Al Qaeda website identifies the 20th hijacker

posted at 8:10 pm on June 13, 2006 by Allahpundit
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Turki bin Fheid al-Muteiri, a.k.a., Fawaz al-Nashmi. He escaped justice on Flight 93, which is actually a shame considering what lay ahead for him. Tim Blair had the inside scoop at the time; al-Nashmi himself boasted about it on the Internet a few days later.

Funny thing: the CNN article says al-Nashmi was killed when Saudi police stormed the housing complex where he’d taken hostages after the massacre, but everything I know about that incident points to a decidedly different outcome. (The Wikipedia article corroborates LGF.) In fact, al-Nashmi was killed a few weeks later after he’d helped do this to American Paul Johnson:

Here’s how CNN reported al-Nashmi’s/al-Muteiri’s demise. It’s buried a ways down in the article, but that’s okay. They certainly picked the correct angle to lede with.

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