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They will occupy the first floor of a three-floor facility that will rent office space above...
...license with him and was given a citation. He did not show up for his hearing, and on June 4 a warrant was issued for his arrest. But it was too late. By this time, Atta and his men were moving every couple of months, drifting from one low-rent dwelling to the next. Nearing the final stages of their plotting, they had become very careful. They kept to themselves and seem not to have even attended a mosque. Only occasionally would somebody notice them. One observer was Jim Woolard, owner of a World Gym in Delray Beach...
...hijackers achieved stealth by design and happenstance. For one thing, they lived quiet lives. They resided in low-rent, out-of-the-way neighborhoods and often wore the bland American uniform: khakis and polos. What was striking about many of them, in retrospect, is that there was nothing striking about them. "It amazes me how ordinary these guys looked, yet they ended up being involved in probably the greatest crime in American history," says Corey Moore, assistant manager of Gold's Gym in Greenbelt, Md., where five of the hijackers worked...
...pilots knew about their confederates before they gathered Tuesday morning at their assigned planes--or if they knew others would undertake similar missions. But preliminary information suggests that the cells followed classic bin Laden practice: over time, cell members built up a small local support network to collect information, rent houses, buy equipment for the "sleeper" operatives while they waited to be activated. As happened with the East Africa embassy bombings, agents think only a few superior handlers--a Commander X or two--sent perhaps by HQ at the penultimate moment, knew how the final pieces were meant...
...there are plenty of clues to retrace the steps of the hijackers in their final days and hours. Boston seems to have served as a forward staging area, a big city where the terrorists could vanish in the large Arab population. Three times last month Atta rented cars from Warrick's Rent-a-Car in Pompano Beach and checked one back in with 2,000 miles on the odometer. He brought the last one back Sept. 9. Parking-lot cameras picked up a white Mitsubishi sedan leased from an Alamo franchise that had gone in and out of Boston...