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<i><font face="Times New Roman" size="2">Ziad Jarrah was in the two different places at the same time on more than one
occasion</font></i><p align="left"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">by
Paul Thompson<br>
August 23, 2002</font></p>
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<p><i><font face="Times New Roman" size="2">Ziad Jarrah is
one of the best known of the 19 9/11 hijackers. What most people don't know,
however, is that there were actually two Ziad Jarrahs: the one raised in Lebanon
and who's picture has been widely circulated by the FBI, and the one that actually
flew on Flight 93. The evidence of two is undeniable, and amazingly, we even
have pictures of the second Jarrah.</font></i></p>
<p><font face="Times New Roman" size="2"><b>The Other Ziad
Jarrah</b></font></p>
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<img src="people/jarrah3.jpg" width="185" height="250"><br>
<font size="1">Ziad Samir Jarrah [<a href="2001/cnn091801b.html">CNN, 9/18/01</a>]</font></font></p>
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<p><font face="Times New Roman" size="2">In 1995, a person
named Ziad Jarrah rented an apartment in a three-family house on East
Third Street in Brooklyn, New York. [Among the Heroes by Jere Longman, 2002,
p. 90] Landlords there identified his photograph as being the same as that of the
9/11 hijacker. A Brooklyn apartment lease from March, 1995 until February, 1996
bears Ziad Jarrah's name. [<a href="2001/bostonglobe092501.html">Boston Globe, 9/25/01</a>]
"Another man named Ihassan Jarrah lived with Ziad, drove a livery cab and
paid the eight-hundred-dollar monthly rent. The men were quiet, well-mannered,
said hello and good-bye. Ziad Jarrah carried a camera and told his landlords
that he was a photographer. He would disappear for a few days on occasion, then
reappear. Sometimes a woman who appeared to be a prostitute arrived with one
of the men. 'Me and my brother used to crack jokes that they were terrorists,'
said Jason Matos, a construction worker who lived in a basement there, and whose
mother owned the house." [<i>Among the Heroes</i>, by Jere Longman, 2002,
p. 90]</font></p>
<p><font face="Times New Roman" size="2">The only problem
with the above is that the real Ziad Jarrah, twenty years old at the time, was actually
still in his home country of Lebanon at the time. He was studying in a Catholic
school in Beirut, and was in frequent contact with the rest of his family. His
parents drove him home to be with the family nearly every weekend, and they
were in frequent contact by telephone as well. [<a href="2001/latimes102301.html">Los
Angeles Times, 10/23/01</a>] Not until April, 1996 did he leave Lebanon for
the first time, to study in Germany. [<a href="2001/bostonglobe092501.html">Boston
Globe, 9/25/01</a>] His family believes that the New York lease proves that
there were two Jarrahs. [<a href="2001/cnn091801b.html">CNN,
9/18/01</a>]</font></p>
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<img src="people/jarrahchildschool.jpg" width="200" height="150"><br>
<font size="1">Jarrah was studying in this Beirut school at the same time
the FBI has him living in New York City. [<a href="2001/cbc101001.html">CBC,
10/10/01</a>]</font></font></p>
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<p><font face="Times New Roman" size="2">But this is not
the only incontrovertible proof of this second, almost identical looking Ziad Jarrah.
</font></p>
<p><font face="Times New Roman" size="2">On January 30
2001, another man whose name was also Ziad Jarrah, was questioned for several hours at the Dubai International Airport,
in the United Arab Emirates. This was done at the request of the CIA, for <font color="#000000">"suspected
involvement in terrorist activities." The CIA notified local officials
that he would be arriving from Pakistan on his way back to Europe, and they
wanted to know where he had been in Afghanistan and how long he had been there.
[<a href="2002/cnn080102.html">CNN, 8/1/02</a>] During the questioning,
the man "divulged
that he had spent the previous 'two months and five days' in Pakistan and Afghanistan
-- the only known acknowledgment of an Afghan visit by any of the hijackers
-- and that he was returning to Florida..." </font></font>
<font face="Times New Roman" size="2" color="#000000">
[<a href="2001/chicagotribune121301.html">Chicago Tribune, 12/13/01</a>] It
was later
reported that "investigators have confirmed that Jarrah had spent at least
three weeks in January, 2001 at an al-Qaeda training camp in Afghanistan."
[<a href="2002/cnn080102.html">CNN, 8/1/02</a>] US officials were informed of the
results of the interrogation before Jarrah left the airport. "UAE and European
intelligence sources told CNN that the questioning of Jarrah fits a pattern
of a CIA operation begun in 1999 to track suspected al-Qaeda operatives who
were traveling through the United Arab Emirates."�He was then permitted
to leave, eventually going to the US.�This story was confirmed by numerous UAE, US and European officials. No one
has denied that he passed through Dubai on
this date, but the CIA has not admitted to ever having questioned him. [<a href="2002/cnn080102.html">CNN,
8/1/02</a>] </font></p>
<p><font face="Times New Roman" size="2" color="#000000">The
only problem with this story is that the real Jarrah was somewhere else at the time.
The Florida Flight Training Center, the flight school where Jarrah had been studying for the previous six months, said he was in school there until January 15. His
family claimed he arrived in Lebanon to visit on January 26, five days before
he supposedly passed through Dubai. His father had just undergone open heart
surgery, and Jarrah visited him every day in the hospital. Pointing out this
incident, his uncle Jamal Jarrah asked, "How could he be in two places at
one time?" Furthermore, the family claims the longest Jarrah has ever gone
without phoning them is ten days, back in 1997. [<i>Among the Heroes</i>, by
Jere Longman, 2002, p. 101-102] How could he have maintained such contact in
Afghanistan, the second poorest country on Earth, with virtually no communication
network?</font></p>
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<img src="people/jarrah1.jpg" width="206" height="256"><br>
<font size="1">The original FBI photo of Ziad Jarrah.</font></font></p>
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<p><font face="Times New Roman" size="2">These two examples
are just the most glaring clues of many that someone was posing as Ziad Jarrah
for years. The story of Jarrah in New York in 1995 is truly amazing, because
that would have happened presumably before the 9/11 plot was even conceived,
and before Mohamed Atta or most of the other 9/11 terrorists even joined al-Qaeda.
Additionally, it was before Jarrah had moved to Germany and so he couldn't
possibly have had come
into contact with any al-Qaeda operatives yet. Yet not only is there another
Ziad Jarrah, the two looked similar enough for people in Brooklyn to confuse
the two together.</font></p>
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<img src="people/jarrahpassportsmall.jpg" width="195" height="250"><br>
<font size="1">The passport photo of "Ziad Jarrah"<br>
found in the wreckage of Flight 93.</font></font></p>
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<p><font face="Times New Roman" size="2">Incredibly, at
least one photo exists that shows how similar the two Ziad Jarrahs looked. The
FBI says they recovered a semi-burnt passport photo of Jarrah in the wreckage
of Flight 93, in the Pennsylvania countryside. But is it really Jarrah? Compare
the shape of their heads. The head of the Lebanon-born Jarrah has a much squarer top
and is more elongated, while that of the other Jarrah is a bit more rounded.
Still, its easy to see how they could be confused for each other.<br>
<br>
How can two Jarrahs be explained, and what does it mean?</font></p>
<p><font face="Times New Roman" size="2"><b>A Pattern of
Deception and Stolen Identities</b></font></p>
<p><font face="Times New Roman" size="2">Jarrah is not the
only 9/11 hijacker to have a secret doppelganger. Although the FBI investigation
and the mainstream media have consistently ignored the evidence and its implications,
the evidence is often very clear. Numerous 9/11 hijackers are, in fact, still
alive. To mention some of the more obvious cases:</font></p>
<p><font face="Times New Roman" size="2" color="#000000">-
Ahmed Alnami is still alive and working as an administrative supervisor with
Saudi Arabian Airlines, in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. [<a href="2001/latimes092101.html">Los
Angeles Times, 9/21/01</a>] He had never lost his passport and found it "very
worrying" that his identity appeared to have been stolen. [<a href="2001/telegraph092301.html">Telegraph,
9/23/01</a>]<br>
- Saeed Alghamdi is alive and learning how to fly airplanes in Tunisia. [<a href="2001/latimes092101.html">Los
Angeles Times, 9/21/01</a>, <a href="2001/bbc092301.html">BBC, 9/23/01</a>] The Telegraph
notes, "The FBI had published his personal details but with a photograph
of somebody else, presumably a hijacker who had "stolen" his identity.
