The hijack suspects: ordinary neighbours -- and terrorist "moles"?
Sunday, September 16 2:57 AM SGT
WASHINGTON, Sept 15 (AFP) -
Friendly neighbors, serious students and model dads: the men suspected of hijacking the jets that carried out history's deadliest terror strikes looked a lot more like the guy next door than the incarnation of the devil.
The most disturbing common element that has emerged from the FBI investigation into the 19 men who are now believed to have cold-bloodedly rained destruction on the US political and economic capitals is how ordinary their behaviour was.
They were aged between 21 and 40. They were of Arab extraction. Many had lived for years in the United States without raising suspicion.
In contrast with the hastily trained "kamikaze" Muslim suicide bombers in Israel and the Palestinian territories, the suspected hijackers apparently took time to become part of their peaceful communities, like spy "moles".
Perhaps they also had instruction manuals in Arab like one found after the 1998 bombings of the US embassies in Africa, which told the plotters: "When you're in the outer world, you have to act like them, dress like them, behave like them."
That thesis is why, says Professor Clark McCauley, a terrorism expert at Pennsylvania's Bryn Mawr College, "we don't talk about these people as fanatics, as crazy."
One of the suspects, Mohamed Atta, considered by FBI chief Robert Mueller as one of the main actors in the devastation, was typical of what investigators have found.
Known as a polite student to acquantainces who got to know him over the past few years, Atta, aged around 33, had taken the care to shave his beard and put away his long kaftan, changing his appearance from when he previously lived in Hamburg, Germany.
It seems he first came to the United States in 1989. He stayed several times in Florida, notably in a charming small pink house close to Daytona Beach, where he sometimes received a neighbour or Elaine Brinkley, the real estate agent looking after the property.
"How can you suspect someone like that of being a terrorist?" Brinkley asked, recalling how he offered her biscuits or coffee. "They are not like you see in the movies."
Still, this polite tenant and attentive host was aboard the doomed American Airlines Boeing 767 that slammed into the first tower of the World Trade Center on Tuesday.
Abdulaziz al-Omari, who was with him on the same flight, was described at an affable father of four children who was often seen walking dressed unremarkably in jeans, a shirt and sneakers.
The day before the horrific string of attacks, he dropped his children off at school. As usual.
If anything now seems suspicious in hindsight, it's the fact that the alleged hijackers changed address frequently but the seven among them training to be pilots kept up with their courses. Some, like Atta, are believed to have used Boeing 727 flight simulators, according to US media reports.
But generally, the suspects couldn't seem further from the image of zealous and devout Muslims ready to sacrifice their lives -- and the lives of many, many others -- for Allah.
At the end of the day they would kick back, sipping vodka in a bar or playing video games.
Neighbors of the suspects who lived at Delray Beach, a tranquil seaside town in Florida, spoke of the men often leaving their garage doors wide open, giving an impression they had nothing to hide.
If anything it's this banality, their ordinariness that has bewildered Americans as they contemplate the aftermath of Tuesday, September 11.
If such model residents, family men, polite students can be held responsible for so much atrocity, what else hides behind the bland face of a smiling neighbor or a friendly stranger in a bar?
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Pistol-shooting parties at terrorist safe-house
Neighbors of alleged hijackers suspected drug-dealing, called police; Iranian homeowner's ex-wife from CanadaFriday, September 14, 2001
By Paul Sperry© 2001 WorldNetDaily.com
VIENNA, Va. -- Residents of Orrin Street in this leafy Washington suburb have hung American flags from their porches and even lined their lawns with little flags in honor of the thousands of Americans killed Tuesday by Islamic terrorists. Little did they know that one of their neighbors may have been one of the killers.
Federal authorities suspect Waleed M. Alshehri was one of the kamikaze pilots who hijacked American Airlines Flight 11, which ripped into the north tower of the World Trade Center like a guided missile.
Authorities say Alshehri, 25, may have lived for a time, possibly as recently as 14 months ago, in Vienna, at 502 Orrin St., as well as in Daytona Beach, Fla., where he graduated from Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, authorities say. Another suspected hijacker, Ahmed Alghamdi - who was aboard United Airlines Flight 175, the other flight out of Boston that was the second to hit the World Trade Center - lived at the same Vienna address, according to the FBI.
