuohey figures they must have taken them off on the way to screening and tucked them into their carry-ons." pressherald.mainetoday.com/news/local/050306terror.shtml

26 6 of 37 "TUOHEY: They had on ties and jackets. And I says, and if you look at these guys, they both have like open collar. They have like dress shirts with the open collar. I said, but that's them." [i]comment: Not only does this prove even more the impossibility of doing the whole check in and reaching the security gate within two minutes but it also leaves the question where did the ties and the jackets go? In any case the video footage shows that the alleged hijackers don t carry them in their hands.[/i] September 11, :53 a.m. or 5:45 a.m.: "5:45 a.m.: ATTA and AL-OMARI passed through airport security." See the video footage : Or the close up here : [i]comment: Does this Atta resemble the Atta we know?[/i] [i] Comment : Please note the strange occurrence of two different time stamps on the video footage. It seems hard to see how they can manage to park the car, check in and pass the security in 5 minutes Keep in mind that they had two bags and according to the witness who did the check-in it is obvious that it took a bit of time). Therefore the official 5:45 is hard to believe. But why would the FBI feel the need to lie about this detail? The photo is actually of no help trying to establish who passed the security check. [/i] September 11, 2001 around 6:00 a.m.: "ATTA and AL-OMARI departed on Colgan Air en route to Boston, Massachusetts."