April 2000: Atta Pays For Mysterious Passengers’ Taxi Ride

A taxi driver from Bayern, Germany, tells police after 9/11 that this month he drives three Afghanis from Furth, Germany, to meet Mohamed Atta in Hamburg. Atta pays the approximately $650 taxi bill. Police later determine the identities of these suspicious passengers. One of them, aged 44, trained as a pilot in Afghanistan. His 33 year-old brother is another passenger. The brother had military training and had just come back from the US. Video tapes, aviation papers, and documents that are confiscated in their house are investigated after 9/11. [Focus (Munchen), 9/24/2001]