Timeline of Mohamed Atta in the United States

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Timeline of Mohamed Mohamed el-Amir Awad el-Sayed Atta in the United States (September 11 attacks).

Timeline

• June 3, 2000: Atta arrives in Newark, New Jersey flying from Prague, Czech Republic.
• June 5, 2000: Atta e-mails New Hampshire flight school.
• June 19, 2000: Atta and Marwan al-Shehhi stay at short-term rental in New York City.
• June 22, 2000: Atta visits Century Flight Academy in Morristown, New Jersey requesting flight training.
• July 2, 2000: Atta and al-Shehhi visit the Airman Flight School in Norman, Oklahoma.
• July 6, 2000: Atta and al-Shehhi move to Venice, Florida and take pilot training classes at Huffman Aviation from July to December.
• December 21, 2000: Atta awarded commercial pilot certificate
• January 3, 2001: Atta flies from Tampa, Florida to Miami.
• January 4, 2001: Atta flies from Miami to Madrid, Spain.
• January 10, 2001: Return flight from Madrid to Miami.
• January 25, 2001: Atta and al-Shehhi move temporarily to Norcross Georgia.
• January 31, 2001: Atta rents a plane in Lawrenceville, Georgia.
• February 2001: Atta and al-Shehhi rent a single-engine plane from a Gwinnett County, Georgia flight school.
• February 20, 2001: Atta withdraws $4,000 from his account at a SunTrust Bank branch in Virginia Beach, Virginia.
• March, 2001: Atta visits a small airport in Belle Glade, Florida and inquires about flying cropduster planes.
• April 3 - April 4, 2001: Atta and al-Shehhi return to Virginia Beach, Virginia closes thier PO Box and withdraws $8,000 from the SunTrust account.
• April 6 - April 11, 2001: Atta is back in Florida.
• May 13 - June 13, 2001: Atta and al-Shehhi live on Jackson Street in Hollywood, Florida.
• Mid-June 2001: Atta and al-Shehhi move into Tara Gardens condo in Coral Springs, Florida.
• June 28, 2001: Atta flies from Boston to San Francisco and then takes a connecting flight to Las Vegas.[1]
• June 31, 2001: Atta returns to Boston via Denver from Las Vegas.
• July 1, 2001: Atta flies from Boston to New York City.
• Early July. 2001: Atta picks up travel tickets to Spain at travel agency in Paterson, New Jersey.
• July 3, 2001: Atta flies from Newark to Fort Lauderdale.
• July 7 or July 8 or July 9, 2001: Atta flies from Miami to Madrid, Spain via Zurich. Reports claim final plans for the attacks are set.
• July 19, 2001: Return flight to America, Fort Lauderdale, Florida via Atlanta's Hartsfield International Airport.
• July 26, 2001: Atta wears an American Airline pilot's uniform and rode in the cockpit of a flight from Baltimore to Atlanta. [2]
• Late July, 2001: Atta flies to Newark, New Jersey to meet with other hijackers in the area.
• July 30, 2001: Atta flies back from New Jersey to Florida.
• Early August, 2001: Atta and al-Shehhi were in Huber Drugs in Delray Beach, Florida looking for something to soothe Atta's burning hands.
• August 4, 2001: Atta drives to Orlando, Florida airport to meet arriving hijacker. Mohamed al Kahtani. Kahtani is denied entry by US immigration officials and returns to Dubai.
• August 7, 2001: Atta flies from Fort Lauderdale to Newark, New Jersey to meet with Nawaf al-Hazmi.
• August 13, 2001: Atta flies first class with two other hijackers from Newark, New Jersey to Las Vegas on second surveillance flight and stays at the same Econo Lodge.
• August 14, 2001: Atta flies from Las Vegas to Houston, Texas. Hijackers Mohamed Atta, Nawaf al-Hamzi and Hani Hanjour leave Las Vegas after an apparent planning session.
• August 16, 17, and 20, 2001: Atta rents a single-engine Piper Archer at Palm Beach County Park Airport in Lantana, Florida.
• August 23, 2001: Atta flies to Newark (from Florida?) and meets with al-Hazmi.
• August 27, 2001:Atta has a final planning session with the soon-to-be American Airlines flight 77 hijack team in room 343 of the Valencia Motel in Laurel, Maryland.
