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Annotated Timeline of the 9/11 Hijackers for Researchers

various | 5/13/02 | compiled from published sources

Posted on 05/13/2002 8:26 PM PDT by denydenydeny

"We love death. The US loves life. That is the big difference between us."
-Osama Bin Laden

THE HIJACKERS
FLIGHT 11
Mohammed ATT A (11) (also known as Mohammed al-Amir) Born September 1, 1968 in Kafr al
Sheikh, Egypt. ATT A grows up in Cairo with his middle-class family.
Abdulaziz ALOMARI (11) Saudi Arabian. Little is known about him.
Walid AL-SHEHRI (11) From Khamis Mushayt in Saudi Arabia. Former teacher, who left his job
allegedly to consult an Islamic holy man about his brother's mental illness.
Satam AL-SUQAMI (11) Born June 28, 1976. Saudi Arabian. Islamic-law-school student at King Fahd
University in Riyadh. College roommate of MOQED.
Wail ALSHEHRI (11) Born 7/31/73. Brother of Walid. Former phys-ed teacher who left his job
because of "mental illness."

FLIGHT 175
Marwan AL-SHEHHI (175) Born in United Arab Emirates on 5/9/78.
Hamza ALGHAMDI(175) Born 11/18/80. From Beljurashi in southern Saudi Arabia. Was working in
a "humiliating" job as a stockboy in a housewares shop when he was recruited for the jihad.
Ahmed ALGHAMDI(175) From Beljurashi in southern Saudi Arabia. Fayez Rashid Ahmed Hassan
Al-Qadi BANIHAMMAD (175-4) (aka Fayez Ahmed) Citizen of United Arab Republic.
Mohand ALSHEHRI (175) Former student at the Imam Muhammed Ibn Saud Islamic University in
Abha, Saudi Arabia for one semester.

FLIGHT 77
Hani HANJOTJR (77)- Saudi Arabian Born August 13, 1972. Son of a wealthy businessman from the
wealthy al-Faisaliyah section of Taif.
Khalid ALMIDHAR (77) Saudi Arabian. Veteran Al-Qaeda operative about whom little is known.
Majed MOQED (77) Saudi Arabian. Law student at the King Fahd University in Riyadh. The son of a
head of the Baniauf tribe from Annakhil near Medina. Sometimes listed as the third "logistics" person
after ALMIDHAR and Nawaq ALHAZMI.
Nawaq ALHAZMI (77) "He told me once that his father had tried to kill him when he was a child. He
never told me why, but he had a long knife scar on his forearm," said an acquaintance. Brother of a
police chief in the coastal town of Jizan.
Salem ALHAZMI (77) Saudi.

FLIGHT 93
Ziad al-JARRAH (93) Born in Al Marj, Lebanon May 11, 1975. The son of a civil servant and a
schoolteacher. Educated in a Catholic school in Beirut.
Ahmed ALNAMI (93) Born December 1977. Saudi, from the town of Abha. Former law student at the

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 Testimony of Philip B. Heymann before the National Commission on Terrorist
Attacks Upon the United States

Chairman Kean, Vice-Chair Hamilton, Members of the Commission:

Thank you for my invitation to appear on this panel. I will try to address the three

questions presented by the Commission in the order in which they were presented using
I

some of the charts from my new book Terrorism, Freedom and Security: Winning

Without War.

I. POWERS BEFORE 9/11/01

You first asked about my assessment of the government's authority before September 11,

2001 to collect intelligence, and, more broadly, the adequacy of its authority to defend

the country against terrorism.

A. Intelligence Collection Authority

To detect the traces of any activity - in this case the initial stages of preparing for a

terrorist attack on the United States - intelligence or law enforcement agents have

available only a limited set of steps even in an undemocratic political system. Starting

with that broadest set allows us to then turn to which, if any, of these steps was

unnecessarily forbidden or limited in the United States before September 11th.

A list of all possible steps would include these ten prominently:

1. They may interview willing witnesses.

2. They may offer rewards including reduced punishment for information.

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Text: Clinton Announces Departure of Steinberg from NSC Staff
(Lt. Gen. Donald Kerrick to replace him as of August 1) (340)

President Clinton June 9 announced the departure of James B. Steinberg as Deputy National Security
Advisor, effective August 1.

The White House announcement said that Clinton intends to designate Lieutenant General Donald
Kerrick to succeed Steinberg.

Following is the White House text:

(begin text)

THE WHITE HOUSE

Office of the Press Secretary

June 9, 2000

DEPUTY NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISOR JAMES B. STEINBERG TO DEPART THE WHITE

HOUSE

President Clinton announced today the departure of James B. Steinberg, Deputy Assistant to the
President and Deputy National Security Advisor, effective August 1.

"For more than seven years, Jim Steinberg has been an indispensable member of my national security
team," President Clinton said. "With his insight, his intensity, his invaluable judgment, he has been a
leader in shaping a national security strategy for the global age. We will miss him here at the White
House."

"Jim's contribution to American foreign policy over the past seven years, and especially at the NSC, has
been vital in every area," said National Security Advisor Samuel R. Berger. "I am confident he will have
a substantial impact on the direction of public policy for years to come."

Mr. Steinberg will become Senior Advisor this fall with the New York-based Markle Foundation, a
private, not-for-profit philanthropy.

Before his appointment as Deputy National Security Advisor in December 1996, Mr. Steinberg served
as Chief of Staff at the State Department and prior to that as Director of the State Department Policy
Planning Staff.

The President intends to designate Lieutenant General Donald Kerrick as Deputy Assistant to the
President and Deputy National Security Advisor, effective upon Mr. Steinberg's departure. General
Kerrick currently serves as Assistant to the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. He formerly served as
Deputy Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs.

