We actually have no idea who the people who got on those planes are. If the FBI knows, they certainly haven't released information that would convince a reasonable person on this. My favorite case is Saeed Alhazmi, where it is clear beyond a doubt that the FBI is using the wrong picture, birthdate and other info, and certainly must know this, yet they have never corrected the incorrect info. They even apologized to the guy, but still have his photo up on the FBI website as one of the hijackers!
The key fact is that the video footage of hijackers walking on the hijacked planes has never been released. Why not? (A few photos of two hijackers walking onto a different connecting flight earlier that morning has been released, which begs even more why release that and not the other footage?)
Here's my 9/11 Timeline entry most relevant to this:
September 16-23, 2001: Reports appear in many newspapers suggesting that some of the people the US says were 9/11 hijackers are actually still alive:
1) Ahmed Alnami is still alive and working as an administrative supervisor with Saudi Arabian Airlines, in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. (Los Angeles Times, 9/21/01) He had never lost his passport and found it "very worrying" that his identity appeared to have been stolen. (Telegraph, 9/23/01) However, there is another Ahmed Alnami who is ten years younger, and appears to be dead, according to his father. (ABC News, 3/15/02)
2) Saeed Alghamdi is alive and flying airplanes in Tunisia. (Los Angeles Times, 9/21/01, Telegraph, 9/23/01, BBC, 9/23/01) He says he studied flight training in a Florida flight schools for parts of the years, 1998, 1999, 2000, and 2001. (Arab News, 9/18/01)
3) Salem Alhazmi is alive and working at a petrochemical plant in Yanbou, Saudi Arabia. (Los Angeles Times, 9/21/01, Telegraph, 9/23/01) He says his passport was stolen by a pickpocket in Cairo three years ago and that pictures and details such as date of birth are of him. (Guardian, 9/21/01, Washington Post, 9/20/01, Saudi Gazette, 9/29/02)
4 and 5) The brothers Waleed M. Alshehri and Wail Alshehri are alive. A Saudi spokesman said, "This is a respectable family. I know his sons, and they're both alive." The father is a diplomat who has been stationed in the US and Bombay, India. (Los Angeles Times, 9/21/01, Arab News, 9/19/01) There is a second pair of Saudi brothers named Wail and Waleed M. who may have been the real hijackers. Their father says they've been missing since December 2000. (ABC News, 3/15/02, Arab News, 9/17/01) The still living Waleed M. Alshehri is a pilot with Saudi Airlines, studying in Morocco. (Los Angeles Times, 9/21/01, AP, 9/22/01) He acknowledges that he attended flight training school at Dayton Beach in the United States. (BBC, 9/23/01, Daily Trust, 9/24/01) He was interviewed by US officials in Morocco, and cleared of all charges against him (though apparently the FBI photos are still of him!). (Embry Riddle Aeronautical University press release, 9/21/01) The still living Wail Alshehri is also apparently a pilot. (Los Angeles Times, 9/21/01) What are the odds that two Saudi terrorist brothers would find two other Saudi brothers with the same names who were pilots with one even training in Florida?
6) Abdulaziz Alomari is alive and working as a pilot for Saudi Arabian Airlines. (New York Times, 9/16/01, Independent, 9/17/01, BBC, 9/23/01) He claims that his passport was stolen in 1995 while he was living in Denver, Colorado. (Los Angeles Times, 9/21/01) "They gave my name and my date of birth, but I am not a suicide bomber. I am here. I am alive." (Telegraph, 9/23/01, London Times, 9/20/01)
7) On September 19, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. distributes a "special alert" to its member banks asking for information about the attackers. The list includes "Al-Midhar, Khalid. Alive." The Justice Department later calls this a "typo." (AP, 9/20/01, Cox News, 10/21/01) The BBC says: "There are suggestions that another suspect, Khalid Almihdhar, may also be alive." (BBC, 9/23/01) The Guardian says Almihdhar is believed to be alive, but investigators are looking into three possibilities. Either his name was stolen for a hijacker alias, or he allowed his name to be used so that US officials would think he died, or he died in the crash. (Guardian, 9/21/01) Almihdhar is wanted for other terrorist acts (see January 15, 2000), so it's not surprising he's still hard to find. There are three official pictures of Almihdhar - one of them doesn't look at all like the other two.
8) Marwan Alshehhi may be alive in Morocco. (Saudi Gazette, 9/18/01, Khaleej Times, 9/20/01) Family and neighbors don't believe he took part in the attacks. (Reuters, 9/18/01)
9) Atta's father says he spoke to his son on the phone on September 12, 2001 (see September 19, 2001 (C)).
10) No one claims that Hamza Alghamdi is still alive, but his family says the FBI photo "has no resemblance to him at all" (on the other hand, Ahmed Alnami's family says his FBI picture is correct). (Washington Post, 9/25/01)
11) Majed Moqed was last seen by a friend in Saudi Arabia in 2000. This friend claims the FBI picture doesn't look like Moqed. (Arab News, 9/22/01) There are three official pictures of Majed Moqed - one of them doesn't look at all like the other two (see photos on below right).
12) The Saudi government has claimed Mohand Alshehri is alive and was not in the US on 9/11, but no more details are known. (AP, 9/29/01)
The Saudi government insists that five of the Saudis mentioned are still alive. (New York Times, 9/21/01) On September 20, FBI Director Mueller says: "We have several others that are still in question. The investigation is ongoing, and I am not certain as to several of the others." (Newsday, 9/21/01) On September 27, after all of these revelations, FBI Director Mueller states, "We are fairly certain of a number of them." (Sun Sentinel, 9/28/01) Could it be that the bodies (and sometimes faces) in question are correct, but the names were stolen? For instance, the Telegraph notes, "The FBI had published (Saeed Alghamdi's) personal details but with a photograph of somebody else, presumably a hijacker who had 'stolen' his identity. CNN, however, showed a picture of the real Mr. Alghamdi." (Telegraph, 9/23/01) Police have even determined who sold at least two of the hijackers their fake ID's. (BBC, 8/1/02) On September 20, The London Times reported, "Five of the hijackers were using stolen identities, and investigators are studying the possibility that the entire suicide squad consisted of impostors." (London Times, 9/20/01) Briefly, the press took this story to heart. For instance, a story in the Observer on September 23 put the names of hijackers like Saeed Alghamdi in quotation marks. (Observer, 9/23/01) But the story died down after the initial reports, and it was hardly noticed when Mueller stated on November 2, 2001: "We at this point definitely know the 19 hijackers who were responsible," and claimed that they were sticking with the names and photos released in late September. (AP, 11/03/02) Yet many of the names and photos are known to be wrong.
If you go to this page:
http://www.cooperativeresearch.org/timeline/main/timelineafter911.htmland scroll down to the right date, you can see some photos of innocent people mistakenly identified as hijackers.
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