Report: 20th hijacker denied entry to US prior to 9/11.
Nineteen terrorists carried out the 9/11 attacks. Prior reports had Zacharias Moussaoui, arrested in Minnesota prior to 9/11, as the 20th hijacker. That now appears wrong.
Initially appearing in Newsweek, a report suggests that one “al-Qahtani” tried to enter the US prior to 9/11 at an airport. (*) At that very moment, at that very airport, 9/11 ringleader Mohammed Atta was loitering and eventually placed a telephone call. Al-Qahtani did not get entry and was sent home. Later, someone called “al-Qahtani” was on a battlefield in Afghanistan, where he was captured by coalition forces.
Suspicion inevitably grows that al-Qahtani was nearly the 20th hijacker.