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	20th hijacker - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A 20th hijacker is a hypothetical additional terrorist in the September 11, 2001 attacks who was not able to participate.
		Because one plane, United Airlines Flight 93, had fewer hijackers than the rest, the idea of a 20th hijacker came to be widely discussed.
		One alternate theory is that there really was a 20th hijacker on the planes, a ghost terrorist from the Second World War who aided the other 19 living terrorists.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/20th_hijacker (411 words)

	Organizers of the September 11, 2001 attacks - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		U.S. authorities believe that the hijackers were in two groups: six core organizers, who included the four pilots and two others; and the remaining thirteen who entered the United States later in pairs in the spring and summer of 2001 via the United Arab Emirates.
		However the "muscle" hijackers, as opposed to the pilots, were between 20 and 28 years old and most were unmarried and without familial attachments.
		Three of the hijackers, along with Ramzi Binalshibh, Said Bahaji, and Zakariyah Essabar were members of the Hamburg cell.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/September_11,_2001_Terrorist_Attack/Hijackers (948 words)

	The growing collection of 20th Hijackers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The new 20th hijacker is expected to be captured in due time and will presumably join the growing collection of 20th hijackers acquired by Atty.
		As the government seeks the arrest of the third 20th hijacker, it is struggling to execute its first 20th hijacker -- Zacarias Moussaoui.
		The problem with the first 20th hijacker is that there is precious little evidence to suggest that he was indeed the 20th hijacker and a great deal of evidence that indicates he was not.
	jonathanturley.com /Articles/Growing_Collection_of_20th_hijackers.htm (907 words)

	Is Zacarias Moussaoui Really the 20th Hijacker? By Kate Taylor
		hijacker, part of a fifth Sept. 11 team that never came together, or part of a separate hijacking plot planned for a later date.
		hijacker and that they "have ruled out a previous suspect in that role." Moussaoui, sources said, was more likely part of a planned second wave of biological or chemical attacks.
		The indictment draws parallels between Moussaoui's activities in the months prior to the Sept. 11 hijack, and Moussaoui is charged with, among other crimes, conspiracy to commit aircraft piracy and destroy aircraft.
	www.slate.com /id/2066389 (496 words)

	'20th Hijacker' Moussaoui Pleads Not Guilty To 911 Charges
		Moussaoui, the alleged 20th hijacker in the attacks, began by telling US District Court Judge Leonie Brinkema on Thursday that he would plead guilty to four of the six charges against him, the four of which carry the death penalty.
		He is the only person who has been indicted in connection to the attacks, and prosecutors allege he would have been the 20th hijacker had he not been arrested earlier last year on immigration violations.
		His mother, Aicha al-Wafi, showed relief in the courtroom when her son said there would be a "change in tactics" in his defense, which he is conducting himself after firing his court-appointed attorneys.
	www.rense.com /general27/20thhijackerpleads.htm (642 words)

	'20th hijacker' turned away before Sept 11 - www.theage.com.au
		It's long been suspected that a so-called "20th hijacker" was supposed to have been part of the terrorist team that was overwhelmed by passengers aboard United Flight 93 that crashed in Pennsylvania.
		At least one other of the Flight 93 hijackers - Saeed Alghamdi - is known to have entered the country through Orlando on June 27, 2001, according to previous FBI testimony.
		A congressional source said the would-be hijacker al-Qahtani was later picked up in Afghanistan as a combatant and is now being questioned at the US Naval Base at Guantanamo.
	www.theage.com.au /articles/2004/01/20/1074360754093.html?from=storyrhs (691 words)

