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I wanted to see the world. >> what was your traveling companion's name? >> we were sitting in our seats and then after a few minutes somebody stood up in the front of the airplane and he had a grenade in one hand and pistol in another and was shouting in arabic. i was thinking this is a drill of the egyptian security. and i told myself, wow. tomorrow i will call my parents and i will tell them what a strange fill strange flight we had. after a while i realized it's not a dream. it's real. and it was very, very scary. >> the lead hijacker was salim, the number two and the number three, the thre...

I had plans. i wanted to see the world. >> what was your traveling companion's name? >> mendelson. that was her name. we were sitting in our seats. then after a few minutes, somebody stood up in the front of the airplane. he had a grenade in one hand and a pistol in the other. and he was shouting in arabic. i was thinking that this is of the egyptian security. i told myself, wow, tomorrow, i would call my parents and i will tell them what a strange flight we had. after a while, i realized, it's not a dream. it's real. and it was very, very scary. >> the lead hijacker was salim. the number two ...

Leader of isis. he's got a background in computer programming. he is in his early 20s. this is pretty typical for somebody who would be a senior leader of a terrorist organization doing these kinds of things. you think about the lead hijacker on 9/11 studying for his doctorate at a german university. even in this country, major nadal hasan, a army psychiatrist and an army major from a middle class family. there's a comforting idea that these people are the dispossessed but they tend to come from quite well off backgrounds. >> not somebody looking for a job. came from a relatively well to do ba...

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>> bill: we continue our investigation. >> egyptian mohammed atta seared into memory. he would slam into the north tower. >> atta is the ringleader, he knew everything and everybody and what their roles were. >> atta had been hand picked by khalid sheikh mohammed to be the lead hijacker. using multiple names he lived as a student in cairo and in germany. june 2000, key time of movement. mihdhar left san diego. it was a temporary good-bye to local awlaki. experts say mihdhar headed to yemen to recruit other hijackers. atta with a multiple entry visa touched down in florida. [ inaudible ]