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Notes
1
Decades later, Osama Bin Laden recruited Khalid Al-Mihdhar, a member of this well-known Wadi Doan family of sayyids, or descendants of the Prophet Mohamed, as a hijacker in the September 11 plot; Al-Mihdhar piloted the plane that crashed into the Pentagon.
2
On the morning of September 11, 2001, Shafiq Bin Laden was attending an investors conference at the Ritz- Carlton Hotel in Washington, D.C., when the attack launched by his half-brother struck the Pentagon.
3
Five of the hijackers who crashed planes into American targets on September 11, who were recruited by Osama Bin Laden, came from Asir. There is a striking symmetry in these air crashes involving Americans and Asiris, which took place during two Septembers thirty-four years apart.
