Word: atta
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...trained "Brigade 55," are better armed. And it's a relative certainty that they're more motivated right now: Running up the white flag is simply not an option when surrender would bring almost certain death. Contemplating the Alliance's recapture of the city, Alliance commander Mullah Ustud Mohammed Atta recently told TIME, "We will kill them...
...more riding on the issue. Local police and sheriffs say they are eager to be the eyes and ears and legs for the bureau's overburdened agents. Michael J. Chitwood is chief of police in Portland, Me., near the motel where two of the hijackers, suspected ringleader Mohamed Atta and Abdulaziz Alomari, spent the night before the attacks. Chitwood complains that the FBI has shared nothing with him. "They've got two or three agents here," he says. "I've got 160 cops. These terrorists live, eat, drive in our communities. The people most likely to have run into them...
JOHN CLOUD has been part of the team covering the investigation into 9/11 and has written about Mohamed Atta, the terrorists' European connections and, in this issue, the possibility of a truck-bomb attack. Talk to him about what may be next on AOL, Keyword: Live, on Monday...
...inquiring about lessons well after the others had finished theirs. These same officials wonder if he may have been part of another radical cell. They now suspect that the 20th hijacker was meant to be RAMZI BINALSHIBH, 29, a Yemeni who once shared an apartment with ringleader Mohamed Atta. On Sept. 21, Germany issued a warrant for Binalshibh, naming him as an accomplice in the attacks. U.S. investigators believe Binalshibh tried to enter the U.S. to take his place among the hijackers but was denied a visa for unknown reasons. He won't be coming back soon; he left Germany...
...sent to Florida, New York and Washington were "indistinguishable," which suggested a concerted attack by a disciplined network. So did the origin of the envelopes: Trenton, New Jersey, in the same state where several hijackers lived before boarding their plane in Newark; and Palm Beach County, Fla., where Mohamed Atta learned to fly, investigated crop dusters and appeared one day at a pharmacy in search of something to soothe the bright red rash on his hands...