Timeline
Comment :
There is the official Ahmed Al Ghamdi entering the US on May 2, 2001.
There is another Ahmed Al Ghamdi who lived in the US at least since 1995 and had a licence issued in 1993. This Ahmed Al Ghamdi lived together with several people having similar names than the alleged hijackers. Therefore we can conclude that this is not a case of simple mistaken identity.
See: team8plus.org/forum_viewtopic.php?6.1493
There might be even another one who often travelled to the Phillipines.
Interestingly the FBI first gives Delray Beach as his only possible address. Then the FBI fails to give even one possible address.
Timeline :
September 11 :
Shehhi and his team, none of whom had been selected by CAPPS, boarded United 175 between 7:23 and 7:28
CR
September 10, 2001 :
He leaves the Philippines the day before the attacks.
[Daily Telegraph, 9/20/01; Arizona Daily Star, 9/28/01]
PT
September 8, 2001:
Hamza Alghamdi and Ahmed Alghamdi checked out of the Charles Hotel and moved to the Days Hotel in Boston.
FBI Mueller
A few days before September 8, 2001:
Hamza Alghamdi and Ahmed Alghamdi stayed at the Charles Hotel.
FBI Mueller
August 30, 2001 :
Hamza Alghamdi's SunTrust Visa debit card was also used the following day to purchase a Business Class E-ticket for Ahmed Alghamdi for Flight 175.
http://intelligence.senate.gov/0209hrg/020926/witness.htm
August 29, 2001 :
On Aug. 29, Mr. Ghamdi bought a $1,760 business-class ticket for Seat 9D on United Airlines Flight 175 through the Internet, and used as his address a post-office box at Mail Boxes Etc. in Delray Beach. Hamza al-Ghamdi, in Seat 9C, also used the box.
New York Times, 9/15/01 b
August 9, 2001:
Ahmed al Ghamdi and Abdul Aziz al Omari, who had been living in New Jersey with Hazmi and Hanjour, flew to Miami
CR
August 1-2, 2001:
Hijackers Hani Hanjour and Khalid Almihdhar meet Luis Martinez-Flores, an illegal immigrant from El Salvador, in a 7-Eleven parking lot in Falls Church, Virginia. Martinez-Flores is paid $100 cash to accompany the two to a local Department of Motor Vehicles office and sign forms attesting to their permanent residence in Virginia. Given new state identity cards, the cards are used the next day to get Virginia identity cards for several (five to seven) additional hijackers, including Abdulaziz Alomari, Ahmed Alghamdi, Majed Moqed, and Salem Alhazmi. [Arizona Daily Star, 9/28/01; Wall Street Journal, 10/16/01; Washington Post, 9/30/01]
Amhed Al-Ghamdi’s photo comes from his Virginia ID card, the only one publicly released by the 9/11 Commission.
PT
July 2001:
Mohamed Atta, Abdul Aziz al Omari, Nawaf al-Hazmi, Salem al-Hazmi, Khalid al-Mihdhar, Ahmed Alghamdi, and Majed Moqed purchased personal identification cards at Apollo Travel in Paterson, New Jersey.
http://intelligence.senate.gov/0209hrg/020926/witness.htm
July 2001 B:
Ahmed Alghamdi calls his parents for the last time in July 2001, but does not mention being in the US.
[Arab News, 9/18/01; Arab News, 9/20/01]
PT
May 2001:
Within a few weeks, Hanjour, Hazmi, and several other
operatives moved to Paterson and rented a one-room apartment. When
their landlord later paid a visit, he found six men living there -
Nawaf al
Hazmi, now joined by his younger brother Salem, Hanjour, Moqed,
probably Ahmed al Ghamdi, and Abdul Aziz al Omari; Hazmi's old friend
Khalid al Mihdhar would soon join them.
CR
May 8, 2001:
Rababah went to Hazmi and Hanjour's apartment to pick them up for the trip to Connecticut. There he says he found them with new roommates - Ahmed al Ghamdi and Majed Moqed.
CR
May 2, 2001:
Majed Moqed (AA#77) and Ahmed Alghamdi (UA#175) arrived on May 2, 2001 at Dulles International Airport.
http://intelligence.senate.gov/0209hrg/020926/witness.htm
Mid-March 2001:
Hijackers Ahmed Alghamdi, Majed Moqed, Hani Hanjour, and Nawaf Alhazmi stay for four days in the Fairfield Motor Inn, Fairfield, Connecticut. They meet with Eyad M. Alrababah, a Jordanian living in Bridgeport, who has been charged with providing false identification to at least 50 illegal aliens. This meeting takes place about six weeks before the FBI says Moqed and Alghamdi enter the US. [9/11 Congressional Inquiry, 9/26/02; Associated Press, 3/6/02]
PT
January – June 2001:
Not all 11 names are given, but one can deduce from the press accounts that Ahmed Alghamdi, Salem Alhazmi, Ahmed Alhaznawi, Ahmed Alnami, and Saeed Alghamdi were definitely in Britain. Ahmed Alghamdi was one of several that should have been “instantly ‘red-flagged’ by British intelligence,” because of his links to Raed Hijazi, a suspected ally of bin Laden being held in Jordan on charges of conspiring to destroy holy sites.
