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Whatever Atta was doing behind the scenes, he was publicly spreading the word of the Koran. Early in 1999, university officials gave him permission to found an Islamic student group. (Investigators believe he eventually met hijackers Marwan Al-Shehhi and Ziad Samir Jarrah in the group.) The 40 or so members gathered to pray every day. The moderate boy from the outskirts of Cairo had grown devout, and he was surrounding himself with like-minded compatriots...
...problem could have been a language barrier. Moussaoui spoke fair English, Davis said, but some of the school's instructors had problems communicating with him. He left the school after a heart-to-heart with Davis about his lack of progress. Investigators have noted that both Atta and Al-Shehhi visited Airman, though they didn't enroll...
...fact, those early reports that Atta and Marwan Al-Shehhi got hammered at a bar and then haggled over the bill in the days before the attack turn out to be the exception, not the rule. (Atta was also given to long-sleeved silk shirts, whereas most of the other hijackers dressed conservatively--or, in the words of a former neighbor, "foreign preppy.") For the most part, they had learned American ways well after being here for so long: one of them, Hani Hanjour, who is believed to have piloted Flight 77 into the Pentagon, lived...
...Laden. If they were doing his bidding, they weren't living large on his dime. Donna Cooper, 43, a waitress at the Denny's on South Federal Highway in Delray Beach, remembers Atta coming in several times to have a veggie cheese omelet and coffee. His friend Al-Shehhi had only Minute Maid orange juice. "I've constantly re-searched my brain to see if there was something I missed about them, something that I should have told somebody about," says Cooper. "I know there wasn't, but you can't stopping thinking about...
...four months in 1997, Marwan Al-Shehhi lived in a small room while he attended classes at University of Bonn. The room has white wallpaper--hardly the "terrorist's lair" of which the local paper has written. The landlord says he and his wife "were shocked" when they heard from the police that the young man who shared their flat was one of the terrorists (Al- Shehhi was on Flight 175, which destroyed the south tower of the World Trade Center). Adds the landlord with a sigh: "I always prided myself on possessing not a little knowledge of character...