	'20th hijacker' Admits to His Role In September 11 Attacks (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Zacarias Moussaoui, the so-called "20th hijacker", has pleaded guilty to conspiring with the terrorists who carried out the 11 September attacks.
		Yesterday's indictment said he had received the same training and preparation as the 19 11 September hijackers and that the conspiracy he was involved in "resulted in the deaths of thousands of persons on September 11, 2001".
		During that hearing he said that he was not involved in the hijackings but that he was a member of al-Qa'ida and pledged allegiance to its leader, Osama bin Laden.
	www.commondreams.org /cgi-bin/print.cgi?file=/headlines05/0423-06.htm (613 words)

	www.pasept11.org \| UPDATE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		U.S. government investigators have believed to identify the 20th hijacker of the September 11 terrorist attacks.
		Consequent to this theory, officials have ruled out Zaccarias Moussaoui and Ramzi Bin al-Shibh as the 20th hijacker due to speculations of rather participating in future plots and visa applications being repeatedly denied, respectively.
		If this latest theory is correct, this "20th hijacker" was to be the supposed fifth hijacker on Flight 93, explaining the enduring mystery on why there were five hijackers on the other three planes that crashed into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon and only four on Flight 93.
	www.pasept11.org /updates/1103hijacker20.htm (195 words)

	Killing the 20th Hijacker, New York Press, April 2, 2002
		But the Bush Justice Dept.’s pursuit of the death penalty for French-born Zacarias Moussaoui, the alleged so-called 20th hijacker in the Sept. 11 attacks, won’t do a thing to deter future violence, and may actually exacerbate it.
		If he was supposed to be on one of the four hijacked jetliners, Moussaoui was prepared to die, happy to leave this earth as a hero and spend eternity with his virgins in heaven.
		Investigators have theorized that perhaps only a few of the hijackers knew they were to slam the planes into the Twin Towers and the Pentagon, while the others may have believed they were hijacking the planes to some undisclosed location.
	www.signorile.com /articles/nyp21.html (1058 words)

	'20th hijacker' admits he's bin Laden's man - smh.com.au
		Zacarias Moussaoui, dubbed the 20th hijacker and the only person charged in relation the September 11 attacks on the United States, has hurled himself at the American justice system, dramatically abandoning his denial of involvement in Osama bin Laden's network and pleading guilty to charges for which he could be sentenced to death.
		But the US Government says that if Moussaoui had not been in jail on September 11, he would have been the "20th hijacker", aboard one of the jets that slammed into the World Trade Centre, the Pentagon and a field in Pennsylvania.
		Several defence lawyers interviewed on US television on Thursday said that Moussaoui was mad to plead guilty since the case against him, for which the Government is seeking the death penalty, was not certain to succeed.
	www.smh.com.au /articles/2002/07/19/1026898918389.html (724 words)

	COURTTV.COM- TRIALS
		Authorities believe Zacarias Moussaoui, left, would have been the 20th hijacker on one of the four planes involved in the Sept. 11 terror attacks.
		Nineteen hijackers took thousands of innocent victims with them when they willfully crashed to their deaths September 11 — but federal investigators theorize there was supposed to be a 20th hijacker.
		There were four hijackers on board that plane — but there were five on each of the three aircraft that hit the World Trade towers and the Pentagon.
	www.courttv.com /trials/moussaoui/background.html (1187 words)

	'20th Hijacker' Arrested - CBS News
		Fouda told CBS that he was told that the hijacked plane that crashed in Pennsylvania was supposed to hit the Capitol in Washington.
		For example, in the interviews the al Qaeda officials claim that planning for the attack started in "early 1999" and that hijacker ringleader Mohammed Atta was first summoned to Afghanistan for his initial instructions in the summer of 1999.
		The 19 hijackers were "great men who deepened the roots of faith in the hearts of the faithful and reaffirmed allegiance to God and torpedoed the schemes of the crusaders and their stooges, the rulers of the region," the voice said somberly.
	uttm.com /stories/2002/09/06/terror/main521059.shtml (1167 words)

	Guardian Unlimited \| Special reports \| '20th hijacker' taunts US attorney general with quiz
		The suspected apprentice hijacker set the test in one of a string of bizarre scrawled notes to the judge overseeing his pre-trial proceedings in Virginia.
		After September 11, he was charged as a conspirator and justice department officials referred to him as the "20th hijacker".
		They speculated that five conspirators were on each of the hijacked planes, except United Airlines flight 93, on which there were only four.
	www.guardian.co.uk /september11/story/0,11209,948739,00.html (499 words)

