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Saudi Dads: "Wasn't our kids!"
2002-03-18
  • The father of two men named as Sept. 11 hijackers denied that his sons were terrorists - but said in a television interview he would never forgive them if they were. "If that turns out to be the truth, then I will never, never accept it from them," Mohammad Alshehri told ABC News' 20/20 program broadcast from Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. "I'll never forgive them for that," he said.

    Alshehri, a prominent real estate developer, said he had no proof his sons were involved in the hijacking. "I never received any news like this, But also, even if I receive it, I wouldn't believe it," he said. "And even if they were on board that plane, maybe they were just passengers." The father of another suspected hijacker, Ahmed Alnami, said his son had gone to Mecca to look for work, not to the United States to be trained as a terrorist. Alnami was on board United Airlines Flight 93, which crashed in rural Pennsylvania on Sept. 11. Abdullah Alnami said his son left home - for the first time in his life - six months before Sept. 11. "He called only once and he promised he would keep calling, and I haven't heard from him since then," the father told ABC News. He said Saudi authorities never identified his son as one of the hijackers, and he needed "clear evidence" proving whether he was "dead or alive."
    If it was my kid, I wouldn't want to believe it, either. Even if I believed it, I sure as hell wouldn't admit it.
    • Posted by:Fred Pruitt

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