"It concluded by quoting the official position from the FBI: The rest of the story remains as it was in the archive as a record of the situation at the time. Under the FBI picture of Waleed al-Shehri we have added the words 'A man called Waleed Al Shehri.' to make it as clear as possible that there was confusion over the identity. In an effort to make this clearer, we have made one small change to the original story. "The confusion over names and identities we reported back in 2001 may have arisen because these were common Arabic and Islamic names. This confusion was widely reported and was also acknowledged by the FBI. The story, written in the immediate aftermath of the 9/11 attacks, was about confusion at the time surrounding the names and identities of some of the hijackers. "A five-year-old story from our archive has been the subject of some recent editorial discussion here. The BBC reported on 23 September 2001 that 4 of the hijackers were alive and well:įBI Director Robert Mueller acknowledged that the identity of several of the suicide hijackers was in doubt Zacharias Moussoui has been termed "the 20th hijacker" a possible additional member of the group of September 11 attacks of 2001. The rest of the "muscle hijackers" arrived in early and mid-2001. The fourth hijacker-pilot, Hani Hanjour, arrived in San Diego in December 2000.
They were followed by three hijacker- pilots, Mohamed Atta, Marwan al-Shehhi and Ziad Jarrah mid-2000 to undertake flight training in south Florida. The first hijackers to arrive in the United States were Khalid al-Mihdhar and Nawaf al-Hazmi, who settled in the San Diego area in January 2000. These were the 19 men who hijacked 4 planes on September 11th, 2001.
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