CNN, however, showed a picture of the real Mr. Alghamdi." [<a href="2001/telegraph092301.html">Telegraph,
9/23/01</a>]<br>
- Salem Alhazmi is alive and working at a petrochemical plant in Yanbou, Saudi
Arabia. [<a href="2001/latimes092101.html">Los Angeles Times, 9/21/01</a>, <a href="2001/telegraph092301.html">Telegraph,
9/23/01</a>] He says his passport was stolen by a pickpocket in Cairo three
years ago. [<a href="2001/guardian092101c.html">Guardian, 9/21/01</a>] <br>
- Waleed Alshehri is alive and a pilot with Saudi Airlines, studying in Morocco.
[<a href="2001/latimes092101.html">Los Angeles Times, 9/21/01</a>, <a href="2001/ap092201.html">AP,
9/22/01</a>] He acknowledges that he attended flight training school at Dayton
Beach in the United States. [<a href="2001/bbc092301.html">BBC, 9/23/01</a>] He also
says FBI photos of the terrorist are of him. [<a href="2001/dailytrust092401.html">Daily
Trust, 9/24/01</a>] </font></p>
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<img src="people/almihdhar.jpg" width="432" height="200"><br>
<font size="1">Three different pictures of Khalid Almihdhar. Which one
does not belong?</font></font></p>
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<p><font face="Times New Roman" size="2" color="#000000">
- Abdulaziz Alomari is alive and working as a pilot for Saudi Arabian Airlines.
[<a href="2001/nyt091601.html">New York Times, 9/16/01</a>, <a href="2001/independent091701b.html">Independent,
9/17/01</a>, <a href="2001/bbc092301.html">BBC, 9/23/01</a>] He claims that his passport
was stolen when he was living in Denver in 1995. [<a href="2001/latimes092101.html">Los
Angeles Times, 9/21/01</a>] "They gave my name and my date of birth, but
I am not a suicide bomber. I am here. I am alive." [<a href="2001/telegraph092301.html">Telegraph,
9/23/01</a>] <br>
- The BBC says, "There are suggestions that another suspect, Khalid Almihdhar,
may also be alive." [<a href="2001/bbc092301.html">BBC, 9/23/01</a>] The Guardian
says he is believed to be alive, but investigators are looking into three possibilities.
Either his name was stolen for a hijacker alias, or he allowed his name to be
used so that US officials would think he died, or that he died in the crash. [<a href="2001/guardian092101b.html">Guardian,
9/21/01</a>] Almihdhar is wanted for other terrorist acts, so it is not surprising
that
he is still hard to reach. Three pictures of Almihdhar have been released, two
of one person and one of another (see photos on the right).<br>
- No one claims that Hamza Alghamdi is still alive, but his family says the
FBI photo "has no resemblance to him at all." [<a href="2001/wpost092501.html">Washington
Post, 9/25/01</a>]<br>
- There are three official pictures of Majed Moqed - one of them doesn't look
at all like the other two (see the photos on the left, below).<br>
- There are two official pictures of Ahmed Alhaznawi - they're of different
people (see the two pictures near the bottom of this article). </font></p>
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<p align="center"><font face="Times New Roman" size="2">
<img src="people/moqed.jpg" width="446" height="201"><br>
<font size="1">How can all of these pictures be of Majed Moqed?</font></font></p>
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<p><font face="Times New Roman" size="2" color="#000000">On
September 27, 2001, after all of these stories came out in the media, FBI Director
Robert Mueller still could only state, "We are fairly certain of a number
of them." [<a href="2001/sunsentinel092801.html">Sun Sentinel, 9/28/01</a>]
But since then the list of hijackers has not changed, and in February, 2002
the FBI put on their website better quality versions of the same pictures released
in mid-September, 2001, pictures that are blatantly wrong for a number of hijackers.
</font></p>
<p><font face="Times New Roman" size="2">It is clear that
many and perhaps all of the hijackers were using stolen identities. This is
not so surprising. "The primer that Osama bin Laden's organization gave
to would-be terrorists included rules for an undercover member: Don't reveal
your true name." [<a href="2001/miamiherald092201.html">Miami Herald, 9/22/01</a>]
Yet over and over we hear of the 9/11 hijackers using their real names for everything,
even buying their plane tickets in the supposed real names. "In the end,
they left a curiously obvious trail -- from martial arts manuals, maps, a Koran,
Internet and credit card fingerprints. Maybe they were sloppy, maybe they didn't
care, maybe it was a gesture of contempt of a culture they considered weak and
corrupt." [<a href="2001/miamiherald092201.html">Miami Herald, 9/22/01</a>]
Why not consider that maybe it was done on purpose? The surprising thing is
not that they used stolen identities, the surprise is that the FBI continues
to believe in the false trail of evidence and the false identities, though
it grudgingly admits it may have a few wrong.</font></p>
<p><font face="Times New Roman" size="2"><b>The Demonization
of Jarrah</b></font></p>
<p><font face="Times New Roman" size="2">Because the FBI
refuses to admit the possibility that Jarrah's identity may have been wrong,
The real, Lebanese-born Jarrah has already been convicted in the court of public
opinion. Everything the mainstream media writes about him assumes that he is
guilty and tries to retroactively explain how he did what he did. He needs to
be turned into a monster, because presumably only a monster could commit such
a horrible act. Take for instance this description by New York Times reporter
Jere Longman: <br>
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<p align="center"><font face="Times New Roman" size="2">
<img src="people/jarrahsmile.jpg" width="198" height="200"><br>
<font size="1">Another Lee Harvey Oswald? [<a href="2001/cbc101001.html">CBC,
10/10/01</a>]</font></font></p>
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<p><font face="Times New Roman" size="2">"If there
was any retrospect giveaway in Jarrah's face, it was in his halted smile, neither
a smirk nor a grin of graciousness or delight, but a resolve on unforeseen circumstance.
It resembled the pasty-murderer look that Lee Harvey Oswald had in his pursed
lips of history altered." [<i>Among the Heroes</i>, by Jere Longman, 2002,
p. 84]</font></p>
<p><font face="Times New Roman" size="2">Anyone can look
at the picture of Jarrah here on the left, and see that his smile resembles
Lee Harvey Oswald's no more than anyone else's. But anything that makes him
look like an evil terrorist is accepted easily, and anything that conflicts
with that image is only grudgingly accepted, if reported at all. Chances are
many facts regarding Jarrah are as twisted as the description of his smile,
but even through this biased filter reporters have found very little evidence
to prove that Jarrah was a terrorist.</font></p>
<p><font face="Times New Roman" size="2">Said the Boston
Globe: "Of all the dozens of mysteries still swirling around this month's
devastating terrorist attacks, the life of alleged hijacker Jarrah has emerged
as one of the more perplexing. From Lebanon to Germany to the United States,
there are few clues as to why he would have joined a terrorist organization,
much less commandeered an airplane in a suicidal mission that claimed dozens
of innocent lives as well as his own." [<a href="2001/bostonglobe092501.html">Boston
Globe, 9/25/01</a>] </font></p>
<p><font face="Times New Roman" size="2">A report in the Los Angeles
Times contended, "Little, if anything, is known about the personal lives of most
of the suspects. Of the 19, only alleged organizer Mohamed Atta and Jarrah left
behind a long trail of acquaintances. But family and friends say the Ziad Jarrah
they knew exhibited none of the smoldering political resentments or cultural
conservatism of Atta. Instead, they recall Jarrah as quiet, pampered, a little
lazy and madly in love. How, they ask, do you convert a happy, intelligent young
man with little religious or political conviction into a suicidal foot soldier
in a holy war? With no answers, they are left to speculate that he was brainwashed
or coerced." [<a href="2001/latimes102301.html">Los Angeles Times, 10/23/01</a>]
</font></p>
<p><font face="Times New Roman" size="2"><b>Convicted by
the FBI</b></font></p>
<p><font face="Times New Roman" size="2">One way to explain
the Jarrah puzzle is to simply make false claims and invent evidence against
him. Authorities originally publicly claimed that Jarrah attended the same school
in Hamburg as Mohamed Atta, Marwan Alshehhi and other known terrorists. Only
after Jarrah's family provided documentation showing that Jarrah had attended a different
technical school, a claim confirmed by the school itself, did the authorities back down
from their assertion. [<a href="2001/cnn091801b.html">CNN, 9/18/01</a>] On October 23, 2001,
Ashcroft claimed that Jarrah lived in the same apartment as Mohamed Atta and
Marwan Alshehhi. [<a href="2001/cnn102501b.html">CNN, 10/25/01</a>] On the same day,
The Los Angeles Times showed that to be a lie: "Federal authorities in
Germany have withdrawn assertions that Jarrah at one time lived at or frequented
the Hamburg apartment rented by the three. 'He never lived with the others.
