September 11 Commission Report - Gnostic Liberation Front

Pelican Flight
Training
Center (Professional
Aviation)
Pascal Schreier and
Sandra Hamouda
Germany
French-Tunisian
Charlotte County
Airport,
Punta Gorda
Feb 2001
What these four schools (Schreier was involved in two schools, the first of which went
bankrupt within two months of Atta’s arrival) had in common was:
Recent change in ownership;
New ownership/management by nationals from Northern Europe;
High percentage of Arabic nationality students;
All three owner/managers had a personal relationship with Mohammed Atta;
All spoke German; and
All three were acquaintances.
"It appears that Schreier, Hilliard and Dekkers were also in business together. Later, we learned that
the new owners of Huffman Aviation were from the largest flight school in the Netherlands, which
used to train up in Lakeland, Florida. It was near Rotterdam, the city from which Arne Kruithof hailed.
Pascal Schreier was also apparently involved with Wally and Rudi’s failed aviation ventures. The true
name of their flop airline, which flew as Florida Air, was Sunrise Airlines. And Pascal Schreier owned
a company called Florida Sunrise with an address at the Venice Airport. It was too close for
coincidence." [Welcome to Terrorland: Mohammed Atta and the 9-11 Cover-Up in Florida, Daniel
Hopsicker, 2004]
An analysis of the schools and people who owned and managed them suggests the whole
process of preparing the Arabic hijackers was controlled at two levels: one which would
create and feed the pipeline of terrorists into the US, and another that ensured that the
Arab recruits would execute the given task of attacking the World Trade Center.
12.5 Huffman Flight School
The Huffman Flight School garners the most media attention, for at least four reasons.
First, it was the primary training school for Mohammed Atta and four of his reported ‘cell
member’ colleagues from Hamburg. Second, it is also known that recruiting for the
school was actively conducted by Yeslam Bin Laden, brother of Osama Bin Laden.
Third, the school was responsible for training of the bin Laden family pilots for SICO,
it’s Swiss investment arm, run by two former BCCI agents. Fourth, the school has an
intriguing story behind its ownership. Actual financial ownership of the school has not
been thoroughly documented, but the consensus appears to be that it was under the
ownership of Oryx Investments, an investment holding company formed in Dubai by
Adnan Khashoggi, Sheik Kamal Adham, director of Saudi intelligence (1963-79), Prince
Nawaf bin Abdul Aziz (a major investor in Barrick, codenamed “Tumbleweed” by his
CIA contacts) and Wallace J. Hilliard.
• Wally Hilliard is a semi-retired insurance entrepreneur/multi-millionaire, and many
observers – including the FBI – view him as an innocent victim in his connections to
the terrorists. Unfortunately, while Wally Hilliard continues to claim he was duped,
many of his business partners have well documented links to the intelligence and
criminal underworlds. He also appears to have political friends that might ensure his
protection from any prosecution. Wally made his first fortune by selling an insurance
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