Photocopy of Jarrah's passport, made by Rina Bernard when she rented out one of her apartments at 1816 Harding St. Jarrah was on board United Airlines flight 93 when it crashed in Pennsylvania. Former Metro Sheriff Jerry Keller recounts the time 9/11 terrorists spent in Las Vegas. One of them came on Dec. 26 at Miami International Airport. "I suspect they were casing a fallback position to launch from if, for weather or security, they couldn't get out of Boston, Drumhiller said. The alleged distortions of the IG report centered around excluding any evidence that Able Danger had identified and tracked Atta years before 9/11. Shave excess hair from the body and wear cologne. He had made no progress on his thesis. At this time, the pilots stopped responding to air traffic control, and the aircraft began deviating from the planned route. She observed Muslim customs, taking taxis to and from the office so as not to come into close physical contact with men on buses. Mr. Kraus and Mr. Pursell said that the breakdown could have happened to any pilot on any airfield, but that the response by the two men was wrong. Bin al-Shibh explained that he passed along instructions from Osama bin Laden, including his desire for the attacks to be carried out as soon as possible. They were among the first to enter the U.S. in May and . LA Times Archives, Tracking the Flights Hijacked on 9/11, Last edited on 21 February 2023, at 21:12, [mmmd elmi wd essj.jed t], Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport, Computer Assisted Passenger Prescreening System, "On Path to the U.S. This call was apparently to confirm that the attacks were ready to begin. Mr. Kraus noted that the two men had been trained on smaller, ''uncontrolled'' airports that operate without flight towers. 122 in Coral Springs, Florida, for $840 per month,[68] and assisted with the arrival of the muscle hijackers. At 2:12 p.m. on August 25, Mohammed Atta logged into his Travelocity account. While in South Portland, they were seen making two ATM withdrawals and stopping at Wal-Mart. Unable to restart the engine, the two men shut the plane down, flipped off the lights and, by one account, walked off. Months later both he and Jarrah enrolled at flying schools in America. [103] Shaffer largely based his allegations on the recollections of Navy Captain, Scott Phillpott,[104] who later recanted his recollection, telling investigators that he was "convinced that Atta was not on the chart that we had." Mr. Pursell, meanwhile, said the two men never explained why they chose to fly to Miami or apologized for the costs incurred by the school. Jarrah, a Lebanese citizen, would go on to pilot United Airlines Flight 93, intended to hit the U.S. Capitol Building. . 2) Make sure you know all aspects of the plan well, and expect the . They instead traveled to Afghanistan over a two-week period in late November. Bouthayna and Mohamed married when she was 14, via an arranged marriage. Mohamed Atta, right, and Abdulaziz al-Omari are seen passing through security at the Portland Jetport on the morning of Sept. 11, 2001. Credit: Courtesy of Spectrum News Service It is a day no one . Evidently, he tried to deliver a message instructing the passengers and crew to stay put over the cabin's PA system, but pressed the wrong switch and thereby tipped off ATC that the flight had been hijacked. TimesMachine is an exclusive benefit for home delivery and digital subscribers. The two al-Shehri brothers selected seats 2A and 2B in first class. On September 11 we'll live tweet the events of the day, minute by minute, starting at 4:45 a.m. EST, @RoadTo911. Other hijackers traveled to Las Vegas at different times in the summer of 2001. He is now with God. We went through the logs of ferries leaving Maine, and we went through the logs of airlines and anything associated with potential for a terrorist cell to support Atta. [45], After leaving Plankontor in the summer of 1997, Atta disappeared again and did not return until 1998. [26] While in Syria, he met Amal, a young Palestinian woman who worked for a planning bureau in the city. For Mohamed Atta, the meticulous and intensely disciplined figure who is believed to have helped organize the Sept. 11 attacks, mistakes did happen, or at least nearly did. The academic team inquired into the effects of redevelopment in the Islamic Cairo, the old quarter, which the government undertook to remodel for tourism. Atta and Amal appeared to be attracted to each other, but Atta soon decided that "she had a quite different orientation and that the emancipation of the young lady did not fit." After a week, they were asked to leave because they were rude. The will was signed by el-Motassadeq and a second person at the mosque. . You may have heard about recently. On