[BBC, 9/28/01; Washington Post, 9/27/01; Times of London, 9/26/01; Sunday Herald, 9/30/01]
PT
December 2000:
Ahmed Alghamdi is last seen by his family.
[Arab News, 9/18/01; Arab News, 9/20/01]
PT
November 2000:
Ahmed al Ghamdi apparently flew to Beirut, traveling - perhaps by coincidence - on the same flight as a senior Hezbollah operative.
CR
until about August 2000 :
Ahmed A. al-Ghamdi lived in Pensacola until about August 2000, said a neighbor, Linda Green.
New York Times, 15.09.01 b
Until July 2000:
Ahmed Alghamdi lived at the same address (Vienna) until July 2000.
[Fox News, 6/6/02; World Net Daily, 9/14/01]
PT
2000- September 10, 2000:
The names of four hijackers are later discovered in Philippines immigration records, according to Philippine Immigration Commissioner Andrea Domingo. However, whether these are the hijackers or just other Saudis with the same names has not been confirmed. [Associated Press, 9/19/01; Philippines Daily Inquirer, 9/19/01; Daily Telegraph, 9/20/01] Ahmed Alghamdi visits Manila, Philippines, more than 13 times in the two years before 9/11. He leaves the Philippines the day before the attacks. [Daily Telegraph, 9/20/01; Arizona Daily Star, 9/28/01]
PT
2000:
Ahmed Alghamdi leaves his studies to fight in Chechnya in 2000
[Arab News, 9/18/01; Arab News, 9/20/01]
PT
1997:
He stayed in the same Florida apartment as Waleed al-Shehri for seven months in 1997 but also lived in Vienna, in Virginia, and may have had an address at Delray Beach.
Telegraph, 9/20/01
Two of the suspected terrorists, Ahmed Alghamdi and Waleed Alshehri, stayed at the Anatole Apartments in Daytona Beach, Fla., in 1997, said Eric Bolten, president of Mid-America Apartment Communities, which owns the apartment complex. The $500-per-month apartments, with access to hot tubs and tennis courts, are a mile from Daytona Beach International Airport and near the Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University. Bolten said his Memphis-based company is cooperating with the FBI. Ahmed Alghamdi also is linked to two other addresses less than a mile south of the Daytona Beach airport, as well as one within three miles of the Spruce Creek Airport. [Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, 9/26/01]
1995:
He also lived at the (of Waleed) Daytona Beach apartment complex for a few months in 1995.
Boston Herald, 16.09.01
A manager at the Anatole apartments near Daytona Beach International Airport said Ahmed al-Ghamdi, who was on United Airlines Flight 175, lived in the complex in 1995, while Waleed al-Shehri lived there from May through December 1997, while he attended Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University. (School officials say they have no record of Mr. Ghamdi attending the school.)
[New York Times, 9/15/01 (B)]
1993:
Ahmed Alghamdi, who was aboard Flight 175, had a license issued to him in 1993 using the address of a former Howard Johnson's motel.
Boston Herald, )9/16/01
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Info:
A US Customs Service investigation finds evidence that Nabil al-Marabh
has funneled money to hijackers Ahmed Alghamdi and Satam Al Suqami.
[ABC News, 1/31/02; Cox News Service, 10/16/01]
PT
Only two - Ahmed al Ghamdi and Saeed al Ghamdi - had documentation
suggesting travel to a Russian republic.
CR
It is not known for certain who the others were; but when Wail
disappeared soon afterwards so too did his brother, Waleed, and at
least three other local youths: Ahmed and Hamza al-Ghamdi, and Ahmed
al-Haznawi. It is reasonable to assume that, like Wail, they headed for
Afghanistan. All became September 11 hijackers.
Sunday Times, 1/27/02
It is not known whether the two were related, but neither seemed to
have attended a flight school.
New York Times, 15.09.01 b
One hijacker, Ahmed Alghamdi, is believed to have lived recently in the
Fountains Apartment, adjacent to the University of West Florida in
Pensacola. But the Fountains' manager, Penny Higgs, says she
examined her records as far back as 1994, and found no reference to
Alghamdi. "I can't find a link at all to him."
(Florida Today, 23.09.01)
Patricia Hagelberg, who rented a room to Alghamdi in Golden, Colo., for
about a year, said the FBI interviewed her. She said she didn't think
Alghamdi was one of the hijackers, but the FBI
confiscated photographs of him.
Boston Globe, 29.09.01
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FBI Ahmed Al Ghamdi :
9/14:
Possible residence: Delray Beach, Florida.
9/27:
-Alias: Ahmed Salah Alghamdi
1/17/02:
Alias:
Ahmed Salah Alghamdi
Not even residence or anything!!
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Language Skills :
While apartment hunting, a glowering Mr. Alghamdi never spoke to Mrs.
Irish, who concluded he was "a creep." The genial Mr. al-Shehhi
apologized that his friend didn't speak English.
WSJ, 16.10.01
(check out which Al Ghamdi??)
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