Planted passport of 9/11 hijacker Satam Al Suqami

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After 8:46 a.m. September 11, 2001: Hijacker’s Passport Allegedly Found near the World Trade Center
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Satam Al Suqami’s remarkably undamaged passport, marked and wrapped in plastic. It is shown as evidence in the 2006 Zacarias Moussaoui trial.
Satam Al Suqami’s remarkably undamaged passport, marked and wrapped in plastic. It is shown as evidence in the 2006 Zacarias Moussaoui trial. [Source: FBI]
The passport of 9/11 hijacker Satam Al Suqami is reportedly found a few blocks from the World Trade Center. [ABC NEWS, 9/12/2001; ASSOCIATED PRESS, 9/16/2001; ABC NEWS, 9/16/2001] Barry Mawn, the director of the FBI’s New York office, will say that police and the FBI found it during a “grid search” of the area. [CNN, 9/18/2001] However, according to the 9/11 Commission, the passport is actually discovered by a male passer-by who is about 30 years old and wearing a business suit. The man gives it to New York City Police Department Detective Yuk H. Chin shortly before 9:59 a.m., when the South Tower of the WTC collapses. The man leaves before he is identified. Chin, according to the 9/11 Commission, will give the passport to the FBI later in the day. [9/11 COMMISSION, 1/26/2004; 9/11 COMMISSION, 8/21/2004, PP. 40 pdf file] An FBI timeline concerned with the 9/11 hijackers will state that the passport is found by a civilian “on the street near [the] World Trade Center,” and is “soaked in jet fuel.” [FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION, 10/2001, PP. 291 pdf file] According to FBI agent Dan Coleman, Al Suqami’s passport is handed to a New York City detective who is “down there, trying to talk to people as they were coming out of the buildings.” By the time the detective looks up again after receiving the passport, the man who handed it to him has run off, “which doesn’t make sense,” Coleman will say. The passport is then given to a detective on the Joint Terrorism Task Force. Coleman will say that by this evening, “we realized… that this was the passport of one of the people that headquarters had identified as one of the 19 probable hijackers.” [FRANCE 5, 3/14/2010] Investigative journalist Nick Davies will later write that he talked to “senior British sources who said they believed that the discovery of a terrorist’s passport in the rubble of the Twin Towers in September 2001 had been ‘a throwdown,’ i.e. it was placed there by somebody official.” [DAVIES, 2009, PP. 248] The Guardian will comment, “The idea that Mohamed Atta’s passport had escaped from that inferno unsinged [tests] the credulity of the staunchest supporter of the FBI’s crackdown on terrorism.” (Note that, as in this Guardian account, the passport will frequently be mistakenly referred to as belonging to Atta, not Al Suqami.) [GUARDIAN, 3/19/2002]
Entity Tags: Dan Coleman, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Satam Al Suqami, New York City Police Department, Barry Mawn, Yuk H. Chin
Timeline Tags: Complete 911 Timeline, 9/11 Timeline
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[Zaphod36]

Suqamis passport was obviously in his lost suitcase of the flight from Portland to Boston. Suqamis identity was changed into Attas. Atta was waiting for Suqami and Alomari from Portland at the gate for American 11.

Indication that Suqami was at the Comfort Inn in Portland:
-Delta airline receipt in the name ALSUQUAMI SATAMMA in the trash
-Four (4) pieces of two (2) baggage stickers, #DL43378 and #DL43379 with the names of ALSUQUAMI/SATAMMA in the trash

Description of eyewitnesses on Colgan Air and Boston let conclude that Suqami was together with Alomari on the flight from Portland to Boston.

The boarding time of Suqami AND Alomari in Boston was 7:39.

You can read all this here:http://www.911forum.org.uk/board/viewtopic.php?t=24090