the morning of September 11, Atta boarded American Airlines Flight 11, which he and his team then hijacked. He seldom bathed, and they could not bear his "complete, almost aggressive insularity". Once Atta's commuter flight landed in Boston, phone records show he took a call from another 9/11 hijacker, Marwan Al-Shehi. They drove a rented Nissan to Portland, Maine, and arrived at the Comfort Inn Hotel at 5:43 p.m. At the time, Tyler Drumhiller was a top official at the CIA, responsible for all European Operations. The couple explained at dinner that they ran an exchange program and invited Atta to continue his studies in Germany; they also offered him room and board at their home in the city. "He wanted to finance a twin-engine, six-passenger aircraft and remove the seats," Bryant told ABC's World News Tonight. [10] His father, Mohamed el-Amir Awad el-Sayed Atta, was a lawyer, educated in both sharia and civil law. They were all well-educated, had experience of living in western society, along with some English skills, and would be able to obtain visas. He asked about the Pentagon and the White House. In late 1999, Atta, Shehhi, Jarrah, Bahaji, and bin al-Shibh decided to travel to Chechnya to fight against the Russians, but were convinced by Khalid al-Masri and Mohamedou Ould Salahi at the last minute to change their plans. Hanjour piloted the plane. In-laws characterized the father of Atta as "austere, strict, and private," and neighbors viewed the family as reclusive. A huge search operation is underway to try and find any survivors from the horror plane crash in Nepal, but officials have said that the chances of finding any . [58], On May 17, Atta applied for a United States visa. [77] On July 19, Atta returned to the United States, flying on Delta Air Lines from Madrid to Fort Lauderdale, via Atlanta. At 8:26 a.m., Flight 11 makes . Between August 17 and September 5, he rented airplanes on 11 separate occasions in Florida, practicing his pilot skills. He led the team of hijackers who took control of American Airlines flight 11 and flew it into the north tower of New York City's World Trade Center. Atta's bags were later recovered in Logan International Airport, and they contained airline uniforms, flight manuals, and other items. He moved into a nearby apartment in the Wilhelmsburg district, where he lived with Said Bahaji and Ramzi bin al-Shibh. 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Protection against purely domestic hijackers primarily was lodged with check-in personnel at the airport counter, then with security screeners, and finally with attendants at the gate. There hasn't been a successful attack against commercial aviation in the U.S. in the 20 years since 9/11, and outside experts agree that while there is still room for improvement, the TSA has been . Bin Laden asked them to pledge loyalty and commit to suicide missions, which Atta and the other three Hamburg men all accepted. Atta sent 5060 similar e-mails to other flight training schools in the United States. Passengers must leave the secured area, go outdoors, cross a covered roadway, and enter another building before going through security once again. This claim has been disputed; Terry McDermott has argued that it is unusual for someone to go on pilgrimage so soon after the first time and to spend three months there (more than Hajj requires). There, Mr. Atta and Marwan al-Shehhi, another man the F.B.I. A ticket staffer at Portland Airport reported becoming uneasy with the anger of Atta upon being told of the additional screening requirements in Boston, but that he did not act on his suspicions after becoming concerned that he was racially profiling Atta. [108], Atta's father, Mohamed el-Amir Awad el-Sayed Atta, a retired lawyer in Egypt, vehemently rejected allegations his son was involved in the September 11 attacks, and instead accused the Mossad and the United States government of having a hand in framing his son. Undated photos of suspected hijackers of United Airlines flight #93 that crashed in rural Pennsylvania, released by the FBI September 27, 2001 in Washington, DC. Realizing they were facing a suicide mission, flight 93 passengers fought for control of the plane. "[98], In the months following the September 11 attacks, officials at the Czech Interior Ministry asserted that Atta made a trip to Prague on April 8, 2001, to meet with an Iraqi intelligence agent named Ahmed Khalil Ibrahim Samir al-Ani. In the end though, those international calls and Emails open a window to the falsehood of greater authority to intercept communications. At the Hamburg University of Technology, Atta studied under the guidance of the department chair, Dittmar Machule, who specialized in the Middle East. Follow the Newsweek live tweet of September 