Word: alghamdi
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Perhaps coincidentally, two men with names identical to those of two hijackers had lived or studied at Lackland Air Force Base. Pentagon sources confirmed that a man named Saeed Alghamdi graduated from the Defense Language Institute at Lackland, and that both Saeed and Ahmed Alghamdi appeared on a list for foreign military housing. (Men with the same names as other hijackers turned up at other bases in the south.) Whether the hijackers stole the identities of these men is as yet unknown...
...reporters have found that relatives often haven't seen the men in several months or more. The kingdom's Daily Arab News reported last week that at least five of the hijackers told their families several months ago that they were going on jihad. Four months ago, Hamza Alghamdi, 20, one of the men who torpedoed Flight 175 into 2 World Trade Center, called his parents and asked for their prayers and forgiveness...
...shoulder bags or perhaps already concealed onboard. Wail Alshehri, Waleed Alshehri, Mohamed Atta, Abdulaziz Alomari and Satam Al Suqami boarded American Airlines 11 and drove it square into the World Trade north tower at 8:45 a.m. A few minutes later, Marwan Al-Shehhi, Fayez Ahmed, Mohald Alshehri, Hamza Alghamdi and Ahmed Alghamdi departed on United Airlines 175 and rammed it through the corner of World Trade south tower 21 minutes later. Khalid Al-Midhar, Majed Moqed, Nawaq Alhamzi, Hani Hanjour and Salem Alhamzi embarked on American Flight 77 out of Dulles and swung it around to smash into...
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