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[edit] Flight 11
[edit] Mohammed Atta
[edit] Owned
[edit] Pontiac
The first car known to be registered to Atta was a red 1989 Pontiac Grand Prix with VIN 1G2Wk14W7KF262689 registered in Venice, Florida. He is thought to have purchased it, possibly with financial assistance from Marwan, in the week between July 3-10 2000. On April 26th, 2001 Atta is stopped while driving this car on Inverrary Boulevard in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, and issued a citation for not having a license. The officer reports the car had Arabic bumper stickers. A BOLO was issued for the car on the afternoon of the 12th, citing a Florida license D79-DDV or D79-DVD.[1]
The car was reportedly seen three days after the attack, although police failed to stop it.[2]
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- On September 13th, a red Pontiac with no front license plate was detained with three Syrian males in Elizabeth, New Jersey, on suspicion it was Atta's car. Although it was not Atta's car, the driver, former limousine chauffeur Ahmad Kilfat, was arrested for credit card fraud after police searched his wallet and found more than $10,000 cash and a dozen credit cards he had taken cash advances on. All three of the occupants had one-way tickets to Damascus for a September 16 flight.(pdf)[3] Another of the occupants, named al-Raqqad was released.[4]
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[edit] Oldsmobile
Atta was also leasing a tan 2001 Oldsmobile Alero from a company in Boca Raton[5]. It was reported to have the Florida license UEP-54N. The car was found reportedly found late on September 12th, but since a BOLO was issued after that point, it is thought the media may have misinterpreted that the existence of the car had been discovered.
[edit] Rented
On June 3rd 2000, Atta arrives on a flight to Newark, New Jersey, from Prague. He is thought to rent a car, possibly from the airport. The following day he received a parking ticket against the car while driving in Brooklyn, NY.[6]
On July 3rd, Atta drives an unspecified rental car while arranging lessons at Huffman Aviation and finding a place to stay in Venice, Florida. Later in the week he will purchase the Pontiac.
On May 28th 2001, Atta rented a Ford Explorer in Florida, presumably to pick up Hamza al-Ghamdi, Mohand al-Shehri, and Ahmed al-Nami who are thought to have just arrived in the United States that day on a flight from London.
On June 28th, Atta arrives at McCarran International Airport in Las Vegas to meet with the three other pilots, he rented a Chevrolet Malibu from an Alamo Rent A Car agency. It is not known where he stayed this night, but on the 29th he registered at the EconoLodge at 1150 South Las Vegas Blvd. Here he presented an AAA membership for a discount, and pays cash for the $49.50/night.
On July 9th, Atta picks up a Hyundai Accent he rented online from the Sixt Agency in Madrid Airport after arriving on Iberia Airlines Flight 656 at around 4:20pm, and drove to the Hotel Casablanca Playa where he paid in cash.[7] By the 17th he was instead staying in room #15 at the Montsant Hostel in Salou, Spain which he paid with his Visa card. The car was returned to the airport on July 18th with 1250 miles (or 1900 miles, depending on the account) driven.[8]
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On August 6th, Atta rented a white 1995 Ford Escort, his first of three cars from Brad Warrick's agency in Pompano Beach, Florida. Warrick would later report that Atta had been polite, well-groomed and a model customer. The car was returned after roughly a week, with 254 miles driven.
On August 15th, Atta returned, this time asking for the cheapest possible car. He rents a blue 1996 Chevrolet Corsica for two weeks, that he returned with nearly 1915 miles driven. During that rental term, Atta phoned Brad Warrick saying he was in Venice, Florida and the oil warning light (or "service engine", depending on which account) had just come on. Warrick assured him he would take care of the issue when the car came back in.
Marwan listed a "Blue Chevey" as his vehicle when he signed into a Hollywood, Florida hotel on August 26th, and two days later Atta brought it back to Warricks to exchange, though reneged his Visa and instead paid cash.