11, 2001 (based upon the new book On That Day) starting at 4:45 a.m. EST @Roadto911. Likewise, Shehhi traveled from a different location, in his case via Brussels. As a subscriber, you have 10 gift articles to give each month. His mother, Bouthayna Mohamed Mustapha Sheraqi, came from a wealthy farming and trading family and was also educated. Waterboarded at a CIA Black Site, the "Number One Terrorist" Gave Up a Name, A Florida Motel Manager Let the "Clean-cut" Guest Have an Overnight Visitor, Atta chose the day: A surveillance camera photographs suspected hijackers Mohammed Atta (R) and Abdulaziz Alomari (C) passing through airport security September 11, 2001 at Portland International Jetport in Maine. The next day, he received a five-year B-1/B-2 (tourist/business) visa from the United States embassy in Berlin. Of the four hijacker pilots, Jarrah was the most westernized, coming from a Lebanese secular background and Christian schooling before moving to Germany for university studies. Several clues have been found to link their stay in Spain to Syrian-born Imad Eddin Barakat Yarkas (Abu Dahdah), and Amer el Azizi, a Moroccan in Spain. There seem to be two primary reasons for his choosing that particular day: that it fell after Labor Day when most Americans (and the George W. Bush administration) would be back at work, maximizing the impact in terms of killing people; and that it was a Tuesday when air travel was easier and the planes less full (that is, fewer hostile passengers to deal with). [19] In 1992, his father had overheard a German couple who were visiting Egypt's capital. On November 29, 1999, Mohamed Atta boarded Turkish Airlines Flight TK1662 from Hamburg to Istanbul, where he changed to flight TK1056 to Karachi, Pakistan. In the aftermath of the attack, law enforcement agents discovered a four-page document in Mohamed Atta's baggage. [69], On June 27, Atta flew from Fort Lauderdale to Boston, Massachusetts, where he spent a day, and then continued to San Francisco for a short time, and from there to Las Vegas. On June 28, Atta arrived at McCarran International Airport in Las Vegas to meet with the three other pilots. He rented a Chevrolet Malibu from an Alamo Rent A Car agency. [74], On July 22, 2001, Atta rented a Mitsubishi Galant from Alamo Rent a Car, putting 3,836 miles (6,173km) on the vehicle before returning it on July 26. They lived in the area for several months. Atta was believed to have used a payphone at the airport to phone a number "linked to al-Qaeda" after Qahtani was denied entry.[78]. The official, Mr. Kraus said, said the two pilots had abandoned the plane without radioing the tower and were walking across the airfield toward the main hanger used for general aviation. [13][14] In 1985, Atta enrolled at Cairo University and focused his studies on engineering. [55], A video surfaced in October 2006. [1][2][3][4][5] Having just turned 33 at the time of the attacks, he was the oldest of the 19 hijackers who took part in the mission. [76], During the meetings in Spain, Atta and bin al-Shibh had coordinated the details of the attacks. 8:24 am - Hijacker Mohammed Atta makes the first of two accidental transmissions from Flight 11 to ground control (apparently in an attempt to communicate with the plane's cabin). He also began teaching classes both at Al-Quds and at a Turkish mosque near the Harburg district. Each day a new story will be published here. The remains of the 9/11 killers are now held in deep freeze. At 8:25 . [15][17], Atta also got engaged to a woman lined up by his father and her family in Cairo, at late 1999, after coming back from Germany the same year. Then at 8:50pm, he checked into the Hotel Diana Cazadora in Barajas, a town near the airport. On August 7, Atta checked into the Wayne Inn in Wayne, New Jersey and checked out on August 9. "[111], In 2021, on the 20th anniversary of the attacks, Atta's mother was interviewed by a Spanish newspaper. In this series, Newsweek maps the road to 9/11 as it happened 20 years ago, day by day. Drumhiller said it could have been "to make the final arrangements, to sort of close out everything they were doing to wrap up their time in the states.". Days later, Shehhi, Jarrah and Atta ended up in Venice, Florida. Many al-Qaeda members lived in this apartment at various times, including hijacker Marwan al-Shehhi, Zakariya Essabar, and others. Mr. Pursell later posted a sign inside the flight school forbidding novice pilots from flying into Miami International. In April, he was ticketed in South Florida for driving without a license. Newsweek is reconstructing the road to 9/11 as it was constructed 20 years ago, day by day. It's hard to tell.". So, did Mohammed Atta go to Portland because of security issues? [38] Even before bin al-Shibh had arrived, Atta, Shehhi, and Jarrah were sent to the House of Ghamdi near bin Laden's home in Kandahar, where he was waiting to meet them. 