Edward S. Faggen

One or two of the future hijackers of Flight 77 are recorded on video in a terminal at Washington’s Dulles International Airport—the airport from which Flight 77 will take off on September 11. [Federal Bureau of Investigation, 4/19/2002; 9/11 Commission, 10/16/2003 ] The video captures Khalid Almihdhar and “possibly” Salem Alhazmi visiting the airport, according to an FBI chronology. [Federal Bureau of Investigation, 11/14/2003 ] They appear to be lost and are paying special attention to the emergency exits in the terminal. [9/11 Commission, 10/16/2003 ] They are captured on video at an unspecified time this evening. Whether any other men are with them is unclear. They are in Terminal B at the airport. Flight 77 will depart from Terminal D. However, Edward Faggen, vice president and general counsel for the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority, which operates Dulles Airport, will later note that the mobile lounges for departures from Terminal B and Terminal D are located next to each other. [9/11 Commission, 9/29/2003 ] A group of five Middle Eastern men is witnessed by two employees at the airport this evening, behaving suspiciously and trying to go through a door that leads to the airport’s secure areas (see (Between 8:00 p.m. and 8:45 p.m.) September 10, 2001). Two of these men will be identified as Flight 77 hijacker Nawaf Alhazmi and Flight 175 hijacker Marwan Alshehhi. [Federal Bureau of Investigation, 9/14/2002; Trento and Trento, 2006, pp. 2-6, 43-44]