This is a strange story first reported on ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) radio:
US authorities have uncovered a plot to set up a flight training school in the Pacific nation of Kiribati and suspect the man behind it may have had links to September 11 mastermind Mohammed Atta. Since the plot emerged, Kiribati had asked for Australia’s help to fight terrorism, ABC radio reported today. The US’ Federal Bureau of Investigations said Wolfgang Bohringer was considered a “person of interest”. It said Bohringer had close connections with a US flight school [in Florida] used by Atta, who masterminded the plot to hijack passenger planes and fly them into key targets in the United States five years ago, the ABC saod . Bohringer had fled Kiribati on his yacht, leaving questions about his intentions. He surfaced in the Pacific nation about a year ago and began talking up plans for a resort and flight school on Fanning Island – a remote outpost with no phones, no functioning airstrip but among the closest to Hawaii.
Bohringer is not mentioned in the 9/11 Commission Report.
