http://www.sundayherald.com/18654

The Investigation

AL-BADER AL-HAMZI: A 34-year-old a radiologist in his final year of a five- year residency in San Antonio, Texas, may prove to be one of the best sources of information if he talks. He is one of four people being held as firm suspects, so-called 'material witnesses'. Al-Hamzi did not go to work on the morning of September 11. He purchased tickets for at least one of the hijackers on American Airlines Flight 77 which crashed into the Pentagon.
Al-Hamzi may also at one point have used as an alias the name used by another hijacker on that flight -- Khalid Al-Midhar. The FBI now thinks that he is alive and that his identity was taken by someone else on the plane. The FBI had already been looking for Al- Midhar as an associate of bin Laden.

MOHAMMED JAWEED ASMATH and AYUB ALI KHAN: Asmath, 47, and Khan, 51, were pulled off a train in Texas heading towards San Antonio the day after the terrorist attacks. They were carrying box-cutters similar to those used in the attacks, hair dye and around US $20,000 in cash.

They may have been heading to link up with Al-Hamzi and may have been part of an aborted or failed hijacking.

http://www.courttv.com/assault_on_america/...spects_ctv.html

Al-Bader Al-Hazmi, 34

Status: In custody in New York (no photo available)

Investigators believe Al-Bader Al-Hazmi, a radiologist working in San Antonio, Texas, might have provided technical or financial support to at least one of the teams of terrorists who hijacked four planes. Al-Hazmi, a Saudi national, is being held by federal agents in New York as a material witness but not has been charged.

A computer and records were seized from Al-Hamzi's home and a library at the University of Texas Health Science Center, where has in residency. Al-Hamzi was one of at least four people on the FBI's watch list booked on a United Airlines flight that was scheduled to travel Sept. 22 from San Antonio to San Diego, with a stop in Denver. His last name is similar to that of suspected hijackers Nawaq and Salem Alhamzi, believed to have died aboard the American Airlines jet that crashed into the Pentagon.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/september11/stor...,601550,00.html


False identities mislead FBI


Special report: terrorism in the US

Nick Hopkins in New York
Friday September 21, 2001
The Guardian

The FBI acknowledged yesterday that some of the terrorists involved in the attacks last week were using false identities, as it emerged that at least two men had been wrongly implicated.

After analysis of the passenger lists of the four hijacked flights and other immigration documents, investigators identified Salem Al-Hazmi and Abdulaziz Al-Omari as two of the terrorists.

The real Salem Al-Hazmi, however, is alive and indignant in Saudi Arabia, and not one of the people who perished in the American Airlines flight that crashed on the Pentagon. He works at a government-owned petroleum and chemical plant in the city of Yanbu.

He said yesterday he had not left Saudi Arabia for two years, but that his passport had been stolen by a pickpocket in Cairo three years ago.

Abdulaziz Al-Omari has also come forward to say he was not on the flight from Boston that crashed into the north tower of the World Trade Centre.

An electrical engineer who works in Saudi Arabia, Mr Al-Omari said he was a student in Denver during the mid-1990s, and that his passport and other papers were stolen in a burglary in the US five years ago.

He was given a special pass by the Saudi embassy so he could return home.

"The name is my name and the birth date is the same as mine," he told Asharq al-Aswat, a London-based Arabic newspaper. "But I am not the one who bombed the World Trade Centre in New York."

Both men have offered to fly to the US to prove their innocence.

A Saudi embassy official in Washington warned yesterday that many more terror suspects might have been using false identities.

"The Salem Al-Hamzi we have is 26 years old and has never been to the United States," Gaafar Allagany told the Washington Post. "He has said he is willing to come to the United States if anyone wants to see him."

The FBI said it was reviewing the information about those on board the flights and that "the possibility that some of the identities are in question is being actively pursued".

The confusion has added to the problems of investigators. They have discovered that one of the men arrested, Badr Mohammed Hamzi, a radiologist from San Antonio, Texas, regularly used the name Khalid Al-Midhar, who has been named as another of the hijackers.

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/...-175985,00.html

Have They Caught Any Accomplices?
Maybe. hours after the attacks, authorities picked up Dr. Al-Hazmi. He had been finishing the last year of his medical residency in radiology at the University of Texas Health Science Center in San Antonio but didn't show up for work on Sept. 11 at a military hospital on Lackland Air Force Base. Sources close to the investigation say Al-Hazmi's credit card was used by two of the hijackers to buy their plane tickets, possibly without his knowledge. Additionally, the doctor reportedly bought a plane ticket for Sept. 22 and a return ticket a month later, though the university says he didn't have permission to take a month off.