He had three different apartments during his time in Hamburg, but none in common
with any of the other suspects,' a senior German official told The Times. 'The
only information we have connecting the three Hamburg suspects is the FBI's
assertion that there is a connection... We have come across absolutely no evidence
of our own.'" [<a href="2001/latimes102301.html">Los Angeles Times, 10/23/01</a>]
Nonetheless, such claims continue to be made, despite a lack of evidence. For
instance, in May, 2002, the New York Times claimed that Jarrah was a frequent
visitor to the apartment where Atta, Alshehhi and others lived, without providing
any evidence to back it up. [<a href="2002/nyt050102.html">New York Times, 5/1/02</a>]<br>
</font></p>
<p><font face="Times New Roman" size="2">In October, 2001,
New Yorker reporter Seymour Hersh provided a rare, inside look at the 9/11 investigation:
"many of the investigators believe that some of the initial clues that
were uncovered about the terrorists' identities and preparations, such as flight
manuals, were meant to be found. A former high-level intelligence official told
me, 'Whatever trail was left was left deliberately—for the FBI to chase.'"
[<a href="2001/newyorker100101.html">New Yorker, 10/1/01</a>] Nearly a year later,
it appears those investigators who questioned the hijackers' cover identities
have lost out, and the FBI has fallen hook, line and sinker for their cover
stories. Some evidence tying Jarrah to the other terrorists may in fact have
been falsified,
as will be described below. Why the FBI would so strongly support the false
identities of the 9/11 hijackers and let the real hijackers go free is a separate
and much greater mystery that goes beyond the scope of this essay.</font></p>
<p><font face="Times New Roman" size="2"><b>Upbringing in
Lebanon</b></font></p>
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<img src="people/jarrah2.jpg" width="187" height="177"><br>
<font size="1">A school portrait of a young Jarrah, <br>
from about the time he was<br>
supposed to be hanging out with <br>
prostitutes in New York City.</font></font></p>
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<p><font face="Times New Roman" size="2">To fully understand
the mystery of Ziad Jarrah and the tragedy of his stolen past, we need to look
at the life of the real Ziad in closer detail. </font></p>
<p><font face="Times New Roman" size="2">Ziad Jarrah was
born on May 11, 1975 into a wealthy family in the town of Almarj, in the Bekaa
Valley of Lebanon. He was the only son of father Samir, a local government official,
and mother Nasisa, a schoolteacher. He wanted for little. "He loved sports,
particularly swimming and basketball. He adored - and was doted on by - his
two sisters, Dania, now 29, and Nisren, 24." [<a href="2001/bostonglobe092501.html">Boston
Globe, 9/25/01</a>] As a young man he rarely attended mosque on Fridays and
was indifferent to politics. [<a href="2001/cbc101001.html">CBC, 10/10/01</a>] His
whole family is Muslim but not particularly devout. In fact, believing education
more important than religion, they sent their son to a series of exclusive,
Christian schools. As Ziad matured, he appeared neither political nor religious.
He drank alcohol and had girlfriends. ''No one in the family has this kind of
radical belief,'' said Jamal Jarrah. [<a href="2001/bostonglobe092501.html">Boston
Globe, 9/25/01</a>] <br>
<br>
At the time, Lebanon was engaged in decades-long civil war. But "his family
insists he was shielded from the hardships and showed no interest in politics.
Jarrah attended Christian schools, graduating from a French high school, where
he became fluent in French and English." [<a href="2001/latimes102301.html">Los
Angeles Times, 10/23/01</a>] He took disabled kids camping and volunteered in
an anti-drug program. [<i>Among the Heroes</i>, by Jere Longman, 2002, p. 85]
A British journalist reported, "Everyone I spoke to in Almarj told me that Ziad
was a happy, secular youth, that he never showed any interest in religion and
never visited the mosque for prayers, that he liked women even if he was at
times reserved and shy." [<a href="2001/independent091601.html">Independent,
9/16/01</a>]<br>
</font></p>
<p><font face="Times New Roman" size="2"><b>The Move to
Germany</b></font></p>
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<td>
<p align="center"><font face="Times New Roman" size="2">
<img src="people/jarrahandsalim.jpg" width="229" height="213"><br>
<font size="1">Jarrah and his cousin Salim. [<a href="2001/cbc101001.html">CBC,
10/10/01</a>]</font></font></p>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
<p><font face="Times New Roman" size="2">"He was not
a good student. He hid his poor grades from his parents as much as possible,
and when he couldn't hide them any longer and he confessed, Ziad's father arranged
to have him tutored in math, physics and chemistry. Even then, Ziad flunked
his high school finals. Two years later he was able to graduate from a public
high school. In his teens he dreamed of becoming a pilot, but that seemed out
of the question; his family decided that he should go overseas to get a solid
education." [<i>Inside 9-11: What Really Happened</i>, by Der Spiegel editors,
2002, p. 246-7]</font></p>
<p><font face="Times New Roman" size="2">Ziad Jarrah moved
to Greifswald, in the former East Germany, in April, 1996. He went there with
his cousin Salim, and they lived together for a year and a half. The Los Angeles
Times called the two "more like twins than cousins" and they would
remain in close contact for the rest of Ziad's life. [<a href="2001/latimes102301.html">Los
Angeles Times, 10/23/01</a>]</font></p>
<p><font face="Times New Roman" size="2">He needed to study
German in Greifswald before he could start upon a career. "He was just a
lovely, kind young man," recounted Gudrun Schimpfky of Greifswald's Arndt
University, Jarrah's German teacher in a program that brought them together
six to eight hours a day, five days a week. [<a href="2001/latimes102301.html">Los
Angeles Times, 10/23/01</a>] </font></p>
<p><font face="Times New Roman" size="2"><b>Girlfriend Aisel
Sengun</b></font></p>
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<td>
<p align="center"><font face="Times New Roman" size="2">
<img src="people/jarrahaiselsengun.jpg" width="264" height="240"><br>
<font size="1">Jarrah's girlfriend Aisel Sengun. [<a href="2001/cbc101001.html">CBC,
10/10/01</a>]</font></font></p>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
<p><font face="Times New Roman" size="2">While in Greifswald,
he met fellow student Aisel Sengun. Soon they were dating - the beginning of
a five year relationship that ended only with Jarrah's death. Aisel is from
a Turkish family, and is described as very Western in her ways. [<a href="2001/cbc101001.html">CBC,
10/10/01</a>] They lived together when they were in the same town. "I used
to criticize him for living with her. By our religion, this living together
before marriage is not allowed," recalled Abdullah Al-Makhadi, a classmate
of Sengun's at Greifswald. [<a href="2001/latimes102301.html">Los Angeles Times,
10/23/01</a>] Needless to say, it is not common for Muslim suicidal terrorists
to live with their girlfriends out of wedlock.</font></p>
<p><font face="Times New Roman" size="2">Looking back, people
try to find any clue that might indicate that Jarrah had turned into a Muslim fanatic.
One such clue frequently cited is that Sengun would later complain he grew more
conservative and possessive. He wanted her to wear a head scarf, stop going
to parties, and the like. [<i>Among the Heroes</i>, by Jere Longman, 2002, p.
89] But close friend Mahmoud Ali, who last spoke to Jarrah in July, 2001, dismissed
notions that this meant he had become a religious radical. "We Arab men are
very jealous about our women, that's all," said Ali. "We try to tell
them what to do, and they just ignore us." [<a href="2001/latimes102301.html">Los
Angeles Times, 10/23/01</a>] </font></p>
<p><font face="Times New Roman" size="2">Ali says that,
in addition to calling his family frequently, Jarrah was in touch with Sengun
nearly everyday. Like Sengun, he refuses to believe that Jarrah was a terrorist.
