Marwan al-Shehhi

Ramzi bin al-Shibh is a Yemeni who was refused a US visa in 1995 and entered Germany by claiming asylum under a false name.

Marwan al-Shehhi is a young Emirati on a military scholarship who struggles at university and grows steadily stricter in his faith.

Ziad Jarrah is a Lebanese student from a wealthy family who attended Christian schools, knew the best nightclubs in Beirut, and has a Turkish German girlfriend named Aysel Sengün.

In September 1997, Jarrah abruptly switches from dentistry to aircraft engineering.

He will never reach the United States.

He becomes the plot’s link to al-Qaeda from outside.

Marwan al-Shehhi lands in Newark on May 29th, 2000.

Atta follows on June third.

Oh, yeah.

And I'll tell you the story of how I met Mohamed Atta, Hani Hanjour, Marwan al-Shehhi, the three pilots, and I helped the FBI capture the Al-Qaeda cell that was operating in Hamburg.

But I'm gonna leave that for later in the program.

Right now I'm going to ask Aage to grant me screen sharing, uh, privileges, and w- we're going to look at a couple of videos of, uh, what happened that day to-

That was my rational explanation for what I was seeing.

Yeah.

But the biggest lie, folks, I have to tell you, those lies are big lies, but the biggest lie came three days later when the FBI said that they had found the passports of Mohamed Atta, Hani Hanjour, and Marwan al-Shehhi in debris six blocks north of the crash.

The bui-l the plane went right into and through the building, into a ball of fire, and they claim that they found luggage and that they found the passports six blocks away-

That was very controversial at the time, but that was a recommendation made more than a year before Hani Hanjour, a Saudi national who entered on a student visa, crashed American Airlines flight in, uh, seventy-seven into the Pentagon on September eleventh.

And that was more than a year before Mohammed Atta and Marwan al-Shehhi, the two pilots that flew the planes respectively into the, uh, World Trade Center Twin Towers, were allowed to remain and attend flight school while the INS processed their vocational student visas.

And yet it wasn't until the second Trump administration that DHS really became serious about tamping down on student visas, limiting student stays in the United States and targeting the fraud that facilitates their ability to enter and remain here.

The Bramer Commission also recommended that the government make greater use of the Alien Terrorist Removal Court.

I'm sure that that name rings a bell for pretty much everybody that remembers this.

Marwan al-Shehhi, uh, Ziad Jarrah, and Ramzi bin al-Shibh.

Now, you have three gentlemen in Atta, al-Shehhi, and Jarrah that are able to obtain visas to the United States.

Ramzi bin al-Shibh, I believe, was Yemeni.

You're going to have one pilot, Mohammed Atta.

United Flight 175 is gonna go from Boston to Los Angeles.

That's, uh, Marwan al-Shehhi is going to be the pilot for muscle.

American Airlines Flight 77 is going to go from Dulles in Virginia to Los Angeles.