On the 29th, after a friendly chat returning the earlier vehicle and reminding Warrick to get it fixed for the next person who might rent the car[9], Atta rented the same Ford Escort from earlier, with Marwan present and co-signing. This time it was returned on September 9th, with 1035 miles driven. Because the attack was only two days later, the car was still in queue to be cleaned since Atta's rental, and Warrick reported it to the FBI who towed the car to Miami and took copies of the rental agreements Warrick had kept.[10]
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- Both cars, the Corsica and Explorer were purchased from Warrick's in January 2002 after the rental agency received the cars back from the FBI, and decommissioned them for four months. The buyer, James P. Glynn, then put the cars up for sale, asking for museums and collectors to consider purchasing them, quoting a $250,000 price tag apiece and listing them on his company's Fedtrust Liquidators website.[11]
On September 9th, the same day he returned his third car from Warrick in Pompano Beach, Atta rented a blue Nissan Altima from Alamo Rent A Car's agency in Logan International Airport. An oddity since Alamo traditionally only rents GM models.
[edit] The Mitsubishi Mirage
A white Mitsubishi Mirage was rented in Springfield, Massachusetts under Atta's name[12], and is thought to have been the car seen circling the restricted-parking areas of Logan International Airport for several days including on September 4th and 6th(2:15-4pm), 9th(4:15-5:39pm) and 10th(4:25-5:05pm) (Time, 28 January 2002).
On September 10th, Atta drove it west along Highway 90 to Exit 13, where a tollbooth operator wrote down the car's plate number after the driver argued over a $3.10 toll.(Newsday, 30 September 2001).
On September 11th, Marwan drove the car to the airport, and phoned Atta at 6:45am to confirm the plan was still on. After the attacks, it is reported that Marwan got in an argument with an unnamed person over a parking spot at the airport. A lack of detail makes the story suspicious.[13]
After the attacks, the car was impounded by the FBI who discovered a parking pass allowing the car in restricted airport areas, an airline crew tag, an unreleased name of one of the passengers who was aboard the same flight, as well as paperwork from Huffman Aviation. The car is alternatingly referred to as being Marwan or Atta's[14][15]
[edit] Flight 175
[edit] Marwan al-Shehhi
On May 24th, Marwan took a UA flight from JFK Airport to San Francisco, and from there caught a connecting flight to Las Vegas. While there, he used a credit card in Atta's name to rent an unspecified car from Enterprise Rent-A-Car. He spent the night of the 24th at a Travelodge, but by the next night had moved up to St. Louis Manor. On the 27th he returned the car, and flew back to San Francisco, and from there back to New York.[16]
[edit] Fayez Banihammad
On September 11, Banihammad drove Mohand al-Shehri in a rental car to Logan International Airport, where they returned the car and boarded Flight 175.
[edit] Flight 93
[edit] Ziad Jarrah
[edit] Owned
[edit] Mitsubishi Eclipse
On May 12th 2001, Jarrah registered a red 1990/1991 Mitsubishi Eclipse which he had bought the year before.[17] Some sources indicated that Ahmed al-Haznawi drove the car on occasion[18]
[edit] Mercedes
Jarrah's family had bought Jarrah a new Mercedes-Benz 300 on September 9, as an anticipatory wedding present. Shortly before the attacks, Jarrah's father had joked that he would give the car to one of Jarrah's sisters instead, if Ziad didn't come home soon.
[edit] Rented
[edit] Unknown Venetian car in 11/00
While a single source references Jarrah renting an unknown car in Venice, Florida, lack of other sources leave it a suspect claim[19]
[edit] Unknown Las Vegas car 05/01
June 7, 2001 - Ziad Jarrah (#93) travels to Las Vegas and rents a car at McCarran International Airport. On papers for Payless Car Rental, he states that he's staying at the Circus Circus Casino Resort, although later investigators claim that he lied about this[20]. He presented a Florida driver's license and paid in cash. He returned the vehicle June 10th, after spending the three nights between two different hotels[21]. Manager Suzanne Gerfy told conflicting stories, saying that either "some of the others" also rented cars there[22] or that nobody else had[23].
