Word: alshehri
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There are disputes about several identities. Flight 11's Mohamed Atta and Satam Al Suqami appear to have used their real names, but there has been confusion over the names of other men on the flight. Two brothers called Wail and Waleed Alshehri have been missing from their home in the southern part of Saudi Arabia for several months, and their families reportedly identified hijacker photographs. Another Waleed Alshehri, son of a Saudi diplomat, is alive in Morocco and working for the Saudi airlines. A man using the name Abdul Alomari, born Dec. 24, 1972, is listed on the passenger...
Part of the difficulty in sorting out the identities is that names like Alshehri are as common in Saudi Arabia as Smith is in the U.S. Hence Saudi authorities are pressing U.S. investigators for middle names and dates of birth. Still, using the FBI's list of names, Saudi newspapers have tracked down the families of most of the suspected hijackers. The 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...
They were not, it seems, alone in their training. Waleed Alshehri, in his mid-20s, had graduated in 1997 with a degree in aeronautical science and a commercial pilot's license from the prestigious Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in Daytona Beach, Fla., where nearly a quarter of all commercial pilots train. He surely knew how to fly the large aircraft the terrorists planned to ram into their targets. He was on American Flight 11 with Atta. Abdulaziz Alomari told his Vero Beach landlord in July 2000 that he was a Saudi commercial pilot when he moved in with a wife...
...flight manuals investigators would later discover. Two teams of five rendezvoused at Boston's Logan, a third group of four at Newark and the last five men at Dulles, with their knives and their box cutters either stashed in their 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...
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