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The official account of 9/11 is based on a hijacking narrative according to which 19 individuals, whose names and photographs have been posted on the website of the FBI,{90} boarded aircraft designated as flights AA11, UA175, AA77 and UA93 on the morning of 11 September 2001. These individuals are said to have hijacked those aircraft in flight and crashed the aircraft in suicide attacks into symbolic landmarks in the United States.

According to the official account, an aircraft assigned to flight AA11 was flown into the North Tower of the World Trade Center (WTC) in New York; shortly thereafter an aircraft assigned to flight UA175 was flown into the South Tower of the WTC. At 9:37 a.m. an aircraft assigned to flight AA77 impacted the Pentagon in Washington, D.C. The fourth aircraft, assigned to flight UA93, crashed in an empty field near Shanksville, Pennsylvania, after the passengers had risen against the alleged hijackers and attempted to retake control of the aircraft. It was later surmised that the pilot of the aircraft had intended to crash into the White House. So the official account.

Within hours of the operation, the FBI began to interview airline and airport employees who could provide information about what they had experienced that morning before and during the boarding of these flights. It can be safely assumed that all relevant evidence about the boarding of the four aircraft has been obtained by the FBI.

This chapter deals with one, and only one, question, namely: Did the individuals designated by the U.S. government as the hijackers of 9/11 board the designated flights?

It must be stated that even if these individuals had boarded these four flights, it does not necessarily prove that they did what they were accused of having done. In order to accuse them of mass murder, other evidence would be needed to prove that they actually hijacked the airliners and caused them to crash at the designated sites.

Shortly after the FBI released names and photographs of the alleged hijackers, questions about their identities began to emerge. The family of Hamza Alghamdi, one of the alleged hijackers, said the photo released by the FBI "has no resemblance to him at all.”{91} CNN showed a picture of another alleged hijacker, identified as Saeed Alghamdi. That man, a pilot, was alive and working in Tunisia.{92} The photograph of a Saudi pilot by the name of Waleed Al Shehri was released by the FBI as one of the alleged hijackers: he protested his innocence from Casablanca, Morocco.{93} Two people with the name of Abdulaziz Alomari presented themselves, surprised to see their names on the FBI list of suspected hijackers. One of them, a Saudi engineer, said he lost his passport while studying in Denver, Colorado, in 1995. Of the FBI list, he said: "The name is my name and the birth date is the same as mine. But I am not the one who bombed the World Trade Center in New York."{94} Another Abdulaziz Alomari was found working as a pilot with Saudi Airlines.{95} Salem Alhazmi, also listed by the FBI as an alleged hijacker, was indignant at being named as a suspect for a mass murder. He said he works in petrochemical plant in Yanbu (Saudi Arabia).{96} Abdul Rahman Al-Haznawi, brother of another suspect, said “There is no similarity between the photo published [on Thursday] and my brother.” He said he does not believe his brother was involved in the crime: “He never had any such intention.”{97} Gaafar Allagany, the Saudi government’s chief spokesman in the United States, said in an interview in Washington that the hijackers probably stole the identities of legitimate Saudi pilots.{98} The FBI maintained the names and photographs it originally posted on its website as those "believed to be the hijackers" of 9/11,{99} including those of living individuals. The 9/11 Commission did not at all address these conflicting reports. The passive and tentative formulation used by the FBI in attributing the crime to particular perpetrators, remains the official position of the agency.

One basic goal of a criminal investigation is to identify the perpetrators. To prove that specific individuals could have hijacked an aircraft, it must be first demonstrated that they boarded that aircraft. To demonstrate this fact, the following four classes of evidence should have been produced by the U.S. authorities in September 2001 or shortly thereafter:

1 Authenticated flight manifests,{100} listing the names of all the passengers and crew members, including those suspected of hijacking;

2 Authenticated security videos from the airports, which depict the passengers (and the alleged hijackers);

3 Sworn testimonies of personnel who attended the boarding of the aircraft;

4 Formal identification of the bodies or bodily remains from the crash sites, including chain-of-custody reports.

The scope of this chapter is limited to examining whether the U.S. government has produced the above four classes of minimal evidence and if so, whether that evidence is admissible, relevant and compelling. If such evidence does not exist or is deemed to lack credibility, it shall be presumed that these individuals did not board the aircraft and that, consequently, no “Islamic hijackings” had taken place.