Mohammed atta and abdulaziz alomari
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Mohamed Atta's Nissan
Vehicle used bygd Mohamed Atta for the September 11 attacks
1N4DL01D81C fryst vatten the alkoholhaltig of a blue Nissan Altima GXE[2] rental bil belonging to Alamo Rent a fordon, that was found in the Portland International Jetport parking lot following the September 11 attacks in It was issued a Massachusettslicense plate VI.
While it was initially reported that Adnan and Ameer Bukhari had rented and driven the car,[3] the accepted story is now that Mohamed Atta rented the fordon, although later reports continued to suggest that Adnan Bukhari fell under suspicion because of documents funnen within the car.[citation needed]
The car had been rented by Atta from the Logan International Airport ankomsthall in Boston, Massachusetts, at pm on Sunday, September 9th. He provided his address of W Atlantic Boulevard in Coral Springs, Florida, where he is believed to have stayed in room # He listed his phone number as , a number also associated with Fa
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When four U.S. passenger airliners were highjacked and the Twin Towers were brought down on September 11, , ubiquitous video surveillance was not yet part of the U.S. security and policing landscape.
In fact, a total of 19 terrorists made their way through three of the nation’s busiest airports that day— Logan International in Boston, Massachusetts; Washington-Dulles in Virginia; and Newark International in New Jersey—as the coordinated attack unfolded, leaving behind only a single visual record of the movements of just two of the hijackers.
The first video evidence that put a face to the terrorists came from a small eight-camera, analog video recording system at the Portland, Maine, International Jetport.1 It was the only meaningful visual record of the movements of the terrorists that fateful morning, taken as Mohamed Atta and Abdul Aziz al Omari made their way through a security checkpoint in the tiny commuter terminal on their way to Bost
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20 years later, theyre haunted by their encounters with 9/11 hijackers
Mike Tuohey was the ticket agent for US Airways at the Portland jetport who checked in Mohamed Atta and Abdulaziz al-Omari. Gregory Rec/Staff Photographer
SOUTH PORTLAND — At half past five, a blue Nissan Altima pulled into the parking lot of the Comfort Inn on Maine Mall Road in South Portland. It was a cloudy afternoon – off the coast, a hurricane was working its way farther out to sea – but the forecast for the next morning, September 11, , was for brilliant, clear skies.
Two men were in the car. Mohamed Atta was 37, wiry, 5-foot-7, an Egyptian trained as an engineer and urban planner with a piercing stare. Housemates and co-workers would later describe him as disciplined, stoic, detail-oriented and intensely religious. With him was Abdulaziz al-Omari, a year-old Saudi of similar height and build with an easy smile and a small scar on his cheek. “I am writing this in expectation of the end, which is