Al Qaeda Pivot

Book excerpt: SIX EYEWITNESSES ASSERT that they saw 9/11 terrorists in the Huntington-to-Hurricane stretch of West Virginia twenty-three months before the hijacking of four airliners and the devastating attacks on the World Trade Center in New York City and the Pentagon outside Washington, D.C. One witness said he sold them trailers to live in. TWO DAYS AFTER THE VISIT FROM the Al Shehri brothers and Abdulaziz Alomari and three other companions, Saturday October 9, and ten minutes before Superior's 5 p.m. closing time, salesman George Abboud, a Palestinian, came over to Larry Maynard's office and said: "Larry, there are two guys here who want to talk with you." Maynard excused himself from a couple with whom he'd been closing a sale and walked to the front of the dealership. Standing there he found Wail Al Shehri with another middle easterner. The second man stood about 5 foot 10, was clean shaven, and wore khaki Docker pants and a pullover shirt. He gave off an odor of cologne. "Larry," said Wail Al Shehri, "this is my friend who just came in from Germany. His name is Mohammad Atta. We came to buy the Cadillac." - From the back cover