Saudi Sources Doubt Indentity of Certain Suspects

Saudi sources doubt American reports on identity
of certain suspects in attacks against the US
Saudi Arabia-USA, Politics, 9/19/2001

Information relating the identity of the executors of the attacks
targeted last week key positions in Washington and New York
started to raise doubts after it was found out the names of persons
supposed to be killed in the explosions were for persons who
have not visited the US since many years.

Well-informed Saudi sources said that the information stated in
regard to the executors of the attacks are not precise especially
concerning three Saudi pilots as it was found out that so far three
of them were not in the US when the attacks took place while a
fourth pilot died two years ago.

The sources continued that the Saudi authorities are now studying
the files of persons supposed to be involved in this case.

One Saudi pilot whose name was mentioned among the
high-jackers of one of the four planes said he is now in Tunisia
where he has been in a training course since 9 months for the
Saudi airlines.

The saudi pilot Saeed Hussein al-Ghamidi told the London- based
the Middle east ( al-Sharq al-Awsat) that he was surprised to see
his picture at the US CNN TV. He explained he visited the US
twice. One in October 1998 where he studied for one year there
and the second visit was in August 2000 when he stayed there for
40 days and finished a training course. Al-Sharq al-Awsat also
interviewed another Saudi whose name was mentioned among
the suspected, in which he stressed that he was at his office in
al-Riyadh when the explosion took place. He added he studied
electrical engineering in Colorado and his flat was robbed in 1995
and then he had lost official documents including his passport. He
indicated he graduated from the university in April 2000 and
returned back to work in the Saudi telecommunications company
in al-Riyadh.

The list of the suspected persons also included two saudi
brothers. One of them is Muhammad Bukhara who is still working
in the Saudi airlines and he was questioned recently in the
Philippines during a flight to the saudi company to Manila and his
brother which the Saudi airlines said he died two years ago.

Meantime, the Egyptian lawyer Muhammad al-Ameer al-Sayed
Attallah, father of Muhammad Atallah who is accused of being
involved in the attacks said that the American intelligence has to
find out the reasons behind terrorism in the world and to reveal the
side which has the real interest in creating feud between the Arab
Muslims and America.

In an interview with the BBC on Tuesday Attallah stressed that his
son has no connection to what happened in the US" because of
his humanitarian commitment in refusing to kill innocents" adding
that his son is an engineer and has nothing to do with aviation