Sept. 11 Mastermind: Attack Was Pared Down

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=sto...921/ap_on_re_us/terror_mastermind_6&printer=1

What I found most significant in that whole article was this:

Mohammed said al-Hazmi and al-Mihdhar were among the four original operatives bin Laden assigned to him for the plot, a significant revelation because those were the only two hijackers whom U.S. authorities were frantically seeking for terrorist ties in the final days before Sept. 11.
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(emphasis mine)