Neighbors on the otherwise quiet street told WorldNetDaily that the five-or-six bedroom rental house where Alshehri - a Saudi citizen and son of a wealthy diplomat - stayed had numerous tenants, who parked their luxury cars on the street and often had loud parties, upsetting neighbors.
During one party several years ago, a woman ran outside the house and shot a pistol into the air several times, recalls a next-door neighbor.
"A woman came out shooting a gun after getting in a spat with someone," said Mary Ann Neupert, who has lived at 500 Orrin St. for 37 years. "She was shooting in the air."
Neupert, 77, and her husband, Stanley E. Neupert, 79, say two FBI agents, a man and a woman, interviewed them yesterday about activities at the house, which property-tax records show is owned by Hamid Keshavarznia, an Iranian native and U.S. citizen who lives in Reston, Va. His ex-wife is from Canada, WorldNetDaily has learned.
His brother, Saeed Keshavarznia, is currently living at the Vienna house, WorldNetDaily also has found. He's listed as a co-owner.
"We thought it was a drug house," said another neighbor, who wished to have her name withheld. "All the cars parked on the street were new BMWs, new Mercedes. People were always walking around out front with cellphones."
She said as many as eight people, mostly "Arab-looking" men, lived in the house at one time. And so many cars were parked out front on the street that neighbors complained to the local police. She says that she noticed most of the cars had out-of-state tags.
"The gentleman who owns the place rents out rooms quite often," said Capt. John Cheyne of the Vienna Police Department. "We did have parking complaints, noise complaints, stuff along those lines."
"Over the years, there have been questions about how many people the owner actually has living there, but those are zoning issues, not police issues," he said in an interview with WorldNetDaily. "And that's what has led to the complaints about the cars."
Fed up with the parking problem, and suspicious of activities at the house, the neighbor across the street at 503 Orrin St., John E. Albritton, called federal authorities, according to his wife. She says they observed a van parked outside the home at all hours of the day and night. A Middle-Eastern man appeared to be monitoring a scanner or radio inside the van, she says.
Another neighbor says residents have called the FBI within the last two years to complain about the house.
"The inside is real chopped up," she said, explaining that the relatively small, old house has far more bedrooms than it was designed to have.
Indeed, real estate listings obtained by WorldNetDaily through the Metropolitan Regional Information Systems database show that the house, which was built in 1956 as a 3-bedroom, 2-bathroom rambler, now has five bedrooms and four bathrooms -- as well as two kitchens.
"Those bedrooms are cubicles," said a local realtor.
Neupert said the owners were in the process of adding yet another room off the living room of the house "about five or six months ago."
"This area is supposed to be single-family houses," his wife said. "In other words, the house shouldn't have been divided up like that."
She says she found it somewhat suspicious that tenants seldom entered the house through the front door, but "went from the street straight to the gate and entered the house from the backyard."
Her husband notes that, a few years ago, the owners or the tenants erected a satellite dish on the roof.
Federal authorities suspect that the home may have been used as a safe-house for terrorists.
Vienna does not have a big Arab population and, as far as local authorities know, has not been a haven for terrorist cells, Cheyne said.
Fairfax County tax records show that Habid Keshavarznia bought the Vienna house with France C.A. Carriere and Saeed Keshavarznia in 1993. Though appraised at $196,705, comparable homes in the neighborhood have recently sold for as much as $265,000.
Interestingly, there is no rental listing for the home, meaning the owners were able to rent it to apparently scores of tenants on their own, either by advertising or by word of mouth.
According to the realty listings database, Habid Keshavarznia put the home on the market on July 22, 1996. The listing expired Jan. 19, 1997.
He listed it for sale again on May 3, 1998, for $209,000.
The listing agent remarked: "TENANTS RARELY HOME."
In July 1998, Keshavarznia listed the home with a different broker. He asked $220,000, before reducing the price to $209,900. He withdrew the listing on Oct. 14, 1998.
A realtor's lockbox sits on the railing leading up to the side door of the house.
The garage of the rather rundown home, which is not cordoned off with police tape, houses two cars shrouded with protective covering. A third car beside the garage also is covered.
