Just when you thought it was all doom and gloom, our good old chums at the agencies brought us some of the most hilariously unbelievable crap as proof "the Arabs did it." A lot of this is old hat to 9-11 investigators, some may be new.

1-Mohamed Atta's Luggage
2-Ziad Jarrah's Letter to his Girlfriend
3-The Letter from the Ringleader
4-The Magic Passport
5-Ziad Jarrah's Passport Photo
6-DIY Arab Hijacker Kits left in Cars
7-DIY Arab Hijacker Kits left elsewhere
8-Arabs Starting Fights Next to Cars full of DIY Arab Hijacker Kits
9-Copies of the Koran left in Strip Clubs
10-Ziad Jarrah builds a replica of a Boeing cockpit in his apartment

1. Mohamed Atta's Luggage

Mohamed Atta , we are told, brought not one but two suitcases with him on his final suicide trip. Some might say it was a little convenient for the FBI investigators that these two suitcases did not make it from his connecting flight onto his suicide flight. Here is a rarely reported letter from his mother:

Dearest Mohamed, Don't forget to bring your toothbrush and lots of clean underpants on your final suicide trip. You must change your underwear, you might be in an accident and have to go to hospital. It would be very embarrassing to be caught with dirty underpants, wouldn't it dear?

Love, Mama

Ok, joking aside, what was really in the bags: Numerous documents including a letter of recommendation and education related documents. (In other words, stuff you would bring to a job interview, not a suicide attack). A handheld flight computer, flight simulator manuals, two videotapes about Boeing aircraft, a slide rule flight calculator, a copy of the Koran, his will and presumably a lot of socks and underpants. All this stuff would have been in the luggage hold, so why bring it? If he was really committing an act of suicidal Jihad he would have brought his Koran on board.

http://www.abc.net.au/4corners/atta/resources/documents/fbiaffidavit1.htm

The link above has a scanned copy of the FBI affidavit detailing the contents of Atta's car and his luggage. It doesn't mention the letter he apparently wrote to the other hijackers.

2. Ziad Jarrah's Letter to his Girlfriend

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/1664161.stm

Jarrah apparently wrote a farewell letter to his girlfriend - but in spite of having been with her for several years, he managed to send it to the wrong address. So the letter ended up in the hands of the FBI. How lucky is that !

Relatives think that the letter to the girlfriend is a fake. I think perhaps, maybe it might be a fake too.

3. The Letter From the Ringleader

This is the letter apparently from Atta giving last minute encouragement to his pals before going to Allah. Conveniently Mohamed left a copy in his suitcase , someone else left a copy in their apartment for the FBI to find, and miraculously, a third copy was found amongst the tiny pieces of debris at the Flight 93 crash site. Robert Fisk wrote an article in the Independent last September which effectively ridicules this particular piece of "evidence"

http://www.eionews.addr.com/psyops/news/atta_lastletter_questions.htm
- this is a copy of the original article. Read it.

4. The Magic Passport

Many people have pointed this one out since last September. How is it that the FBI found an intact passport belonging to one of the hijackers "several blocks away" from the World Trade centre when all the indestructible black boxes in the aeroplanes were destroyed or lost?

What's really scary is that people actually believe this....

5. Ziad Jarrah's Passport Photo

A fragment of a hijackers passport photo was found at the flight 93 crash site. Just as a side issue - why did they insist on bringing passports when they were on internal flights - AND on suicide missions???

CNN reported it was Jarrah's passport: http://europe.cnn.com/2002/US/08/01/cia.hijacker/
6. DIY Arab Hijacker Kits left in Cars

Another car (not Atta's rental car) was found at Logan airport containing Arabic-language flight training manuals. If Atta was the pilot, why did anyone else need to bring flight manuals with them? A bit of last minute revision?

7. DIY Arab Hijacker Kits left elsewhere

http://www.augustachronicle.com/stories/091601/ter_124-7402.shtml
Boeing 757 manuals, three illustrated martial arts books and an 8-inch stack of East Coast flight maps Al-Shehhi checked out last Sunday without taking a three-ring binder full of handwritten notes, an English-German dictionary, an airplane fuel tester, a protractor, tote bag, aircraft manuals, maps and books, Surma said.

This is a real "When I grow up I want to be a hijacker" set.

8. Arabs Starting Fights Next to Cars full of DIY Arab Hijacker Kits

http://www.abqtrib.com/archives/news01/091201_news_boston.shtml

The above link mentions this story - anonymous person leads FBI to car were he remembers getting into an argument with some Arabs earlier on. Obviously trying very hard not to draw attention to themselves, these Arab-suicide-hijackers.

9. Copies of the Koran left in Strip Clubs

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2001/09/14/national/main311268.shtml

"Kap said he gave the FBI credit card receipts, photocopied driver's licenses, a business card left by one man and a copy of the Quran - the sacred book of Islam - that was left at the bar." Yeah, yeah - devout Moslems like Atta really go to strip clubs and really leave copies of the Koran at the bar. Not to mention all the other convenient stuff.

10. Ziad Jarrah builds a replica of a Boeing cockpit in his apartment

http://www.boston.com/news/packages/underattack/news/planes_reconstruction.htm

mentions the replica cockpit built by Jarrah Would you believe he built it entirely out of cornflakes packets, egg boxes and toilet-paper tubes. He cut them up very carefully with a box-cutter knife. (Ziad made sure he had adult supervision first which you should do too if you want to build one.) Next week: Ziad builds a radioactive dirty-bomb out of used matches.