It was Mughniyah, the new court document states, who "accompanied some of the future 'muscle hijackers' " [who would murder aircrew and subdue passengers] on flights into and out of Iran in October 2000; Mughniyah who flew to Beirut on the same plane as Ahmed al Ghamdi, a future hijacker on one of the planes that would crash into the Trade Center; and Mughniyah, too, who "visited Saudi Arabia to coordinate activities there". The first of the hijackers to arrive in the US, Khalid al-Mihdhar and Nawaf al-Hazmi, met fellow terrorists in Kuala Lumpur before their mission. On one night during their stay, according to an affidavit, they slept at the Iranian embassy. Would bin Laden and his associates, adherents to the Sunni branch of Islam, really have collaborated with Iranians who overwhelmingly belong to the Shia branch, which is estranged from the Sunnis? According to the Havlish memorandum, hostility towards America and Israel outweighs old religious enmities.