Near the garage stands a wooden crate and rubber trash can brimming with auto parts, including manifolds and whole engines blocks. A tire rests on the chain-link fence.
Vienna is also where former FBI agent and convicted Moscow spy Robert Hanssen called home. And a former National Security Council adviser to President Clinton, who breached security by loading Top Secret data from a White House "SCIF" computer to her unsecured computer, also lives in Vienna.
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Hijack suspect was wanted man
U.S. denied Israel's request for extraditionSaturday, September 15, 2001
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Hijack suspect Mohamed Atta and his cousin Marwan Ashehri, two of the 19 hijackers named by the U.S. Justice Department, as perpetrators of the New York World Trade Center and Pentagon, Washington suicide attacks, have been variously described as Egyptian, United Arab Emirates and Saudi nationals.
Yet, according to DEBKA-Net-Weekly, they were actually Arab-Americans.
Hamburg investigators said two of the terrorists were Mohamed Atta, 33, and Marwan Alshehhi, 23, whose training at a Florida flight school has been the focus of intense FBI probes this week. The German investigators said the two were from the United Arab Emirates.
Atta, 33, was implicated in a series of bus bombings that hit Jerusalem in 1996. He evaded Israeli capture by going to ground among his relatives in America. The U.S. authorities at the time turned down Israel's request to extradite this U.S. national. He is reportedly the scion of a prominent, affluent family in El-Bireh, Ramallah, one of whose members is a former mayor and most of whom carry American citizenship, as do many elite Palestinian families in Ramallah and its environs.
The latest information coming out of the FBI investigation traces Atta, Ashehri and another of the seven suicide pilots, Ziad Jarrah, from the Lebanese Bekaa Valley, to Hamburg four years ago, where they established an Islamic terrorist cell.
Terrorist experts note that this cell based itself on a much older German-based terrorist group - the one involved in the 1988 Pan Am 103 terrorist disaster over Lockerbie, Scotland, in which 270 died. Atta, who set up an Islamic prayer room in the local university, was known in Hamburg as "Mohamed el-Amir." Ashihri registered for studies, but never turned up. Jarrah, who flew aboard the plane that crashed near Pittsburgh, went from Germany to Afghanistan 18 months ago and from there to Miami, Florida.
It now appears that some of the seven suicide pilots may have trained not only in private flying schools in Florida, but at U.S. military schools. That is yet another pointer to how well Islamic jihadists were able to secretly place themselves in American society and its institutions.
The most recent penetration dates back 11 years at least, although its roots go back much earlier. In 1990, when the Afghan war ended with the Red Army's defeat, Osama Bin Laden, who led the international Islamic brigade America raised to fight the Red Army, turned coat. "Afghan Arabs" -- as those volunteers came to be known -- were allowed to settle in the United States with their families. Some stayed loyal to their former commander and enlisted to the Al Qaeda, the militant movement Bin Laden created to fight the second surviving secular superpower, America.
Those Afghan Arabs form the American-based core of Al Qaeda. A second important branch that buried its operatives inside the United States was the fanatical and violent Egyptian Jihad Islami movement, Bin Laden's foremost ally.
In the latter half of the 1990s, those two groups working hand in glove were joined by a younger generation of Arab Moslem militants from the Middle East, brought up in the tradition of suicide for the cause.
Those three branches, numbering no more than some 2,500 activists in all, form the engine powering contemporary international terrorism. They gained entry into the United States in the last 11 years with the help of moles and agents inside America's governing institutions, including its intelligence machinery.
Those agencies emphatically deny such penetrations. This is only partly true, according to DEBKA sources. Whereas it is inconceivable that U.S. counterintelligence would directly hire Muslim terrorists, there are known cases of U.S. double agents, who by definition serve two services, knowingly aiding an alien agency, which is close to the Bin Laden network.
Furthermore, U.S. counterintelligence has strived for two decades at least to penetrate the militant Islamic fundamentalist world by planting its own moles and double agents - with very little success. In most cases, those plants remained faithful to their religious tenets, not their American handlers, using their covert American connections to spread the fundamentalist net inside U.S. intelligence itself.
