Will we now retaliate against the US navy?

NEWSWEEK 

Alleged Hijackers May Have Trained at U.S. Bases 
The Pentagon has turned over military records on five men to the FBI 

By George Wehrfritz, Catharine Skipp and John Barry

Sept. 15 - U.S. military sources have given the FBI information that
suggests five of the alleged hijackers of the planes that were used in
Tuesday's terror attacks received training at secure U.S. military
installations in the 1990s. 

THREE OF THE alleged hijackers listed their address on drivers licenses and
car registrations as the Naval Air Station in Pensacola, Fla.-known as the
"Cradle of U.S. Navy Aviation," according to a high-ranking U.S. Navy source. 

Another of the alleged hijackers may have been trained in strategy and
tactics at the Air War College in Montgomery, Ala., said another
high-ranking Pentagon official. The fifth man may have received language
instruction at Lackland Air Force Base in San Antonio, Tex. Both were
former Saudi Air Force pilots who had come to the United States, according
to the Pentagon source.

But there are slight discrepancies between the military training records
and the official FBI list of suspected hijackers-either in the spellings of
their names or with their birthdates. One military source said it is
possible that the hijackers may have stolen the identities of the foreign
nationals who studied at the U.S. installations. 
The five men were on a list of 19 people identified as hijackers by the FBI
on Friday. The three foreign nationals training in Pensacola appear to be
Saeed Alghamdi and Ahmad Alnami, who were among the four men who allegedly
commandeered United Airlines Flight 93. That flight crashed into rural
Pennsylvania. The third man who may have trained in Pensacola, Ahmed
Alghamdi, allegedly helped highjack United Airlines Flight 75, which hit
the south tower of the World Trade Center. 

Military records show that the three used as their address 10 Radford
Boulevard, a base roadway on which residences for foreign-military flight
trainees are located. In March 1997, Saeed Alghamdi listed the address to
register a 1998 Oldsmobile; five months later he used it again to register
a second vehicle, a late model Buick. Drivers licenses thought to have been
issued to the other two suspects in 1996 and 1998 list the barracks as
their residences.

NEWSWEEK visited the base early Saturday morning, where military police
confirmed that the address housed foreign military flight trainees but
denied access past front barricades. Officials at the base confirmed that
the FBI is investigating the three students.


Louis Proyect
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