Hazmi and Mihdhar enter the United States at LAX

Observation

Two named men, later identified as AA77 hijackers, entered the U.S. at Los Angeles on 15 January 2000.

Interpretation

The arrival itself is not in serious dispute. Who met them in the first 17 days remains incompletely documented.

Source text

OBSERVATION (Commission Report, Chapter 7): Nawaf al-Hazmi and Khalid al-Mihdhar arrived in Los Angeles on 15 January 2000. The Commission states they were directed to enroll in English-language classes upon arriving in Southern California and to pose as Saudi students.

The Commission could not fully reconstruct the following two weeks in Los Angeles.

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