...lion pages of documents and interviewed more than 1,200 individuals in ten countries. This included nearly every senior official from the current and ... ...ed the aircraft. 12 All five hijackers passed through the Main T erminal’s west security screen- ing checkpoint; United Airlines, which was the respon... ...- jour, placed two carry-on bags on the X-ray belt in the Main T erminal’s west checkpoint, and proceeded, without alarm, through the metal detector. ... ... was disengaged; the aircraft was at 7,000 feet and approximately 38 miles west of the Pentagon. 59 At 9:32, con- trollers at the Dulles Terminal Rada... ...owers of a Saudi exile gathered in one of the most remote and impoverished countries on earth. 46 THE 9/11 COMMISSION REPORT Final1-4.4pp 7/17/04 9:... ...ern islands.America is also held responsible for the governments of Muslim countries, derided by al Qaeda as “your agents. ” Bin Ladin has stated flat... ... in Khartoum. 30 Bin Ladin agreed to help Turabi in an ongoing war against African Christian separatists in southern Sudan and also to do some road bu... ...ationships with other extremist groups from these same countries; from the African states of Chad, Mali, Niger, Nigeria, and Uganda; and from the Sout... ...eo- ple, none of them Americans. Interviewed later about the deaths of the Africans, Bin Ladin answered that “when it becomes apparent that it would b...