According to the Commission’s travel monograph, the passport of Satam al Suqami, one of the Flight 11 hijackers, was recovered by NYPD Detective Yuk H. Chin from a man in a business suit, about 30 years old. The man left before he could be identified, while debris was falling from the South Tower; the tower collapsed shortly afterward. [1]
Commission staff later found that the passport Suqami used for his visa had fraudulent travel stamps associated with al Qaeda. [2] Skeptics say the story is too convenient, and the unidentified passerby leaves it resting on one detective’s report. Paper, ID cards and other light items were thrown from the impact zones in large quantities.
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