"There is nothing in his character that would allow him to do this -- not
from his past, not from his family, not from his country," Ali said. [<a href="2001/latimes102301.html">Los
Angeles Times, 10/23/01</a>] </font></p>
<p><font face="Times New Roman" size="2"><b>Training to
be an Engineer</b><br>
</font></p>
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<td>
<p align="center"><font face="Times New Roman" size="2">
<img src="people/jarrahpainting.jpg" width="240" height="180"><br>
<font size="1">Rosemarie Canel's painting of Jarrah. [<a href="2001/cbc101001.html">CBC,
10/10/01</a>]</font></font></p>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
<p><font face="Times New Roman" size="2">In 1997 Jarrah
registered at the University of Applied Sciences in Hamburg to study aeronautical
engineering, and aircraft construction and design. [<a href="2001/cbc101001.html">CBC,
10/10/01</a>] Apparently his parents didn't want him to be a pilot, so he chose
a related profession. He moved in with Rosemarie Canel, an elderly German lady
who remembered him as a quiet and courteous tenant who had few visitors and spent
his nights studying or watching TV. On weekends he would leave to stay with Sengun, first in Greifswald and later in Bochum, where she moved in 1999 to
study medicine. [<a href="2001/latimes102301.html">Los Angeles Times, 10/23/01</a>]
His landlady said of him, "He was such a bright young man, totally European."
[<i>Inside 9-11: What Really Happened</i>, by Der Spiegel editors, 2002, p.
191] She liked him so much, she painted a portrait of him, which he took home
as a gift to his mother. [<a href="2001/cbc101001.html">CBC, 10/10/01</a>] Later,
when she moved to another part of Hamburg, he moved with her to the new location.
<br>
</font></p>
<p><font face="Times New Roman" size="2"><b>Jarrah, the
Terrorist?</b></font></p>
<p><font face="Times New Roman" size="2">Jere Longman
alleged,
"It was in Germany that his views seemed to harden into a kernel of hatred
that would germinate in terrorism and suicidal martyrdom." [<i>Among the
Heroes</i>, by Jere Longman, 2002, p. 87] But what is the evidence for this
statement? 9/11 hijackers Mohamed Atta and Marwan Alshehhi were living in Hamburg
at the same time, as were many other Muslim immigrants later accused of al-Qaeda
connections. The key question is, did Jarrah meet them, and become converted
to their cause somehow?</font></p>
<p><font face="Times New Roman" size="2">The best evidence
of that are claims of a photo that shows Jarrah at the 1999 wedding of a Said
Bahaji. Bahaji was a fugitive known to espouse fanatic views, and who once roomed
with Atta and Alshehhi. [<a href="2001/latimes102301.html">Los Angeles Times, 10/23/01</a>]
Jarrah's landlady Canel also claims that sometimes Jarrah would spend the night
with friends in Harburg, the part of town where Atta and Alshehhi lived. [<i>Among
the Heroes</i>, by Jere Longman, 2002, p. 89]</font></p>
<p><font face="Times New Roman" size="2">Certainly, at some
point he would have ran into some al-Qaeda terrorists. And given the population of Muslims in Hamburg,
about 80,000, and the fact that around 2,500 of them are considered dangerous
radicals, sooner or later he would have run into some of them. [<a href="2001/bostonglobe092501.html">Boston
Globe, 9/25/01</a>] </font></p>
<p><font face="Times New Roman" size="2">But did he become
one of them? German authorities believe Atta recruited him in 1999. [<a href="2001/stpetersburgtimes092701.html">St.
Petersburg Times, 9/27/01</a>] Did he ever show any signs by then of becoming
radical? Where is the "kernel of hatred"?</font></p>
<p><font face="Times New Roman" size="2">Melih Demir, a
fellow student at the university, was stunned at the accusation that Jarrah
was a terrorist.
"He was very happy all the time, making jokes. We could make jokes about
him and ... I can't believe that he did something like this." [<a href="2001/sundayherald092301b.html">Sunday
Herald, 9/23/01</a>] Classmate Michael Gotzmann, who was in a study group with
Jarrah, also had a hard time believing he was one of the hijackers. ''He never
said anything bad about America,'' he told Der Spiegel magazine. ''To the contrary,
he loved America, and said he always planned to go and study there.'' [<a href="2001/bostonglobe092501.html">Boston
Globe, 9/25/01</a>]</font></p>
<p><font face="Times New Roman" size="2">Gotzmann described
Jarrah as devoutly Muslim but not rabid about his politics, a man who prayed
five times a day but was open in his views and wanted to continue his studies
in the United States. However, others don't see him as even that religious.
Jarrah rarely attended Friday prayers and never prayed five times daily, said
classmate Abdullah Al-Makhadi. "He was a weak Muslim, I must say."
[<a href="2001/latimes102301.html">Los Angeles Times, 10/23/01</a>] Even a housemate
and friend in Florida later says he never saw Jarrah pray. [<a href="2001/latimes102301.html">Los
Angeles Times, 10/23/01</a>]</font></p>
<p><font face="Times New Roman" size="2">"Jarrah spoke
of a debilitated Lebanon and how the Israelis had cut off the water supply to
his native country." [<i>Among the Heroes</i>, by Jere Longman, 2002, p.
87] These are hardly radical positions, and in fact it would be pretty strange
for any Lebanese person to not have some views on Lebanon's civil war and Israel's
invasion of that country in the 1980's.</font></p>
<p><font face="Times New Roman" size="2">Jere Longman in
his book conceded that other acquaintances in Germany agreed that Jarrah lacked
radical political or religious views. Notwithstanding, he wrote, "this was consistent
... with the Al Qaeda training manual, which instructed its members to avoid
provocative religious or political remarks." [<i>Among the Heroes</i>,
by Jere Longman, 2002, p. 87] So, in other words, if he had radical views that
means he was a terrorist, and if he didn't have radical views, that also means
he was a terrorist!</font></p>
<p><font face="Times New Roman" size="2">"He is not
known to ever have attended the Steindamm mosque that is the alleged meeting
place of the other suspects and their purported associates from Osama bin Laden's
al-Qaeda network." His girlfriend Sengun said she never heard him mention
the name Atta or anyone else from the FBI's list of suspects. [<a href="2001/latimes102301.html">Los
Angeles Times, 10/23/01</a>] His family contended that Jarrah and Sengun spoke nearly
every day, and shared everything. Certainly she would have noticed a phase between
a political Jarrah and extremist Jarrah just cleverly pretending to be apolitical?</font></p>
<p><font face="Times New Roman" size="2"><b>Jarrah Drops
Out</b><br>
</font></p>
<p><font face="Times New Roman" size="2">Jarrah was apparently
having trouble with his schooling - at best he was considered a mediocre student.
[<a href="2001/stpetersburgtimes092701.html">St. Petersburg Times, 9/27/01</a>] Salim
Jarrah said he believed his cousin had decided to go to flight school because he
simply did not want to invest the time required to earn a German doctorate
in aviation engineering, which could take up to a decade. [<a href="2001/latimes102301.html">Los
Angeles Times, 10/23/01</a>] His landlady believed that by the summer of 1999
he was spending most of his time in the German city of Bochum with his girlfriend
Aisel. In September, 1999, he dropped out of school after attending only one
class. [<a href="2001/cbc101001.html">CBC, 10/10/01</a>] Other reports
contended it was
in the middle of the semester. In any case, he told his friends that he was
going to learn to fly in America - his dream since childhood. [<i>Inside 9-11:
What Really Happened</i>, by Der Spiegel editors, 2002, p. 258]</font></p>
<p><font face="Times New Roman" size="2">What happened next
is a matter of dispute. CNN reported, "Jarrah's family said he had spent
some time in Afghanistan 18 months ago." [<a href="2001/cnn091801b.html">CNN,
9/18/01</a>] Jere Longman said, "Some family members suspect he was in
Pakistan or Afghanistan; others vehemently disagree and won't even admit he
was ever out of touch." [<i>Inside 9-11: What Really Happened</i>, by Der
Spiegel editors, 2002, p. 192] Note how his family must be wrong; they can't
"admit" the "truth" that Jarrah went to Afghanistan.</font></p>
<p><font face="Times New Roman" size="2">The official story
goes further, asserting that Jarrah had disappeared for up to five weeks (recall the family
says they've never been out of touch more than 10 days). It alleges that the family
was notified by Jarrah's girlfriend that she had heard he had gone to Afghanistan.