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Suspect had outstanding warrant in Broward
By Fred Schulte
Sun-Sentinel
Posted September 15 2001The terrorist thought to have been at the controls of the first hijacked airliner that crashed into the World Trade Center on Tuesday morning had a warrant for his arrest issued in Broward County more than three months ago for failing to answer a traffic charge.
A routine traffic stop on Inverrary Boulevard put suspected terrorist pilot Mohamed Atta in the hands of the law in April - at least briefly.
Atta, 33, whose name appears on a U.S. government "watch list" of people tied to terrorist activity, was pulled over by a Broward Sheriff's Office deputy just before 11 p.m. on April 26 in the 6800 block of Inverrary Boulevard.
Atta was driving a red 1986 Pontiac. He gave his address as apartment 122 at 10001 West Atlantic Blvd. in Coral Springs.
But Atta couldn't produce a driver's license. Following normal procedure, the deputy wrote him a ticket that ordered Atta to appear at 8:45 a.m. May 28 at the Broward County West Satellite Courthouse on Pine Island Road in Plantation.
He didn't show up for his court date and a criminal bench warrant was issued for his arrest. Broward Clerk of Courts Howard Forman said Thursday that FBI agents had taken the file of Atta's case into evidence.
"I gave them everything I had," he said. "They are doing a thorough investigation and taking a good look."
Forman said Atta, whom German authorities have linked to a bus bombing in Israel, could have been arrested in Broward County as a result of the warrant. But as a practical matter, police in South Florida seldom track down people accused of relatively mundane violations.
"We should enforce our laws more seriously, but nobody's doing anything about it," Forman said.
Broward County Sheriff Ken Jenne has said his office was "not aware of these individuals, other than the one that had received a traffic ticket."
Jenne could not be reached later Friday for comment on the warrant. But spokeswoman Cheryl Stopnick pointed out that a "tremendous" number of bench warrants are issued and priority goes to finding people wanted for violent felonies. "No police agency has the luxury to go out and hunt for people for every violation," she said.
It is clear that Atta, a man whom one former landlady described as sullen and having a "bad attitude," and several alleged accomplices bounced around South Florida until a few days before the attacks.
Atta and associate Marwan Alshehhi, who might have piloted the second jet that struck the World Trade Center, signed a lease on an apartment in Hollywood in mid-May. Atta paid cash to rent a plane for training purposes at Lantana Airport and took three-hour lessons on a Boeing 727 simulator at Opa-locka Airport.
He and Alshehhi apparently moved to Broward County to hone their flying skills after completing a course at Huffman Aviation Venice Flying Service at the Venice Municipal Airport in July 2000.
Drucilla Voss, whose husband is a former bookkeeper at the flight school, rented the men a room in her Venice home for $17 a night for a few days last July. Both men, she said, had a "bad attitude" and were asked to leave.
"They thought they could do anything they wanted," she said. "We kicked them out because we didn't like their attitude."
The men apparently rented an apartment in Nokomis, near Sarasota, before moving to Broward.
Voss said Atta's decision to buy a car and give the couple's address in Venice as his own helped turn the focus of the FBI investigation to Florida.
Staff Writer David Fleshler contributed to this report .
Fred Schulte can be reached at fschulte@sun-sentinel.com or 954-356-4591.Copyright © 2001, South Florida Sun-Sentinel
FBI: Number of Florida-based terrorists grows
By Alice Gregory, Bill Douthat and Mary McLachlin, Palm Beach Post Staff Writers
Sunday, September 16, 2001
More terrorists turned up with Florida addresses Saturday -- including one in Boynton Beach -- meaning at least 15 of the 19 suicide hijackers had used the state to train and wait for their attack orders.
The extent of the terrorist network and the ease with which so many people on such deadly business moved through South Florida without detection provoked political leaders to call for tighter scrutiny of flight training schools and background checks on people seeking U.S. visas.
Tracking the movements and connections of the men who seized four jetliners and turned them into missiles of death is like trying to bring into focus a 3-D picture made up of thousands of specks. But authorities had one man in custody in New York, 25 people detained under immigration laws for questioning and a second arrest warrant out. Investigators expected to issue additional warrants, as the investigation shifted into higher gear.