[edit] Mitsubishi Galant
At some point prior to the attacks, Ziad Jarrah rented a red 2001 Mitsubishi Galant with license LJE87L from Garden State Car Rental at Newark International Airport. The night of September 8th, he is stopped for driving 90mph in a 65mph area on I-95 in Cecil County by Officer Joseph Catalano. He gives his Virginia license, verifies to the officer that his address is 6601 Quicksilver Drive in Springfield, and is fined $270.[24] Catalano did not run a background check on Jarrah, although if he had nothing would have appeared. He did however request that dispatch check whether the license plate indicated a stolen car.[25]
The night before the attack, three men park the car at the entrance to the Airport Marriott hotel. Ziad Jarrah and Ahmed al-Haznawi check in, Jarrah paying $450 cash for two non-smoking rooms on the third floor. The third man drives the car to a nearby Days Inn. After the attacks, the car was found at the airport, with the unpaid speeding violation still in the glove compartment.[26]
[edit] Flight 77
[edit] Hani Hanjour
Hani Hanjour was reportedly given a ticket for speeding on South George Mason Drive in Arlington, Virginia at 3:19pm August 1st 2001, while driving a beige Chevrolet van with New Jersey plates. He had been driving 55mph (50, by some reports) in a 30mph area. Hanjour gave the officer his Florida drivers license, and mailed the $70 fine three weeks before the attacks, as well as $30 in court costs.[27][28]
[edit] Nawaf al-Hazmi
[edit] Owned
[edit] Toyota Corolla
Khalid al-Mihdhar and Nawaf al-Hazmi shared the $3000 cost of a dark-blue 1988 Toyota Corolla, paying in cash for the used car. Nawaf gave a false address on the vehicle while registering it to himself, and had the car duly pass emissions standards tests.[29]
It was shared by the five hijackers of American Airlines Flight 77, Hani Hanjour, Khalid al-Mihdhar, Majed Moqed, Nawaf and Salem al-Hazmi, when they all moved out to a $308/weekly suite at the Valencia Motel in Laurel, Maryland. A neighbour to the hotel, Toris Proctor, said that the five used the Corolla, and each appeared to have a chosen seat in the car each time.[30] At 10am each morning, they would load the car with luggage, and two of them would chat outside a pizzeria opening across the street, then all five would drive away for the duration of the day.
Sometime between July 7-13 2001, the car was noted parked behind the Congress Inn motel in South Hackensack, New Jersey, where Nawaf was staying in room 506, and officer Dave Agar routinely entered the California licenseplate 3JFZ283 into his patrolcar's computer, which showed nothing suspicious about its registree. It was later discovered that al-Mihdhar had been routinely visiting Nawaf in the room, as well as possibly Alomari who had checked in at the Jade East Motel, and left the city the same day as the other two.[31]
On Sept. 11, Hanjour, Nawaf and al-Mihdhar left the Marriott Residence Inn in Herndon, Virginia, possibly picking up Moqed and Salem, and drove the car to Dulles Airport, where it was left in the parking garage. It was found on September 12th. Contents included a copy of the letter of instructions, a receipt from a flight school in Phoenix, four hand-drawn sketches of a cockpit, maps of New York and Washington, a boxcutter knife and a page with scrawled names and phone-numbers.[32][33]
- One of the entries was OSAMA 589-5316, a phone number which paired with the San Diego area-code belonged to Osama Awadallah 18 months earlier.[34]
[edit] Rented
Nawaf was said to have rented cars three times from the Borough Jeep-Chrysler dealership in Wayne, New Jersey.
- A minivan that cost him $35/day. This is thought to possibly be the van associated with Eyad Alrababah and arranging for false IDs in Connecticut.
- A sedan of some type, rented sometime between June and August.
- A Chrysler Concorde on August 22nd, which he returned on September 1 with 1,000 miles listed as being put on the car.
Nawaf had presented a Florida driver's license as identification, and pays the three rentals with cash, a check and Mastercard.[35], On one of the rentals had been co-signed by a "Hani Saleh Hassan", believed to be Hanjour.
[edit] Unrelated cars
- A car parked at Daytona Airport was impounded after investigators claimed they found "Arabic literature" and an image of somebody 'resembling' Osama bin Laden.[36] It later turned out to belong to a Embry-Riddle student, and the image was of an unidentified "bearded, Middle-Eastern man". The owner was investigated and cleared.[37]
- A blue Dollar Rent A Car-owned Hyundai was impounded from Logan Airport's parking garage the week following the attacks, amidst claims it was registered to one of the hijackers or an associate.[38]
