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Senior administration officials have admitted that President Bush’s daily intelligence briefings in the weeks leading up to the September 11 terror attacks included a warning of the possibility that Osama bin Laden’s al Qaeda network would attempt to hijack a U.S.-based airliner. However, there was no speculation about the use of an airplane itself as a bomb or a weapon.

This is the first time the White House has acknowledged there was a warning of a potential hijacking linked to bin Laden prior to the terrorist attacks in New York and Washington.
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Abdulrahman al-Omari, who was named by the U.S. Department of Justice as one of the suicide hijackers of American Airlines flight 11, the first airliner to crash into the World Trade Center, is alive and living in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. He was astonished to find himself accused of hijacking, as well as being dead. He?s gone to the U.S. consulate in Jeddah to demand an explanation, but so far hasn?t received one.

It is possible that the hijacker adopted Mr al-Omari?s identity but, if he had been using the same false name while training as a pilot in the U.S., this would probably have been discovered. The U.S. described him as a father of four and al-Omari does have four children. According to a Saudi journalist, he ?is one nervous guy.?
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WorldNetDaily.com reports that in the past two days, 14 Syrian men entered Texas on student visas to attend flight schools at Fort Worth?s Meacham International Airport. The State Department lists Syria as a state sponsor of terrorism. Other counties on the watch list are Iraq, Iran, Cuba, North Korea, Libya and Sudan.

The Syrians, whose visas expire in April 2002, flew in from London the day before the Federal Aviation Administration lifted its recent ban on student pilots flying private planes around major metropolitan areas.
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