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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 ] his first stop was venice,

A capital prosecution in what is supposed to be an american criminal court. >> ramzi bin alp shibh was a commander in the 9/11 plot after he was unable to join the hijackers himself. peter berger told the lead hijacker which targets bin laden wanted to hit and then telling bin laden that atta selected september 11th as the day of the attacks. >> the interrogators would have known he gave up a substantial interview about his role in 9/11. they want to get information again and get into it in more detail and structure of al qaeda and any other future plots against the united states. >> bin alp s...

>> 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. and he had a grenade in one hand and pistol in the other. and he was shouting in arabic. i was thinking that this is a drill of the egyptian security and 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 salem chakore. the number two in the mission was o...