◆ SpookStack

b6 Sp&er BIC unsuccessful because the address they gave could not be verified by the airlines. AL-MIHDHAR and MOQED ultimately purchased their tickets with cash on September 5, 2001, at the American Airlines counter at Baltimore-Washington International Airport. On August 27, 2001, NAWAF AL-HAZMI and SALEM AL~HAZMI purchased their tickets through the web site Travelocity.com using a Visa debit card in name ‘of NAWAF M. AL-HAZMI. On August 31, 2001, HANJOUR attempted to purchase his ticket with a VISA debit card at Advanced Travel Services, Totowa, New Jersey. After the card was rejected because the cost of the ticket exceeded the card's credit limit, HANJOUR paid for the ticket with cash. Throughout his stay in New Jersey and Maryland, HANJOUR continued to attend flight training at various locations. The lengthy and extensive flight training obtained by HANJOUR throughout his years in the United States makes it reasonable to believe that he became the pilot of Flight 77 on September 11th. HANJOUR was seated in Seat 1B, the first row aisle seat of the First Class section. The other hijackers were seated in.pairs further back in the airplane. Subsequent examination of FAA radar plots and the flight data recorder indicate that approximately thirty-four minutes after take-off, the aircraft made a 180 degree turn from its westward flight path near Portsmouth, Ohio, to return toward Washington, D.C. The aircraft then executed a 360 degree turn to make a final descending approach into the Pentagon at an estimated air speed in excess of 400 knots. The flight cockpit recorder was later recovered at the crash site but sustained such severe damage that it was rendered unusable. Ds¢ At 9:39 AM., AA Flight 77 deliberately crashed into the southwest side of the Pentagon, Alexandria, Virginia. In addition to the 53 passengers, 6 flight crew members, and 5 hijackers, 189 Pentagon employees, both civilian and military, lost their lives. +i On September 12, 2001, a 1988 Toyota Corolla registered to NAWAF AL-HAZMI was found in a parking lot at IAD. A subsequent search of this vehicle revealed many documents and other items associated with the hijackers, including a three page letter handwritten in Arabic. This letter was identical to those found in luggage belonging to ATTA (Flight 11) and at the crash site of United Airlines Flight 93 in Stoney Creek Townshio, Pennsylvania. Translation of these letters revealed specific religious guidance to prepare for the hijackings. (Sq Following the crash of AMERICAN AIRLINES FLIGHT 77 into the Pentagon, investigation determined significant ties between the actual perpetrators of the crash (described above) and SEQRET / 7 . . REQ 3-lq 000000084