A question about the 9/11 hijackers

[Dragon Turtle]

Who were they?

Other than the hijackers being mostly Saudis and no Iraqis, I am confused. I have heard anywhere from 14 to 17 Saudis, 1 Egyptian and one from another country.

[markomalley]

1. I heard they were defense contractors looking for work n/t

[CompassionateLiberal]

2. If the CIA would release their W-2 forms we'd know

But to doubt that will happen.

[leesa]

3. We don't know who they were. 9-11 has never been investigated

I believe 7 of them were found to be alive and well after 9-11, so they clearly were NOT the people our government was saying they were.

I wonder why Bush doesn't want 9-11 investigated??

[Liberal_Dog]

4. "15 of the 19 Hijackers Were Saudis"

I hear that all of the time.

However, the forensics people have not identified a single hijacker's remains from any of the 9-11 crash sites.

So, how can anyone know who the hijackers really were or where they may have come from?

[amber dog democrat]

6. That does not make them Iraqis.

Does it? From the investigtive files we have a pretty good idea who they were.
and who they WERE NOT.

[Liberal_Dog]

8. I Never Said They Were Iraqis

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[Abe Linkman]

5. In one of those inexplicable coincidencies; turns out they all had...

the same name: Patsy.

Crazy, right? Yeah, I know. But, it's true.

[aquart]

11. Maybe.

But I suggest it is sheer racism to assume that "brown-skinned" people could not successfully plan and carry out a massive terror attack on the United States or anywhere else.

In case you haven't noticed, they have very good reason to dislike us.

I have two other, possibly wrong, ideas about people who keep insisting that the Saudi and Egyptian men could not have brought down the WTC or the Pentagon.

1. They are deliberately planting disinformation to keep us chasing our tails; or

2. They are so intrinsically terrified by the idea of the world being so out of the white Americans' comfortable control, that they have to rework events to make it so. To gain some measure of control. Even if it's scary and evil, the CIA are us. Kinda.

[Canadian_moderate]

7. Ironically no Iraqis.

I think there were one or two from Lebanon from what I remember.

[JackieO]

9. check out this thread on Mohammed Atta:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=104&topic_id=1433886

[FloridaPat]

10. Depending on which news report your read, 4-8 are still alive.

One died several years before 9-11. Those sneaky Saudis - they know how to bring back the dead.