Global Crossing,

Found at: rense.com,
Dead Link:
http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&cd=2&ved=0CBoQFjAB&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.rense.com%2Fgeneral70%2Fmore.htm&rct=j&q=wtc%20Global%20Crossings%20Holdings%20Ltd&ei=-t77TMbvF4T78AbolaGSCw&usg=AFQjCNH4AdAxEkFxYw8eo3jYTchKuAwONw&sig2=NBUKAZGWta9Nt2T2pAGv0w&cad=rjt

Our sources have informed us that there was a group of ONI [Office of Naval Intelligence] working in this part of the Pentagon that were investigating the $120 billion Brady Bond scam I have reported on recently. Reports are that this matter went all the way to the top ­ Nicholas Brady and George H W Bush. Those are the same documents that another person and I took to the offices of Eliot Spitzer and Manhattan District Attorney Robert Morganthau and no response, no apparent action.

That may just be conjecture that ONI was onto something but when you weigh the Bush Family Secrecy Forever Doctrine, where he has classified things going all the way back to when his father was with CIA, there might be something to it. Bush has even classified things that happened during his father's presidency even though there is no legal basis for doing that other than something might be discovered about this entire GWOT scam. Bush has even put the lid on matters when his father was vice president in the Reagan Administration. Reportedly the Zero Coupon Brady Bonds were secured by bogus gold collateral certificates and for that to have happened someone inside of our government had to have given bogus documents the color of authenticity. I think Americans deserve to know who would do such a thing and why they thought felony conduct was OK with Americans.

That same Brady Bond scam that was to have closed in late September and early October 2001 and the bonds were reportedly at Cantor Fitzgerald, WTC 1. Fortuitously they were destroyed on September 11, 2001. Odds are the SEC records in WTC 7 that were fortuitously destroyed when that building was "pulled" included this apparently bogus Brady Bond deal too. We know that key records that would have proven the fraud of Global Crossing and Citigroup and their shadow network Cable Systems Holdings, Ltd, also of Bermuda so the records would be out of the reach of the United States Bankruptcy Court, were in WTC 1 on the 83rd Floor.

http://worldtradeaftermath.com/wta/wtc_info/tenants_by_floor_wtc1.asp

Fortuitously they were destroyed too in WTC 1 as the SEC records were destroyed later that day in WTC 7. I was directly involved in going after those records and we knew exactly what we were looking for because we had an inside source at Global Crossing. How lucky can these folks be? Another tenant on the 83 rd Floor was Lava Trading, LLC, a company that developed highly advanced trading software.

http://worldtradeaftermath.com/wta/wtc_info/tenants_by_floor_wtc1.asp The same reason that Global Crossing was built (global trading network by former Milken co-defendants) and touted to the moon by none other than Citigroup, who had the Cable Systems Holding, Ltd along for the ride. Guess what? Citigroup bought Lava Trading, LLC. How fortuitous.

 https://www.lavatrading.com/lava/lavapage.aspx?f=about/team

How many deals could the deal doers do if the deal doers could do deals? Months ago I received an email from an individual regarding another person that was on the 83rd Floor on September 11, 2001. We already knew about Global Crossing Holdings and what they were hiding from the world, but had not paid attention to this person or company until Citigroup purchased Lava Trading.

Mr Schwarz: I am an independent voter so your message and platform has so found a home here with me. I am a researcher and it keeps me very busy with feeding info to 9/11 groups and in general educating people. Thermite brought those buildings down and by a fluke I might have discovered the source of those internal explosions. On 9/11 at 9:05am in the stairwell of the 83rd floor of the North Tower was a man with a transceiver. Witness's thought it was a radio but after doing a background check on this person, I am not convinced of that. His name was Charles E. Allen and he was an executive at Lava Trading LLC whose fortunes vastly improved after 9/11. Mr. Allen is a pilot, top of the heap computer expert (Microsoft, Saudi banks, Swiss banks and Ross Perot Systems) is married to a Middle Eastern woman, knows top Saudis and spent many years in the Middle East. In short more than qualifies in my book as a man worth taking a look at. If you have any questions just ask. With hope for success in your endeavor, Just paying attention to Lava was not enough. This tip came from someone that was in WTC 1 and saw this person (allegedly) in the stairwells.

When you weigh the WTC 7 destruction of many stock fraud investigations, of which Citigroup was smack dab in the middle of many of them as were Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan Chase and others, Citigroup gained huge when 9-11 happened. Wall Street and their prime customers stole hundreds of billions from unsuspecting investors and only paid back in fines to SEC pennies on every dollar they plundered. When you go one step further and understand why the major banks wanted a proprietary global trading network under their control, it becomes easier to understand why Global Crossing and 9-11 might not be as disconnected as they might seem.

Citigroup was the most heavily fined Wall Street firm regarding these fraudulent activities and its former CEO Sanford Weill is a known Zionist. Maurice Hank Greenberg, former CEO of AIG is another well known Zionist and only a fool would pass over Goldman Sachs and their desires in the area of Israel and globalization. If you look at the bulk of what they were fined for, it basically comes down to Enron, WorldCom and Global Crossing as the most egregious of their actions in defrauding the public.

What do they have in common? Energy and communications. Remember, Enron Energy Services was one of the 21 energy companies that defrauded California ratepayers in 2000 and 2001 with two-way trip fraud. WorldCom and Global Crossing both provided fiber optic networks that are used in communications, trading, money laundering, intelligence, military, etc. Enron pipeline right of ways is where much of the fiber optics were installed and Enron had a separate fiber optics "bandwidth trading" division as well. The head of that Enron division, Thomas White, was fortuitously named Secretary of the Army so we could go attack Afghanistan rather than face prosecution for fraud at Enron.

 http://files.findlaw.com/news.findlaw.com/hdocs/docs/enron/wxmnwht20102rqst.pdf

Most Americans have no idea how many national security issues were involved and Bush overrode them in selling Global Crossing to Singapore based ST Telemedia. I was there; I was on the front line fighting what our government was doing in covering up a huge corporate fraud and government complicity in it. When Lincoln stood up to the banks he was assassinated. When Jackson did, they wanted him dead but he maintained an eye for an eye policy to defend himself. His popularity with the military could not be taken lightly. Kennedy wanted to address the Federal Reserve abuses and he is no longer with us. Reagan did too, and he was shot.

 What has happened through the past three presidencies is a complete sell out of America for the good of the greedy among us. Many of the US offices of foreign banks involved in the Leo Wanta matter, the $27.5 trillion created to wage economic warfare on certain nations, were probably housed at WTC too. That is not a stretch since the United States government guaranteed that they would convert all of those foreign currencies into US dollars. If records were there and were destroyed, how fortuitous that day was for the US parties behind that colossal scam. How fortuitous that Domink Suter (one of the Five Dancing Israelis) was released and managed to flee to Israel about the same time that the FBI identified accounts in Europe with his name on them that were involved in 9-11 financing. How fortuitous indeed. How fortuitous that some or all of the pre-9-11 shorting of stocks that led back to Israeli interests and profiteering on 9-11 might have been destroyed with WTC Building 7 too.

The same applies for those Americans that were so fortuitous to know that something was about to happen. That might explain that smile on Harvey Pitt's face in that SEC article about all of those investigations that were compromised when WTC Building 7 was "pulled".

 http://www.upstaterecordinggroup.com/911_Headlines.html

He sure looks like he is smirking to me. Larry Silverstein might have been protecting his Zionist buddies when he told them to "pull it". You see, when certain prominent butts are on the line I do not believe in coincidences. The "coincidences" of 9-11 just flat out do not add up. It is indeed time for that Grand Jury and make sure there is not a Neocon nor a Zionist among those seated on that jury. Gosh, the Bush Administration sees no evidence of price gouging by Big Oil.

 http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=1907119

Certainly not since Big Oil is so tight with their family and family interests. Doing all they can do, to fleece America and the rest of the world. Can't you see them working so hard for America? It is hard work to undermine the dollar to the point that it is the single biggest reason oil is skyrocketing and getting an additional boost from all the talk of war and terrorism. If such evidence surfaces, watch out for another fortuitous destruction of those records. Fact, Iran is a signatory to the nuclear non-proliferation treaty and as such has the right to develop nuclear energy inside their own nation. Fact, Israel is not a signatory to the treaty limiting non-proliferation of weapons of mass destruction. It is another WMD fable, as in W's Mass Deception. Best regards, Karl

Joshua David Birnbaum

Joshua David Birnbaum at archive.org

A DJ and Bond Trader Who Made an Impression

March 8, 2002

Jill Birnbaum stood near the finish line of the San Diego Marathon in January because of a promise the 19-year-old had made to her older brother, Joshua, sometime last year.

It was a run the 24-year-old Joshua hoped to finish, but never started. The assistant bond trader for Cantor Fitzgerald was killed in the World Trade Center attacks on Sept. 11.

But Birnbaum's sister waited at the finish line of the 26.3-mile race that Martin Luther King Jr. weekend just the same.

Joshua David Birnbaum had planned to run the marathon and had requested his sister be there at the finish line. Despite Sept. 11 and its aftermath, his sister still made the trip to San Diego, their mother, Marcel Birnbaum of Oceanside, said.

"Jill decided she would get tickets a few weeks before the marathon, and go there and honor her brother," she said.

Sharing her grief and reason for being there with some in attendance, she inspired the event's organizers: The first "Spirit of Joshua Award," will be given to a runner who had overcome great odds to complete the San Diego Marathon next year.