(end text)

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• From: Dave Farber <dave@farber.net>

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. Date: Mon, 07 Oct 2002 05:16:12 -0400

Markle Foundation Task Force Says FBI Should Not Be Lead Agency For Domestic
Information to Prevent Terrorism; Report Calls for National Network of
Information Sharing According to Guidelines

October 7, 2002 - Washington, DC -- A new report released today by the

Markle Foundation Task Force on National Security in the Information Age
recommends that a new Department of Homeland Security (DHS) rather than the
FBI should take the lead in shaping domestic information and intelligence
priorities to inform policymakers.

The report calls for a networked information technology system that

effectively shares information among local, state, regional and federal
agencies and the private sector, and sets forth a blueprint for how such a
system can be established under a set of Presidential guidelines.

"Today's information technology allows us to use the power of widely

distributed information to protect Americans against terrorist threats,"
Task Force co-chairs Zoe Baird and James Barksdale said. "America will make
a mistake if we create a centralized 'mainframe' information architecture
focused on the nation's capital when the intelligence and other information
critical to homeland security need to be shared and coordinated across the
country and around the world."

As the 9/11 stories illustrate, most information gathering is done by people

who are far removed from Washington. The people on the frontlines are at the
local level: the police officer hearing a complaint from a landlord; an
airport official who hears about a plane a pilot trainee left on a runway;
an FBI agent puzzled by an odd flight school student in Arizona;, or an
emergency room resident treating a strange ailment. The report argues that

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^Testimony of James B. Steinberg on Terrorist Threat Integration Center Page 1 of 6

TESTIMONY OF JAMES B. STEINBERG, VICE PRESIDENT AND DIRECTOR OF

FOREIGN POLICY STUDIES, THE BROOKINGS INSTITUTION,

SENATE GOVERNMENTAL AFFAIRS COMMITTEE

'CONSOLIDATING INTELLIGENCE ANALYSIS: A REVIEW OF THE PRESIDENT'S

PROPOSAL TO CREATE A TERRORIST THREAT INTEGRATION CENTER".

FEBRUARY 14, 2003

Good Morning, Madame Chairwoman, and members of the Committee. My name is James
Steinberg and I am Vice President and Director of the Foreign Policy Studies Program at
the Brookings Institution. Prior to coming to Brookings, I served for four years as Deputy
National Security Advisor under President Clinton, and Director of the State Department's
Policy Planning Staff.

Today this Committee is considering perhaps the single most important issue in the fight
against terrorism - how best to mobilize information and intelligence to protect our
security.

The Joint House Senate Inquiry into the September 11 attacks vividly illustrates the crucial
challenges that we as a nation face. In particular, their report found that "the US
government does not presently bring together in one place all terrorism-related information
from all sources. While the CTC [Counter-Terrorism Center] does manage overseas
operations and has access to most Intelligence Community information, it does not collect
terrorism-related information from all sources, domestic and foreign. Within the
Intelligence Community, agencies did not adequately share relevant counterterrorism
information."

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James Steinberg served as Deputy National Security Adviser during
the Clinton Administration. Now the head of Foreign Policy Studies at Brookings Institution, a think
tank in Washington, DC., Steinberg has held positions at the U.S. State Department, The Markle
Foundation, the Rand Corporation and the International Institute for Strategic Studies. Steinberg
served as national security counsel to Senator Edward Kennedy, and is the author of "An Ever Closer
Union: European Integration and Its Implications for the Future of U.S.-European Relations." The
opinions expressed in this transcript are those of James Steinberg, and are not necessarily shared by
CNN.

CNN: Welcome once again to CNN.com Newsroom, James Steinberg. Thank you for being with us today.

JAMES STEINBERG: Glad to be back. I look forward to your questions.

CNN: With the new interim government in Afghanistan now in place, what role will the US and the coalition
play in ensuring that government's success during the next six months?

STEINBERG: There are many important questions that remain about the role that the United States and the
international community will play. The U.S. continues to focus on tracking down any remaining al Qaeda and
Taliban leaders in Afghanistan, and that means that the U.S. will maintain some significant military forces for
this role for the forseeable future. At the same time, the international community, under the leadership of Great
Britain, is beginning to deploy a modest size stabilization force to help with security in the Kabul area, and the
task force may be extended to other parts of the country in the future.

The other dimension of the international effort will be on humanitarian assistance and reconstruction. This is
an enormous task, as there are millions of displaced Afghanis who will need help with food and shelter in the
coming months, and a long term reconstruction effort that could cost upwards of $20 billion over the next five
to 10 years. It remains uncertain just what share of that funding the United States is prepared to commit.
Finally, there is an important role that the government in the region can play by resisting the temptation, which
has been all too prevalent in the past, to intervene in Afghanistan in support of factions there who are
sympathetic to the interests of one or another of the neighboring states.

CHAT PARTICIPANT: Should the U.S. be concerned with the increase of tensions between India and
Pakistan and work for a solution to Kashmir?

STEINBERG: The escalation of tensions between India and Pakistan is extremely worrying. The latest round,
of course, was triggered by a terrorist attack on the Indian Parliament, which but for an accident of timing,
could have had much more serious consequences in terms of possible injuries to very senior Indian officials.

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The U.S. in the world
By William Pfaff (IHT)
Saturday, November 1, 2003

PORTO, Portugal: More than nine months into the Iraq crisis, meetings between W
Europeans and Americans of goodwill remain strained nondialogues in which most
American participants find it hard to admit that the catastrophic loss of America's res
abroad has anything to do with them.

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scandalous incidents of foreign anti-Americanism.

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position as the sole superpower.

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