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  • May 2008

    • '20th Hijacker' Tried Suicide at Gitmo

      newser  |  Reuters  |  May 21, 08 7:48 AM CDT

      '20th Hijacker' Tried Suicide at Gitmo

      A man accused of being al-Qaeda's 20th 9/11 hijacker tried to kill himself at Guantanamo Bay last month, Reuters reports. A lawyer for the Saudi said he cut his wrist open after learning that the Pentagon had filed capital charges against him. The charges were dropped last week without explanation but the Pentagon has reserved the right to reinstate them. More »

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      al-Qaeda  • Pentagon  • Guantanamo Bay  • suicide  • September 11  • Guantanamo prisoners  • detainee  • hijacker

    • Charges Dropped Against '20th Hijacker'

      newser  |  Reuters  |  May 13, 08 3:49 PM CDT

      Charges Dropped Against '20th Hijacker'

      The US has dropped charges against Mohammed al-Qahtani, who allegedly planned to be the “20th hijacker” in the 9/11 attacks, Reuters reports. The US military tribunal at Guantanamo Bay rejected the charges against Qahtani “without prejudice,” meaning that the Saudi citizen may yet face prosecution. The charges against the other five alleged planners, including Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, were approved. More »

  • March 2008

    • Gun-Blasting Pilot Suspended

      newser  |  CNN  |  Mar 26, 08 9:43 AM CDT

      Gun-Blasting Pilot Suspended

      A trigger-happy US Airways pilot whose gun accidentally discharged in the cockpit has been suspended from the federal program that permits pilots to pack heat, reports CNN. He's also been yanked from flight duty pending the results of an investigation by the FAA, the TSA, and US Air. The shocking weekend discharge was the first time a gun has been fired on board since the feds enacted the gun program to discourage would-be hijackers. More »

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      terrorism  • airline  • airplane  • gun  • gun control  • pilot  • US Airways  • hijacker

  • November 2007

    • 36 Years Later, Hijacker's Fate Still Intrigues

      newser  |  Seattle Post-Intelligencer  |  Nov 24, 07 10:09 AM CST

      36 Years Later, Hijacker's Fate Still Intrigues

      The legend was born in 1971. A hijacker who said he had a bomb traded 36 plane passengers for $200,000 and passage to Mexico. The Boeing 727 took off from Sea-Tac Airport, and the man known as DB Cooper parachuted out the back and into history. The Seattle Post-Intelligencer looks at 36 years of theories and false leads. More »

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      FBI  • hijacker  • unsolved mystery

  • September 2007

    • Second Bin Laden Tape Surfaces

      newser  |  Associated Press  |  Sep 11, 07 4:12 AM CDT

      Second Bin Laden Tape Surfaces

      A new videotape today from Osama Bin Laden on the sixth anniversary of the 9/11 terror attack features one of the hijackers reading his will over an image of the burning World Trade Center, AP reports. The videotape hasn't been posted on web sites, but frames have been released by a US monitoring organization, IntelCenter, which has obtained a copy. More »

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      September 11  • Osama bin Laden  • video  • videotape  • hijacker

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