Hijackers Quotes

Louis Freeh said on national TV that actionable intelligence could have allowed us to stop the hijackings.

If you look at the 19 hijackers who came to the United States in Sept. 11 to commit those acts, if you'd looked at them before they got onto a plane, you could probably say the same thing. There were various levels of expertise, various levels of competence.

Saudi hijackers first came into contact with al-Qaeda and went through Terrorism 101 when they signed up for the jihad in Afghanistan.

15 of the 19 [September 11th] hijackers were from Saudi Arabia.

I understand the Saudis have been named because fifteen of the nineteen hijackers were from Saudi Arabia.

The terrorism danger to the United States "is even worse than September 11th, when 19 hijackers murdered almost 3,000 Americans."

Mohammed al-Qahtani was not alleged to be a leader of the Sept. 11 plot. He was not trained as a pilot. If he was involved, he was one of the 'muscle' hijackers.

All we wanted to do was fight against Israel. But the Jordanian government saw us as a problem. This was their problem. We thought that the way to attract the world’s attention to our problem was to hijack airplanes.