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...Diego two of the hijackers lived on a shabby street with houses built between the 1920s and '50s. Nawaq Alhamzi and Khalid Al-Midhar, both of Flight 77, which crashed into the Pentagon, stayed with a retired language teacher, Abdussattar Shaikh. The FBI has questioned Shaikh and searched his house. "There was always a series of cars driving up to the house late at night," says neighbor Dave Eckler, 52, a longtime resident of the area. "Sometimes they were nice cars. Sometimes they had darkened windows. They'd stay about 10 minutes." But the worst Eckler thought was that they...
...longer. The attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon exposed serious gaps in the nation's ability to collect and act on information about potential terrorists. The CIA knew almost two years ago that Khalid Al-Midhar had connections to Osama bin Laden, and by August of this year it had enough information to put him and a traveling companion on a watch list. But by then immigration officials had already allowed them into the country. The FBI couldn't find them, and when the men boarded American Flight 77, the airline had never been warned or provided...
...Mahfouz is a relative of Khalid bin Mahfouz, a former president of Saudi Arabia’s National Commercial Bank (NCB) who has been accused of trying to wire funds to front organizations for Osama bin Laden, the prime suspect in the recent terrorist strikes...
...figured out how to move in and around the U.S. without attracting notice. This is especially remarkable since several of them, sources tell TIME, were already on FBI watch lists. Toward the end of 1999, the CIA received sketchy information connecting two of the dead hijackers--Khalid Al-Midhar and Nawaq Alhamzi--to bin Laden's organization. Officials tell TIME the CIA information was considered too vague to pass along, but by this summer those suspicions had firmed up. There was no indication of the plot they had in mind, but there were strong hints of links to bin Laden...
...drove it square into the World Trade north tower at 8:45 a.m. A few minutes later, Marwan Al-Shehhi, Fayez Ahmed, Mohald Alshehri, Hamza Alghamdi and Ahmed Alghamdi departed on United Airlines 175 and rammed it through the corner of World Trade south tower 21 minutes later. Khalid Al-Midhar, Majed Moqed, Nawaq Alhamzi, Hani Hanjour and Salem Alhamzi embarked on American Flight 77 out of Dulles and swung it around to smash into the Pentagon at 9:40 a.m. The cockpit voice recorder that might have clarified whether this plane intended to take out the White House...