The
family then contacted friends in Peshawar on the Pakistani-Afghan border, the
official story argues, and implored
them to help get him to leave. But his father and other family members completely
denied this story. [<a href="2001/independent091601.html">Independent, 9/16/01</a>]
They countered that the story was made up out of whole cloth. Said his uncle, "The
rumor [that he went to Afghanistan] as I understand, sticks to Ziad, just to
complete the story." [<a href="2001/australianbc091801.html">Australian Broadcasting
Corp., 9/18/01</a>] Attorney General John Ashcroft has claimed that all nineteen
of the September 11 hijackers had trained in camps in Afghanistan [<a href="2001/doj121101.html">Ashcroft
News Conference, 12/11/01</a>] - so obviously there needs to be a story of Jarrah
in Afghanistan.</font></p>
<p><font face="Times New Roman" size="2"><b>
Where's the
Other Jarrah?</b> <br>
</font></p>
<p><font face="Times New Roman" size="2">By this time another Jarrah could have been shadowing him. Perhaps he ran into some Muslim
radicals in Hamburg and one of them noticed a striking similarity between both
his name and face with the terrorist/ photographer Jarrah who lived in New York
City back in 1995. Add the fact that he wanted to become a pilot. It would have
been too good of an opportunity to pass up. Perhaps the names were close but
not the same - the family can't understand why his name sometimes appears as
Jarrahi, when he never spelled his name that way. It could be that this other
Jarrah and/or others, were manipulating the real Jarrah to make sure his actions
followed a certain pattern. The fake Jarrah probably was learning to copy the
real Jarrah's behavior, skills and appearance.</font></p>
<p><font face="Times New Roman" size="2">In 1999, the fake
Ziad Jarrah got a pilot's license in Hamburg - the same license the real Jarrah
would get in Florida later. [<a href="2001/stpetersburgtimes092701.html">St. Petersburg
Times, 9/27/01</a>] Its hard to see how the real Jarrah could have gotten this
license without his girlfriend or family knowing, why he wouldn't have told
them, and where he would have found the time. Later, when he began flight training
on single engine aircraft in Florida, he certainly didn't have the skills to
indicate he already had a license for flying a single engine aircraft. [<a href="2001/bostonglobe092501.html">Boston
Globe, 9/25/01</a>] FFTC owner Arne Kruithof explained: "We had to do more to
get him ready than others ... His flight skills seemed to be a little bit out
there." Even after 200 hours of flying, Kruithof could only charitably
say, "he was a guy who needed some more." [<i>Among the Heroes</i>,
by Jere Longman, 2002, p. 91] Other students at FFTC were so frightened of Jarrah's
flying skills that they refused to be in a plane if he was at the controls.
[Among the Heroes by Jere Longman, 2002, p. 92]</font></p>
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<tr>
<td>
<p align="center"><font face="Times New Roman" size="2">
<img src="people/jarrahvisa.jpg" width="371" height="250"><br>
<font size="1">This US student visa was issued to Jarrah on May, 21, 2000.
But<br>
is it the real Jarrah, or the fake? Compare the round head with <br>
the passport photo and other pictures of Jarrah above. [<a href="2001/cbc101001.html">CBC,
10/10/01</a>]</font></font></p>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
<p><font face="Times New Roman" size="2">Some time around
February 2000, he lost his passport while waiting
for a visa to go to the US. This
was only two or three months after Atta and Al-Shehhi lost their passports. [<i>Inside
9-11: What Really Happened</i>, by Der Spiegel editors, 2002, p. 257-258] Investigators
say all three were trying to cleanse their travel documents of visas that might
arouse suspicion. [<a href="2001/latimes102301.html">Los Angeles Times, 10/23/01</a>]
Could it be that someone stole his passport, as part of a trail of evidence
designed to link him to the 9/11 attacks? Could the fake Jarrah have even used
the real Jarrah's missing passport to enter the US?<br>
</font></p>
<p><font face="Times New Roman" size="2"><b>Jarrah's
Move to Florida</b></font></p>
<p><font face="Times New Roman" size="2">The real Jarrah
arrived in Atlanta on June 27, 2000. He was enrolled at the Florida Flight Training
Center from June, 2000 to January 15, 2001 [<i>Among the Heroes</i>, by Jere
Longman, 2002, p. 90-91] The fact that he studied in southern Florida, the same
place where many other terrorist pilots studied, is not actually that
surprising. Most foreign students who study flying in the US do so in southern Florida, where
the cost of living is cheap and the weather and terrain is ideal to learn how
to fly. Many of these schools have 80% or more foreign students, and a number
of them are advertised frequently in Hamburg. Samir Jarrah explained, "He had
told me last year that he had a choice of courses – in France or in America
– and it was me who told him to go to the States." [<a href="2001/independent091601.html">Independent,
9/16/01</a>] Unfortunate choice for Ziad!</font></p>
<p><font face="Times New Roman" size="2">We know it was
the real Jarrah studying in Florida because of what others say about him. Those
who met Jarrah at the flight school also say they can't see him as a terrorist.
[<a href="2001/latimes102301.html">Los Angeles Times, 10/23/01</a>] "Our entire
staff does not believe that he had bad intentions," FFTC President
Arne Kruithof told the Los Angeles Times. "Let's put it this way: Everybody
interviewed here on this guy was in shock, because he was a friend to all of us.
I don't think there's anyone in the time that he was here that could say
anything negative about him; on the contrary, he would help everybody," added Kruithof, who insisted
that Jarrah's demeanor was "not faked." [<a href="2001/latimes102301.html">Los
Angeles Times, 10/23/01</a>] "Not just nice, but he had qualities you look
for in a dear friend, someone you trust," Kruithof said. Jarrah always
looked him in the eye and offered a firm handshake and a friendly smile. [Among
the Heroes by Jere Longman, 2002, p. 92] </font></p>
<p><font face="Times New Roman" size="2">Kruithof said Jarrah
would have a beer or two, "but not three," and he made "seemingly
benign" jokes about how fat and lazy Americans were (again, notice the
desperation to find any evidence making him appear evil). He certainly could
have been a more devout Muslim and turned down even one beer without drawing
suspicion. Osama bin Laden would not let his men smoke cigarettes, and drinking
alcohol would have led to banishment from the ranks of his al-Qaeda movement.
[<a href="2001/independent091601.html">Independent, 9/16/01</a>] </font></p>
<p><font face="Times New Roman" size="2">Jarrah roomed with
three other men, including a twenty-three-year-old German flight student, Thorsten
Biermann. [<i>Among the Heroes</i>, by Jere Longman, 2002, p. 91] Biermann found
him to be "just a normal person, like anyone else." [<a href="2001/latimes102301.html">Los
Angeles Times, 10/23/01</a>] Jarrah would sometimes talk
to Biermann about Lebanon, speaking in German with almost no accent. [<i>Among
the Heroes</i>, by Jere Longman, 2002, p. 92]</font></p>
<p><font face="Times New Roman" size="2">The other Ziad
Jarrah must have also moved to Florida, and continued to shadow him. It has
been claimed that while living with Biermann and others in Venice, he kept another
apartment in Venice but didn't sleep in it. [Among the Heroes by Jere Longman,
2002, p. 92] This makes no sense at all unless the other Jarrah was living in
the other apartment, leaving a double paper trail to puzzle investigators. Eyewitness
accounts of him also vary. "Later, people would not even agree on how tall
he was, or how heavy he was, whether he stood five foot eight or give foot eleven,
whether he weighed one hundred seventy pounds or one hundred ninety." [<i>Among
the Heroes</i>, by Jere Longman, 2002, p. 84]</font></p>
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<tr>
<td>
<p align="center"><font face="Times New Roman" size="2">
<img src="people/jarrahdancing.jpg" width="267" height="200"><br>
<font size="1">Jarrah dancing with his family in Lebanon, January, 2001.
</font></font></p>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
<p><font face="Times New Roman" size="2"><b>Back to Lebanon</b></font></p>
<p><font face="Times New Roman" size="2">In mid-January,
2001, Jarrah left the flight school, saying he was returning to Germany. [<i>Among
the Heroes</i>, by Jere Longman, 2002, p. 93] (Note that he's already supposed
to have been in Afghanistan since late November!) He returned to Lebanon for
what would be his last time with his father, who underwent open heart surgery.
[<a href="2001/cbc101001.html">CBC, 10/10/01</a>]</font></p>
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<tr>
<td>
<p align="center"><font face="Times New Roman" size="2">
<img src="people/jarrahdancing2.jpg" width="183" height="220"><br>
<font size="1">More of Jarrah dancing in 2001. Does this look like a man
determined to kill himself? [<a href="2001/bbc092401.html">BBC, 9/24/01</a>]
</font></font></p>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
<p><font face="Times New Roman" size="2">"He looked
after his dad and went to the hospital every day," recounted uncle Jamal. "He
was so normal. His personality and his life bore no relation to the kind of
things that happened." To prove the point, they released a video of Jarrah
dancing at a wedding party; two stills are shown here (for the entire video,
look at <a href="http://www.cbc.ca/fifth/featurestories/jarrah_101001/timeline.html">this
website</a>). Friends and relatives who saw him at this wedding strongly dispute
that "the ordinary person they knew -- reliable, responsible, witty, ambitious
-- could never, never have been part of the diabolical terrorist attacks."