Perhaps coincidentally, two men with names identical to those of two hijackers had lived or studied at Lackland Air Force Base. Pentagon sources confirmed that a man named Saeed Alghamdi graduated from the Defense Language Institute at Lackland, and that both Saeed and Ahmed Alghamdi appeared on a list for foreign military housing. (Men with the same names as other hijackers turned up at other bases in the south.) Whether the hijackers stole the identities of these men is as yet unknown.

Al-Hazmi, a slight, bespectacled, devout man who lives in a gated community in San Antonio with his wife and two young children, has been flown to New York, where a grand jury has been empaneled. No legal counsel has spoken publicly on his behalf.

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Part 1: TWA Flight 679
On Sept 12th 2001 two Indian men, Mohamed Jaweed Azmath and Syed Gul Mohamed Shah (also known as Ayub Ali Khan) were detained as part of the investigation into the terrorist attacks of Sept 11th. Their charges were eventually changed to credit card fraud. I suspect that what we may be seeing here is a very good indication of the modus operandi of the men who took over the planes. Read the summary and read the references to get the full picture.


Azmath and Shah (Khan) with hair



Heads shaved prior to hijacking? Does the guy on the left look Indian?


� They were in the air on TWA Flight 679 (1) from Newark to San Antonio at the same time as the other attacks were being carried out (2).
� Their flight was forced to land in St. Louis, Missouri, when the Federal Aviation Administration closed the skies after the hijackings (2).
� They continued their journey on an Amtrak train. They were arrested outside Forth Worth, Texas, during a routine drug inspection of the train (3).
� When they were arrested they were carrying $5,500 cash, two flat box-cutter type knives, and hair dye, and Azmath had copies of numerous passport photos (2).
� They showed signs of extreme nervousness and evasiveness when questioned (2).
� Khan and Azmath had close-cropped hair and had shaved most of their body hair (2) - as per the instructions in the final letter to the hijackers (4).
� From reference (2): On the flight from Newark, Azmath and Khan had two checked pieces of luggage and carried a briefcase belonging to Khan and a trash bag. When officers inspected the bag, they "found paraphernalia that could assist in the altering of the appearance of the subjects," the report says. They also found photocopies of Azmath's passports, showing him alternatively clean shaven and with a full beard. There were also receipts for wire transfers, empty cash envelopes with dates written on them, and letters in Arabic.
� They had access to large sums of money (this is two guys working on a news stand.) Some sources report that they sent $64000 to India 2 years before (1), where others report that they sent it to Pakistan (14) which is much more interesting since they were supposedly Indian nationals. (I smell cover-up)
� Like many of the other hijackers at least one of them had flight training, this time in Arlington, Texas (5) (6) (7) (8).
� They had lived in the US for around 6 or 7 years: However, public records show that, as recently as last June, both men listed their residence as an apartment at 1025 W. Hollywood Ave. on Chicago's North Side (9).
� The FBI have dismissed them as hijackers largely because they were the only people fitting the profile on that plane, and because there are no known links to the other hijackers (1).
� A man named Subash Gurung from Nepal was arrested in November at O'Hare International Airport in Chicago, Illinois, when he tried to board a flight with nine knives, a can of Mace and a stun gun. Would you believe where he lived? The same apartment building as listed above (10). A government source told CNN that Khan never actually lived in the apartment in Chicago and never actually worked there.
� Gurung claimed that he had brought all those weapons onto the plane by mistake. He was also carrying a fake or stolen ID. Is there a pattern forming here?(11) The name on the ID was Aishwarya Gurung (13)
� Gurung's case also appears to have been dismissed as a misdemeanour (12). Neither Gurung, Azmath or Shah (Khan) ever actually appeared to have lived in the apartment building in Chicago. But, the source said, "many phone calls were made to and from that apartment, and credit card bills were paid from that address."

Subash Gurung - not your typical Al Qaeda representative, so just who is he?

There are far too many coincidences here, so why is it being covered up? Why are these men being let go or prosecuted for other charges? If they really were credit card fraudsters why did they shave their body hair? These men seem to have used multiple identities and addresses. Just who are these people? Was this plane perhaps destined to hit one of the Sears Towers?
The San Antonio Connection
Most people who know a little about the official investigation would consider Florida to be the centre of the hijackers activities. Little or nothing is mentioned about any of the hijackers being in San Antonio, Texas. Once again, the names, the coincidences and the apparent lack of interest in key areas would indicate another cover-up.




