Web site: Al Qaeda IDs 20th 9/11 hijacker

[sabra]

http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/06/13/911.hijacker/index.html

Web site: Al Qaeda IDs 20th 9/11 hijacker
Saudi militant named in statement

(CNN) -- Al Qaeda identified a Saudi militant, who was killed in 2004, as the 20th hijacker in the September 11, 2001, attack on the United States, according to a statement published Tuesday on an Islamist Web site.

"Turki bin Fheid al-Muteiri -- Fawaz al-Nashmi -- may God accept him as a martyr (was) the one chosen by Sheikh Osama bin Laden to be the martyrdom-seeker number 20 in the raid on September 11, 2001," the statement said.

Al-Muteiri was not able to join the other hijackers in time for those attacks, the date of which had been pushed forward, the group said without elaborating.

"The (Sept. 11) operation was brought forward for some circumstances that brother Mohamed Atta explained to the general leadership, through brother Ramzi Binalshibh, God free him," the statement added.

Binalshibh, suspected of coordinating the 9/11 attacks, was arrested in 2002 in Karachi, Pakistan. He was once a roommate with Atta, the leader of the September attacks and the hijacker of American Airlines Flight 11 which crashed into the World Trade Center's north tower.

[bullimiami]

1. more like the 20th 20th hijacker.

[JeffR]

2. Uh-huh. He's now also officially The Fifth Beatle

Move over, George Martin and Murray the K.

[Up2Late]

3. Anyone know if this was the guy that the Florida Airport immigration...

...agent stopped at the Airport, and then was sent back to his home county?

The agent testified in front of the 9/11 Commission to that effect.

[robinlynne]

4. I thought Usama said he had nothing to do with it.

I really think the best hijacker identification was the passport they found near the world trade center, which floated down to the sidewalk with no burns or tears.
remember that one?