Hani Hanjour
(DESEASED)
aka "Hani Saleh Hanjour"
aka "Hani Saleh"
aka "Hani Hanjour, Hani Saleh H. Hanjour"
Associate: al-Qaida **RF1**
A Saudi national from the city of Taif who is believed to be
the pilot of America Airlines Flight #77 that crashed into the Pentagon on September
11, 2001. Of the 19 suspects in the terrorist attack, Hanjour has the deepest
roots in the United States and seemed to have the least amount of radical Islamic
indoctrination. He enrolled in an eight-week English course at the University
of Arizona in Tucson in 1990 and another English course in Oakland, California
in 2000.**RF2** He took flight lessons
in Scottsdale, Arizona in 1997 and again at the Sawyer School of Aviation in
Phoenix, Arizona in 2000 and 2001. It is believed that he also lived in San
Diego, California and in Paterson, New Jersey, where he lived in the same apartment
building as Majed Moqed, another suspected hijacker.**RF3**
REFERENCES:
**RF1** United States v. Usama bin Laden et al., S (7) 98 Cr. 1023 (LBS), p. 34.
**RF2** Amy Goldstein, "Hijackers Led By Core Group," The Washington Post, September 30, 2001.
**RF3**Fredrick Kunkle, "N.J. Neighborhood
Was Suspects’ Inconspicuous Hub," The Washington Post, October 1,
2001.
SOURCE:
Excerpted from Usama Bin Laden's al-Qaida: Profile of a Terrorist Network, by Yonah Alexander and Michael S. Swetnam. NY: Transnational Publishers, 2001.