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Some 9/11 theories are very controversial, even amongst those who = believe the=20 attacks were an "inside job". Suggestions that the hijacked planes = didn't=20 actually crash at the WTC,=20 Pentagon=20 or in Shanksville,=20 for instance, provoke strong and passionate arguments on all sides. But = other=20 claims are far more widely accepted, with far fewer dissenting views, = and the=20 idea that some of the alleged hijackers are in fact still alive is a=20 particularly good example.

The claim has plenty of support on the web, for instance, and not = just at=20 sites like What Really=20 Happened, Rense and an=20 article reproduced at Prison Planet. The more respected 911Research and CooperativeResearch also find the topic worthy of = coverage. And=20 the Second Edition of Loose Change claimed that "at least nine" of the = alleged=20 hijackers "turned up alive".

The same story is repeated by several 9/11 authors.

In his book "The=20 9/11 Commission Report-Omissions and Distortions", for instance, David Ray = Griffin=20 tells us that the hijacker identifications have been "shown to be = incorrect".=20

Karen Kwiatkowski, in Griffin and Peter = Dale=20 Scott's "9/11 and American Empire: Intellectuals Speak Out", reports = that=20 "several of the purported hijackers were found to be alive".

Jay Kolar, in Paul Zarembka's "The Hidden History of 9-11-2001" = states=20 definitively that "10 of those named by the FBI have since turned out to = be=20 alive, documented as such by authorities and interviews with those = named". And=20 Nafeez=20 Ahmed appears sufficiently convinced by Kolar and perhaps others to = say that=20 "It is now known that at least 10 of the 19 alleged hijackers are alive=20 according to multiple, credible news accounts by the BBC, CNN, the = Telegraph,=20 the Independent, and other international media." Source.

The "still alive" claim has a powerful list of supporters, then, and = so you=20 might expect it to be supported with a substantial amount of evidence. = But then=20 you'd be disappointed, because there is nothing of the kind. In fact the = claim=20 is only sustainable because not a single one of its proponents actually = tells=20 you all the details you need to know.

They tend not to dwell on the fact that all of these stories = originated=20 before the FBI released their = full photo=20 list on September 27th, for instance. They rarely point out this CNN = report,=20 released on September 16th, for instance, that identified the wrong = individuals=20 for Wail = al-Shehri, Abdulaziz=20 al-Omari and Saeed = al-Ghamdi.=20 These misidentifications caused those innocent people to come forward = and say=20 "it's not me, I'm still alive" - but they're not the individuals later=20 identified by the FBI.

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There's a detail often missing in references to the BBCs story on = this issue,=20 too. They've subsequently said it was all just confusion over = identities.

A five-year-old story from our archive has been the = subject of=20 some recent editorial discussion here. The story, written in the = immediate=20 aftermath of the 9/11 attacks, was about confusion at the time = surrounding the=20 names and identities of some of the hijackers. This confusion was widely = reported and was also acknowledged by the FBI.=20

The story has been cited ever since by some as evidence that the 9/11 = attacks=20 were part of a US government conspiracy.

We later reported on the list of hijackers, thereby superseding the = earlier=20 report. In the intervening years we have also reported in detail on the=20 investigation into the attacks, the 9/11 commission and its report.

We=E2=80=99ve carried the full report, executive summary and main = findings and, as=20 part of the recent fifth anniversary coverage, a detailed guide to = what=E2=80=99s known=20 about what happened on the day. But conspiracy theories have persisted. = The=20 confusion over names and identities we reported back in 2001 may have = arisen=20 because these were common Arabic and Islamic names.

In an effort to make this clearer, we have made one small change to = the=20 original story. Under the FBI picture of Waleed al Shehri we have added = the=20 words "A man called Waleed Al Shehri..." to make it as clear as possible = that=20 there was confusion over the identity. The rest of the story remains as = it was=20 in the archive as a record of the situation at the time.

We recently = asked=20 the FBI for a statement, and this is, as things stand, the closest thing = we have=20 to a definitive view: The FBI is confident that it has positively = identified the=20 nineteen hijackers responsible for the 9/11 terrorist attacks. Also, the = 9/11=20 investigation was thoroughly reviewed by the National Commission on = Terrorist=20 Attacks Upon the United States and the House and Senate Joint Inquiry. = Neither=20 of these reviews ever raised the issue of doubt about the identity of = the=20 nineteen hijackers.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/theeditors/2006/10/911_conspira= cy_theory_1.html

You probably won't hear about the key differences between the alleged = hijackers and the individuals who came forward after 9/11, either. The = pilot=20 Waleed al-Shehri who came forward after 9/11 has a=20 different name to the hijacker, for instance. The = Salem=20 al-Hazmi who appeared in the press post the attacks is 26, the hijacker = was=20 21.

And you're most unlikely to be told about all the evidence that = indicates the=20 FBI identifications = are=20 correct. The Saudi press reports from family members saying their sons = have gone=20 missing, for example. The inclusion of all 19 men in an al-Qaeda video, = The=20 Nineteen Martyrs. And the fact that Saudi Arabia have accepted all their = citizens, as named by the FBI, were involved since February of 2002: =

Saudi Arabia acknowledged for the first time that 15 of = the=20 Sept. 11 suicide hijackers were Saudi citizens...=20

Previously, Saudi Arabia had said the citizenship of 15 of the 19 = hijackers=20 was in doubt despite U.S. insistence they were Saudis. But Interior = Minister=20 Prince Nayef told The Associated Press that Saudi leaders were shocked = to learn=20 15 of the hijackers were from Saudi Arabia.

"The names that we got = confirmed=20 that," Nayef said in an interview. "Their families have been = notified."
http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2002/02/06/saudi.htm

For more details, see our analyses of the most common "still alive" = stories:=20

And then ask yourself how such a flimsy theory could be accepted by = such a=20 large group of people. Google "confirmation bias" for one possible = explanation,=20 but in the meantime the reality is the "still alive" stories have very = little=20 support, certainly not enough to be reported as definitive fact. In our = view a=20 "mistaken identity" explanation makes far more sense for most of these = cases,=20 once you look at all evidence involved.

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