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To: Thomas A Watson who wrote (197050)	10/28/2001 2:43:25 PM
From: greenspirit	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

Sept 11 hijackers from wealthy Saudi families: (Kabul, October 28) hindustantimes.com Most of the 19 hijackers involved in the September 11 attack on the US belonged to wealthy and close knit Saudi families and 11 of them had visited training camps of Osama bin Laden's Al-Qaeda in Afghanistan. Rather than being hired "muscle" or terrorists posing as Saudis with false identities, as previously thought, an investigation has revealed a close knit group that had links stretching back many years, a media report here said Sunday. Fifteen of the 19 hijackers are now known to be Saudis including the brother of a police commander, the son of a tribal chief, two teachers and three law graduates. Well-educated, intelligent and in their mid-twenties, most were joined in the attack by at least one close male relative. Many of them had a history of making trips both to America and Afghanistan, a report in The Sunday Times said. The discovery of the hijackers backgrounds is causing concern in the Kingdom, the report said. More than 80 people have been detained by the Saudi securty police for alleged links to Bin Laden and hundreds more than been questioned. Until now the world's understanding of the hijackers and their motives has been based on information released publicly about three hijackers who lived in Hamburg, and led by Mohammed Atta, an Egyptian. But information obtained from within Saudi Arabia has provided a detailed profile of the fundamentalist Muslims prepared to die to inflict massive casulties on US.