Everything about Salem Al-hazmi totally explained
Salem al-Hazmi, (
Arabic: سالم الحازمي, also
transliterated Alhazmi), (
February 2,
1981 -
September 11,
2001) was one of five men named on
September 14,
2001 by the
FBI as
hijackers of
American Airlines flight 77 in the
September 11, 2001 Terrorist Attack. His older brother,
Nawaf al-Hazmi was another of the hijackers.
History
Born on
February 2,
1981 to Muhammad Salim al-Hazmi, a grocer. There are reports that he fought in
Afghanistan with his brother,
Nawaf al-Hazmi, and other reports say the two fought together in
Chechnya. (The two may not have been actual brothers, although they claimed they were.) Both obtained US
visas through the US Consulate in
Jeddah, Saudi Arabia in April of 1999. Salem al-Hazmi was an
al-Qaeda veteran by the time he was selected for participation in the 9/11 attacks.
In November 2000, both he and
Ahmed al-Ghamdi flew to
Beirut, though on separate flights and at different times.
Along with
Nawaf al-Hazmi and several other future hijackers, Salem al-Hazmi may have attended the
2000 Al Qaeda Summit in
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. It was there that the details of the 9/11 attacks were decided upon.
In the United States
According to the
FBI and the
9/11 Commission report, al-Hazmi first entered the United States on
June 29,
2001, although there are numerous unconfirmed reports that he was living in
San Antonio, Texas with fellow hijacker
Satam al-Suqami much earlier. Al-Hazmi used the controversial
Visa Express program to gain entry into the country.
Al-Hazmi moved to
Paterson, New Jersey where he lived with
Hani Hanjour. Both were among the five hijackers who applied for Virginia identity cards at the
Arlington office of the Virginia Department of Motor Vehicles on
August 2,
2001, although Salem already held an NJ identity card.
On August 27th, brothers Nawaf and Salem purchased flight tickets through Travelocity.com using Nawaf's
visa card(External Link
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With the four other Flight 77 hijackers, he worked out at a
Gold's Gym in
Greenbelt, Maryland from
September 2 to
September 6 of the same year.
The Attacks
On
September 11, al-Hazmi boarded
American Airlines flight 77. Airport surveillance video from Washington's
Dulles Airport shows four of the five hijackers, including Salem al-Hazmi, being pulled aside to undergo additional scrutiny after setting off
metal detectors.
(External Link) Some time after takeoff, the plane was hijacked, and was flown into the
Pentagon at 9:37 am, killing 189 people.
Mistaken identity
Shortly after the attacks, several sources reported that Salem al-Hazmi, 26, was alive and working at a petrochemical plant in Yanbu,
Saudi Arabia. He claimed that his
passport had been stolen by a pickpocket in
Cairo three years before, and that the pictures and details such as
date of birth released to the public by the FBI were his own. He also stated that he'd never visited the
United States, but volunteered to fly to the U.S. to prove his innocence.
(External Link) On September 19,
Al-Sharq Al-Awsat published his
photograph alongside Badr Alhazmi's, whom they claimed was the actual hijacker who had stolen his identity.
(External Link)
Muhammad Salim Al-Hazmi, father of the two suspects, Nawaf and Salim Muhammad Al-Hazmi, said that the published photos may be doctored or faked somehow. Al-Hazmi continued, "As a father, I've a feeling that the two of them are still alive and unhurt, and will come back home in the near future when the truth is uncovered and the real culprits are found."
After some confusion and doubt
Saudi Arabia admitted that in fact the names of the
hijackers were correct. "The names that we got confirmed that,"
Interior Minister Prince Nayef said in an interview with The Associated Press. "Their families have been notified." Nayef said the Saudi leadership was shocked to learn 15 of the hijackers were from Saudi Arabia and said it was natural that the kingdom hadn't noticed their involvement beforehand.
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