[<a href="2001/sundayherald092301b.html">Sunday Herald, 9/23/01</a>]</font></p>
<p><font face="Times New Roman" size="2"> Again, its hard
to see a Muslim radical. Compare him to Atta, who wouldn't even listen to any
form of music except prayer chants, much less dance.</font></p>
<p><font face="Times New Roman" size="2"> He then visited
his girlfriend in Bochum, Germany in March. [<a href="2001/latimes102301.html">Los
Angeles Times, 10/23/01</a>] </font></p>
<p><font face="Times New Roman" size="2"><b>Return to Florida</b></font></p>
<p><font face="Times New Roman" size="2">When he came back
to Florida in April, he moved from Venice, on the west coast, to Hollywood,
on the east, near Fort Lauderdale. He stayed in a Hollywood apartment until
June 22. [<i>Among the Heroes</i>, by Jere Longman, 2002, p. 93] This is the
same town Atta and Al-Shehhi lived in at the time, but no evidence ties Jarrah
to either of them in Florida. [<a href="2001/latimes102301.html">Los Angeles Times,
10/23/01</a>] Could they have been shadowing him, using others to befriend him
and influence him?</font></p>
<p><font face="Times New Roman" size="2">It appears that
his girlfriend may have visited him in Florida when he returned. [<a href="2001/latimes102301.html">Los
Angeles Times, 10/23/01</a>] That would hardly seem to be smart if he was hiding
a great secret in Florida. </font></p>
<p><font face="Times New Roman" size="2"><b>Martial Arts
Training</b></font></p>
<p><font face="Times New Roman" size="2">Shortly after coming
back to Florida, he began taking self-defense classes one mile from where he
lived. It's not clear if this was the real Jarrah, or someone imitating him.
One strange fact is that he told his trainer that he was from Saudi Arabia.
[<i>Among the Heroes</i>, by Jere Longman, 2002, p. 94] There's no conceivable
reason why he would do this - both before and after this, he told his landlords
and other people that he met he was from Lebanon. Could this have been a truthful
slip by the other Jarrah?</font></p>
<p><font face="Times New Roman" size="2">On the other hand,
whoever it was, the person certainly acted like the real Jarrah. Bert Rodriguez, Jarrah's
personal trainer from May to August, told the Associated Press that Jarrah was "The nicest guy in the
world. Very humble, very soft-spoken." [<a href="2001/ap092101.html">AP, 9/21/01</a>]
"I liked the guy. He was very humble, very quiet … and he didn't want
to be in a situation where he would get picked on." [<a href="2001/cbc101001.html">CBC,
10/10/01</a>] The sessions ran for an hour, one-on-one between teacher and pupil.
"He did his best but he was very timid," Rodriguez said. "You
could have never told that he was in any way, shape or form a radical of any
kind." [<a href="2001/ap092101.html">AP, 9/21/01</a>] "You need a certain
fire in you to commit certain acts. My sense of him was that he was more of
a follower." [<a href="2001/sundayherald092301b.html">Sunday Herald, 9/23/01</a>]
That sounds like the real Jarrah, or at least a very good imitation. Did he
have friends at the time who talked him into doing this seemingly harmless activity
which only looks sinister in retrospect? If so, why would he have said he was
from Saudi Arabia?</font></p>
<p><font face="Times New Roman" size="2">At different gyms,
some other hijackers were also weight lifting and training, especially in early
September. But were they actually training, thinking they would need the skills
to survive in a matter of days, or were they just making a cover story? Three
of them - Waleed Alshehri, Wail Alshehri and Satam al-Suqami - "simply
clustered around a small circuit of machines, never asking for help and, according
to a trainer, never pushing any weights. 'You know, I don't actually remember
them ever doing anything,' said the trainer, Joe Farnoly. 'They would just stand
around and watch people.'" [<a href="2001/nyt092301.html">New York Times, 9/23/01</a>]</font></p>
<p><font face="Times New Roman" size="2">Rodriguez also said
that he noticed that Jarrah was practicing moves he was learning on others,
so he offered to give Jarrah a lesson to him and his friends at a special rate.
Jarrah declined, saying, "The guys are traveling." [<i>Among the Heroes</i>,
by Jere Longman, 2002, p. 97] Who would these guys be, if this was the real
Jarrah? Are they the same as the hijackers who refused to push weights? Its
very unclear who Jarrah's friends were at this time.<br>
</font></p>
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<td>
<p align="center"><font face="Times New Roman" size="2">
<img src="people/alhaznawi.jpg" width="369" height="250"><br>
<font size="1">Ahmed Alhaznawi is either the man on the right or the man
on<br>
the left. Both pictures have been released by the FBI. His <br>
appears to be another case of stolen identity.</font></font></p>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
<p><font face="Times New Roman" size="2"><b>Enter Ahmed
Alhaznawi</b><br>
</font></p>
<p><font face="Times New Roman" size="2">On June 22, he
moved to an apartment in Lauderdale-by-the-Sea where his roommate was Ahmed
Alhaznawi, another of the suspected 9/11 hijackers. [<a href="2001/cbc101001.html">CBC,
10/10/01</a>] "Alhaznawi was twenty and was from Saudi Arabia, the son
of a mosque prayer leader. He reportedly trained in bin Laden's camps in Afghanistan
and recruited two distant cousins, Ahmed and Hamza Alghamdi." [<i>Among
the Heroes</i>, by Jere Longman, 2002, p. 98]</font></p>
<p><font face="Times New Roman" size="2">Jarrah had never
previously been associated with Alhaznawi. [<a href="2001/latimes102301.html">Los Angeles
Times, 10/23/01</a>] Yet suddenly, "they seemed so inseparable that their
landlord initially wondered whether they were lovers." [<i>Among the Heroes</i>,
by Jere Longman, 2002, p. 98]
Alhaznawi drove Jarrah's car, and took him to appointments. [<a href="2001/stpetersburgtimes092701.html">St.
Petersburg Times, 9/27/01</a>]</font></p>
<p><font face="Times New Roman" size="2">Was this the real
Jarrah, or the imposter? From what his landlord Charles Lisa says, he still sounds
like the same Jarrah. For instance, "He was too happy a man for a guy who
knew he was going to die in the next ten days or so." [<i>Among the Heroes</i>,
by Jere Longman, 2002, p. 97] </font></p>
<p><font face="Times New Roman" size="2">In June he traveled
to Las Vegas. His uncle in Lebanon describes the trip as a gambling junket,
but it also provides another possible vague connection with other hijackers.
Atta, Al-Shehhi and three other suspects also made trips to Las Vegas between
May and August. However, they don't appear to have been in Las Vegas at the
same time as Jarrah. [<a href="2001/latimes102301.html">Los Angeles Times, 10/23/01</a>]</font></p>
<p><font face="Times New Roman" size="2"><b>Jarrah Keeps
Close Ties</b> </font></p>
<p><font face="Times New Roman" size="2">In mid-July, Jarrah
saw his Turkish girlfriend Aisel for what would be the last time. He returned
to Florida in less than a week. Then Aisel went to Lebanon to attend Jarrah's
sister's wedding and meet her future in-laws. [<a href="2001/latimes102301.html">Los
Angeles Times, 10/23/01</a>] </font></p>
<p><font face="Times New Roman" size="2">The Independent noted that Jarrah did not attend, and accusingly
pondered, "Too busy to bring
his fiancée to meet his family? Busy doing what?" [<a href="2001/independent091601.html">Independent,
9/16/01</a>] Busy with his studies, it turns out. Records show that Jarrah took
his test for his pilot's license for a single engine aircraft on July 30 (which
he passed), while the wedding was on August 2. [<a href="2001/latimes102301.html">Los
Angeles Times, 10/23/01</a>]</font></p>
<p><font face="Times New Roman" size="2"><b>The Time Grows
Close</b></font></p>
<p><font face="Times New Roman" size="2">On Aug. 17, Jarrah took a flight to
test his proficiency at an airport in Fort Lauderdale. Five days later,
investigators said Jarrah purchased diagrams of the cockpit instruments
on a Boeing 757. He also came to possess flight manuals for Boeing 757 and 767
aircraft. [<i>Among the Heroes</i>, by Jere Longman, 2002, p. 97-98] These are
just a few of the examples of planted evidence, which date back to his time
in Germany. The
last time Jarrah's landlord in Lauderdale-by-the-Sea saw him was at the very
end of August. [<i>Among the Heroes</i>, by Jere Longman, 2002, p. 99-100]</font></p>
<p><font face="Times New Roman" size="2">On Aug. 27, Jarrah
spent three nights in a hotel in a suburb outside Washington. The same day he
left, hijacker Nawaq Alhamzi checked into the same hotel. [<a href="2001/miamiherald092201.html">Miami
Herald, 9/22/01</a>] Two other hijackers stayed at a hotel about a mile away
between August 23 and 30.<br>
</font></p>
<p><font face="Times New Roman" size="2">On Sept. 5, Ziad
Jarrah and his apparent friend Ahmad Alhaznawi booked one-way tickets on a Sept.
