I have a question that has been bothering me for a while now.

[dubykc]

How, without prior knowledge, were we able to identify the terrorists on the flights that crashed into the WTC, Pentagon and in the field in PA so quickly?

Please accept my apologies if this is something that has already been answered here.

[Norquist Nemesis]

1. Always wondered that one myself. How was it that passports

of these guys made it through a huge explosion like that and managed to be noticed, picked up, and put into the hands of the right authorities?

[Warpy]

2. Passenger lists and assigned seat numbers

If they had been flying Southwest, the FBI would have been SOL.

However, we really don't know who some of them are. Since at least five people who hold those passports are alive and well in the Middle East, we have to assume some of them were using stolen or faked passports.

[Cooley Hurd]

3. ...because we had their pay stubs.

:rofl:

[dubykc]

4. That was one of my first thoughts.

[arcane1]

5. welcome to DU!

:hi:

that is a damned good question; one which, to the best of my knowledge, has not only never been properly answered, but also one that is rarely asked :(

[niyad]

6. welcome to DU!! I HAVE been asking that question from the

beginning, along with WHY, if NOTHING was known about this plot prior to the morning of 9/11, by nightfall the fbi supposedly knew everything about the men and the plot. that always struck me as total and complete BS.