In a message written to her brother on his Web site, www.samsson.com, she wrote: "You did it, You crossed that finish line like a true champ. OK, so maybe you didn't physically cross the finish line in San Diego, but in your life, with all you accomplished and all the obstacles you overcame... you crossed that finish line. And the greatest part about it was that I got to keep my promise. I stood there, with tears in my eyes, sorrow in my heart, and you on my mind."

Born in Holbrook in 1977, Birnbaum graduated from Oceanside High School in 1995, and earned a bachelor's degree in economics from Columbia University in 2001.

Birnbaum spent a semester interning at Atlantic Records in Manhattan where "he made a lasting impression," his mother said. He was one of three out of 75 applicants who received a job on the bond trading desk of Cantor Fitzgerald, "shortly after graduation," his mother said.

But his alter-ego was never fully suppressed by suits and ties. DJ Samsson, as he called himself, spun records in his spare moments, at benefit shows in college, raves, and even in Tennessee, his mother said. Birnbaum coined the moniker from family dynamics. He was Sam's son, and proud of it, Marcel Birnbaum said.

Birnbaum's father, a director for global quantitative research at Salomon Smith Barney in Manhattan, was instrumental in his son's choosing a career in finance, and always served as a guide, and friend for him. "He felt that being that his dad is in the financial field, it was the true path for him," his mother said. "I think he realized what a good family and support system he had."

She called her son "a persevering spirit," who "influenced a lot of people in his life along the way to do positive things." He was "always there to guide and to listen."

Birnbaum, a resident of Manhattan, spoke to his mother shortly after the first plane flew into Tower One, she said. Her son worked on the 104th floor.

"He said something hit the building and that there was smoke everywhere," she said. "He told me the ceiling was falling down around him, and that he needed to tell all of us that he loved us. I told him to find someone to be with so he wasn't alone. He said, 'OK, Mom,' and the phone went dead."

-- Nick Iyer (Newsday)

CNN Breaking News bulletins

On the morning of September 11, 2001 the United States suffered a brutal terrorist attack. Documented here are the flurry of CNN Breaking News bulletins that followed.

Tuesday, September 11, 2001

Subject: CNN Breaking News
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM
Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2001 08:52am

-- World trade center damaged; unconfirmed reports say a plane has
crashed into tower. Details to come.

Subject: CNN Breaking News
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM
Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2001 09:21am

-- Second plane crashes into World Trade Center.

Subject: CNN Breaking News
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM
Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2001 09:23am

-- FBI investigating reports of foul play in World Trade Center
plane crashes, according to the Associated Press. Details to come.

Subject: CNN Breaking News
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM
Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2001 09:32am

-- Sources tell CNN one of two planes that crashed into World Trade Center was an American Airlines 767.

Subject: CNN Breaking News
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM
Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2001 09:42am

-- President Bush calls plane crashes at World Trade Center a terrorist act.

Subject: CNN Breaking News
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM
Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2001 09:45am

-- Significant fire at the Pentagon. Details to come.

Subject: CNN Breaking News
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM
Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2001 09:46am

-- White House evactuated. Details to come.

Subject: CNN Breaking News
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM
Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2001 09:47am

-- Fire reported on National Mall in Washington

Subject: CNN Breaking News
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM
Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2001 09:55am

-- CNN confirms a plane hit the Pentagon.

Subject: CNN Breaking News
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM
Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2001 10:03am

-- One of World Trade Center towers collapses; fire forces evacuation of State Department

Subject: CNN Breaking News
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM
Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2001 10:13am

-- United Nations evacuated.

Subject: CNN Breaking News
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM
Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2001 10:26am

-- FAA diverting all U.S.-bound international flights to Canada.

Subject: CNN Breaking News
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM
Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2001 10:30am

-- Second World Trade Center tower collapses in Manhattan

Subject: CNN Breaking News
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM
Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2001 10:38am

-- Car bombing at the State Department, The Associated Press reports.

Subject: CNN Breaking News
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM
Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2001 10:39am

-- Part of Pentagon collapses

Subject: CNN Breaking News
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM
Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2001 10:44am

-- Pentagon monitoring second suspected hijacked plane.

Subject: CNN Breaking News
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM
Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2001 10:50am

-- Fighter scrambled amid reports of second plane headed for Pentagon.

Subject: CNN Breaking News
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM
Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2001 11:18am

-- NTSB confirms plane crashes near Pittsburgh

Subject: CNN Breaking News
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM
Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2001 12:32pm

-- FAA confirms there are 50 aircraft in the air; none has a problem and all are within 50 miles of their destination.

Subject: CNN Breaking News
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM
Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2001 12:37pm

-- Government sources tell CNN President Bush is not returning to Washington.

Subject: AMERICA UNDER ATTACK
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM
Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2001 01:27pm

NEW YORK (CNN) -- Terrorists struck the United States Tuesday
morning in harrowing, widespread attacks that included at least
three commercial jet crashes into significant buildings.

In the first attack, a plane hit the north tower of the World Trade Center in Manhattan shortly before 9 a.m., followed by another plane into the second tower about 20 minutes later. Both towers later collapsed.

About an hour later, a plane crashed into the Pentagon, part of which later collapsed.

American Airlines told CNN that it lost two planes in "tragic accidents:" Flight 11 from Boston with 81 passengers and 11 crew aboard and Flight 77 from Washington Dulles airport with 58 passengers and six crew aboard. Both planes were en route to Los Angeles.

United Airlines Flight 93 airliner headed from Newark, New Jersey, to San Francisco, crashed near Somerset, Pennsylvania -- police said initial reports indicated no survivors. United also confirmed the crash of Flight 175 from Boston to Los Angeles.

The Pentagon, the White House, the State Department, the Justice Department, the Capitol, the CIA and all other government buildings in Washington evacuated.

President Bush cancelled an appearance in Florida to return to Washington, calling the crashes "apparent terrorist attacks" and "a national tragedy."

In the first ever national ground stop of aircraft, all flights nationwide have been stopped at their departure airports. All international flights were diverted to Canada.

Mullah Abdul Salam Zaeef, the Taliban ambassador to Pakistan, said in reaction to the news of the terror attacks that "we want to tell the American children that Afghanistan feels your pain and we hope that the courts find justice."

In New York, more than 10,000 rescue personnel rushed to the scene. The entire downtown area of Manhattan was evacuated as far north as Rockefeller Center, according to an official at an emergency command post.

Subject: AMERICA UNDER ATTACK
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM
Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2001 02:23pm

NEW YORK (CNN) -- In what appeared to be coordinated acts of terrorism, two jets crashed into the twin towers of the World Trade Center, collapsing them Tuesday while another aircraft crashed into the Pentagon. Hundreds were injured or killed, if not more.

A fourth aircraft crashed in Pennsylvania with 45 people on board.

President Bush said the United States would "hunt down and punish" the terrorists responsible. U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell cut short a trip to Peru to return to the United States. He also vowed,
"The U.S. government will find out who is responsible."

The U.S. military went on full alert. Two aircraft carriers left the Naval base in Norfolk, Va., in response to the attacks. At the Pentagon, witnesses said a plane crashed into what is known as the "Army Corridor," the building collapsed and there wase an undetermined number of casualties.

Bush, who wound up an tour in Florida that was to focus on education, did not return to Washington out of concerns for his safety but flew to an Air Force base in Louisiana. Later, Air Force One took from Barksdale Air Force Base, its destination unknown.

Officials in Washington said a "Continuation of Government" plan had been activated. The activation involves a fortified facility at Mount Weather, Va. There was no word whether any of the U.S. leadership or ranking military officers had been taken to the facility, but Congressional leaders were said to be assembling outside Washington.

The city of Washington declared a state of emergency.

Subject: CNN Breaking News
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM
Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2001 02:36pm

-- FAA says no commercial air traffic in U.S. until at least noon EDT tomorrow.

Subject: AMERICA UNDER ATTACK
Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2001 03:28pm
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM

NEW YORK (CNN) -- Public transportation in all five of New York City's boroughs has been restored, Mayor Rudy Giuliani said Tuesday.

Operation had been halted after the apparent terrorist attacks on the city's World Trade Center buildings.

Subject: AMERICA UNDER ATTACK
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM
Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2001 03:59pm

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The U.S. Navy is sending ships to sea to protect the U.S. East Coast from further attack and to reduce the number of ships in port.

Two aircraft carriers -- the USS George Washington and the USS John F. Kennedy -- are headed for the coast off New York.

Five other ships -- guided missile destroyers and frigates --are also headed to sea.

Subject: AMERICA UNDER ATTACK
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM
Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2001 04:38pm

NEW YORK (CNN) -- The New York Stock Exchange will be closed Wednesday, officials said.

The American Stock Exchange, NASDAQ and the New York Stock Exchange will all be closed.

Trading never began Tuesday after a terrorist attack on the World Trade Center.

Subject: AMERICA UNDER ATTACK
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM
Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2001 04:59pm

NEW YORK (CNN) -- The National Guard is mobilizing all troops in the New York City area.

Maj. Jose Obregon of the 1st Battalion, 69th Infantry told CNN that soldiers are being called to their home bases, where they are to stand by until they receive further orders.

Subject: CNN Breaking News
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM
Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2001 05:32pm

-- Third World Trade Center tower, 47-story building 7, collapses. Details soon.

Subject: AMERICA UNDER ATTACK
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM
Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2001 05:51pm

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Barbara Olson, a conservative commentator and lawyer, alerted her husband, Solicitor General Ted Olson, that the plane she was on was being hijacked Tuesday morning, Ted Olson told
CNN.

A short time later the plane crashed into the Pentagon. Barbara Olson is presumed to have died in the crash.