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[7] In Germany, he registered his name as "Mohamed el-Amir Awad el-Sayed Atta", and went by the name Mohamed el-Amir at the Hamburg University of Technology. They may have helped arrange and host the meeting in Tarragona. Here he presented an AAA membership for a discount, and paid cash for the $49.50/night room. WASHINGTON - The tape of Betty Ong's voice yesterday, alive and urgent yet amazingly calm, describing through the background buzz how a group of hijackers had stabbed two . [109] The elder Mr. Atta said he had spoken with Mohamed by phone the day after on September 12, 2001. A separate section of the video shows Osama bin Laden addressing his followers at a complex near Kandahar. Lip readers have failed to decipher it. [16] Atta and Shehhi established accounts at SunTrust Bank and received wire transfers from Ali Abdul Aziz Ali, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed's nephew in the United Arab Emirates. Just stay quiet, and you'll be okay. The second chapter showed Atta and Ziad Jarrah reading their wills together ten days later on January 18. Records on Atta's cellphone indicated that he phoned the Moroccan embassy in Washington on January 2, just before Shehhi flew to the country. Mohamed Atta is believed to have been the pilot of the first plane that crashed into the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001. . The Mossad killed him. In this series, Newsweek maps the road to 9/11 as it happened 20 years ago, day by day. On July 26, Atta traveled via Continental Airlines to Newark, New Jersey, checked into the Kings Inn Hotel in Wayne, New Jersey, and stayed there until July 30 when he took a flight from Newark back to Fort Lauderdale. "He said he was an engineer and he wanted to build a chemical . This included the construction of high-rise buildings in Cairo and other ancient cities in the region. "[113] In turn, political scientist Robert Pape has claimed that Atta was motivated by his commitment to the political cause, that he was psychologically normal, and that he was "not readily characterized as depressed, not unable to enjoy life, not detached from friends and society. Both enrolled at Jones Aviation in Sarasota and took training there for a brief time. With its passengers defiant, the plane crashed in Shanksville, Pennsylvania. He shopped for flights from Washington Dulles International Airport to Los Angeles and from Boston to Los Angeles, all departing around 8:00 a.m. on the morning of September 11. After Atta's transmission, Boston Center concludes that Flight 11 has been hijacked and alerts other control centers. It's Easy to Get Knives and Razors Onto a Plane, the Hijackers Found, The FBI's Radical Fundamentalist Unit Ignored This Radical Fundamentalist. One of Atta's bags did not make it onto Flight 11, leaving . [66][67], Atta began flight training on July 6, 2000, and continued training nearly every day. Here's some background information about the 19 hijackers of September 11, 2001.. Timeline September 11, 2001 - Nineteen men hijack four commercial airlines loaded with fuel for cross country . He was among the highest-scoring students; by his senior year, he was admitted to an exclusive architecture program. Mohamed Atta had varied his name on documents, also using "Mehan Atta", "Mohammad El Amir", "Muhammad Atta", "Mohamed El Sayed", "Mohamed Elsayed", "Muhammad al-Amir", "Awag Al Sayyid Atta", and "Awad Al Sayad". Atta did not take the return flight. The hour-long tape places him in Afghanistan at a decisive moment in the development of the conspiracy when he was given operational command. Twelve minutes later, at 8:46:40a.m., Atta crashed the plane into the North Tower of the World Trade Center in New York City. By the time it took off, Mohammed Atta was just four minutes away from hitting the North Tower of the World Trade Center. It . Al-Omari chose 8G and al-Suqami chose 10B in Business Class. The same day, he booked a one-way first-class ticket via the Internet on America West Flight 244 from Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport to Las Vegas. Bin al-Shibh would not discuss this meeting with Fouda. Atta and Shehhi then moved into a small house nearby in Nokomis where they stayed for six months. Mahmoud Atta was 14 years older than Atta. The men who would become the pilots of the four hijacked planes began working on the plot in 1999, traveled to the US in 2000, and enrolled in flight training schools. [110] In an interview on September 24, 2001, Atta Sr. stated, "My son is gone. A spokesman for the F.A.A. If you try to make any moves