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

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