MR. KEAN: Vice Chairman Hamilton.
MR. HAMILTON: Thank you very much for your testimony. I’m interested in the question of motivation of these hijackers, and my question is really directed to the agents. You’ve looked and examined the lives of these people as closely as anybody. It’s an extraordinary thing to be able to motivate someone to kill themselves. I am aware of the Usama Bin Ladin’s statements about the religious and the political and the economic reasons, and I really don’t want to get into that. But what have you found out about why these men did what they did? What motivated them to do it?
MR. FITZGERALD: I believe they feel a sense of outrage against the United States. They identify with the Palestinian problem, they identify with people who oppose repressive regimes, and I believe they tend to focus their anger on the United States as to what would motivate a young man to sacrifice his rights, to, really, go to that extraordinary next step to do that. Much of it, I believe, originates in rage, and I think when you look at the 19 hijackers and see where they came from, you can begin to see the seeds of that — that disenfranchisement and anger.

Atta was chosen as the emir, or leader of the mission. He met with Bin Ladin to discuss the targets, the World Trade Center, which represented the United States economy, the Pentagon, a symbol of the U.S. military, and the U.S. Capitol, the perceived source of U.S. policy in support of Israel. What motivated the 9/11 hijackers? See testimony most didn’thttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J1bm2GPoFfg&list=PLF81BB573C9C0C7B2&fe…
http://Tinyurl.com/911Motivation

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RTiNAVq65Cg&list=PL3655C6B924F8553D&fe…