Algerian pilot Lotfi Raissi, was the first person charged in connection with the September 11, 2001 attacks. However, in 2003 a British court ruled that the charges against Raissi were without evidence, and that he had no association with the attacks. Raissi was born and grew up in Bab el Oued, a suburb of Algiers. In November 1996 he moved to Phoenix, Arizona, to attend flight school, including a 1998 stint at Sawyer School of Aviation a month after Hani Hanjour quit. Wikipedia
Documents obtained by The Times shed new light on the bungled investigation into Lotfi Raissi, an Algerian pilot who was wrongly accused of training the September 11 hijackers. www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-1797955,00.html
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