• August 28, 2001: Atta flies from Baltimore to Fort Lauderdale. Atta buys tickets online for himself and another hijacker, Abdulaziz al-Omari,
• August 29, 2001: Atta buys two tickets for American Airlines Flight 11 on September 11 over the Internet for himself and Abdulaziz al-Omari on a computer at a Kinko's copy store in Hollywood, Florida. Two other hijackers accompanying Atta purchase their September 11 tickets here. A total of six hijackers purchased September 11 tickets from the computers at Kinkos.
• September 4, 2001: Atta sends a Federal Express package to an accomplice in the United Arab Emirates, returning several thousand dollars in unused cash.
• September 5, 2001: FBI reports and eyewitnesses place Atta and other hijackers onboard a SunCruz Casinos gambling boat.
• September 7, 2001: Atta and Marwan al-Shehhi stay at a Holiday Inn close to Sarasota, Florida where President George Bush plans to visit an elementary school on September 11.
• September 7, 2001: Atta and Alshehhi visit Shuckums Oyster Bar, a sports bar in Hollywood, Florida. Apparently when paying for the bill, Atta had a wallet full of bills, but the bartender behind the counter said that Atta and Al-Shehhi were arguing about who was going to pay for the drinks. According to the bartender, Atta angrily paid for the bill and walked to his rented home nearby.
• September 8, 2001: Atta flies from Fort Lauderdale to Baltimore and meets with Flight 77 team of hijackers in Laurel, Maryland. He collects money from other hijackers and wires $7,860 to the Wall Street Exchange Center in Dubai from the Giant and Safeway stores in Laurel, Maryland.
• September 9, 2001: Atta flies from Baltimore to Boston and meets up with United Airlines flight 175 hijacker Marwan al-Shehhi. The two spend the night at the Milner Hotel in downtown Boston.
• September 10, 2001: Atta and al-Omari drive from Boston to Portland, Maine.
• September 10, 5:43 P.M. 2001: Atta and al-Omari checked into the Comfort Inn, room 232, South Portland, Maine.
• September 10, 8:00 P.M.-9:00 P.M. 2001: The FBI says two Middle Eastern men were seen at Pizza Hut in South Portland, Maine, for approximately fifteen minutes.
• September 10, 8:31 P.M. 2001: Atta and al-Omari photographed by Key Bank drive-up ATM in South Portland, Maine.
• September 10, 8:41 P.M. 2001: Atta and al-Omari photographed by a Fast Green ATM located in the parking lot of UNO's restaurant, South Portland, Maine.
• September 10, 9:15 P.M. 2001: Atta and al-Omari were at Jetport Gas Station, South Portland, Maine.
• September 10, 9:22 P.M. 2001: Atta was at Wal-Mart, Scarborough, Maine, for approximately twenty minutes.
• September 11, 5:53 A.M. 2001: Atta and al-Omari board Colgan Air/U.S. Airways Flight 5930 from Portland, Maine to Boston, Massachusetts. Flight 5930 was where Mohammed Atta made final preparations for the attack.
• September 11, 6:50 A.M. 2001: Atta and al-Omari arrive on time at Boston's Logan Airport.
• September 11, 7:45 A.M. 2001: Atta and al-Omari board American Airlines Flight 11, a Boeing 767.
• September 11, 7:59 A.M. 2001: Flight 11 takes off from Boston 14 minutes late.
• September 11, 8:13 A.M. 2001: Flight 11 is hijacked 50 miles west of Boston by Atta and four others.
• September 11, 8:46:40 A.M. 2001: Mohamed Atta crashes Flight 11 into the North Tower of the World Trade Center.

Sources

• Paul Thompson, The Terror Timeline (ReganBooks,2004) ISBN 0-06-078338-9
• Four Corners, Australian Broadcasting Corporation, broadcast November 12 2001 [3]
• The 9/11 Commission Report, (W.W. Norton & Company) ISBN 0-393-32671-3
• FBI Press Release October 4 2001.
• Der Spiegel, Inside 9-11: What Really Happened (Diane Pub Co, June 2002) ISBN 0-756-78048-9

External link

• FBI timeline of 9/11 hijackers
• Annotated Timeline of the 9/11 Hijackers for Researchers