	WorldNetDaily: The 20th hijacker
		Someone who went through an immense amount of planning and training is still alive and probably not only on the run from the U.S. authorities but in danger for his life from Osama bin Laden.
		He could be the guy who was planning to be on that hijacked flight that crashed in Pennsylvania.
		Moussaoui was inquiring about flying lessons for passenger airliners, but I'm not convinced he was the 20th hijacker.
	www.worldnetdaily.com /news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=24871 (601 words)

	USATODAY.com - U.S. nabs likely '20th hijacker' (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		WASHINGTON (AP) — Halfway across the globe, U.S. authorities captured a terrorist fugitive who may have intended to be the 20th hijacker on Sept. 11.
		Binalshibh was a roommate of hijacking leader Mohamed Atta in Germany; the FBI believes he was originally intended to be the 20th hijacker before he failed to enter the United States.
		He wired money to Moussaoui, to at least two hijackers and to a Florida flight school at which one of the hijackers was training, the indictment said.
	www.usatoday.com /news/world/2002-09-13-911-plotter_x.htm (550 words)

	COURT TV ONLINE - TOP NEWS
		Ramzi Omar, also known as Ramsi Binalshibh, is believed to have intended to be part of the hijacking team that commandeered United Airlines Flight 93, which crashed in southwestern Pennsylvania.
		But he was never able to enter the country, despite three attempts by Mohamed Atta, the suspected ringleader of the 19 hijackers, to get Binalshibh into the country before Sept. 11, FBI Director Robert Mueller told federal prosecutors Wednesday at a briefing.
		The FBI director said the teams that hijacked and crashed four commercial airliners had five members each except the United flight that crashed in a Pennsylvania field while on a flight path to Washington.
	www.courttv.com /assault_on_america/1115_twentieth_ap.html (674 words)

	Worldandnation: Yemeni man sought as possible 20th hijacker
		WASHINGTON -- The FBI thinks a Yemeni citizen who is the focus of a worldwide manhunt was supposed to be the 20th hijacker on Sept. 11 but he failed to get into the United States, FBI Director Robert Mueller told federal prosecutors in a briefing Wednesday.
		The FBI director noted that all the hijacking teams had five members except United Airlines Flight 93, which crashed in a Pennsylvania field while on a flight path to Washington.
		A month ago, Vice President Dick Cheney said Moussaoui, who was taken in custody the month before the hijackings, may have been intended as part of the terrorist crew that commandeered Flight 93.
	www.sptimes.com /News/111501/Worldandnation/Yemeni_man_sought_as_.shtml (679 words)

	GlobalFreePress- Dep. INN - News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		A CURRY waiter from Oldham was recruited by al-Qaeda and trained as a September 11 hijacker, he claimed yesterday.
		NOTE: In December 1999, an Indian Airlines plane was hijacked for more than a week.
		The Taleban had been widely credited with persuading the hijackers to drop their key demands.
	inn.globalfreepress.com /modules/news/article.php?storyid=175 (221 words)

	CNN.com - Sources: 20th 9/11 hijacker theorized - Nov. 5, 2003
		An operating theory exists among some U.S. government investigators working on the September 11 case that a 20th hijacker was intended in the terrorist airliner attacks, government sources said Wednesday.
		Officials said that while the FBI is looking into the possibility of a potential 20th hijacker, other U.S. officials cast doubt on the concept.
		There were only four hijackers aboard United Flight 93, which crashed in a field in rural Pennsylvania, while there were five hijackers aboard the three other planes, which hit the Twin Towers of New York's World Trade Center and the Pentagon.
	www.cnn.com /2003/US/11/05/911.suspect (497 words)

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		Examinations of immigration records and the movements of the 19 hijackers have led the FBI to zero in on the man it believes was supposed to have been the fifth hijacker on Flight 93, the law enforcement official said.
		His indictment does not identify him as the 20th hijacker; it accuses him of taking part in an al-Qaeda conspiracy to attack U.S. targets.
		For more than a year, FBI officials believed that Bin al-Shibh probably was meant to have been the 20th hijacker.
	www.tucsoncitizen.com /print/national/110503a2_20th_hijacker (556 words)

