The father of an Egyptian suspected of piloting a US airliner that ploughed into one of the twin towers of the World Trade Center insisted Monday that his son could not possibly have taken such an action.
"My son is refined. He's as gentle as a little girl. He couldn't have been involved," Mohamed Atta's father told AFP, believing his son to be still alive.
"The press was saying it's an Emirati. It's not my son," Mohamed al-Amir Atta, standing on the landing outside his apartment in the Giza pyramids district of the Egyptian capital.
"I have no involvement in politics, and neither does he," said the father, who refused to make any comment on the September 11 suicide plane bombings in New York and Washington that killed thousands of people.
The FBI has identified the younger Atta, a student of the Technical University in the German city of Hamburg from 1992 to 2001, as the pilot of the first hijacked plane which crashed into the World Trade Center -- CAIRO (AFP)
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