Subject: CNN Breaking News
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM
Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2001 06:02pm

-- Explosions rock Kabul, Afghanistan, CNN's Nic Robertson reports. Details soon.

Subject: AMERICA UNDER ATTACK
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM
Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2001 06:07pm

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The first-ever grounding of all flights in the United States will remain in effect until at least noon EDT Wednesday due to security concerns following Tuesday's hijackings of airliners that were then crashed into buildings, the Federal Aviation Administration said.

Subject: CNN Breaking News
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM
Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2001 06:36pm

-- White House spokesman says President Bush did not order strike on Afghanistan. Details soon.

Subject: CNN Breaking News
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM
Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2001 07:07pm

-- Afghanistan opposition claims responsibility for Kabul explosions. Details soon.

Subject: AMERICA UNDER ATTACK
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM
Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2001 07:45pm

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The U.S. General Service Administration will reopen its federal buildings in Washington and all other regions -- except those in the New York City area -- on Wednesday, said Hap
Connors, an agency spokesman.

Subject: CNN Breaking News
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM
Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2001 07:50pm

-- New York City reports at least 78 police officers missing, 200 firefighters presumed dead.

Subject: AMERICA UNDER ATTACK
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM
Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2001 08:23pm

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The nation's first-ever groundstop will remain in effect until at least noon EDT Wednesday due to security concerns following Tuesday's hijackings of airliners that were then crashed into buildings, the Federal Aviation Administration said.

Subject: CNN Breaking News
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM
Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2001 08:36pm

-- Bush: "Search is under way" for attackers.

Subject: AMERICA UNDER ATTACK
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM
Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2001 08:55pm

NEW YORK (CNN) -- The identities of some of the victims of the worst terrorist attack on American soil began to emerge Tuesday evening, including the top executives of a California optical networks company, a Boston-based technology company, a top NBC executive producer and the wife of the United States' solicitor general.As the day drew to a close, it was still horribly unclear exactly how many people had died, but the number was clearly in the thousands.

Subject: AMERICA UNDER ATTACK
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM
Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2001 09:53pm

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Secretary of State Colin Powell, returning to Washington from his aborted trip to Peru and Colombia Tuesday, said there were "no specific warnings" to herald the multiple terrorist
attacks earlier in the day against the financial and military nerve centers of the United States, but he promised those responsible would be caught."You can be sure the U.S. government will do everything it can to find the perpetrators of this cowardly attack against innocent people and bring them to justice," he told reporters.

Subject: AMERICA UNDER ATTACK
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM
Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2001 10:53pm

LOS ANGELES (CNN) -- Several Arab and Muslim groups in California received threatening phone calls Tuesday in response to the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. Maha Elgenaidi, executive director of the Islamic Networks Group in San Jose, said "a lot of Islamic Centers have shut Web sites down because of the amount of hate mail they were getting." Her organization received two "hate" calls after the attacks. Elgenaidi said the first caller told her to "get the hell out of this country. You people have done nothing but ruin this country. You don't belong here. Your religion is vile and evil."

Wednesday, September 12, 2001
Subject: AMERICA UNDER ATTACK
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM
Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2001 12:04am

OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla. (CNN) -- In parts of the country, motorists lined up at gas pumps Tuesday following rumors of shortages that fueled skyrocketing gas prices in the aftermath of terror attacks in
Washington and New York. Fears that tanker trucks wouldn't make it from refineries to gas stations put a premium on fuel. In Oklahoma City, prices reached the two-dollar mark.

Subject: AMERICA UNDER ATTACK
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM
Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2001 12:45am

NEW YORK (CNN) -- At least 265 New York City firefighters were feared dead as a result of the attack on the World Trade Center, according to Andrew White, spokesman for the International Association of Firechiefs. IAFC Executive Director Gary Briese told CNN earlier the specialized city rescue companies who went into the fiery twin towers of the World Trade Center are unaccounted for and it is believed they were in the buildings conducting search-and- rescue missions when structures collapsed after two airliners
slammed into them. New York City's fire chief, deputy fire chief, the fire department chaplain, and the chief of special operations were all killed in the collapse, White said.

Subject: AMERICA UNDER ATTACK
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM
Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2001 02:03am

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Government sources say senior administration officials told members of Congress that they believe the hijacked airliner that crashed in Pennsylvania was headed for another
government target, possibly the White House, the Capitol or the Camp David presidential retreat.

Subject: AMERICA UNDER ATTACK
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM
Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2001 05:20am

RAMSTEIN, Germany (CNN)-- Frankfurt's Messeturm, Germany's equivalent of the World Trade Center, was evacuated briefly Wednesday morning following a bomb threat. An anonymous caller at 9 a.m. said a device would explode at 9:20 A.M. Authorities quickly led employees out of the building.

Subject: CNN Breaking News
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM
Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2001 07:36am

-- Rescuers find 6 survivors in New York: 1 police officer, 5 firefighters. Details soon.

Subject: AMERICA UNDER ATTACK
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM
Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2001 08:56am

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- An aide to Senate Democratic Leader Tom Daschle said Wednesday that both House and Senate are trying to schedule closed-door security briefings between members and officials from
the CIA and the FBI.

Subject: AMERICA UNDER ATTACK
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM
Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2001 10:03am

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency has sent rescue teams known for pulling survivors from earthquake rubble to the terrorist-disaster sites at the Pentagon and in New York City.

Subject: CNN Breaking News
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM
Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2001 10:33am

-- NATO considering guarantee of military, intelligence support if U.S. responds to terror attack, sources tell CNN.

Subject: CNN Breaking News
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM
Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2001 10:54am

-- President Bush calls attacks 'acts of war;' asks Congress for emergency funding. Details to come.

Subject: AMERICA UNDER ATTACK
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM
Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2001 10:54am

NEW YORK (CNN) -- The Securities and Exchange Commission told CNN that SEC Chairman Harvey L. Pitt believes the financial markets, including the New York Stock Exchange and Nasdaq, will be ready to
open for trading Thursday. However, an official decision has not yet been made.

Subject: AMERICA UNDER ATTACK
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM
Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2001 11:22am

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The United States intercepted two phone calls made after Tuesday's terrorist attacks against the Pentagon and New York's World Trade Center, and the conversations were between
members of al Qaeda, an organization sponsored by suspected terrorist Osama bin Laden.

Subject: AMERICA UNDER ATTACK
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM
Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2001 11:53am

ATLANTA (CNN) -- Losses from Tuesday's terrorist attacks against  the United States are expected to run into the tens of billions of dollars. Insurance comanies tell CNN that the industry considers what happened an act of terrorism -- not an act of war -- so they do plan to honor their customers policies.

Subject: CNN Breaking News
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM
Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2001 12:05pm

-- The Pentagon is being evacuated by order of fire marshal. Details to come.

Subject: AMERICA UNDER ATTACK
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM
Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2001 12:14pm

GANDER, Newfoundland (CNN) -- More than 17,000 people who were passengers on dozens of international flights that were diverted from landing in the United States remain stranded in the province of
Newfoundland in Canada. The planes landed at Newfoundland airports Tuesday as U.S. airspace was shut down in the aftermath of terror attacks in Washington and New York.

Subject: AMERICA UNDER ATTACK
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM
Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2001 01:03pm

VERO BEACH, Fla. (CNN) -- At least 10 FBI agents were searching two houses in this city in Florida in what appeared to be part of the investigation into the deadly terrorists attacks against the United States. The immediate neighborhood was temporarily evacuated after FBI agents knocked on doors and said there was a bomb scare. Residents have been allowed back in their homes.

Subject: AMERICA UNDER ATTACK
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM
Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2001 01:30pm

BOSTON (CNN) -- The FBI has taken several people into custody in connection with the investigation into the deadly terrorist attacks against the United States. The individuals have not been arrested and they have not been described as suspects. Heavily armed police and FBI agents swarmed the Westin Hotel in the Copley Square area of Boston. Sources said several people were also taken into custody for questioning in Florida.

Subject: AMERICA UNDER ATTACK
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM
Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2001 02:17pm

KABUL, Afghanistan (CNN) -- Officials of the Taliban, the hard-line Islamic rulers of Afghanistan, are appealing to the United States not to attack Afghanistan, CNN has learned. The plea came after an
international message was passed along to senior Taliban officials, who were meeting Wednesday with Pakistan diplomats.

Subject: AMERICA UNDER ATTACK
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM
Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2001 02:47pm

NEW YORK (CNN) -- Giant brokerage firm MorganStanley's chairman and CEO, Philip Purcell, said Wednesday "a vast majority" of the 3,500 staff members who worked in two of the World Trade Center buildings, including one of the twin towers, got out safely after hijackers crashed two planes into the towers.

Subject: CNN Breaking News
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM
Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2001 03:01pm

-- White House, Air Force One were targets of terrorists on Tuesday, administration official tells CNN.

Subject: AMERICA UNDER ATTACK
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM
Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2001 03:26pm

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The United States reached out to Russia and Pakistan Wednesday in an effort to put pressure on the Taliban militia that is harboring Saudi exile Osama bin Laden in Afghanistan, State Department officials and diplomatic sources tell CNN.

Subject: AMERICA UNDER ATTACK
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM
Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2001 04:14pm

BRUSSELS, Belgium (CNN) -- NATO has unanimously declared the hijack attacks on the U.S. to be an assault against all member states. Secretary-General George Robertson said the U.S. would receive
support for military action from its 18 NATO partners if it is found the assaults were committed by foreign nationals.

