At least 18 hijackers were aboard the four US planes used in Tuesday's terrorist strikes, Attorney General John Ashcroft said Thursday.
Two of the planes had at least five hijackers aboard, another two had four each aboard, Ashcroft told a press conference.
FBI chief Robert Mueller said the hijackers were ticketed passengers on the flights.
Early Tuesday two hijacked passenger planes rammed the twin towers of the World Trade Center. A third plane crashed into the western end of the Pentagon building just outside Washington and another plane crashed in western Pennsylvania. All 266 people onboard the planes were killed; thousands more are feared dead -- WASHINGTON (AFP)
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