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Oct 7, 2026
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At five forty-three on the evening of Monday, September tenth, two thousand and one, two men check into room two three three.
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The younger is Abdulaziz Alomari.
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The older gives his name as Mohamed Atta.
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They spend the evening on small errands.
Martin BruntHOST
in the early days of an investigation.
Martin BruntHOST
Hijackers Mohammed Atta and Abdulaziz Al Omari had flown from Portland in Maine to Boston that morning and had made their connection to Flight 11. their luggage didn't go with them.
Martin BruntHOST
And so material that was recovered from those bags was incredibly vital to the investigators.
Martin BruntHOST
It included a copy of an Arab instruction document that was all about suicide missions.
JDHOST
I've got them written down here.
JDHOST
Abdulaziz al-Omari, Salem al-Hazmi, and Khalid al-Mindhar.
JDHOST
Who cares, right? Yeah, they were major players in what happened.
JDHOST
And they were let right in.
Joe PagsHOST
And that morning, we now know exactly what went down.
Joe PagsHOST
5:45 a.m., Mohamed Atta and Abdulaziz Alomari, and I'm getting this from millercenter.org, two of the intended hijackers passed through security at the Portland International Jetport in Maine.
Joe PagsHOST
They board a commuter flight to Boston Logald- Logan International Airport, then they board American Airlines Flight 11.
Joe PagsHOST
7:59 a.m., Flight 11 takes off from Boston, headed for Los Angeles, California.
Austin PicardHOST
By 1996, Berkshire Hathaway Incorporated, the holding company controlled by Warren Buffett, of all people, agreed to acquire Flight Safety International Incorporated for about $1.5 billion in cash and stock.
Austin PicardHOST
Now, as the story goes, Abdulaziz Alomari was listed by the FBI as one of the 19 9-11 hijackers with a stolen identity who was apparently trained by a subsidiary of flight safety services.
Austin PicardHOST
Interestingly, an investigation was conducted by Tridata Corporation, a subsidiary of System Planning Corporation.
Austin PicardHOST
which developed technology for remotely controlling...
Michael SmerconishHOST
Jose Melendez Perez, the Customs and Border Protection agent in Orlando, who one month before September 11 turned away Mohammed al-Qahtani, the would-be 20th hijacker, while Mohamed Atta waited outside to pick him up.
Michael SmerconishHOST
Michael Tuohy, the US Airways agent in Portland, Maine, who handed boarding passes to Atta and a guy named Al Omari on the morning of September 11.
Michael SmerconishHOST
16 seconds of 9/11 Commission testimony from John Lehman that exposed the fact that we had a prohibition against pulling more than two individuals of a certain demographic out of line as of the September 11 hijacking.
Michael SmerconishHOST
That led to my first book, Flying Blind.
Michael SmerconishHOST
He lives with the regret that he didn't act on his.
Michael SmerconishHOST
Two terrorists came to Portland, Maine to catch a flight to Boston early in the morning of September 11 to begin their murderous path, and Mr. Tuohy was the US Airways ticket agent who handled the boarding passes for Mohamed Atta and Abdulaziz al-Omari that morning.
Michael TuohySOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
You know, the ticket counter was clear.
Michael TuohySOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
There were several other agents on the counter, and it was clear, so I still have that bad cigarette habit, and I was gonna step outside to have a cigarette.
Paul HosfordGUEST
But as I suppose as the morning went on, it kind of starts at about quarter to six in the morning in Portland, Maine, which is about 500 kilometres from New York.
Paul HosfordGUEST
The first two al-Qaeda hijackers, Muhammad Atta and Abdul Aziz Alomari, they go through security at Portland, Maine.
Paul HosfordGUEST
They're on a commuter flight.
Paul HosfordGUEST
At this time, anyone who had flown in America at the time will tell you that at this point, US aviation security is very lax.
Ed CraneHOST
Let's take you through the timeline, as a matter of fact.
Ed CraneHOST
At 5.45 in the morning on September 11th, Eastern Time, Muhammad Atta and Abdul Aziz Omari, two of the intended hijackers, passed through security at Portland International.
Ed CraneHOST
They board a commuter flight to Logan International.
Ed CraneHOST
They then board American Airlines Flight 11.
Dan SnowNARRATOR
First on scene, the Al Ghandi brothers arrive at Logan International Airport by taxi and proceed to Terminal C.
Dan SnowNARRATOR
Traveling from Portland, Maine, Mohammed Atta and Abdulaziz Al Omari arrive at Logan International Airport in Boston.
Dan SnowNARRATOR
Three more hijackers arrive by rental car and proceed to the terminal.
Dan SnowNARRATOR
At Terminal C, a different part of the airport, hijacker pilot Marwan al-Shayyi checks in.