Editing Mohamed Atta (section)

=== Final plans in the U.S. ===
On 22 July 2001, Atta rented a [[Mitsubishi Galant]] from [[Alamo Rent a Car]], putting {{convert|3836|mile|km}} on the vehicle before returning it on 26 July.<!-- return date is unclear; payment was made on 5 August, NCIC query on the vehicle on 3 August //--> On 25 July, Atta dropped Ziad Jarrah off at [[Miami International Airport]] for a flight back to Germany. On 26 July, Atta traveled via [[Continental Airlines]] to [[Newark, New Jersey]], checked into the Kings Inn Hotel in [[Wayne, New Jersey]], and stayed there until 30 July when he took a flight from Newark back to Fort Lauderdale.<ref name="timeline"/>

On 4 August, Atta is believed to have been at [[Orlando International Airport]] waiting to pick up suspected "20th Hijacker" [[Mohammed al-Qahtani]] from [[Dubai]], who ended up being held by immigration as "suspicious." Atta was believed to have used a payphone at the airport to phone a number "linked to al-Qaeda" after Qahtani was denied entry.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/nationworld/bal-te.hijackers27jan27,0,3333483.story |title=Sept. 11 hijacker raised suspicions at border |author=Sullivan, Laura |date=27 January 2004 |work=Baltimore Sun |access-date=16 September 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070927193334/http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/nationworld/bal-te.hijackers27jan27%2C0%2C3333483.story |archive-date=27 September 2007 }}</ref>

On 6 August, Atta and Shehhi rented a white, four-door 1995 [[Ford Escort (North America)|Ford Escort]] from Warrick's Rent-A-Car, which was returned on 13 August. On 6 August, Atta booked a flight on [[Spirit Airlines]] from Fort Lauderdale to Newark, leaving on 7 August and returning on 9 August. The reservation was not used and canceled on 9 August with the reason "Family Medical Emergency". Instead, he went to Central Office & Travel in [[Pompano Beach, Florida|Pompano Beach]] to purchase a ticket for a flight to Newark, leaving on the evening of 7 August and scheduled to return in the evening on 9 August. Atta did not take the return flight. On 7 August, Atta checked into the Wayne Inn in [[Wayne, New Jersey]] and checked out on 9 August. 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]] <!-- or Dulles? //-->to Las Vegas.<ref name="timeline"/> Atta traveled twice to Las Vegas on "surveillance flights" rehearsing how the 9/11 attacks would be carried out. Other hijackers traveled to Las Vegas at different times in the summer of 2001.

Throughout the summer, Atta met with [[Nawaf al-Hazmi]] to discuss the status of the operation on a monthly basis.<ref name="lats">Los Angeles Times, [https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2002-sep-27-na-intel27-story.html Document links al Qaeda paymaster, 9/11 plotter], 27 September 2002</ref>

On 23 August, Atta's [[driver’s license|driver license]] was revoked [[trial in absentia|''in absentia'']] after he failed to show up in [[traffic court]] to answer the earlier citation for driving without a license.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://newsmine.org/archive/9-11/flight-schools/hijackers-traced-to-huffman-aviation.txt|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20051228121415/http://newsmine.org/archive/9-11/flight-schools/hijackers-traced-to-huffman-aviation.txt|url-status=dead|title=NewsMine.org – hijackers traced to huffman aviation.txt|archivedate=28 December 2005}}</ref><!--{{Dubious|date=November 2008}} Newsmine is a dubious source. //--><ref>{{cite web |last1=Ross |first1=Brian |title=While America Slept: The True Story of 9/11 |url=https://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/ten-years-ago-today-countdown-911/story?id=14191671 |publisher=ABC News|location=United States |date=29 July 2011|access-date=14 June 2022}}</ref> The same day, the [[Mossad]] gave his name to the CIA as one of 19 belonging to US residents suspected of planning an imminent attack against the United States; only four of the names are publicly known, the others belonging to fellow 9/11 hijackers Marwan al-Shehhi, Nawaf al-Hazmi, and Khalid al-Mihdhar. It is not known if the 19 names were all those of the hijackers who would carry out the 9/11 attacks or if the list length is just a coincidence.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.cooperativeresearch.org/context.jsp?item=a082301mossad |others=23 August 2001: Mossad Reportedly Gives CIA List of Terrorist Living in US; at Least Four 9/11 Hijackers Named |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070930031428/http://www.cooperativeresearch.org/context.jsp?item=a082301mossad |archive-date=30 September 2007 |title=Context of 'August 23, 2001: Mossad Reportedly Gives CIA List of Terrorist Living in US; at Least Four 9/11 Hijackers Named' |work=History Commons}}</ref>