# Does the list of casualties onboard the flights include the terrorists?

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [September 17, 2001, 8:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-the-list-of-casualties-onboard-the-flights-include-the-terrorists/82122 "2001-09-17T08:06:47Z")\
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**Author:** ![Alzarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@Alzarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alzarian)\
**Post date:** [September 17, 2001, 8:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-the-list-of-casualties-onboard-the-flights-include-the-terrorists/82122/1 "2001-09-17T08:06:47Z")

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I guess what I really want to know, is have the investigators determined which names on the plane rosters are those of the terrorists? Have they been included on the official lists of the dead? Do they know who they are?

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**Author:** ![dolphinboy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dolphinboy/32/330_2.png) [@dolphinboy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dolphinboy)\
**Post date:** [September 17, 2001, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-the-list-of-casualties-onboard-the-flights-include-the-terrorists/82122/2 "2001-09-17T21:24:05Z")

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I believe the FBI has a good idea of which passengers were the perps and which weren’t… but I doubt they can be 100% certain until they have an informant who knows for sure… I think they said there were 18 known terrorists on all of the flights.

Yes, I believe they count the terrorists as casualties…

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**Author:** ![maralinn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@maralinn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/maralinn)\
**Post date:** [September 17, 2001, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-the-list-of-casualties-onboard-the-flights-include-the-terrorists/82122/3 "2001-09-17T21:47:46Z")

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I’m sure they’re counted on the lists of the dead, and yes, the FBI says they’ve identified the hijackers.

[http://www.cnn.com/2001/US/09/14/fbi.document/](http://www.cnn.com/2001/US/09/14/fbi.document/)