Documents recovered from the crash site of flight UA93 at Somerset County
Documents recovered from the crash site of flight UA93 at Somerset County
Compiled by Elias Davidsson
According to the FBI, the following items were recovered from the crash site of flight UA 93 at Somerset County, Pa.:
• Kingdom of Saudi Arabia ID card of alleged hijacker Ahmed Alnami (item Q1)
• Saudi Arabian Youth Hostels Association ID Card for same (item Q2)
• Three small color photographs, two strips of negatives and an enlarged photocopy of Kingdom of Saudi Arabia ID Card (items Q3)
• Handwritten letter with possible Arabic writing (item Q45)
• A “five page Arabic document [with] details regarding the strategy and preparation required to conduct a hijacking.1
For unexplained reasons, these FBI documents do not mention that a “business card in the name of Ziad Jarrah’s uncle, Assem Jarrah, was recovered at the crash site of Flight 93 in Pennsylvania.” In a Stipulation filed by the government in the trial of Zacarias Moussaoui,2 it is even claimed that the “following handwriting appeared on the back of the partially torn card:
Rajh Moham
Billsteder Hauptstr, 14
22111 Hamburg
Germany”
How can such paper documents belonging to “hijackers” be found when the bodies of their owners could not be found at the crash site?
It appears that most of these items were found after September 14, 2001, because as of September 15, 2001, the FBI had only found at the UA93 crash sites the following items: “A suitcase, a piece of plastic with Arabic writing, a hand written note, a knife (home made style), and a shirt.”3
A number of documents purporting to identify the suspects of flight UA93 were reportedly found at that flight’s crash site, though no aircraft wreckage was seen there and no drop of blood.4 The incriminating items included the passport of alleged hijacker Al Ghamdi,5 alleged hijacker Alnami’s Florida Driver’s License6, his Saudi Arabian Youth Hostel Association ID card7, a visa page from alleged hijacker Ziad Jarrah’s passport8, and a business card of Jarrah’s uncle, mentioned earlier.9 At the Pentagon crash site, a “Kingdom of Saudi Arabia Student Identity Card” was discovered with alleged hijacker Majed Moqed’s name on it.10
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1 FBI document 265A-NY-280350-HQ-4809
2 Stipulation, Exhibit ST00001, supra n., p. 85
3 Communication from FBI Counterterrorism to all FBI Field Offices and Legats dated September 15, 2001 and approved by Thomas Pickard (Author’s document #452, p. 18)
4 Robb Frederick, ‘The day that changed Amereica’, Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, 11 September 2002. Cached at http://www.aldeilis.net/english/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2263&Itemid=107
5 Moussaoui trial exhibit PA00108, at http://www.vaed.uscourts.gov/notablecases/moussaoui/exhibits/prosecution/PA00108.html
6 Moussaoui trial exhibit PA00110, at http://www.vaed.uscourts.gov/notablecases/moussaoui/exhibits/prosecution/PA00110.html
7 Moussaoui trial exhibit PA00102, at http://www.vaed.uscourts.gov/notablecases/moussaoui/exhibits/prosecution/PA00102.html
8 Moussaoui trial exhibit PA00105.08, at http://www.vaed.uscourts.gov/notablecases/moussaoui/exhibits/prosecution/PA00105-08.html
9 Moussaoui trial exhibit GX-PA00109, at http://www.rcfp.org/moussaoui/