Ziad Jarrah, the hijacker who would pilotFlight 93 , purchased three Instrument Flight Rules aeronautical charts at Banyan Parts Mart and Pilot Shop at 2011 S. Perimeter Rd, near the Ft. Lauderdale Executive Airport.
Jarrah had visited the Oshkosh Pilot Shop in Miami a week earlier and purchased a Boeing 757 cockpit poster and ordered four Garmin GPS III units, which were out of stock. The store clerk remembered offering to sell him newer models but Jarrah insisted on the GPS III. The store ordered them for him. Jarrah returned onComputer programmer by day, terrorist by night.
Halfway around the world, Ali Abdul Aziz Ali, a supposed nephew of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, applied for a U.S. visa in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Known as Ammar Al-Baluchi, he was the main financial go-between with the American hijackers and facilitated their initial travel to the United States. Al-Baluchi arrived in the UAE in 1998, a year after he offered his services to KSM and al Qaeda.
Why Al-Baluchi was planning to visit the United States is unclear. Ali's application stated that he intended to enter the United States on September 4 for"one week." As a Pakistani national living in a third country, his visa was denied. The State Department consular officer handling the application would later recall that the visa was turned down not because of anything related to terrorism.
Jamal Al Jarah, the uncle of accused hijacker Ziad Al Jarah, meets with the media September 16, 2001 in Al Marj, Lebanon. Ziad Al Jarah, a 27-year-old Sunni Muslim from Lebanon's Bekka Valley is a suspect in the hijacking of United Airlines Flight 93 that crashed in Pennsylvania on September 11, 2001, killing all aboard. Al Jarah's family claims that he was not involved in the incident, and that the case is one of mistaken identity.
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