Subject: AMERICA UNDER ATTACK
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM
Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2001 05:16pm

BALTIMORE (CNN) -- The Navy's medical ship USNS Comfort left Baltimore Wednesday bound for the New York City waterfront, according to the Military Sealift Command. The vessel is nearly 900
feet long and has 1,000 beds. It saw action in the Middle East during Operation Desert Storm.

Subject: AMERICA UNDER ATTACK
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM
Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2001 05:32pm

NEW YORK (CNN) -- Top U.S. officials said Wednesday that they know the identities of many of the hijackers on each of the four flights that crashed Tuesday -- two toppling the World Trade Center and a
third heavily damaging the Pentagon in the worst terrorist attacks in U.S history.

Subject: AMERICA UNDER ATTACK
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM
Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2001 05:56pm

NEW YORK (CNN) -- Rescue workers and journalists were evacuated from the devastated area around the World Trade Center amid fear that another building may collapse. The twin towers of the World Trade
Center collapsed Tuesday after hijacked jets crashed into them. Another adjacent building also later collapsed.

Subject: AMERICA UNDER ATTACK
Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2001 06:25pm
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM

NEW YORK (CNNfn) - U.S. stock markets will stay shuttered for a third day Thursday and may not reopen until Monday, though officials from the major stock markets and the government said trading could
resume as early as Friday.

Subject: AMERICA UNDER ATTACK
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM
Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2001 07:05pm

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Federal officials Wednesday announced a limited resumption of commercial flights to allow travelers stranded around the country as a result of Tuesday's hijackings to return home. But
Transportation Secretary Norm Mineta temporarily extended all other aspects of the nationwide "groundstop" that halted all scheduled domestic flights until new security measures are put into effect at the country's airports.

Subject: AMERICA UNDER ATTACK
Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2001 07:36pm
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM

WASHINGTON (CNN) --- Congressional leaders and the White House agreed Wednesday to set aside $20 billion for rescue efforts, repairs and counterterrorism work after Tuesday's terror attacks on Washington and New York.

Subject: AMERICA UNDER ATTACK
Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2001 08:18pm
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- In the wake of Tuesday's terrorism attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, the State Department Wednesday evening will reissue its Worldwide Caution warning Americans traveling abroad, a senior State Department official told CNN.

Subject: AMERICA UNDER ATTACK
Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2001 10:02pm
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM

VERO BEACH, Fla. (CNN) -- Investigators have leads on four hijackers they believe commandeered the two airliners from Boston that destroyed the twin towers of the World Trade Center, CNN has learned. Two of the men were brothers apparently from Saudi Arabia who had most recently been living in Florida where they attended flight training school.

Subject: CNN Breaking News
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM
Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2001 10:24pm

-- Empire State Building being evacuated. Details soon.

Subject: CNN Breaking News
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM
Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2001 10:42pm

-- "All clear" given at Empire State Building, Penn Station. Details soon.

Subject: AMERICA UNDER ATTACK
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM
Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2001 10:45pm

NEW YORK (CNN) -- Authorities evacuated the Empire State Building and Penn Station Wednesday night. Three police officers told CNN the Empire State Building was evacuated after a bomb-sniffing dog
detected a suspected explosive device inside one of the city's most popular landmarks.Shortly afterwards, police told people to get off the trains in Penn Station just a few blocks away and to "run as fast as they can," a CNN producer reported from the scene.

Subject: AMERICA UNDER ATTACK
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM
Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2001 10:47pm

NEW YORK (CNN) -- Authorities evacuated the Empire State Building and Penn Station Wednesday night. Three police officers told CNN the Empire State Building was evacuated after a bomb-sniffing dog
detected a suspected explosive device inside one of the city's most popular landmarks.Shortly afterwards, police told people to get off the trains in Penn Station just a few blocks away and to "run as fast as they can," a CNN producer reported from the scene. About 20 minutes after the evacuation was ordered, the all clear was given at both locations.

Thursday, September 13, 2001
Subject: AMERICA UNDER ATTACK
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM
Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2001 12:06am

NEW YORK (CNN) -- A doctor helping treat rescue workers Wednesday in a downtown office building told CNN the building was serving as a makeshift morgue, and contained about 150 bodies. Dr. William
Bradley, an ophthalmologist treating rescue workers' eyes, burning and scratched by the cloud of soot and fiberglass that envelopes much of Manhattan, said he saw the bodies inside the American Express building in Tribeca.

Subject: CNN Breaking News
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM
Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2001 07:59am

-- FAA says airports that meet new safety requirements can reopen at 11 a.m. EDT. Details soon.

Subject: AMERICA UNDER ATTACK
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM
Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2001 09:02am

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Dover Air Force Base in Delaware is preparing to receive bodies of victims killed in Tuesday's terrorist attack on the Pentagon, officials tell CNN. Spokeswoman Jennifer Hall says the
remains will arrive at the port mortuary starting Thursday afternoon, to be processed and identified "in the most honorable way by our mortuary affairs personnel."

Subject: CNN Breaking News
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM
Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2001 09:15am

-- One of two Saudi pilot brothers believed connected with hijackings cooperating with FBI, CNN has learned. Details to come.

Subject: CNN Breaking News
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM
Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2001 10:08am

-- New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani reports 4,763 people known missing at this time. Details to come.

Subject: AMERICA UNDER ATTACK
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM
Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2001 11:04am

KABUL, Afghanistan (CNN) -- Afghanistan's ruling Taliban movement is not confirming a widespread report out of the United Arab Emirates that suspected terrorist Osama bin Laden is under house arrest in
Afghanistan, but although it appears he is in the country, his exact location is unknown.

Subject: CNN Breaking News
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM
Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2001 11:07am

-- President Bush to visit New York tomorrow; says "we will win this war."

Subject: CNN Breaking News
Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2001 01:02pm
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM

-- Five firefighters rescued in World Trade Center rubble, CNN reports.

Subject: CNN Breaking News
Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2001 02:01pm
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM

-- American Express building in New York City being evacuated over concerns it may collapse. Details soon.

Subject: CNN Breaking News
Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2001 03:31pm
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM

-- New York Stock Exchange to reopen on Monday. Details soon.

Subject: CNN Breaking News
Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2001 03:45pm
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM

-- Major League Baseball postpones games through Sunday. Details soon.

Subject: AMERICA UNDER ATTACK
Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2001 03:51pm
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- In an effort to assess the security of the U.S. nuclear weapons stockpile and review anti-terrorism efforts under way at U.S. nuclear power plants, a group of congressional leaders will visit U.S. nuclear weapons laboratories this weekend.

Subject: AMERICA UNDER ATTACK
Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2001 04:45pm
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM

NEW YORK (CNN) -- Major internet service providers (ISPs) in the United States said Thursday they are cooperating with federal authorities in the investigation of Tuesday's terrorist attacks on New York and Washington.

Subject: CNN Breaking News
Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2001 05:06pm
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM

-- Flight data recorder found from hijacked plane in Pennsylvania, Justice Department says. Details soon.

Subject: CNN Breaking News
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM
Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2001 05:54pm

-- U.S. Capitol being evacuated; New York airports shut down. Details soon.

Subject: AMERICA UNDER ATTACK
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM
Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2001 05:54pm

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell went further than any member of the Bush administration Thursday in naming Osama bin Laden as a leading suspect in Tuesday's attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.

Friday, September 14, 2001
Subject: CNN Breaking News
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM
Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2001 01:30am

-- The White House and Congress have agreed on a $40 billion emergency aid package in the wake of Tuesday's terrorist attacks. Officials said the legislation should be ready for President Bush's signature Saturday.

Subject: CNN Breaking News
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM
Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2001 08:30am

-- Defense Department intends to ask that 50,000 reservists be called up for 'homeland defense,' CNN has learned.

Subject: CNN Breaking News
Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2001 10:15am
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM

-- Sources have told CNN the identities of the 18 people believed to be the hijackers in Tuesday's terrorist attacks. Details to come.

Subject: CNN Breaking News
Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2001 10:52am
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM

-- Senate approves $40 billion aid package by 96-0 vote.

Subject: CNN Breaking News
Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2001 10:58am
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM

-- Senate approves use of force by 98-0 vote.

Subject: AMERICA UNDER ATTACK
Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2001 11:27am
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- All three New York area airports are now reopened, according to Federal Aviation Administration spokesman Alison Duquette. This includes LaGuardia, John F. Kennedy International Airport, and Newark International Airport.

Subject: AMERICA UNDER ATTACK
Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2001 01:59pm
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- People across the United States and around the world observed a day of "prayer and remembrance" Friday for the victims of the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.

U.S. President George W. Bush joined members of Congress, top military officials, world diplomats and a host of dignitaries -- including former presidents Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton and George Bush and their wives -- at a noontime prayer service at the National Cathedral in Washington.

Subject: CNN Breaking News
Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2001 02:25pm
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM

-- House passes $40 billion emergency appropriations bill, sends to president. Details soon.

Subject: AMERICA UNDER ATTACK
Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2001 04:56pm
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM

New York (CNN) -- President George W. Bush went to New York City Friday to see for himself the devastation from Tuesday's terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and boost morale for the rescue
and recovery effort. Earlier, the president told a prayer service at the National Cathedral that a "unity against terror is now extending across the world."

Saturday, September 15, 2001
Subject: CNN Breaking News
Date: Sat, 15 Sep 2001 11:41am
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM

-- Continental Airlines to cut flights, furlough 12,000 employees. Details soon.

Subject: CNN Breaking News
Date: Sat, 15 Sep 2001 02:43pm
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM

-- Iran has closed its border with Afghanistan, Iran's News Agency reports. Details soon

Subject: CNN Breaking News
Date: Sat, 15 Sep 2001 04:33pm
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM

-- Sources: Suspected Washington hijacker met with suspect in USS Cole bombing. Details soon.

