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...fact, those early reports that Atta and Marwan Al-Shehhi got hammered at a bar and then haggled over the bill in the days before the attack turn out to be the exception, not the rule. (Atta was also given to long-sleeved silk shirts, whereas most of the other hijackers dressed conservatively--or, in the words of a former neighbor, "foreign preppy.") For the most part, they had learned American ways well after being here for so long: one of them, Hani Hanjour, who is believed to have piloted Flight 77 into the Pentagon, lived...
Their simple lives contrast sharply with the multimillion-dollar rumors surrounding Osama bin Laden. If they were doing his bidding, they weren't living large on his dime. Donna Cooper, 43, a waitress at the Denny's on South Federal Highway in Delray Beach, remembers Atta coming in several times to have a veggie cheese omelet and coffee. His friend Al-Shehhi had only Minute Maid orange juice. "I've constantly re-searched my brain to see if there was something I missed about them, something that I should have told somebody about," says Cooper. "I know there wasn...
...German police issued arrest warrants for two suspects in connection with the attacks. Ramzi Binalshibh, from Yemen, and Said Bahaji, who was born in Germany, are charged with at least 5,000 counts of murder, suggesting a role in the Sept. 11 attacks. The men were both roommates of Atta...
...decisions, however, someone closer to the ground was running the show. "Maybe one or two people--Atta maybe--might have known more, might have had more communication with the other cells," says an investigator. If Atta was in charge, it will mark the first time the FBI has encountered a plot thought to be sponsored by bin Laden in which the leader was killed. Last week several newspapers reported that Atta met with an Iraqi intelligence agent in Prague several months ago. Israeli intelligence tells TIME that it sees no evidence of a bin Laden-Iraq link. Then again, little...
...Laden's global terrorist network, functions much like the fast-food franchises his followers hate. Bin Laden creates the service and brand, but the cells largely fund their activities. To keep costs down, al-Qaeda foot soldiers make money through jobs or engaging in petty crime. When Mohamed Atta, believed to have been one of the hijackers, was in Hamburg, German prosecutors say, he eked out a living selling used cars. Many of the suspects lived in run-down neighborhoods and cheap hotels. In all, experts say, the Sept. 11 attacks probably cost the hijackers only about...