killed the thought to be leader of the attacks, Osama Bin Laden. Many American citizens were still suspicious about what had happened on the day of September 11th, 2001. Over time the theory that 9/11 was actually a United States government planned attack hit every news source in America. The theorists had come up come with many reasons why the day was planned. Some of the main conspiracies could not be supported with evidence. Including that in the summer of 2001, nineteen Islamic hijackers were on U.S. land and had enrolled in flight schools. (Griffin, 101) Many of the hijackers conducted flights to find out the certain impacts of the planes and they also began to purchase many weapons such as knives, box cutters, etc. (Dunbar, 4) Eventually, the FBI started to suspect some unusual mischief at the flight schools and even sent some of the hijackers back to the Middle East. Al Queda, who was involved in the planning of the attack, even admitted to have started the planning of the attacks during 1999. He explained that the original plan for 9/11 was of much more intensity, with having 10 planes fly into American populous cities. (Griffin, …show more content…
(Dunbar, 63) The hijackers on Flight 11, the first plane to take off, were Mohamed Atta, Abdul Aziz a Omari, Wail al Shehri, Waleed al Shehri, and Satam al Suquami. On Flight 175 hijackers were Fayez Banihammad, Ahmed al Ghamdi, Marwan al Shehhi, and Mohand al Shehri. The third plane, Flight 77 that flew into the Pentagon, had hijackers Hani Hnjour, Nawad al Hazmi, Salem al Hazmi, Khalia al Mihdar, and Majed Moged. The final flight, which should not have taken off at 8:42 a.m., had the hijackers Saeed al Ghamia, Ziad Jarrah, Ahmad al Haznawi, and Ahmen al Nami. All nineteen hijackers were identified as Islamic males who attended flight school in