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'I believed everything they told me': the woman who rented an apartment to those convicted for the September 11 attacks

BBC News Brasil8 September 2026 at 11:23

An unidentified woman spoke for the first time in an interview with the BBC about having rented an apartment to two al-Qaeda members involved in the September 11, 2001 attacks. She stated that she believed everything the tenants told her at the time.

The two men who rented the apartment were among the hijackers who carried out the terrorist attacks that killed nearly 3,000 people in the United States. The identity of the tenants was not specified in the available excerpt.

The interview represents the first time this woman has spoken publicly about the case, revealing details about how the rental of the property occurred to people subsequently involved in the planning and execution of the attacks.

The woman decided to speak openly about the case in an interview with the British broadcaster BBC, sharing her experience and the circumstances that led her to rent the apartment to the future terrorists.

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