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Above are CCTV pictures
released by the FBI supposedly showing Atta and Alomari at Portland Jetport
on 9/11. Click images for full size photos.
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Michael Tuohey's brief encounter took place at
the U.S. Airways ticket and baggage check-in at the airport in
Portland, Maine. Working the ticket counter as he did most every
morning for 37 years, he remembered two clean-shaven
Arab-looking businessmen with tickets in hand (Atta and Alomari) approaching his workstation,
both looking elegant and wearing suits and ties. [American
Free Press]
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Did they change into casual clothes before walking past the camera?
| (Mohamed) Atta and (Abdulaziz) Alomari
boarded a 6:00 a.m. flight from Portland to
Boston's Logan International Airport. [SFGate] A
Mitsubishi sedan [Atta] rented was found at
Boston's Logan Airport. Arabic language materials
were found in the car. [CNN]
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How did Atta leave a
rental car at Logan Airport in Boston when he supposedly
flew there from Portland, Maine?
The official story:
| [Atta] rented a car at Logan
Airport Alamo and drove to Maine [on September
10]. Then flew down from Portland, Maine, early
Tuesday before connecting on Flight 11. [Boston.com]
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Why would Atta leave a
rental car containing incriminating evidence at Logan
Airport, rent another car in Boston to drive to Maine,
then fly back to Boston again?
Even the 9/11 Commission couldn't
explain this conundrum...
| Atta picked up Omari at
another hotel [on September 10], and the two
drove to Portland, Maine, for reasons that remain
unknown. [9/11 Commission
Report]
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...and they didn't look
for answers.
The Bukharis provide a key to the
enigma:
| [Adnan and Ameer Bukhari's]
names had been tied to a car found at an airport
in Portland, Maine. [CNN] The two rented
a car, a silver-blue Nissan Altima, from an Alamo
car rental at Boston's Logan Airport and drove to
an airport in Portland, Maine, where they got on
US Airways Flight 5930 at 6 a.m. Tuesday headed
back to Boston, the sources said.
Before CNN learned the
identities of the two brothers, Portland Police
Chief Mike Chitwood said, "I can tell you
those two individuals did get on a plane and fly
to Boston early yesterday morning ... I can tell
you that they are the focus of a federal
investigation." [People's Daily
9/13/2001]
[Adnan Bukhari's] name
reportedly appears on the American Airlines
Flight Eleven manifest. [First Coast News]
A trail of evidence led
investigators into Tuesday's terrorist attacks
from one abandoned rental car in Portland, Maine,
to two houses in Vero Beach, Florida. One of the
Vero Beach houses had been rented by two brothers
from Saudi Arabia. Inside it were two pilot's
certificates in the names of Adnan Bukhari and
his brother, Ameer Abbas Bukhari. [BBC News]
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Early accounts stated it
was Adnan and Ameer Bukhari who rented the car from Logan
Airport Alamo and abandoned it at Portland, not Mohamed
Atta. The Bukharis "did get on a plane and fly to
Boston", Adnan Bukhari's name reportedly appeared on
Flight 11's manifest, and a trail of evidence led
investigators to Adnan Bukhari's house.
Within hours of the attacks it was
nearly "case closed" that the Bukharis were
hijackers of Flight 11, but a couple of simple facts
proved their innocence - Ameer Bukhari died in a plane
crash in 2000 and Adnan Bukhari is alive.
How did so much
evidence initially point to the Bukharis, and how did
Adnan Bukhari's name reportedly
appear on Flight 11's manifest?
The words "fabricated
evidence" spring to mind.
The Bukharis innocence caused a
major rethink of Flight
11's hijackers, and this
rethink resulted in the implausible scenario of Atta
abandoning two rental cars in two airports.
| [Mohamed Atta] spoke excellent
German - good enough to correct other students'
texts - as well as fluent English and Arabic. [FT.com] Atta and two
other suspected hijackers reported their
passports stolen in late 1999. [BBC News]
[Rudi Dekkers, owner of Huffman Aviation] knew that Atta had lived in Hamburg,
Germany and one day [in 2000] spoke to him in
German as a way of friendly communication. Atta
was stunned and quickly walked away. [house.gov]
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An imposter could
pretend to be Atta, but he couldn't pretend to speak
German.
| [Atta senior] had no knowledge his son had
ever been in the United States. More absurd to
him was the idea that his son had enrolled in a
Florida flight school. “Did he ever learn to
fly? Never. He never even had a kite.” Added
Atta senior: “My daughter, who is a doctor,
used to get him medicine before every journey, to
make combat the cramps and the vomiting he feels
every time he gets on the plane.” [MSNBC]
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| On the first day of
the 9/11 Commission hearings, commissioner Richard Ben-Veniste
opened his remarks with sharp criticism of the current White
House and the delays in processing the commissioners' security
clearances. Ben-Veniste, who first came to prominence as a
Watergate special prosecutor from 1973 to 1975, was counsel for
the Democratic minority on the Senate Whitewater committee.
Today he is a major attorney with a top firm in D.C.
Al Qaeda's lead 9/11 hijacker,
Mohamed Atta, was allegedly partying with CIA-connected pilots
while he got his flight training in fall/winter 2000 at Huffman
Aviation in Venice, Fla., where two of the other 9/11 hijacker
pilots trained. Atta wasn't acting much like a holy martyr: He
wore jeans and sneakers, played video games, bought himself a
red Pontiac and was said to be a hedonist. The Press posed the
question to Ben-Veniste: If Atta belonged to the fundamentalist
Muslim group, why was he snorting cocaine and frequenting strip
bars?
"You know," said Ben-Veniste, as he smiled a little. "That's a
heck of a question." [9/11
CitizenWatch]
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Below is supposedly the will of a
hedonist who
snorted
cocaine and frequented strip bars:
Atta's
original will was written in Arabic and has not been
released by the FBI. This is an English version
translated by the FBI and first reported in Der
Spiegel.
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Records from ...
[Huffman Aviation] were deemed
sensitive enough to have merited being escorted back to
Washington by Florida Governor Jeb Bush aboard a C-130
cargo plane, which left Sarasota less than 24 hours after
the September 11 attack. [Scoop]
How did Jeb Bush know where to lookhours after
the attacks?
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Mohamed Atta: terrorist,
patsy, or scapegoat?
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