Subject: CNN Breaking News
Date: Sat, 15 Sep 2001 06:11pm
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM

-- Second arrest warrant issued in N.Y. for "material witness." Details soon

Sunday, September 16, 2001
Subject: CNN Breaking News
Date: Sun, 16 Sep 2001 02:00am
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM

-- A passport belonging to one of the hijackers was discovered Saturday several blocks from the Manhattan crash site.

Subject: CNN Breaking News
Date: Sun, 16 Sep 2001 05:46am
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM

-- CNN has learned Pakistan will demand that the Taliban turn over Osama bin Laden. More to come

Subject: CNN Breaking News
Date: Sun, 16 Sep 2001 06:48pm
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM

-- Four "material witnesses" in custody. Details soon

Subject: CNN Breaking News
Date: Sun, 16 Sep 2001 06:55pm
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM

-- Arrest warrents issued for four "material witnesses." Details soon

Monday, September 17, 2001
Subject: CNN Breaking News
Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2001 08:26am
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM

-- Fed cuts interest rates by half a percentage point. Full story soon.

Subject: CNN Breaking News
Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2001 12:23pm
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM

-- President Bush warns 'there will be costs' in war on terrorism. Details to come.

Subject: CNN Breaking News
Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2001 04:07pm
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM

-- Dow closes down more than 600 points; Nasdaq down more than 100. Details soon.

Tuesday, September 18, 2001
Subject: CNN Breaking News
Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2001 10:29am
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM

-- Israel calls a halt to offensive operations against Palestinians, CNN confirms. Details to come.

Subject: CNN Breaking News
Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2001 02:47pm
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM

-- Hijacking suspect met with an Iraqi intelligence official somewhere in Europe earlier this year, U.S.officials said.

Subject: CNN Breaking News
Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2001 03:42pm
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM

-- United Airlines to lay off 20,000 employees, CNN has learned. Details soon.

Subject: CNN Breaking News
Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2001 09:36pm
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM

-- President Bush signs $40 billion emergency spending bill, congressional authorization to use force. Details soon.

Subject: CNN Breaking News
Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2001 09:40pm
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM

-- Boeing to lay off 20,000 to 30,000 workers by end of 2002. Details soon.

Wednesday, September 19, 2001
Subject: CNN Breaking News
Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2001 12:24am
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM

-- Despite term limits, Rudy Giuliani considers run for third term as NYC mayor.

Subject: CNN Breaking News
Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2001 11:51am
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM

-- Pakistani President Gen. Pervez Musharraf says a U.S. attack on terrorists would not be an attack on Afghanistan's people or on Islam. Details soon.

Subject: CNN Breaking News
Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2001 02:56pm
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM

-- U.S. Air Force will deploy more than 100 aircraft to "forward areas" in the Persian Gulf, sources tell CNN. Details soon.

Subject: CNN Breaking News
Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2001 04:25pm
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM

-- American Airlines announces it will lay off 20,000 employees. Details soon.

Thursday, September 20, 2001
Subject: CNN Breaking News
Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2001 06:03am
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM

-- Clerics in Kabul have suggested that accused terrorist mastermind Osama bin Laden be asked to leave Afghanistan for the good of the country.

Subject: CNN Breaking News
Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2001 11:01am
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM

-- White House rejects recommendation from Afghan clerics that Osama  bin Laden be asked to leave the country voluntarily. Details to come.

Subject: CNN Breaking News
Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2001 04:55pm
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM

-- President Bush wants $5 billion for immediate relief for airline industry, CNN has learned. Details soon.

Subject: CNN Breaking News
Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2001 05:04pm
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM

-- New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani raises estimate of people missing at World Trade Center to 6,333. Details soon.

Subject: CNN Breaking News
Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2001 08:45pm
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM

-- Delta to cut 15 to 20 percent of work force in layoffs next week. Details soon.

Subject: CNN Breaking News
Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2001 08:56pm
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM

-- President Bush picks Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Ridge for new Cabinet- level position overseeing homeland defense. Details soon.

Friday, September 21, 2001
Subject: CNN Breaking News
Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2001 04:00am
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM

-- Taliban clerics "sympathetic" with U.S. but won't force bin Laden to leave Afghanistan.

Subject: CNN Breaking News
Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2001 04:08am
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM

-- Taliban says U.S. not justified in making demands without proof or evidence.

Subject: CNN Breaking News
Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2001 07:01pm
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM

-- The Senate has passed a $15 billion relief bill for the airline industry struggling in the wake of the September 11 terrorist attacks.

Saturday, September 22, 2001
Subject: CNN Breaking News
Date: Sat, 22 Sep 2001 02:18am
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM

-- Reports: The United Arab Emirates has cut diplomatic ties with the Taliban government of Afghanistan.

Sunday, September 23, 2001
No bulletins today

Monday, September 24, 2001
Subject: CNN Breaking News
Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2001 08:36am
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM

-- Pakistan has pulled all diplomatic staff from Afghanistan, citing security concerns. Details to come.

Subject: CNN Breaking News
Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2001 09:40am
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM

-- President Bush announces freezing of U.S. financial assets with 27 entities with suspected terrorist ties. Details soon.

Subject: CNN Breaking News
Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2001 10:37am
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM

-- Statement attributed to Osama bin Laden calls on Pakistanis not to cooperate with the U.S. in military action against Afghanistan. Details to come.

Subject: CNN Breaking News
Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2001 03:13pm
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM

-- Pilots union to ask Congress to allow pilots to have guns in cockpit. Details soon.

Tuesday, September 25, 2001
No bulletins today

Wednesday, September 26, 2001
Subject: CNN Breaking News
Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2001 03:51am
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM

-- Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres and Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat have arrived for talks at Gaza International Airport.

Subject: CNN Breaking News
Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2001 07:02am
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM

-- Israel and Palestians agree to resume full security cooperation. Details to come.

Subject: CNN Breaking News
Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2001 03:15pm
From: BreakingNews@CNN.COM

-- President Bush to propose armed marshals on almost all U.S. flights, increase federal role in airport screening. Details soon.

Multiple identities of hijack suspects confound FBI

By Mitch Lipka

Sun-Sentinel

Posted September 28 2001

Two weeks after the terrorist attack that killed an estimated 7,000 people, investigators still are not sure who all the hijackers really were.

The 19 terrorism suspects used stolen identities, multiple identities and fake names, obfuscating their trail so successfully that even thousands of federal agents are having difficulty sorting it out.

On Thursday, Attorney General John Ashcroft and FBI Director Robert Mueller released a stack of photographs and a laundry list of aliases, and reached out for help in tracking the true identities of the suspects.

"It should be noted that attempts to confirm the true identities of these individuals are still under way," the FBI said in a statement.

Many of the suspected terrorists, it is becoming increasingly clear, swapped identities as part of their preparations for the Sept. 11 attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, according to a Sun-Sentinel review of documents, interviews and published reports.

At least six of the suspected terrorists had two sets of driver’s licenses issued by Florida — which could have allowed two or more people to use the same identity. Once they had licenses, the terror suspects rented cars and traveled on domestic airline flights without the scrutiny faced by travelers who show a foreign license or a passport.

They used our libraries, worked out in our health clubs, ate next to us at restaurants and restaurants, and flew little planes over our houses. They chose landlords who didn’t require background checks. They changed apartments before anyone could take much notice of their activities.

In the case of several of the South Florida-based suspects, they got duplicate licenses issued after they simply filled out change of address forms. A second license was sent, as is routine, with the request to the license holder to destroy the previous ID.

Some of the suspects apparently used the stolen identities of at least five Saudis who worked in the airline industry as pilots, mechanics and flight attendants — people who would have had increased access in airports, a Saudi government official told the Sun-Sentinel.

The stolen and phony IDs have created problems for investigators. "Obviously that’s been a concern," said Judy Orihuela, spokeswoman for the FBI in Miami.

"We are fairly certain of a number of them," FBI Director Robert Mueller said at a news conference Thursday, though he wouldn’t specify which.

Some have been linked to the terrorist network operated by Osama bin Laden, Mueller said.

Mueller said the FBI believes the names and photographs released Thursday match those on the manifests of the four hijacked planes. But questions remain over whether those are the true names of the hijackers.

"What we are currently doing is determining whether, when these individuals came to the United States, these were their real names or they changed their names for use with false identification in the United States," said Mueller.

The FBI has only identified nine of the suspected hijackers who they would even assign a possible country of origin. Eight were Saudis, the other an Egyptian.

"It is our hope that the release of these photos will prompt others who may have seen the hijackers to contact the FBI with any information they may have that would be helpful to the investigation," said Attorney General John Ashcroft.

The release of the photos, which come from passports, driver’s licenses and other documents identified with the suspected hijackers, marked a change for authorities. Until now they’ve kept the pictures under wraps so potential witnesses and others could get a fresh look at the men.

It is easy to convert a forged document into a legitimate state ID, said Lt. David Myers, who runs the fraudulent ID section of the Florida Division of Alcoholic Beverages and Tobacco. He is a national expert on fake IDs and the use of counterfeit documents to obtain IDs.

"There’s 242 valid state-issued ID documents in the United States right now," he said.

Once an ID is in someone’s hand, there’s little chance it will be detected as a fake, or a valid one obtained under false pretenses, Myers said.

"Do you think that airline lady knows when I hand her my Idaho license that it’s no good anymore? There’s no record. There’s no nothing," he said. "We pay 53 cents for that document, yet we’re putting all of our trust into that document.

