Portland Public Library Maine

The night before terror

Suspected hijackers Mohamed Atta and Abdulaz Alomari flew from Portland to Boston on Sept 11. In Boston, they boarded American Airlines Flight Los Angeles. The plane took off around 8 a. m. , carrying 11 crew members and 81 passengers, including Atta, Alomari and three other hijackers. At 8: 45 a. m., the plane crashed into the north tower of the World Trade Center in New York City. Investigators believe Atta may have been at the controls. As recently as Saturday, an FBI agent visited the International House of Pancakes on Maine Mall Road in South Portland, next to Pizza Hut, to show servers and cleanup workers about 20 photographs of men. Some of the men were bearded, or were dressed in traditional Middle Eastern attire and appeared to be of Middle Eastern descent, said manager Dee Lamontagne. Atta, 33, the reputed orchestrator of the attacks, was among the most worldly and oldest of the suspected hijackers, investigators say. The son of an Egyptian lawyer, he traveled extensively, visiting countries like Syria that have terrorist cells. He went to Hamburg, Germany, to study urban planning and took flight lessons in Venice, Fla. Thursday afternoon, Portland police interviewed two employees at the Portland Public Library who are sure they saw Atta on several occasions. Spruce Whited, head of security at the library, said he first saw a man he is convinced was Atta in April 2000. He said the man came to the library several times, using the computers. "I only recognized him because he'd been here a few times, " he said. There were other reported sightings, too, including a worker at Micucci's Grocery on India Street who is convinced he saw Atta in late August; former state Rep. Herb Adams, who believes he saw Atta at the Big Apple convenience store on Park Street this summer; and an employee at the Convention and Visitors Bureau on Commercial Street, who reported seeing two men she believed to be Atta and Alomari.

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