"We are beginning to understand the ways in which this terrible crime was committed," Attorney General John Ashcroft said Saturday.
On Friday, Ashcroft said a list of more than 100 people sought for questioning had been distributed to thousands of police departments across the nation. The FBI also dispatched teams of agents to airports, where authorities are supposed to be checking passenger lists against the list of 100 people wanted for questioning.
"We believe they may have information that could be helpful to the investigation," Ashcroft said.
Federal officials wouldn't say whether the 100 names include suspects in the plot to hijack and crash four jetliners Tuesday.
Palm Beach County sheriff's deputies also wouldn't say whether the list was used to pull over an unidentified Arab man Saturday afternoon on Interstate 95 just south of PGA Boulevard. Sheriff's officials said the car had a New York license plate and the driver was "acting suspiciously."
The man was released after questioning, officials said, but information on his whereabouts and destination was sent to the FBI. FBI officials had no comment on the incident.
At least nine and possibly 10 of the hijackers, who all perished along with their thousands of victims, already had been linked to Delray Beach and Boynton Beach. The men rented apartments and motel rooms, usually in pairs, moving every few weeks or months. Some also had addresses in Broward County communities.
Satam Suqami, 25, whose last known address the FBI listed as United Arab Emirates, had a Florida driver's license bearing the address of the Homing Inn, an apartment motel on South Federal Highway in Boynton Beach. The FBI has said he was on American Airlines Flight 11, which hit the north tower of the World Trade Center.
Two other men on the flight, Waleed and Wail Shehri, had stayed at the same motel in June and July.
The South Florida group also included Ziad Jarrahi, who lived in a furnished, one-bedroom apartment at 1816 Harding St. in Hollywood from April 23 to June 23. The FBI said he was on United Airlines Flight 93, which crashed in Pennsylvania.
Jarrahi always paid his $165 a week rent in cash and never caused any problems, said a manager at Bernard Apartments who did not want to be identified.
"When he left, everything was so neat and clean," the manager said. "He even told me, `I broke a cup. Do you want me to pay for it?' "
Jarrahi kept to himself and did not go to the pool or use the laundry room, employees said.
The leasing agents for the 104-unit complex do not routinely screen future tenants or check their references, said owner Rina Bernard. Jarrahi listed that he was a pilot on his apartment application, Bernard said, but did not list an employer.
"When people have an ID, money and a job, there is usually no reason to check," said Bernard. "He (Jarrahi) was always nice, quiet. He left his apartment spotless. He was very clean cut and casually but nicely dressed."
Jarrahi and Ahmed Alhaznawi also had lived in a house at 4641 Bougainvilla Drive in Lauderdale-by-the-Sea.
The FBI list of suspected hijackers included a Nawaq Alhamzi, with possible addresses in Fort Lee and Wayne, N.J., and Los Angeles. Florida records show that a Nawaf Alhazmi, who got a driver license in June, gave an address of 702 Lindell Blvd. in Delray Beach. Property records list no such address on Lindell Boulevard, but it is at the same corner as the Delray Racquet Club address used by two other hijackers.
The bits and pieces emerging about the hijackers' sojourns in South Florida fit the pattern of known terror organizations.
Experts say it's typical for terrorists to be organized into small cells or groups that move often from place to place, never staying long enough for anyone to detect their patterns of activity. They generally have a leader or coordinator who acts as their contact with a larger group or leadership, while the cell members may not even know of other terrorists living nearby.
Local law enforcement authorities also have been long concerned about possible terrorist attacks and incidents of vandalism at synagogues and Jewish community centers. About 230,000 Jews live in Palm Beach County at least part of the year.
"It's been one of our fear factors," said a law enforcement commander who asked not to be identified. "Some of the synagogues draw up to 3,000 people during High Holy Days."
The commander said no evidence has suggested Jewish communities have been targeted for attack by terrorist groups.
But the disclosure that seven of the alleged hijackers lived in Delray Beach and three others in Boynton Beach raised concern among police agencies because of the large Jewish populations of suburban Delray and Boca Raton.
"We are so vulnerable in so many ways," the official said.