"The United States has the lowest standard of ID documents of probably any country in the world." Most nations, he went on, have national ID cards, with information collected in a central database.

For most of their time in the U.S., the 19 lived in places where they wouldn't draw much attention — areas that attracted transients and were outside the view of the intelligence operatives, said Whalid Phares, a Florida Atlantic University professor.

Phares, a terrorism expert and author of numerous books and papers on Islamic fundamentalism, said it was likely that most of the suspects set up in southern states because federal agents were more likely to be paying attention to Mexicans and Cubans.

"It’s not going to provide 100-percent protection," he said, but it would allow some comfort.

A study of their movements, as traced so far, shows they lived together in small groups, or cells. Their actions were probably controlled by someone who was not among them, — someone who has yet to be identified, said Larry Johnson, former deputy-director of counter-terrorism for the U.S. State Department and now a security consultant in Maryland.

“These guys were just committed zealots and willing to give it up for the cause without really being key members of the network,” Johnson said. “They were told what to prepare for, what to train for. They were not the ones calling the shots.”

They were, however, extremely well organized, Johnson and Phares said.

“We don’t have anything in history to compare with this,” Johnson said. “The only thing that comes close to it is a former Soviet intel [intelligence] operation.”

To investigators on several continents, who have pursued hundreds of thousands of leads, it seems clear the plot was laid out before the terror suspects ever entered the U.S. and began forming their cells to put into motion the nightmare of Sept. 11.

Their trail zig-zagged from their homelands in the Middle East to Germany, Switzerland, Spain, Britain, Malaysia and, ultimately, the United States.

They moved constantly — staying at cheap hotels and transient apartments, rarely for more than two months at a time — in California, Arizona, Oklahoma, Maine, Nevada, Maryland, Massachusetts and New Jersey, while keeping the base of their operations in South Florida.

Of the 19 suspected terrorists, 15 used South Florida addresses in the months leading up to the attacks, according to witnesses, published reports and such documents as rental agreements and driver’s licenses. A man with the same name as a 16th hijacker stayed in Miramar in 1996.

An examination of their movements — pieced together from investigators, media reports from around the world, witnesses and public records — reveals how a handful of conspirators organized themselves into small groups, avoided detection by blending into the background of ordinary life, and then executed their synchronized shock attack on America.

Manila, the Philippines

A plot resembling the Sept. 11 attacks emerged in January 1995, when Philippine authorities investigated a Manila apartment fire. The flat turned out to be a bomb-making nest, rented by Abdul Hakim Murad and Ramzi Yousef — terrorists associated with bin Laden.

From interrogations and coded files from the suspects’ computer, Philippine intelligence officials learned of a plan that then seemed outlandish:

Conspirators wanted to kill the Pope on a visit to Manila, bomb 11 U.S. passenger jets over the Pacific Ocean (killing an estimated 4,000 passengers heading to Los Angeles, San Francisco, Honolulu and New York City), and crash a plane into CIA headquarters in Langley, Va.

Murad, a pilot, brought a bomb aboard a Philippine Airlines jet in 1994 in a dry run. A Japanese businessman was killed.

Details of their scheme came out in a 1996 trial in federal court in New York, resulting in the conviction of Muran, Yousef and a third man, Wali Khan Amin Shah. All three men were sentenced to life in prison. Yousef later was convicted of being the mastermind behind the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center.

Hamburg, Germany

In a city of 1.7 million people with a quarter-million foreigners, Egyptian-born Mohammed Atta, his nephew Marwan al-Shehhi from the United Arab Emirates, and Lebanon native Ziad Jarrah could have been any three foreign students in 1999 and 2000.

In Germany — a melting pot of nationalities that Johnson said makes it a haven for terrorists — they attracted little attention.

Atta had dropped out of sight in the middle of his eight years at the Technical University of Hamburg-Harburg, where he began studying urban planning in 1992.

By all accounts, the Atta who returned in 1999 had a newly found devotion to Islam. He sported a long beard and founded an Islamic student group.

And he had his younger nephew in tow.

At the same time, Jarrah had an apartment in Hamburg and was studying for a pilot’s license.

Atta, al-Shehhi and Jarrah reported their passports stolen in 1999during a trip to Bavaria in southern Germany, the German newspaper Bild reported.

“They presumably wanted to get rid of visa entries from Iraq and Afghanistan to make it easier to travel to the United States,” the newspaper quoted an Interior Ministry spokesman.

Atta completed his studies at the end of spring semester of 2000, and was soon on the move.

He got his visa from the U.S. consulate in Berlin on May 18, 2000. He landed in Newark, N.J., on June 3.

Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Three men were captured on surveillance video in January 2000.

One was arrested in connection with the bomb attack on the U.S.S. Cole in Aden, Yemen, on Oct. 12, 2000. U.S officials believe the attack, which killed 17 sailors and wounded more than twice that many, to be the work of bin Laden.

The CIA said other two men were Khalid al-Midhar and Nawaf al-Hazmi — both of whose names appear on the FBI list of suspected terrorists on American Airlines Flight 77, the plane that crashed into the Pentagon.

The American West and Southwest

Al-Midhar and al-Hazmi arrived in the U.S. in early 2000, setting up in San Diego.

In February, the two paid $3,000 cash for a 1988 Toyota Corolla. They were spotted at a local flying club in May with someone named “Hani,” possibly Hani Hanjour, another of the suspected terrorists.

A man with Hanjour’s name had received some flight training in Scottsdale, Ariz., in 1996 and 1997 but didn’t receive a pilot’s license. He asked for advanced training in 1999, saying he got his license elsewhere, but the school rejected him.

In San Diego, al-Midhar and al-Hazmi met Abdussattar Shaikh, a local Muslim leader and retired professor. He rented them a room in his house from September through December, although al-Midhar was gone much of that time.

Shaikh told the San Diego Union-Tribune he thought he was offering shelter to two young men who were in the country to learn English.

Al-Midhar, he said, could barely speak English and appeared standoffish. Al-Hazmi had a better command of the language, Shaikh said, and became quite friendly.

Oklahoma to Florida

Flight school operators in Norman, Okla., said they briefly met Atta and al-Shehhi while the pair were scouting their operation. After a short stay in the U.S. heartland, the two decided on a flight school in multi-ethnic Florida.

They picked Huffman Aviation in Venice.

Living in nearby Nokomis, uncle and nephew spent July through November, getting a feel for airplanes.

Also in Venice was Jarrah, registering a car in November.In December Atta and al-Shehhi relocate to Florida’s East Coast and trained in Opa-Locka. At the SimCenter, they paid $1,500 to use a Boeing 727, and experienced being at the controls of a commercial jet.

Europe

On Jan. 4, Atta took the first of many trips to Europe, flying from Miami to Madrid, returning about a week later.

Then, neighbors and investigators said, Atta and al-Shehhi returned to Hamburg, moving back to Atta’s old apartment.

As many as 11 of the terror suspects were in London at various times this year, The Times of London reported.

South Florida

Many of the suspected hijackers started to appear here by April.

Using a Mail Boxes Etc. address in Hollywood, al-Shehhi got his Florida driver’s license on April 12. He got a duplicate license two months later.

He and his uncle, Atta, were living in an apartment in Coral Springs. On April 26, Atta got a traffic ticket in Tamarac and gave the Coral Springs address. He was cited for driving without a license.

On April 23, Jarrah rented a small apartment at 1816 Harding St. in Hollywood. He stayed for two months.

A man calling himself Waleed al-Shehri rented a room on April 28 at the Bimini Motel on Ocean Drive in Hollywood. He got his Florida driver’s license May 4 — and a duplicate the next day.

Al-Shehhi arrived at Miami International Airport on May 2 on a flight from Amsterdam, according to the Boston Globe. It is not clear where he’d traveled in Europe or what he was doing.

Atta got a Florida driver’s license on May 2, using the Coral Springs address. Jarrah got a license that same day, saying he lived in Lauderdale-by-the Sea. He got a duplicate on July 10 — the same day that a man calling himself Ahmed al-Haznawi got his Florida license, using the same Lauderdale-by-the Sea address.

(Al-Haznawi got a duplicate of his license on Sept. 7.)

On May 13, al-Shehhi and Atta moved into an apartment on Jackson Street in Hollywood. They stayed a month.

Phoenix

On June 23, a man using the name Hani Hanjour and three other unidentified men began a series of sessions in a flight simulator at Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport.

Sawyer Aviation, a Phoenix flight school, told the Arizona Republic the men spent hours in the simulator until July 29.

South Florida

On June 21, Waleed al-Shehri and two other men, Wail al-Shehri and Satam al-Suqami, rented a room at the Homing Inn on Federal Highway in Boynton Beach, staying until July 26.

On July 3, both Wail al-Shehri and al-Suqami got driver’s licenses using the motel’s address.

In Delray Beach, meantime, al-Shehhi rented an apartment for Atta and himself in the gated Hamlet Country Club off Atlantic Avenue. They stayed there from June 13 to Aug. 12.

Using an address on Dotterel Road in Delray Beach, a man calling himself Ahmed al-Nami got a driver’s license on June 29.

Nawaf al-Hazmi, who’d been captured on the CIA surveillance tape with the Cole suspect and al-Midhar before going to San Diego, got a Florida driver’s license using a fictitious address in Delray Beach.

Hamza al-Ghamdi, a man living at the Delray Beach Racquet Club, got his Florida license on June 27 and then received two duplicates, most recently in August.

Las Vegas

Atta took two quick trips in the summer to the glitzy gambling city, staying in a budget motel.

