no charts, no data sets, and no analysis identifying Mohamed Atta or any of the other hijackers pre-911.
Quotes about hijackers (16 Quotes)
It does not make sense that we are allowing known potential weapons, not unlike those the 9-11 hijackers used to overcome the crews of four airplanes, to be taken aboard passenger aircraft.
We have appealed to the hijackers to at least let the children, along with their mothers come out of the aircraft. They have not acceded to our demand,
The Sept. 11 commission's statement that it does not believe a secret military intelligence unit discovered a group of future hijackers more than a year before the attacks is
These three documents, this letter, is clear evidence linking the hijackers on the three separate flights on September 11,
He fits in the sense he is of approximately the same age group as the hijackers. He comes from a simple but middle class background.
The appropriateness of the design has been questioned by many people because of the crescent's prominent use as a symbol in Islam - and the fact that the hijackers were radical Islamists,
We just don't have the same relationship with the United Arab Emirates that we have with Britain. Do we really want to entrust security to a foreign government that had connections to some of the 911 hijackers.
The 19 hijackers that came over here to commit the attack on Sept. 11, there were those that were at the bottom of the line. There were those who were the principal conspirators. There were those who were the pilot. Everybody has a role.
What happens if on September 7th of 2001, we had gotten one of the hijackers and based on information associated with that arrest, believed that within four days, there's going to be a devastating attack on the United States.
I understand the Saudis have been named because fifteen of the nineteen hijackers were from Saudi Arabia.
Most of the suicide hijackers came from Saudi Arabia, a place not lacking in wealth. But due to rapid population growth, the wealth per capita has fallen by about half in a generation.
If you look at the 19 hijackers who came to the United States in Sept. 11 to commit those acts, if you'd looked at them before they got onto a plane, you could probably say the same thing. There were various levels of expertise, various levels of competence.
Today, I can report to you that our investigation has uncovered several individuals, including individuals who may have links to the hijackers, who fraudulently have obtained or attempted to obtain hazardous material transportation licenses,
They ran out of fuel as the pilot was still negotiating with the hijackers at the time the plane hit the sea,
The British may be reluctant to storm the plane with so many women and children on board. They're more likely to simply use boredom as a weapon, waiting out the crisis and letting the hijackers tire and then later offering them a way out.