7 flight to Newark. [<a href="2001/cbc101001.html">CBC, 10/10/01</a>] Note that while
he may have flown to Newark, he is virtually the only one of the 19 accused hijackers
for whom there are no details of when, where or even if he bought a ticket for
the hijacked flight, nor is his name on the flight manifest, nor has a seat
number been mentioned for him. In fact, all of the numerous Flight 93 passenger
phone calls mention seeing three, not four hijackers.</font></p>
<p><font face="Times New Roman" size="2">On Sept. 9, 2001,
Jarrah apparently stayed at the same hotel as hijacker Marwan Alshehhi, also
near Washington.
[<a href="2001/stpetersburgtimes092701.html">St. Petersburg Times, 9/27/01</a>]<br>
</font></p>
<p><font face="Times New Roman" size="2">On Sept. 9, he
made his final phone call to his family. He confirmed receipt of the money sent
on the 4th. The family reported he was cheerful and normal and said he'd see
them Sept. 22 for a family wedding. [<a href="2001/cbc101001.html">CBC, 10/10/01</a>]</font></p>
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<td>
<p align="center"><font face="Times New Roman" size="2">
<img src="people/jarrahticket.jpg" width="210" height="170"><br>
<font size="1">One of the Jarrahs pulled over for a <br>
speeding ticket. Unfortunately, there <br>
is no video of what the driver looked <br>
like. [<a href="2002/cnn010902b.html">CNN, 1/9/02</a>]</font></font></p>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
<p><font face="Times New Roman" size="2"><b>Two Red Mitsubishis</b></font></p>
<p><font face="Times New Roman" size="2">Something else
very curious happened on Sept. 9. A state trooper stopped Jarrah's car in Maryland
near the Delaware border after observing him driving 90 mph in a 65 mph zone
a few minutes after midnight. The car was a red Mitsubishi. Jarrah had bought
a red Mitsubishi in 2000 in Florida. [<a href="2001/stpetersburgtimes092701.html">St.
Petersburg Times, 9/27/01</a>] However, that was a 1991 Eclipse, and this Mitsubishi
was a 2001 Galant. [<i>Among the Heroes</i>, by Jere Longman, 2002, p. 101]
The vehicle stopped in Maryland was a rental car with New Jersey tags, rented
near the Newark Airport. [<a href="2002/cnn010902b.html">CNN, 1/9/02</a>] The driver
was carrying a
valid Virginia driver's license, which listed a Springfield, Virginia address.
[<a href="2002/delawarenewsjournal010902.html">Delaware News Journal, 1/9/02</a>]</font></p>
<p><font face="Times New Roman" size="2">Did Jarrah just
like red Mitsubishis so much that he wanted to rent the same kind of car he
already had? Or was someone trying to imitate Jarrah but was unable to hide
the fact that the car was a rental? Why a ticket at such a strange hour, and
so close to Sept. 11? Could it be that his double was trying to make sure records
would show Jarrah was near Washington? Or was it the real Jarrah who had somehow
been hoodwinked into coming north by his supposed friend Alhaznawi? If he went
to Newark with Alhaznawi, why does he appear to have been alone when the car
was stopped?</font></p>
<p><font face="Times New Roman" size="2"><b>Future Plans</b></font></p>
<p><font face="Times New Roman" size="2">Perhaps Alhaznawi
or someone else was manipulating Jarrah. It's striking that even at this late
date no witnesses actually saw Jarrah with any of the hijackers, only in close
proximity in time or location (with the exception of his rooming with Alhaznawi,
if that was the real Jarrah who roomed with him and if the landlord can be believed).
But whatever the case, it certainly appears that he didn't think he was going
to die or be a wanted man anytime soon.</font></p>
<p><font face="Times New Roman" size="2">On Sept. 9, he
called his family to confirm that he and his girlfriend would be in Beirut on
Sept. 22 for another family wedding -- this time Salim's younger sister. [<a href="2001/latimes102301.html">Los
Angeles Times, 10/23/01</a>] ''It makes no sense,'' says his uncle, who recalled,
''he said he had even bought a new suit for the occasion.'' [<a href="2001/bostonglobe092501.html">Boston
Globe, 9/25/01</a>] One might say Jarrah was simply lying, except that his landlord
in Florida noticed that in June, Jarrah actually did drop off a new suit to be
tailored.
[<i>Among the Heroes</i>, by Jere Longman, 2002, p. 97]</font></p>
<p><font face="Times New Roman" size="2">Jarrah also confirmed
to his family that he had received seven hundred dollars
sent to him on top of his usual two-thousand-dollar monthly allowance. He had
asked for the money for "fun." [<i>Among the Heroes</i>, by Jere Longman,
2002, p. 102] People have pointed to this transfer of money as proof that he
needed last minute money for the terrorist attacks. But this makes no sense,
because the terrorists had plenty of available money from other sources.
A number of them even wired a total of $15,000 back to the United Arab Emirates
around Sept. 9, because they had more than they could spend. His family sees
this transfer as evidence that he was planning a vacation before making his
next career move. </font></p>
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<tr>
<td>
<p align="center"><font face="Times New Roman" size="2">
<img src="people/jarrahcarpresent.jpg" width="200" height="147"><br>
<font size="1">Jarrahs' present, still waiting for him<br>
with German license and sticker.<br>
[<a href="2001/cbc101001.html">CBC, 10/10/01</a>]</font></font></p>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
<p><font face="Times New Roman" size="2">The family had
bought Jarrah a new Model 300 Mercedes-Benz on Sept. 9. On the phone they joked
that one of his sisters would take the car if he didn't come home soon enough.
[<i>Among the Heroes</i>, by Jere Longman, 2002, p. 102] They also talked about
his own wedding with Aisel planned
for the following summer. [<a href="2001/sundayherald092301b.html">Sunday Herald,
9/23/01</a>] The tragic ironies keep piling up. He had talked in recent months
for the first time about not only getting married, but having a child. [<i>Inside
9-11: What Really Happened</i>, by Der Spiegel editors, 2002, p. 191] His father
had also recently bought land for a mansion he planned to build for his son
and daughter-in-law. [<i>Inside 9-11: What Really Happened</i>, by Der Spiegel
editors, 2002, p. 249]</font></p>
<p><font face="Times New Roman" size="2">If Jarrah was planning
on making himself a martyr, it's understandable that he might not be able to
say that to his dearly loved family and girlfriend. But to lead them on with
plans of marriage and children, saying he would be visiting within two weeks,
letting them buy property and a car for him - it seems inexplicably sadistic
and completely unnecessary. Clearly he had no idea he was about to die. These
facts also raise the question of how al-Qaeda could have trusted such a man
for such a vital mission, when the pull of wife, child, friends, and parents
could have caused him to change his mind at any time.</font></p>
<p><font face="Times New Roman" size="2">He continued
to call Aisel nearly every day, as he always did. [<i>Inside 9-11: What Really
Happened</i>, by Der Spiegel editors, 2002, p. 191] Mahmoud Ali, the family
friend, said Sengun called him Sept. 11 and told him that she had just spoken
to Jarrah -- about an hour before he boarded United Flight 93 (stories that
he called from the cockpit of Flight 93 are clearly exaggerations). She described
the conversation as pleasant and normal, although it is unclear whether she
knew he was flying that day. [<a href="2001/latimes102301.html">Los Angeles Times,
10/23/01</a>] According to a CBC interview with his uncle, his family didn't
have the faintest suspicion that Jarrah was being tied to the 9/11 attacks until
they were told several days after Sept. 11 (listen to the 22 minute interview
<a href="http://www.cbc.ca/fifth/featurestories/jarrah_101001/story.html">here</a>).</font></p>
<p><font face="Times New Roman" size="2">And then on Sept.
