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【以下文字转载自 Wisdom 讨论区】
【原文由 Christy 所发表】
                    Hijackers were from wealthy Saudi families

                                                    By Terry Boardman

In its end of year double issue 1992-3, The Economist gazed into its
crystal ball for the 21st century and forecast that in 2011 a certain
Colonel Algosaibi would overthrow the corrupt House of Saud and
institute an Islamic Republic that would unite most of the Muslim world
under its leadership. This would then link up with the Chinese for an
attack on the West. The main victims of this successful onslaught would
be Turkey and Russia, which would lose all its territory east of the
Urals. Just thought I'd mention it.....we may not have to wait till 2011
for some of this to happen.
Meanwhile, keep the following dates in mind:
1933 - 1966 - 1999
1945 - 1978 - 2011
Terry
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October 28 2001    TERRORISM
Hijackers were from wealthy Saudi families
MOST of the hijackers in the terrorist attacks on America were recruited
from wealthy Saudi
families and were bound by family ties, the first detailed account of
their background has
revealed.
Rather than being hired "muscle" or terrorists posing as Saudis with
false identities, as
previously thought, an investigation has revealed a close-knit group
that had links stretching back
many years.
Fifteen of the 19 hijackers are now known to be Saudis, including the
brother of a police
commander, the son of a tribal chief, two teachers and three law
graduates.
Well-educated, intelligent and in their mid-twenties, most were joined
in the attack by at least one
close male relative. Many of them had a history of making trips both to
America and Afghanistan.
As the focus of the worldwide inquiry shifts to Saudi Arabia, with
security sweeps across the
country launched in collaboration with the FBI, the discovery of the
hijackers' backgrounds is
causing consternation in the kingdom.
More than 80 people have been detained by the Saudi security police for
alleged links to Osama
Bin Laden and hundreds more have been questioned.
Until now the world's understanding of the hijackers and their motives
has been based on
information released publicly about three hijackers who lived in
Hamburg, and led by Mohammed
Atta, an Egyptian.
But information obtained from within Saudi Arabia has provided a
detailed profile of the
fundamentalist Muslims prepared to die to inflict massive casualties on
the United States.
Predominantly from the western provinces of the kingdom, they were also
all adherents to the
Salafist school of Islam, which believes in following literally the
doctrines and practices of the
earliest disciples of the Prophet Mohammed.
"The recruits, whatever you may think of what they did, were talented
people," said Saad
al-Fagih, a leading moderate Saudi dissident in London last week. "They
were not only credible,
but had good communication skills."
Al-Fagih, the leader of the London-based Movement for Islamic Reform in
Arabia, said contact
with dozens of local sources confirmed visits by at least 11 of the
hijackers to training camps of
Bin Laden's Al-Qaeda.
One hijacker now identified as a ringleader on September 11 is Nawaf
al-Hamzi, who sat in seat
5F of American Airlines flight 77, which crashed into the Pentagon.
Al-Hamzi, according to local
sources, is the brother of a police chief from the coastal town of
Jizan, in southwest Saudi
Arabia.
He was the earliest hijacker to make an appearance in the United States
when he turned up on
records of an apartment complex in San Diego, California, in November
1999.
Al-Hamzi had already aroused the suspicion of the CIA before September
11 when he was
spotted with Khalid al-Midhar, another Saudi, at a meeting with
suspected Al-Qaeda members in
Malaysia in January 2000. Shortly afterwards, al-Hamzi and al-Midhar
began flying lessons
together in San Diego. Al-Midhar was in seat 12B on the flight. Another
al-Hamzi brother, Salem,
was on the same plane, in seat 5E.
Hani Hanjour, a trained commercial airline pilot and the son of a
wealthy businessman from Ti'af,
50 miles east of Mecca, was also on the flight, as was Majed Moqed, a
law student at the King
Saud University in Riyadh. He is the son of ahead of the Baniauf tribe
and from Annakhil, a village
near Medina.
Friends have said that he was known for his desire to join a jihad and
was a relative of an
extremist leader who took part in the 1979 storming of Mecca's Grand
Mosque, Islam's most holy
shrine.
A former college room-mate of Moqed was Satam al-Suqami, a hijacker on
American Airlines
flight 11, which crashed into the north tower of the World Trade Center.
Also a law student at the
King Saud University, he was from a northern Saudi province.
Brothers Waleed and Wail al-Shehri, also on the same flight, came from
Khamis Mushayt, east
of Abha. Described by friends as "peaceful and devout", Wail had
graduated from an institute of
teachers.
Last week, the brothers' father, Muhammad Ali al-Shehri, said Wail had
started working as a
teacher but left his job because of mental illness and never returned.
Waleed, who was still a
student teacher, left with his brother nine months ago to consult a
Muslim holy man about Wail's
illness. Their whereabouts were unknown to their family until the
hijackings.
Ahmed al-Nami, a hijacker on board United Airlines flight 93, which
crashed in Pennsylvania, was
identified last week as another law student, trained at the King Khaled
University Islamic law
school in Abha.
The Saudi ruling family has been so disturbed at the scale of the
involvement of some of its
citizens that it has given a team of FBI agents unprecedented access to
interviews with
suspected detainees and they have been allowed to collect statements
from relatives and
acquaintances of the hijackers.
Copyright 2001 Times Newspapers Ltd.

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