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...least one Sept. 11 hijacker, Hani Hanjour, and possibly several others were in the country on student visas, motivating Congress to put the Student and Exchange Visitor Information System (SEVIS) into full effect. There was a strong reaction to the revelation that some of the “academic” institutions that issued the student visas were little more than post-boxes. While previous measures in 1996 had mandated the use of a tracking system, only after these recent revelations did funding and public support put SEVIS to work...
...when they attended his mosque in San Diego. The report alleges the imam was observed holding "closed-door meetings" with the hijackers. FBI officials discount that allegation, from a single, dubious source. But both FBI and congressional investigators want to know why Al Hazmi and a third hijacker, Hani Hanjour, showed up at a Falls Church, Va., mosque shortly after the imam transferred there in 2001. "In my view, he is more than a coincidental figure," says House Intelligence Committee member Rep. Anna Eshoo, D-Calif...
...frustrations of working as an informant for the FBI and the cia. According to the author, his plans were consistently tied up in red tape, not least when he had an opportunity to visit Osama bin Laden's training camp in Afghanistan. Collins also claims he met Hani Hanjour, the Saudi Arabian pilot of the plane that crashed into the Pentagon, and informed the FBI. Government officials have contradicted this assertion, saying that after Sept. 11, Collins denied knowing Hanjour...
PHOENIX Hijacker Hani Hanjour lived in Arizona for years (in February 2001, the FAA questioned him). On July 10, 2001, FBI agent Ken Williams sent HQ his now famous memo proposing a sweep of Middle Eastern students at flight schools...
...Valentine's Day 2002, Williams took the stand against Faisal Al Salmi, a Saudi Arabian pilot accused of lying about his connections to Hani Hanjour, one of the hijackers of American Airlines Flight 77, which crashed into the Pentagon. Williams testified that he had been working 16- to 18-hour days as the case agent on the FBI's post-Sept. 11 investigation in Arizona. He usually arrived at the office by 5 a.m., and he didn't take a day off until Thanksgiving. The most senior member of a joint terrorism task force, Williams was in charge...