At least four other hijacking suspects in the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks stayed in Las Vegas, the Associated Press reported. In addition to Atta, authorities have evidence that al-Shehhi, Hanjour, Nawaf al-Hazmi and Jarrah visited Las Vegas between May and August, the wire service said, quoting an anonymous source.

That would place at least one man from each of the hijacked planes in that city.

Europe

On July 9, Atta flew from Miami to Madrid. He spent 11 days in Europe before returning to the U.S. Spanish intelligence officials said his rental car had more than 1,200 miles on it, the Spanish newspaperEl Mundo reported.

Intelligence officials have said Atta was meeting with suspected members of bin Laden’s organization at a hotel in Salou, Spain July 17 and 18 and at other locations around Spain. He returned to the U.S. on July 19.

At some point in the summer, Atta and al-Shehhi checked into a hotel in Zurich. They bought knives and box-cutters used in the hijackings, according to the Swiss newspaper SonntagsBlick.

Former counter-terrorism official Johnson theorized why they were there:

“If you’re going to Switzerland you’ll be talking about financial activities,” he said.

The Eastern Seaboard

In August, the CIA alerted the FBI to be on the lookout for al-Midhar and Nawaf al-Hazmi because of the suspected connections to the Cole bombing. That month, Nawaf al-Hazmi and Hanjour reportedly rented at least three cars from Borough Jeep Eagle Chrysler Plymouth in Wayne, N.J. In suburban Washington, Hanjour, Salem al-Hazmi, Majed Moqed, Ahmed Saleh al-Ghamdi and Abdulaziz al-Omari applied for licenses at the Virginia Department of Motor Vehicles office in Arlington.

In Bowie, Md., Hanjour flew three training flights in early August with instructors from Freeway Airport. But the instructors said he flew too poorly to rent a plane — even though a Saudi man of that name had a FAA commercial pilot’s license.

Later in August, Jarrah checked into the Pin-Del Motel in Laurel, Md. Less than a mile away, at least two other suspects were in a room at the Valencia Motel, where they stayed Aug. 23 to Sept. 11.

Five days later, Nawaf al-Hazmi checked into the Pin-Del Motel.

Al-Midhar, Majed Moqed, Nawaf al-Hazmi, Salem al-Hazmi and Hanjour all visited a Gold’s Gym in Greenbelt, Md.

South Florida

Atta and other suspected hijackers looked into crop dusters in Belle Glade in August, according to people at the airport. Some say they saw him there as early as February.

Atta rented cars from Warrick’s Rent-A-Car in Pompano on Aug. 6 and Aug. 15. On Aug. 29, he and al-Shehhi exchanged a car that had some problems, returning the newer one Sept. 9.

In Lantana, Atta practiced flying in a rental plane at Palm Beach County Air Park.

In Deerfield Beach, al-Shehhi checked into the Panther Motel on Ocean Boulevard on Aug. 26 with another man. They were sometimes joined by a third. They stayed until Sept. 9.

On Aug. 26, Waleed M. al-Shehri and Wail al-Shehri bought tickets for American Flight 11 for Sept. 11. They gave a Mail Boxes Etc. address in Hollywood.

The next day, Mohand al-Shehri and a man the FBI now says is Fayez Rashid Ahmed Hassan al- Qadi Banihammad bought tickets for United Flight 175 on Sept. 11. They used a Delray Beach Mail Boxes Etc. address.

One day later, Hamza al-Ghamdi and Ahmed al-Ghamdi, using another Mail Boxes Etc. address in Delray Beach bought their tickets for that same flight.The next day, Atta and al-Omari got tickets at the same time for Flight 11 on the American Airlines Web site, using the same frequent flyer number. Al-Omari gave a Mail Boxes Etc. address in Hollywood.

That same day, al-Shehhi bought a ticket for Flight 175 and al-Suqami bought one for Flight 11. Al-Midhar, Moqed, Nawaf al-Hazmi, Salem al-Hazmi and Hanjour bought tickets for the Pentagon-bound plane through the online travel agency Travelocity and giving a Mail Boxes Etc. address in New Jersey, according to CNN.

The hijackers paid as much as $4,500 for a first-class one-way ticket, according to an FBI memo obtained by the German magazine Der Spiegel.

Boston

The first of the suspected hijackers arrived Sept. 6. The Boston Globe reports a car rented by one of them was seen at the Logan International Airport garage. The car was seen again at Logan on Sept. 9 and 10th, the newspaper reported.

On the 10th, Atta and al-Omari drove a rental car to Portland, Maine, where they awaited a flight back to Boston early the next morning. Security experts have suggested they wanted to avoid being seen arriving with the other suspected terrorists at the airport.The other eight Boston suspected hijackers spread out to hotels around the Boston area.

South Florida

On Sept. 7, Atta, al-Shehhi — and by some reports, a third man — drank and played video games at Shuckums, a Hollywood bar and grill.

According to a waitress and the night manager, they quarreled over the $48 tab.

Maine, Boston, Newark, Washington

A video camera in the Portland, Maine, airport caught two men racing to get on a 5:45 a.m. flight to Boston on Sept. 11. Authorities have identified them as Atta and al-Omari.

They arrived, as the other suspects did, just before the end of boarding for their connection in Boston. A bag that Atta had checked did not make the connection to Flight 11.

In it were airline uniforms, a video on commercial aircraft and a five-page handwritten document in Arabic that included Islamic prayers, instructions for a last night of life and reminders to bring “knives, your will, IDs, your passport.” And the words: “Make sure that nobody is following you.”

Also on board were al-Suqami, Waleed al-Shehri and Wail al-Shehri.

At Washington’s Dulles Airport, American’s Flight 77 took off at 8:10 a.m. The passengers included al-Midhar, Moqed, Nawaf al-Hazmi, Salem al-Hazmi and Hanjour.

In Boston, United’s Flight 175 took off at 8:14 a.m. In their seats were al-Shehhi, Banihammad, Ahmed al-Ghamdi, Hamza al-Ghamdi and Mohand al-Shehri.

At Newark Airport, United’s Flight 93 departed at 8:44 a.m., with Saeed al-Ghamdi, al-Haznawi, al-Nami and Jarrah on board.

At 8:45 a.m., Flight 11 crashed into the World Trade Center’s north tower.

Twenty minutes later, Flight 175 exploded on impact with the WTC south tower.

At 9:39 a.m., Flight 77 hit the Pentagon.

At 10:10 a.m., Flight 93 crashed in Stony Creek Township, Pa.

Staff writers Alan Cherry and Stacey Singer and wire services were used in this article. Mitch Lipka can be reached at mlipka@sun-sentinel.com or 561-243-6653.

Feds: Evidence suggests hijackers' support in U.S.

September 20, 2001, Los Angeles Times

by Richard A. Serrano and John-Thor Dahlburg, Los Angeles Times Staff Writers

WASHINGTON -- Federal authorities are gathering evidence that suggests a small network of Islamic men helped fund and protect some of the 19 suicide attackers by providing cash, documents and possibly even safe houses, a high-ranking law enforcement official said Wednesday.

The official added that among the handful of individuals arrested so far, three are receiving particular scrutiny: a man arrested on immigration charges in Minnesota last month and two others pulled from a train in Texas on the day of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.

Authorities also are interested in the prior activities and associates of a physician arrested in San Antonio, Texas, who also is in federal custody.

Officials said they think that the two men on the train, Ayub Ali Khan and Mohammed Jaweed Azmath, were headed to San Antonio to meet with Dr. al-Badr al-Hazmi. The source also said that FBI and CIA intelligence officials were advised in August that as many as 200 Islamics with terrorist leanings were slipping into this country and planning "a major assault on the United States."

The advisory, passed on by the Mossad, Israel's intelligence agency, cautioned that it had picked up indications of a "large-scale target" in the United States and that Americans would be "very vulnerable," the official said.

How U.S. authorities reacted to the warning is not known, but the official said the advisory linked the information "back to Afghanistan and Osama bin Laden."

"There was a connection there," he said.

Attorney General John Ashcroft has said that authorities suspect that more airplanes were going to be hijacked, and that other co-conspirators -- possibly handlers and associates of the 19 suicide attackers -- remain at large.

Mindy Tucker, spokesperson for the Justice Department, said Wednesday that "we believe there are associates of the hijackers that have connections to the terrorist network that are present in the United States."

Other law enforcement authorities said such logistical support is typical within many Islamic terrorist cells.

Some participants help others slip unnoticed from city to city, and country to country, by providing them with fake or fraudulent passports, cash gained through bank- and credit-card fraud, and safe havens in their homes or in apartments rented under aliases, the authorities said.

On the morning that the Trade Center towers were destroyed, Habib Zacarias Moussaoui was in a Minnesota jail on an Immigration and Naturalization Service violation. According to one jailer, Moussaoui saw the disaster on television, and then stood and cheered.

Moussaoui's parents were born in Morocco, and he is a French citizen, born in the southern town of St. Jean de Luz in May 1968, according to an official at the French embassy in London. It was reported earlier that he was a French Algerian.

According to press reports, Moussaoui earned vocational degrees in automotive mechanics. On his university application, he expressed particular interest on his university application in learning business English so he could travel and "work in an international business."

French officials confirmed that Moussaoui was on a special immigration watch list because of his suspected ties to Islamic terrorists and because he had made several trips to Afghanistan.

Moussaoui spent at least three years in Britain in the late 1990s, according to French officials. He came to the French embassy in London in September 2000, and had his French passport extended. At the time, he described himself as unemployed and said he had lived at several addresses in the suburbs of London.

