Associated Press
HAMBURG, Germany “”mdash; German investigators said Thursday that
three hijackers aboard the planes in the U.S. terror attacks once
lived in Hamburg and were part of an organization formed this year
to destroy American targets.
German authorities, acting on tips from the FBI, also said that
they had detained at least one man in connection with
Tuesday’s attacks and were searching for another.
Two of the men identified by Hamburg police as having perished
in the attacks were Amanullah Atta Mohammed and Marwan Alshehhi,
both from the United Arab Emirates. Both had earlier been named as
former students of a Florida flight school and are suspected of
having flown two of the hijacked jets.
The German authorities indicated that they’d made no
immediate links to Osama bin Laden.