you'll endanger yourself and the airplane. But with more than 200,000 warrants pending on minor offenses in Broward County, he was never picked up. In this series, Newsweek maps the road to 9/11 as it happened 20 years ago, day by day. Shower. This piece of information was passed on to the FBI as "unevaluated raw intelligence". USDA loan officer Johnelle Bryant said Atta visited her office and inquired about a loan to buy a plane. [59][60], From July 13 to 16, Atta stayed at the Hotel Sant Jordi in Tarragona. [73] The absence of other hotel stays, signed receipts or credit card stubs has led investigators to believe that the men may have met in a safe house provided by other al-Qaeda operatives in Spain. While in the United States he traveled to Lawrenceville, Georgia, where he and Shehhi visited an LA Fitness Health Club. [90][6] The crash instantly killed all 92 people on-board, murdered hundreds more inside the building, and left at least 800 workers trapped in the upper floors of a burning quarter-mile high skyscraper. "[114] By contrast, criminal justice professor, Adam Lankford, has found evidence that indicated Atta was suicidal, and that his struggles with social isolation, depression, guilt, shame, hopelessness, and rage were extraordinarily similar to the struggles of those who commit conventional suicide and murder-suicide. I have been planning and working with Bin Laden on the destruction of certain American targets. After six months, they asked him to leave.[20][21][22]. Almost all of these points discuss spiritual preparation, such as prayer and citing religious scripture. The video, bearing the date of January 18, 2000, is of good resolution but contains no sound track. After consulting with the other hijacker pilots about the flights they also booked on September 11, three days later Atta again visited aa.com and retrieved his reservations and paid for his flight for himself and A. al-Omari (one of his muscle men) using his VISA card. [16], Atta continued with flight training that included solo flights and simulator time. On July 25, Atta dropped Ziad Jarrah off at Miami International Airport for a flight back to Germany. Mr. Kraus said Mr. Atta and Mr. Shehhi told him they had not been aware that they needed to radio the tower for instructions. That aircraft hit the North Tower at 8:46 a.m. United Flight 175, also from Boston, hit the South Tower at 9:03 a.m. "One of the things we did at the White House was push the FBI to focus on Portland to determine whether or not there were people there that they might have met with, Cressey said. [34] His friends in Germany described him as an intelligent man in whom religious convictions and political motives held equal sway. On August 6, Atta booked a flight on Spirit Airlines from Fort Lauderdale to Newark, leaving on August 7 and returning on August 9. [60][61], On June 6, 2002, ABC's World News Tonight broadcast an interview with Johnelle Bryant, former loan officer at the U.S. Department of Agriculture in south Florida, who told about her encounter with Mohamed Atta. One theory suggests that Mohamed Atta and the other pilots who led the hijacking teams were here planning the Sept. 11 attacks in New York and Washington, D.C. A secret police intelligence report . Since these were domestic flights, there was no particular means at the time for the intelligence community to receive a tip-off of a reservation. On August 6, Atta and Shehhi rented a white, four-door 1995 Ford Escort from Warrick's Rent-A-Car, which was returned on August 13. [11] Atta was the only son; he had two older sisters who are both well-educated and successful in their careers one as a medical doctor and the other as a professor. Instead, he went to Central Office & Travel in Pompano Beach to purchase a ticket for a flight to Newark, leaving on the evening of August 7 and schedule to return in the evening on August 9. [100][101][102], In 2005, Army Lt. Col. Anthony Shaffer and Congressman Curt Weldon alleged that the Defense Department data mining project, Able Danger, produced a chart that identified Atta, along with Nawaf al-Hazmi, Khalid al-Mihdhar, and Marwan al-Shehhi, as members of a Brooklyn-based al-Qaeda cell in early 2000. Mohamed Atta accepted and was in Germany two weeks later, in July. The Mohamed Atta Files. He spoke again seconds after that first transmission, still unaware that his voice was being heard on the ground: "Nobody move, everything will be OK. "Nothing they said or did raised any suspicions at all," he told the commission's investigators. But Atta's night before 9-11 which he spent in Portland, Main -- is a mystery that has puzzled terrorism experts for five years. Flight controllers, according to airport records, guided the waiting passenger airliners