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...9/11 scheme nearly foundered several times over the terrorists' personal tribulations. Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the plot's mastermind, became enraged when one hijacker-in-waiting flew home to Yemen after the birth of a child. Mohammed wanted him dropped from the operation, but bin Laden refused. When the wayward Nawaq Alhazmi grew lonely waiting for orders in San Diego, Mohammed allowed him to search for a wife on the Internet. Another hijacker, Ziad Samir Jarrah, left the U.S. as many as five times to visit his girlfriend in Germany in the year before 9/11. He even sent her a last...
...theory, greater vigilance at home might have exposed their conspiracy. There were clues. Two of the hijackers, Khalid al-Midhar and Nawaq al-Hamzi, were sought by the FBI and the CIA as suspected terrorists. An FBI agent in Phoenix, Ariz., had noted a pattern of Arab men signing up for lessons at flight schools. Zacarias Moussaoui, the suspected 20th hijacker, was learning to fly in Minnesota, apparently without asking for landing lessons. Clarke argues that if the President had been demanding action every day from his top aides, they would have passed the heat down the chain of command...
...DIEGO Hijackers Nawaq Alhamzi and Khalid al-Midhar lived in California in 1999 and 2000, receiving visitors and taking flying lessons...
...JERSEY Hijackers Nawaq and Salem Alhamzi lived in Fort Lee and Wayne; all Flight 93 terrorists gathered in Newark before the attacks...
...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...