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Though investigators are still excavating the hidden trails that led to Sept. 11, many point to Atta as the linchpin of the 19-man hijacking gang. From Hamburg, Germany, to South Florida to Las Vegas, Atta crossed paths with at least seven other hijackers. While some of these terrorists were barely out of their teens, Atta turned 33 days before the attacks. He seems to have been the center of gravity, the dour and meticulous ringleader. This is the story of how his malevolence was unleashed...
...autumn 1992, Atta enrolled at the Technical University of Hamburg-Harburg, in a sleepy corner of northern Germany. He hoped to earn a degree in urban planning and then return to Egypt. In 1993, he befriended fellow student Volker Hauth, and the two often traveled and studied together in the next few years. Hauth liked Atta but sensed a rigidity in his friend. "I knew Mohamed as a guy searching for justice," Hauth told the Los Angeles Times. "He felt offended by this broad wrong direction the world was taking...
...eager to see him emulate his sisters' academic achievements, and pressed him to consider studying in Germany in light of the fierce competition from the favored children of faculty staff for post graduate and academic positions at Cairo University. Despite his reluctance to leave, in 1992 he headed for Hamburg to complete a masters degree in urban planning...
...world's most overcrowded and impoverished cities. College friends still don't believe that Mohammed El Amir could have committed the atrocity of Sept. 11, but that if he had indeed become Mohammed Atta that would have required significant personality changes or brainwashing during his sojourn in Hamburg...
...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...