around the stalled aircraft until it was towed away 35 minutes later. Something is not right. The Israeli Supreme Court later overturned his extradition and set him free. Usually in these types of things you have your initial plan and you have a fallback plan. The third hijacked plane, American Airlines Flight 77, a Boeing 757 that took off from Dulles Airport . Newsweek is reconstructing the road to 9/11 as it was constructed 20 years ago, day by day. A voice believed to be that of al Qaeda hijack leader Mohamed Atta urged passengers to . [25] The invitation had been for a three-day visit, but Atta ended up staying several weeks that August, only to visit Aleppo yet again that December. During that period, his roommates grew annoyed with him. Footage shows the five hijackers who flew American Flight 77 into the Pentagon progressing through security checks at Washington's Dulles International Airport. The men who planned and carried out the Sept. 11 suicide hijackings staked out the White House before deciding that their targets should be the Pentagon, the World Trade Center and the U.S . [91] The angle at which Atta crashed into the North Tower severed all means of escape from Floor 92 or higher, ensuring that no one on those floors was able to make it out alive before the building collapsed 102 minutes later at 10:28 A.M.[92], Because the flight from Portland to Boston had been delayed,[93] his bags did not make it onto Flight 11. Sun 14 Oct 2001 11.31 EDT. Now, we are living in Germany since a while for study purposes. Plane Crash. refused to comment on whether any official investigation had ever been started against the two men, citing the criminal investigation into the hijackings. On the way, they were seen getting gasoline at an Exxon gas station and visited the Longfellow House in Portland that afternoon;[82] they arrived at the hotel at 5:43p.m. and spent the night in Room 233. The crash and fire kill 59 on the plane and 125 on the . Officials at Signature did not respond to several telephone requests to find out whether anyone at the company remembered Mr. Atta or Mr. Shehhi. [51] They met three or four times a week to discuss their anti-American feelings and to plot possible attacks. Although the marriage never happened, Atta's father mentioned they liked each other.[18]. We will examine that 9/11 mystery in our next report. "[62][63] Bryant contacted the authorities after recognising Atta in news reports. [8] In mid-1995, he stayed for three months in Cairo, on a grant from the Carl Duisberg Society, along with fellow students Volker Hauth and Ralph Bodenstein. On September 11 we'll live tweet the events of the day, minute by minute, starting at 4:45 a.m. EST, @RoadTo911. And we came up empty.". If you try to make any moves, you'll endanger yourself and the airplane.". The timing of the Afghanistan training was outlined on August 23, 2002, by a senior investigator. Atta said, he was to crash the plane. (L to R, top to bottom) Ahmed Alnami, Ahmed Ibrahim A. al-Haznawi, Ziad Samir al-Jarrah, and Saeed Alghamdi. Did he meet with somebody in Portland who helped him with the attack? The plane is piloted by plot leader Mohamed Atta. Mohammed Atta, (born September 1, 1968, Kafr al-Shaykh, Egyptdied September 11, 2001, New York, New York, U.S.), Egyptian militant Islamist and al-Qaeda operative who helped plot and lead the September 11 attacks. The date for the planes operation is set. [30], In Hamburg, Atta was intensely drawn to al-Quds Mosque which adhered to a "harsh, uncompromisingly fundamentalist, and resoundingly militant" version of Sunni Islam. Kersten said in an interview at the agency's headquarters in Wiesbaden that Atta was in Afghanistan from late 1999 until early 2000,[53][54] and that there was evidence that Atta met with Osama bin Laden there. The two other "muscle men," intended to take over the plane, were also Saudi citizens: Abdulaziz al-Omari (A. al-Omari on the flight manifest) and Satam al-Suqami. About a minute later, he turned the plane southbound, on a course pointed in the direction of New York City. On August 26, Saudi brothers Waleed and Wail al-Shehri also purchased tickets for the same flight. Atta began adhering to the strictest Islamic diet, frequenting the most conservative mosques, socializing seldom, and acting disdainfully towards the couple's unmarried daughter who had a young child. The FBI also reported that "two middle-eastern men" were seen in the parking lot of a Pizza Hut, where Atta is known to have eaten that day. He . Some, like the 9/11 plot's ringleader, Mohamed Atta, flew in from Florida, checking into a motel in Wayne for a few days and then leaving and then returning days . can you eat oysters kilpatrick when pregnant, 2012 subaru outback usb port not working,
