(Continued in Part 4.)
The Hijackers
If Al-Qaeda was responsible for the attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon, then the story of the 19 hijackers with box cutters should hold up. But it does not.
David Ray Griffin pointed out many anomalies in the story of the hijackers, none more puzzling than the fact that Mohammed Atta’s luggage was left at Boston Airport and contained his will.
“One of the main pieces of alleged proof involved the claim that the baggage of Mohamed Atta, called the ringleader of the hijackers, was discovered at the Boston airport, from which Flight 11 departed. … The bags … contained Atta’s will.
“Why would Atta have intended to take his will on a plane that he planned to fly into the World Trade Center? There are also many other problems in this story. We appear to have planted evidence.” (1)
Moreover, Griffin adds, while pretending to be devout Muslims, they partook in seemingly every vice available to them.
“The 9/11 Commission Report said that Atta had become very religious, even ‘fanatically so.’ The public was thereby led to believe that these men would have had no problem going on this suicide mission, because they were ready to meet their maker.
“Investigative reporter Daniel Hopsicker, however, discovered that Atta loved cocaine, alcohol, gambling, pork, and lap dances. Several of the other alleged hijackers, the Wall Street Journal reported, had similar tastes. The Commission pretends, however, that none of this information was available.” (2)
Finally he points out that the hijackers’ names did not appear on the flight manifest though they were alleged to have boarded the plane as ordinary passengers:
“Although we are told that four or five of the alleged hijackers were on each of the four flights, no proof of this claim has been provided. The story, of course, is that they did not force their way onto the planes but were regular, ticketed passengers.
“If so, their names should be on the flight manifests. But the flight manifests that have been released contain neither the names of the alleged hijackers nor any other Arab names. We have also been given no proof that the remains of any of these men were found at any of the crash sites.” (3)
But perhaps the dealbreaker that utterly negates the story of nineteen hijackers with box cutters bringing down the World Trade Center and blasting the Pentagon is the fact that six of the hijackers were found to be alive after 9/11. How could they have smashed their planes into buildings and the ground and survive? For instance: Waleed al-Sheri:
“Several of these 19 men, according to stories published by the BBC and British newspapers, are still alive. For example, The 9/11 Commission Report named Waleed al-Shehri as one of the hijackers and reproduced the FBI’s photograph of him. It even suggested that al-Shehri stabbed one of the flight attendants shortly before Flight 11 crashed into the north tower.
“But as BBC News had reported 11 days after 9/11, al-Shehri, having seen his photograph in newspapers and TV programs, notified authorities and journalists in Morocco, where he works as a pilot, that he is still alive.” (4)
Griffin found six who were still alive:
“The New Pearl Harbor reported evidence that at least six of the alleged hijackers are still alive. David Harrison of the Telegraph interviewed two of the men who supposedly died on Flight 93, which crashed in Pennsylvania, one of whom said that he ‘had never even heard of Pennsylvania,’ let alone died there.” (5)
Saeed Al-Ghamdi, Mohand Al-Shehri, Abdul Aziz Al-Omari and Salem Al-Hazmi “are not dead and had nothing to do with the heinous terror attacks in New York and Washington,” the Saudi Arabian embassy told the Orlando Sentinel.
Saudi Arabia’s Foreign Minister Prince Saud Al-Faisal told the Arabic Press after meeting with President George W. Bush on Sept. 20th [that] “it was proved that five of the names included in the FBI list had nothing to do with what happened.” (6) Bush accepted the explanation but did not mention the matter publicly.
Former Congresswoman Cynthia McKenney asked:
“What happened to those reports that surfaced within months of September 11th stating that 7 or more of the alleged hijackers had come forward and claimed that they were victims of stolen identities …? Why did the [9/11] Commission choose not even to address this?” (7)
They were buried along with all the other evidence that pointed to 9/11 being a fraud.
(Continued in Part 6.)
Footnotes
(1) David Ray Griffin in https://www.911truth.dk/first/en/faq.htm, downloaded 19 Aug. 2007.
(2) Loc. cit.
(3) Loc. cit.
(4) Loc. cit.
(5) Dr. David Ray Griffin, “9/11 and the Mainstream Press,” 9/11 Visibility Project, 29 July 2005, downloaded from https://www.septembereleventh.org/newsarchive/2005-07-29-pressclub.php, 15 Aug. 2007.
(6) “Alleged Hijackers Alive and Well,” 9/11 Research, downloaded from https://911research.wtc7.net/cache/planes/evidence/worldmessenger_alive.html, 6 August 2007.
(7) Statement of Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney, former 6-term Congresswoman from Georgia 1993 – 2002, 2005 – 2006; member of the House Armed Services Committee and Member of the International Relations Committee, Patriots Question 9/11, downloaded from https://www.patriotsquestion911.com/, 16 Aug. 2007.