IN BOSTON, authorities identified at least five Arab men, including a trained pilot, as suspects and seized a Mitsubishi rental car at an airport parking garage, the Boston Herald reported.
The Herald, quoting an unnamed source, reported that the car contained Arabic-language flight training manuals. At least two of the five men flew to Logan International Airport on Tuesday from Portland, Maine, the Herald said.
The luggage of one of the men who flew to the airport Tuesday didn’t make his scheduled connection. The Boston Globe reported the luggage contained a copy of the Koran, an instructional video on flying commercial airliners and a fuel consumption calculator.
In Florida, FBI agents reportedly searched a home in Broward County after a name on a flight manifest caught investigators’ attention.
A federal law-enforcement official told NBC that the name of one of the passengers aboard one of the flights that crashed into the World Trade Center immediately triggered alarms at the FBI. The FBI obtained the name of the passenger from one of the flight manifests, entered it into the FBI computer database and came up with some sort of match.
The FBI refused to comment on both reports.
Still, much of the immediate speculation focused on bin Laden.
One senior U.S. official told NBC News that investigators were “90 percent certain” that bin Laden was responsible, adding: “This is not just surmise. This is new information.”
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