	USNews.com: The case of a `20th hijacker'?
		Federal prosecutors allege that Moussaoui was tapped to be the 20th hijacker, even though he had been arrested on immigration charges in August and was behind bars on September 11.
		Shibh was a roommate in Germany with Mohamed Atta, the alleged hijacking ringleader.
		By that time, most of the other hijackers had completed flight training, which authorities see as further validation for their theory that Moussaoui was a last-minute substitute.
	www.usnews.com /usnews/news/articles/011224/archive_019902.htm (596 words)

	Guardian \| Pakistan hands '20th hijacker' to US
		Binalshibh is alleged to have been a former flatmate in Hamburg of the leader of the hijackers, Mohamed Atta, and a key member of the al-Qaida cell based in the German city of Hamburg.
		Mr Moussaoui has denied involvement in the September 11 attacks but was routinely called the 20th hijacker until the emergence of Binalshibh.
		Binalshibh, who was paraded, blindfolded, by the Pakistan authorities, boasted of his role in planning the attacks during an interview in Karachi with al-Jazeera, the Arab language television station.
	www.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,4502595-111026,00.html (581 words)

	Steve Quayle News Alerts (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		A senior official said the detainee, known as al-Qahtani, is "one of a half dozen or so individuals" whom investigators suspect the lead hijacker, Mohamed Atta, may have planned to put on United Airlines Flight 93.
		Four hijackers were aboard Flight 93, while five hijackers were on the three other planes, which hit the World Trade Center in New York and the Pentagon outside Washington.
		Newsweek magazine first reported that al-Qahtani was suspected to have been a potential 20th hijacker and that he was captured by U.S. troops in Afghanistan.
	www.stevequayle.com /News.alert/04_Terror/040121.20th.hijacker.html (477 words)

	Moussaoui knows '20th hijacker'
		"After all, I'm 'suppose' to be one (of course not to be misunderstood as a statement of guilt or innocence)," he said in the handwritten document, in which he also denies that he himself was the 20th hijacker, as prosecutors allege.
		Moussaoui also accused the Federal Bureau of Investigation of having invented the idea of a 20th hijacker in order to justify his arrest and trial, and requested permission to review the passenger manifests from the four doomed flights.
		Arrested in August 2001 on immigration violations, the 34-year-old Frenchman has since been charged with conspiracy to commit acts of terror that transcend international borders; conspiracy to commit aircraft piracy; conspiracy to destroy aircraft; conspiracy to use weapons of mass destruction; conspiracy to murder US employees; and conspiracy to destroy property.
	www.news24.com /News24/AnanziArticle/0,,2-1659_1243280,00.html (328 words)

	CNN.com - Investigators seek alleged 20th hijacker - November 16, 2001
		WASHINGTON (CNN) -- U.S. investigators believe that a man being sought by German authorities in connection with the September 11 terrorist attacks was the intended 20th hijacker, sources told CNN Thursday.
		The sources said he was supposed to be part of the team that hijacked the United Airlines jet that later crashed in rural Pennsylvania.
		Investigators are backing away from their earlier belief that a man arrested in Minnesota -- Zacarias Moussaoui -- may have been the intended 20th hijacker.
	cnnstudentnews.cnn.com /2001/US/11/15/inv.ramzi.manhunt (308 words)

	"The 20th hijacker" grabbed - theage.com.au
		US officials confirmed that bin al-Shibh, 30, was a former room-mate of hijack plot ringleader Mohamed Atta, and that bin al-Shibh played a central role in the terrorist plot.
		They believe he intended to be the 20th hijacker on the planes involved in the terrorist attacks.
		Bin al-Shibh is alleged to have wired money to several of the hijackers in the US and to a Florida flight school at which one of the hijackers was training.
	www.theage.com.au /articles/2002/09/15/1031608344758.html (238 words)

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