In February and March, vandals cut and burned swastikas and a hammer and sickle symbol into the golf course at Hamlet Country Club in Delray Beach, where hijacker Marwan Shehhi and another man rented an apartment in June and July.
The second man is believed to have been Shehhi's cousin, Mohamed Atta, now known to have been a member of a terrorist group in Germany and a suspected leader of the hijacking teams.
On the other side of the county, a large number of Palestinians have settled in Belle Glade over the past 30 years to flee violence in the Middle East.
Police agencies have increased patrols around synagogues and mosques since last week's terrorist attacks.
Although police were surprised at the numbers of suspected terrorists living in Delray Beach, it's one of many South Florida cities where foreigners draw little attention.
"If they had been in Omaha, Nebraska, someone would have wondered what they were doing there," said Paul Miller, a former FBI agent who now lives in an oceanside community near Delray Beach. "Here, they just blend in."
Delray Beach is home to large immigrant populations and foreign students attending Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton.
"They could operate very freely with no reason for anyone to be suspicious of them," Miller said. "They were able to carry out their diabolical plot right under our noses."
FBI agents also investigated 1818 Jackson St. in Hollywood, where Atta and Shehhi are reported to have lived in a second-floor apartment. Residents said they did not know the men. Atta, 33, who was born in the United Arab Emirates, was listed as a suspect in a bus bombing in Israel in 1986. That landed him on a CIA-FBI-Immigration & Naturalization Service watch list.
He studied engineering at Hamburg's Technical University in Germany, graduating in 1999 with a master's degree in urban renewal. Though on a terrorist watch list, he had no apparent trouble when he showed up in Venice, Fla., in the summer of 2000 to take pilot training at Huffman.
He used his real name, unlike many of the other hijackers who interchanged first and last names and used different spellings. Authorities have not ruled out suspicions that some of them may have stolen the identities of legitimate Arab residents, as alleged by the Saudi Arabian government.
Richard Surma, owner of the Panther Motel in Deerfield Beach, said he was "speechless" after learning that two of the terrorists stayed at his motel for two weeks.
Shehhi and another tenant -- possibly Atta -- and a visitor who came to the motel nearly every day stayed in room 12 and paid $500 in cash for it before they left Sunday morning, Surma said.
Surma said he found a 10-inch stack of neatly folded aeronautical maps, flight manuals, a fuel tester, an English/German dictionary, three manuals on martial arts and a white, three-ring binder filled with notes in the trash at the motel. He did not suspect anything until he heard of Tuesday's attacks, he said.
"I have a lot of Arabian-looking people. I can't question or be suspecting anything," said Diane Surma, Richard's wife. "But on Wednesday we knew there was something with those people."
In Shehhi's room, Diane Surma found food with Arabic labels and a box cutter knife.
The men had put a towel over a picture in their room of a woman exposing her shoulder and back, Richard Surma said.
"Maybe they just didn't want to look at it because the women in their country must be all covered," he said.
The Surmas said Shehhi and his two companions were always polite and neatly dressed.
"As tenants, they were perfect," Diane Surma said.
Henry George, owner of an Opa-locka company that offers pilots the chance to fly a computer simulator that's a lifelike version of a real commercial jetliner, told reporters that two of the terrorists -- Atta and Shehhi -- paid $1,500 for six hours of time in a Boeing 727 simulator last December.
"Looking back on it, it was a little strange that all they wanted to do was turns," said George "They told me they just wanted to get the feel for the controls. They were qualified pilots. I didn't think twice about it. Now I have to live with this for the rest of my life."
The FBI believes the terrorists boarded the doomed planes in groups of four or five, with two or three holding the passengers at bay while one or two others took over the cockpit. Aviation experts have said that once the planes were in the air, a pilot with minimal training could've kept it in the air and even hit the target buildings, as the highly automated jets are not that hard to fly.
At the Bimini Motel in Hollywood, a Middle Eastern man who spoke German showed up one day in late April, renting a room for two other men, paying $650 in cash for four weeks, said Joanne Solic, the motel's owner.
"After the first man brought the other two, we never saw him again," she said. "They said they were here going for their pilot's license."
Staff writer William Cooper Jr., staff researcher Madeline Miller and Palm Beach Post wire services contributed to this story.
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