� he picture on the right shows a man called Dr Al-Badr Al-Hazmi who works (or worked) at the U.T. Health Science Center (1), which is located close to Lackland Airforce Base, San Antonio (2).
� Al-Hazmi's credit card was used by two of the hijackers to buy their plane tickets (2).
� Two men named Saeed Alghamdi (Hijacker suspect on flight 93) and Ahmed Alghamdi (Flight 175) had previously attended Lackland Airforce Base for training (2).
� The FBI stated that Dr Al-Hazmi had used the alias Khalid Al Midhar (Hijacker on flight 77) (4). Is this the reason the FBI now think the real Khalid Al Midhar is still alive?
� USA Today reported: Law enforcement documents obtained by USA TODAY suggest that Alhazmi has used false identification bearing the name of another hijacker, Khalid al Midhar (10). Are we looking at something similar to Azmath and Shah? Were Azmath and Shah on their way to meet him?
� Dr Al Hazmi was held from Sept 12th to 24th without access to counsel and his detention location was kept secret (3).
So now we have three hijacker names linked to San Antonio and a military base. How could Al Qaeda have gained access to Lackland Air force Base, Al-Hazmi's credit card and presumably classified information about previous students?
But there's more going on here in this sunny Texas city:



� Salem Alhazmi (flight 77) and Satam M.A. Al Suqami (flight 11) lived at the Spanish Trace Apartments, San Antonio earlier in 2001 (5).
� Former residents identified the two by photographs, but said the names appear to be switched (5). (Get your head round that one!)
� A local pilot shop employee identified one of the 19 hijackers (Salem Alhazmi) as a frequent visitor to the store (6).
� The guy who worked in the shop remembered him because he asked for a pilot operator's handbook for a 757 or 767. He offered to order it for him but he seemed to be no longer interested (6).
� The FBI say that the Salem Alhazmi who lived in the Spanish Trace Apartments (that's the guy on the right?) attended Alpha Tango flight school (San Antonio) and is still alive in Saudi Arabia (7). (So why is his photo still on the FBI Site???) Salem Alhazmi is living in Saudi Arabia, another victim of a stolen passport, he hasn't left home for several years proving that the man in Spanish Trace Apartments was not him (11). It would appear to have been a man using his identity and pretending to be a pilot. (Are we seeing a pattern here?)
� According to the FBI Satam Al Suqami only arrived in April 2001 and Salem Alhazmi arrived in June 2001 (12).
� Interestingly a guy called Abdul Hakim Murad, who was convicted several years ago of a plot to crash a suicide plane into CIA headquarters, also trained at Alpha Tango (8). ("How could we have prepared for this sort of attack, nothing like this has happened before etc. etc.")
� Another witness claims Ziad Jarrah (Flight 93) was among a large group of Middle Eastern men using an apartment near Lackland Air Force Base in the summer of 2001 (9).
A point which needs clarification: Salem Alhazmi is alive and in Saudi Arabia. The photo published by the FBI is of the living Salem Alhazmi, who has never been to the US. So there was a guy who looked just like him using the name Satam M. A. Al Suqami living in Spanish Trace apartments. Did someone alter their appearance to look like the Saudi Salem Alhazmi although using Suqami's name? Clear as mud.
So what IS going on here? Six hijacker names linked to San Antonio plus the two on flight 679? The usual tale of stolen identities and people turning up alive?
To be continued.......


References for TWA 679
1. http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2.../25/72623.shtml
2. http://www.cnn.com/2001/US/10/29/inv.terro....investigation/
3. http://www.cnn.com/2002/LAW/01/16/inv.terror.investigation/
4. http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2...29/154226.shtml
5. http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nati...51_probe07.html
6. http://www.pulitzer.org/year/2002/national...rks/092901.html
7. http://www.ict.org.il/spotlight/det.cfm?id=676
8. http://www.jime.or.jp/html/usterror/20010919/saudi-2.html
9. http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/showcas...ewsspecials-hed
10. http://www.cnn.com/2001/US/11/04/inv.ohare.arrest/
11. http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2.../5/163430.shtml
12. http://www.cnn.com/2001/US/11/05/inv.ohare.security.breach/
13. http://news.findlaw.com/cnn/docs/terrorism...ng110501cmp.pdf
14. http://old.smh.com.au/news/0110/08/world/world4.html

References for San Antonio
1. http://news.mysanantonio.com/story.cfm?xla...=161&xlc=298835
2. http://www.time.com/time/nation/printout/0...,176069,00.html
3. http://www.criminaljustice.org/public.nsf/...61?opendocument
4. http://news.mysanantonio.com/story.cfm?xla...=161&xlc=306460
5. http://news.mysanantonio.com/story.cfm?xla...=161&xlc=342530
6. http://news.mysanantonio.com/story.cfm?xla...=161&xlc=348297
7. http://news.mysanantonio.com/story.cfm?xla...=161&xlc=351772
8. http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article....RTICLE_ID=27916
9. http://www.reporternews.com/2001/texas/agent0922.html
10. http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2001/0...vestigation.htm
11. http://www.guardian.co.uk/september11/stor...,601550,00.html
12. http://cooperativeresearch.org/completetim...ttee092602.html