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The 9/11 Commission Report Final Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States

By: Thomas H. Kean

... identify the metal item or items that caused the alarm. In addition, an X-ray machine would have screened the hijackers’ carry-on belongings.The scre... ...ckpoint. Mihdhar and Moqed placed their carry-on bags on the belt of the X-ray machine and proceeded through the first metal detector. Both set off th... ...passenger for Flight 77, Hani Han- jour, placed two carry-on bags on the X-ray belt in the Main T erminal’s west checkpoint, and proceeded, without al... ...important and obvious layer of security.Walk-through metal detectors and X-ray machines operated by trained screeners were employed to stop prohibited... ...nvestigated evi- dence about him. Bayoumi is a devout Muslim, obliging and gregarious. He spent much of his spare time involved in religious study and... ...reet, critical infrastructure such as power grids, areas where people con- gregate such as sports arenas, and civil aviation generally. It warned that... ...3 FinalNotes.4pp 7/17/04 4:26 PM Page 463 208. USSS memo, interview of Gregory LaDow , Oct. 1, 2001, p. 1. Shortly after the second attack in New ... ...t other evidence indicates the meeting may have occurred in February 1995. Greg interview (June 25, 2004). Two CIA memoranda of information from a for... ... to Hire More than 800 Immigration Inspectors Nationwide, ” Jan. 12, 2001; Gregory Bednarz prepared statement, Oct. 9, 2003, p. 5. On the INS’s main c...

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