11, he vanished. His girlfriend Aisel alerted the police a few days later, calling
to report him missing. German federal police said they found a suitcase of ''airplane-related
documents'' in her home (note how that is made to sound vaguely ominous, but
of course someone training to be a pilot would have some "airplane-related
documents"!). A few days after Sept. 11, Sengun checked into a witness
protection program and dropped out of sight, leaving many questions about Jarrah
unanswered. She later called Jarrah's family and the FBI, and insisted that Jarrah
was not acquainted with any of the other alleged hijackers, which presumably
included Alhaznawi. [<a href="2001/bostonglobe092501.html">Boston Globe, 9/25/01</a>]</font></p>
<p><font face="Times New Roman" size="2"><b>The Work Permit</b></font></p>
<p><font face="Times New Roman" size="2">However, the story
of Jarrah doesn't end there. A number of curious items have appeared since his
death. In the Flight 93 wreckage, as explained previously, a half burned copy
of his passport was found. [<a href="2002/cnn080102.html">CNN, 8/1/02</a>] This is
not that remarkable, since a lot of documents have been recovered from the
wreckage. But what is remarkable is another document that was also found in the wreckage:
an old German work permit of Jarrah's distant cousin, Assem Omar Jarrah. Why
on earth would Jarrah have been carrying this document with him at all - what
possible use could it have except as scratch paper? Yet because of this document,
German weekly Der Spiegel claimed that investigators had discovered the records of
the former East German Stassi secret service, showing that Assem served with
the Libyan secret service and collaborated with Palestinian terrorist mastermind
Abu Nidal in the 1980's. If this is true, and Ziad Jarrah really was a terrorist,
then it would be even more inexplicable that he would be carrying documents exposing the
illicit past of his distant cousin. [<a href="2001/annadar110801.html">An-Nadar,
11/8/01</a>]</font></p>
<p><font face="Times New Roman" size="2">A possible explanation for this rather
odd event is that the real terrorists were shadowing Jarrah and looked very closely
into his life during the years they monitored him. They somehow discovered that he
had a distant cousin who was connected to espionage or terrorism or at least
that the Stassi had made some claims to that effect. Assem Omar Jarrah does say he gave
this work permit to Ziad, but did not say when. [<a href="2001/annadar110801.html">An-Nadar,
11/8/01</a>] At some point, someone must have then stolen it from Ziad. And
finally, on 9-11, someone must have planted it at the Flight 93 wreckage site, to make sure that investigators
would discover this link. The odds otherwise - that Jarrah had this useless
document with him, that it was one of the few possessions of his surviving
the crash; then, that his distant cousin would turn out to have terrorist ties
- must be astronomical.<br>
</font></p>
<p><font face="Times New Roman" size="2"><b>The Lost Letter</b></font></p>
<p><font face="Times New Roman" size="2">In another surprise
discovery, in early November a four-page letter written by Jarrah on Sept. 10
to his girlfriend Aisel was found by US authorities. Presumably, it had been sent
to the wrong address, and thus eventually returned to the US. [<a href="2002/cnn010902b.html">CNN,
1/9/02</a>] Why Jarrah would suddenly forget the address of where his girlfriend
had lived since early 1999 is not explained. Only a few quotes from this letter
have been made public. He says, "I
have done what I had to do," and "You should be very proud because
this is an honor and in the end will bring happiness to everyone." This
has been taken as proof that he knew he was going to be a martyr. [<a href="2001/latimes111801.html">Los
Angeles Times, 11/18/01</a>]</font></p>
<p><font face="Times New Roman" size="2">But setting aside
the possibility that the whole letter is a forgery, there is the possibility
that these two sentences could have been taken out of context. He had just gotten his
pilot's license - could he be talking about that? Had he started a new job?
These phrases could mean many things. In any case, if it is a suicide letter,
its a strange one, because he also "talks of plans for a future meeting,
as Jarrah tells her to 'hold on to what you have until we see each other again.'"
Even stranger, the package also contained papers about Jarrah's flight training
and scuba-diving instruction. [<a href="2001/latimes111801.html">Los Angeles Times,
11/18/01</a>] Scuba-diving lessons? More typical behavior of a terrorist and
a martyr? The scuba diving could easily explain his "unexplained trips"
to the nearby Bahamas, since there is good scuba diving there but none in the
greater Miami area where he lived. [<i>Among the Heroes</i>, by Jere Longman,
2002, p. 91-92]</font></p>
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<td>
<p align="center"><font face="Times New Roman" size="2">
<img src="people/jarrahfather.jpg" width="147" height="177"><br>
<font size="1">Jarrah's father Samir. [<a href="2001/bbc092401.html">BBC, 9/24/01</a>]</font></font><font face="Times New Roman" size="1">
<br>
"My boy was just a normal person. <br>
He would never do this. There may <br>
have been another Ziad Jarrah on <br>
the plane." [<a href="2001/independent091601.html">Independent, 9/16/01</a>]</font><font face="Times New Roman" size="2">
</font></p>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
<p><font face="Times New Roman" size="2"><b>The Cockpit
Voice Recorder</b></font></p>
<p><font face="Times New Roman" size="2">Though it hasn't
been made public, the cockpit voice recorder for Flight 93 did survive. A few
snippets were released; you can listen to them on <a href="http://www.cbc.ca/fifth/featurestories/jarrah_101001/mainpage.html">this
website</a>. Jarrah is said to have spoken English with a German accent. [<a href="2001/sundayherald092301b.html">Sunday
Herald, 9/23/01</a>] He is also said to have been the pilot whose voice can
be heard in these recordings. Given his accent, it should be easy to determine
if the voice was his or not. His uncle Jamal explained, "'Ziad
was not a hijacker... To this day they have no proof Ziad was the pilot.' What
about the cockpit voice recorder? 'That's not Ziad's voice.' What about the
good-bye letter to Aysel, the kick-boxing lessons in Florida, the message on
Atta's cell phone? What about all the documents about death in martyrdom? 'Fabricated.
False. Inventions.' But why? 'The Americans shot down the plane, so they've
got to make it look hijacked.'" [<i>Inside 9-11: What Really Happened</i>,
by Der Spiegel editors, 2002, p. 247-8]<br>
</font></p>
<p><font face="Times New Roman" size="2"><b>The Remains
of Jarrah</b></font></p>
<p><font face="Times New Roman" size="2">Terrorist or dupe,
was the real Jarrah actually on Flight 93? DNA remains would be able to answer
that question. In December, 2001, US officials announced that everyone on Flight
93 had been positively identified through their DNA, except for the four hijackers.
Their remains are grouped by common DNA. Because they don't have any DNA to
check them by, "The death certificates will list each as 'John Doe.'"
[<a href="2001/pittsburghpostgazette122001.html">Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, 12/20/01</a>]
The other accused hijackers were all from Saudi Arabia, and virtually no information
and certainly no DNA has yet come out for them. But Jarrah's family has said, "We
are ready to cooperate with the authorities." [<a href="2001/independent091601.html">Independent,
9/16/01</a>] They would like to know if their son was a terrorist and murderer.
In mid-August, 2002, a new report on the victims' remains noted the DNA still had not
been checked, because "little attention has been paid to the terrorists'
remains." [<a href="2002/ap081602b.html">AP, 8/16/02</a>]</font></p>
<p><font face="Times New Roman" size="2">As one reporter
put it, Ziad Jarrah is "no neat fit into any conspiracy puzzle, with no
clear motivation or any obvious ties to an identifiable organization."
[<a href="2001/australianbc091801.html">Australian Broadcasting Corp., 9/18/01</a>]
Clearly the terrorists were brilliant in stealing identities and keeping their
true identities hidden. Probably each case was slightly different, and with
Jarrah they had the incredible luck of a look-alike with a similar name. The
FBI investigators made their work easy. For instance, according to an FBI document
given to German police, the FBI initially put Jarrah and the three other accused
hijackers on the hijacker list simply because theirs were the only Arabic sounding
names on the flight manifest. [<a href="2001/latimes102301.html">Los Angeles Times,
10/23/01</a>] But still, the terrorists made mistakes. Numerous clues pointing
to a doppelganger for Jarrah, including solid evidence that he was in two places
at once on more than one occasion, has been ignored or brushed aside by the
media and the FBI investigation. Until we get smart enough to see through the
cover stories and stolen identities, we will never know who the real hijackers
were, and never really understand what happened on Sept. 11.</font></p>
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