The only known drop-out amongst the 9/11 hijackers, Mushabib al Hamlan, a Saudi, acquires a two-year B1/B2 (tourist/business) visa for the United States. He never travels to the U.S. and the 9/11 Commission later speculates that perhaps he dropped out “at the urging of his family.”
Mushabib is friends with Ahmed al Nami, one of four hijackers aboard United Airlines Flight 93 that crashed in Shanksville, Pennsylvania. (Another clue that Mushabib was to be the fifth “muscleman” about UA 93 was that all the other four planes had five hijackers.)
On the same day Mushabib applies for his visa in Jeddah, his friend Ahmed al Nami, a Saudi, applies for and receives a two-year B-1/B-2 (tourist/business) visa. A later review of Nami’s application to the State Department revealed that it was incomplete. He listed his occupations as “student” but did not provide a complete address for his school, as we required. And he listed his intended address in the United States as “in Los Angeles” even though he never went there. Nami’s passport may have contained fraudulent travel stamps to obscure al Qaeda-related travel. On his application, Nami indicated that “my friend Moshabab” would be traveling with him.