Nawaf al-Hazmi

Bin Laden also picks the first operatives.

Khalid al-Mihdhar and Nawaf al-Hazmi are Saudis who already hold American visas.

Khalid and Abu Bara are Yemenis, and Yemenis have a harder time getting visas.

Khalid is turned down.

He refuses a second request because of Hanjour’s poor flying.

Two of the original operatives reached the United States months before the pilots.

Nawaf al-Hazmi and Khalid al-Mihdhar land in Los Angeles on January 15th, 2000.

Days earlier, they had been at an Al-Qaeda gathering in Kuala Lumpur that American intelligence was watching.

Then we arrested al-Qaeda guys in 1999 who were going to bomb LAX for the year 2000, Y2K.

Less than a month later, several al-Qaeda operatives met in Kuala Lumpur, including Khalid al-Midhar and Nawaf al-Hazmi, both of whom would later participate in the September 11th hijackings.

At the CIA's request, Malaysian authorities photographed the gathering, and U.S. officials subsequently obtained information about the participants' movements.

Over the coming year, the 19 al-Qaeda operatives, all of whom completed training with al-Qaeda in Afghanistan, continue to filter into the country, our country, and move into position to serve their designated operational roles as either pilots or muscle hijackers to subdue the passengers and crew.

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This is Nawaf al-Hazmi and Khalid al-Midhar, two of the 9-11 hijackers.

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The first two hijackers who came to the United States, Nawaf al-Hazmi and Khaled al-Midhar, got on flight 77 in Dulles Airport and left behind an old Toyota Corolla sedan in the parking lot.

That led the FBI almost immediately to San Diego, where they had settled in February of 2000, more than a year before the attacks.

And they were really interesting from the beginning because unlike some of the other European-educated hijackers, they really were fish out of water in sunny Southern California where they came in January of 2000 from Malaysia and Thailand.

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Um, the first two hijackers who came to the United States, Nawaf al-Hazmi and Khalid al-Mihdhar, um, got on Flight 77 in Dulles Airport and left behind an old Toyota Corolla sedan in the parking lot.

That led the FBI almost immediately to San Diego, where they had settled in February of 2000, uh, more than a year before the attacks.

And they were really interesting from the beginning because they, unlike some of the other European educated hijackers, they really were fish out of water in sunny Southern California, where they came in, in January of 2000 from, uh, Malaysia and, and Thailand.

That this was a plot where there, w- we may not have fully understood what Al-Qaeda was plotting toward But we certainly knew that there was a plot underway.

Uh, you know, the CIA knew that Al- known Al-Qaeda operatives, uh, Nawaf al-Hazmi, Khalid al-Mihdhar were in Los Angeles in the United States in the summer of 2001, information that for various reasons, some of which I believe we still don't know to this day, never made it to the FBI, and that there was a failure to, uh, uh, in the terminology that came up after 9/11, to connect the dots in the lead up.

Um, but remember, uh, uh, Osama bin Laden was very forthright about the plot-

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