Word: hanjour
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...Status: Arrested Sept. 21 in London. Fighting extradition to U.S. Believed to have helped train four of the Sept. 11 pilots. Trained at flying schools in Britain and the U.S. Prosecutors say he made visits to the U.S. in June and July 2001, during which he, Pentagon pilot Hani Hanjour and three others used flight simulators...
...students to carry special identification papers, or to register their thumbprint or a DNA sample as part of their entrance exam? Should a red flag go up when a registered international student fails to show up for classes? (This last scenario may have actually played out last month; Hani Hanjour was granted a visa to attend an English-language school in California and never showed up for class. Hanjour, who applied from Saudi Arabia, has the same name as one of the September 11th hijackers...
...June 29, Atta traveled to Las Vegas, where he stayed in a cheap room, with the DO NOT DISTURB SIGN constantly dangling from the door. While in town, investigators told the Associated Press, he met with two other hijackers, Salem Alhazmi and Hani Hanjour. His Hamburg pals Al-Shehhi and Jarrah were also there, which suggests a planning session. Four of the five men were on separate flights on Sept. 11, and one theory is that the four leaders of the four hijacked planes were there to work out final details...
Last year, like more than 500,000 other foreigners, a man named Hani Hanjour used a student visa to enter the U.S. He had been accepted to an intensive English course run by ELS Language Centers at Holy Names College in Oakland, Calif., where the basic admission requirement is ability to pay the $1,325 fee. When classes began last November, Hanjour didn't show. Immigration officials, who rarely track the whereabouts of student visa holders, had no idea where he was. The FBI now believes he spent much of his time in San Diego and Maryland, trying to hone...
...turned into agents of the government, that lobbied successfully to delay the measure: implementation is not scheduled until 2003. At the end of last week, though, the Association of International Educators, which has loudly fought against the database, reversed its position. Just not in time to stop Hani Hanjour...