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SEPTEMBER'S Hijack 'suspects' alive and well
2002-04-26 19:19:37
BBC News Online
26 April 2002
Another of the men named by the FBI as a hijacker in the terrorist attacks on
Washington and New York has turned up alive and well.
The identities of four of the 19 suspects accused of having carried out the
attacks are now in doubt.
Saudi Arabian pilot Waleed Al Shehri was one of five men that the FBI said
had deliberately crashed American Airlines flight 11 into the World Trade
Centre on 11 September.
His photograph was released, and has since appeared in newspapers and ontelevision around the world.
Now he is protesting his innocence from Casablanca, Morocco.
He told journalists there that he had nothing to do with the attacks on New
York and Washington, and had been in Morocco when they happened. He has
contacted both the Saudi and American authorities, according to Saudi press
reports.
He acknowledges that he attended flight training school at Dayton Beach in
the United States, and is indeed the same Waleed Al Shehri to whom the FBI
has been referring.
But, he says, he left the United States in September last year, became a
pilot with Saudi Arabian airlines and is currently on a further training
course in Morocco.
Abdulaziz Al Omari, another of the Flight 11 hijack suspects, has also been
quoted in Arab news reports.
He says he is an engineer with Saudi Telecoms, and that he lost his passport
while studying in Denver.
Another man with exactly the same name surfaced on the pages of the
English-language Arab News.
The second Abdulaziz Al Omari is a pilot for Saudi Arabian Airlines, the
report says. Meanwhile, Asharq Al Awsat newspaper, a London-based Arabic
daily, says it has interviewed Saeed Alghamdi.
He was listed by the FBI as a hijacker in the United flight that crashed in
Pennsylvania.
And there are suggestions that another suspect, Khalid Al Midhar, may also be
alive.
FBI Director Robert Mueller acknowledged on Thursday that the identity of
several of the suicide hijackers is in doubt.
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