WASHINGTON — Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, the suspected mastermind of the Sept. 11, 2001, plot, obtained a visa to come to the United States just weeks before the attacks despite being under a federal terrorism indictment, a report by the federal commission investigating the attacks revealed Monday.
And as many as eight of the hijackers entered the country with doctored passports that contained "clues to their association with Al Qaeda" that should have been caught by immigration authorities, commission investigators said.
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"The bottom line: He gave me the chills," Melendez-Perez said, describing Al-Qahtani as well groomed, "combative" and in "impeccable shape."
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Citing that Atta connection and other information the panel could not disclose, Commissioner Richard Ben-Veniste said: "It is extremely possible and perhaps probable that
was to be the 20th hijacker."
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