By this year, however, he was able to afford to journey to the United States and begin flying lessons. He was arrested Aug. 17 after the staff at a flight school grew concerned about his offer of thousands of dollars in cash for instruction in how to fly jumbo jets and his lack of interest in learning to take off or land jets.

The two men authorities removed from the train in Fort Worth, Texas -- Khan, 51, and Azmath, 47 -- also had a large sum of money with them -- $20,000 in cash, the official said -- as well as box cutters similar to those allegedly used by the hijackers on at least one of the commandeered planes.

The men had boarded a flight in Newark, N.J., that was bound for San Antonio on the morning of the attacks. But the flight was diverted to St. Louis after the World Trade Center was hit, and Khan and Azmath then took an Amtrak train to Texas.

The train was stopped in Fort Worth on a routine check for drugs, and Khan and Azmath were detained because of the materials and cash they were carrying. The train's final destination was San Antonio.

In San Antonio, federal authorities are continuing to scrutinize al-Hazmi, a 34-year-old Saudi physician. He was arrested after a search of his home and the medical school where he was finishing a five-year residency in radiology.

Officials of the University of Texas Health Science Center, where al-Hazmi studied, said he did not show up for his rounds on the day after the attacks, but they added that that was not noteworthy since he may have been studying for an important test.

Also Wednesday, owners of fitness clubs in Florida and Maryland said several of the suicide hijackers had worked out in their gyms.

"They may have been told to go get as strong as they could get in case of body conflict or a fight," said Jim Woolard, who owns eight World Gyms in Palm Beach and Broward counties.

Ziad Jarrah, a hijacker on the plane that crashed in Pennsylvania, made no secret of his aim: to learn how to fight.

On May 6, he signed up for a two-month membership, later extended to four, at the U.S. 1 Fitness Center in Dania Beach, north of Miami.

"He told me that he was from Germany, that he was visiting," said Roxanne Caputo, in charge of sales. "He would come in every day, sometimes twice."

Jarrah took classes in various combat techniques, including full-contact boxing, kick-boxing and the Brazilian martial art of Kopthaikido, Caputo said. He made two cash payments of $500 each to owner Burt Rodriguez to get some private one-on-one instruction.

Rodriguez recalled that his former pupil was soft-spoken, physically fit and a diligent learner, but that he lacked the "spark" of a born combatant.

"I've seen a lot of guys with the gloves on, and he was the kind who just wanted to survive," Rodriguez said.

During 17 lessons with the Cuban-born instructor (Jarrah missed the three final sessions he had paid for), he was taught how to grapple, defend himself in close quarters and protect himself from somebody wielding a knife or stick.

A hijacker could have used those same skills to overwhelm a flight crew or fight with airline passengers, his former teacher acknowledged with regret.

"To defend yourself, you obviously learn how to attack, which is the other side of the equation," Rodriguez said. "If he wasn't one of the pilots, he would have done quite well in thwarting the passengers from attacking."

In the summer, five hijackers on the two planes that crashed into the World Trade Center -- Mohamed Atta, Marwan Al-Shehhi, Wail M. Alshehri, Waleed M. Alshehri and Satam Al Suqami -- purchased one-month memberships at Woolard's gyms. Atta and al-Shehhi paid to work out at the Delray Beach gym; the others in Boynton Beach.

"They may have been doing it for social reasons, or to get strong for the upcoming battles," Woolard said of the men.

Five men identified as the hijackers of the plane that slammed into the Pentagon also worked out in the week before the attacks. While living in a rundown motel on the outskirts of suburban Laurel, Md., they showed up in various groupings every day from Sept. 2-6 at a nearby Gold's Gym. Three of them -- Khalid al-Midhar, Majed Moqed and Hani Hanjour -- paid $30 in cash for a week-long membership, while two others -- Salem and Nawaq Alhamzi-- paid $10 for each visit.

They spent their time training with weights and resistance machines, said Gene LaMotta, president and CEO of Gold's Gym. The fitness counselor said the men had "wads" of cash. And when the counselor asked if they could translate their Arabic names into English, Hanjour said his first name meant "warrior."

AMERICA'S ORDEAL: Murky Facts Plaguing Probe,

September 21, 2001, Newsday, "Murky Facts Plaguing Probe,"

[Newsday 9/21/01]

by John Riley and Shirley E. Perlman,

On Sept. 1, a man using the name Nawaq Alhamzi registered at the Pin-Del Motel in Laurel, Md. He was recorded as having an address of 161 Lexington Ave. in New York City, and holding New York driver's license number 3402142-D.

On Sept. 14, the FBI identified Alhamzi as one of the 19 hijackers involved in last week's terrorist attacks, and investigators eventually found their way to the Pin-Del Motel.

But the records, apparently, led nowhere. The address turned out to be a Quality Hotel in Manhattan, whose records show they never had a guest by that name. New York's Department of Motor Vehicles says that it never issued a license to anyone with that name, and uses numerical codes that don't resemble the one in the motel's records.

Such dead ends, by most accounts, have become commonplace as FBI agents and reporters try to pin down murky facts about the hijackers, and yesterday - amid reports that some of those identified as hijackers are alive and well - FBI Director Robert Mueller acknowledged that his agency still is confused about the true identity of several of the hijackers named last week.

"I know I said at the outset that I had a high level of confidence on the identities of the hijackers. We have several hijackers whose identities were those of the names on the manifests," Mueller said. "We have several others that are still in question. The investigation is ongoing, and I am not certain as to several of the others."

Mueller's comments followed interviews earlier this week in which the father of Mohamed Atta - identified as a hijacker of one of the flights that destroyed the World Trade Center and a key player in the entire plot - said from Egypt that he had spoken to his son after the crashes, and reports in both Arab and American newspapers that Saudi Arabian officials have been in touch with men who have the same names as several suspected hijackers.

Among them: Waleed Alshehri, the son of a Saudi diplomat and a pilot with Saudi Arabian Airlines. After the FBI identified a man by that name as a hijacker, it seized records from Embry Riddle Aeronautical College in Daytona Beach, Fla., of a graduate by that name, and some press reports identified him as the son of a Saudi diplomat.
But Saudi Arabia's al-Medina newspaper quoted Saudi diplomat Ahmed Alshehri as saying that his son was still alive and a pilot for Saudi Arabian Airlines. Saudi papers have reported that other men with the same names as hijackers had been victims of passport theft.

Another sign of the confusion: An alert issued Wednesday by the Federal Reserve Board asking banks to supply information about financial transactions in the names of the suspected hijackers indicates that one hijacker named by the FBI - Khalid al-Midhar - is now believed to be alive. The spelling of the names of several other suspects has been changed from the list the FBI released Sept. 14.

Similar uncertainties, according to the Department of Defense, continue to surround the possible association of hijackers with training programs for foreign military officers at U.S. military installations around the country. Although the Defense Department has acknowledged that people with the same names as those attributed to hijackers were associated with such programs at bases in Florida, Alabama and Texas, a spokeswoman said yesterday they weren't sure whether those individuals were in fact hijackers.

"There are some discrepancies of ages used by the hijackers that don't match with the people who went to our schools," said Air Force Lt. Col. Ginger Blazicko. "The FBI is specifically investigating that."

Justice Department spokeswoman Mindy Tucker said at a briefing yesterday that the hijacker names issued by the FBI were based on the "best information available" last week, and that investigators were looking into questions of stolen identities. However, she refused to specify how many names or which names were in doubt.

Experts said the confusion probably reflected a mixture of difficulties with Arabic spellings, confusion of people with identical names, identity theft and purposeful efforts to sow confusion by the hijackers.

"These people are clever," said Michael Gunter, a terrorism expert at Tennessee Technical University. "This is another world of changing identities and false identities. We may not ever know who some of these people were after all the name changes, the transliterations, the spelling differences."

In other developments in the hijacking investigation yesterday, federal agents outside Chicago arrested Nabil al-Marabh, a man they have been seeking because of reported contacts with two of the hijackers. Agents arrested three other men in Detroit on Wednesday during a raid on an apartment they believed was occupied by al-Marabh.

The FBI said al-Marabh, who was working at the Seven Day Liquor Store, was being held on an Immigration and Naturalization Service request, and on a warrant issued in Massachusetts for assault with a knife. A FBI spokesman said the agency was working to make sure that the al-Marabh who was arrested was the man agents were looking for.

Besides his reported contacts with two of the hijackers, investigators also reportedly have found links between al-Marabh and Raed Hijazi, an alleged associate of Osama bin Laden who is jailed in Jordan on charges that he plotted to blow up a hotel there during the millennium celebration on Jan. 1, 2000. The Detroit News reported yesterday that it had located a Michigan driver's license issued last year to a Nabil al-Marabh to drive trucks carrying explosives and radioactive material.

Also yesterday, police in India provided new information on two Newark men who were on a flight out of Newark Airport to San Antonio on the morning of the hijackings, and were held after an altercation with Drug Enforcement Administration resulted in the discovery of box cutters and cash in their possession. They are being held in New York.

Indian police said both men had obtained more than one passport. The man identified by U.S. officials as Ayub Ali Khan was actually Gul Mohammed Shah, and had obtained a false passport under the name Khan in 1992. The other man, Mohammed Jaweed Azmat, had obtained a passport in 1991, giving false names for his parents and dates of birth different from those on a 1984 passport.

Tom Brune of Newsday's Washington bureau contributed to this story, which was supplemented with wire reports. http://www.newsday.com/ny-usprob212376908sep21.story

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