JEDDAH, 15 September — As the investigation into Tuesday’s terrorist strikes in the United States continues, the manifests of the commandeered flights have been examined and all individuals with Arab names have been listed as hijackers.

The Federal Bureau of Investigation has released the names of the 19 individuals it believes carried out Tuesday’s suicide air attacks on US targets in New York and Washington. The agency said that all are presumed dead. Of the 19, according to the FBI, seven are thought to have been pilots.

The list is organized according to each of the four operations. It includes the possible residences of the men in the United States and in some cases dates of birth. While the FBI was careful not to link names with nationalities, other media sources have not been as circumspect.

Yesterday the Boston Globe printed the names of 10 men believed to have hijacked the two flights from Boston. Their report claimed that investigators assert that the plan was at least five years in the making.

The Globe’s article stated that the men were originally from Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates and lived near one another in Florida for several years, where at least five of them attended flight training schools.

Arab News has been able to determine that some of those alleged in the report to be hijackers were scholarship students enrolled in courses unrelated to aviation.

The Globe’s article listed a Saudi, Abdulrahman S. Alomari, as a hijacker. Later the FBI list mentioned a man with a similar name. Arab News has discovered that Alomari is a Saudi Arabian Airlines pilot and father of four living in Jeddah. He was aware of his name being mentioned in the media and his willing to cooperate fully. US media also reported that the FBI issued a bulletin for authorities to be on the lookout for a silver 1996 Chrysler Plymouth and its possible driver, Amer Kamfar, a flight engineer who lived in Vero Beach, Florida. Kamfar had listed the post office box for Saudi Arabian Airlines as his address on his commercial pilot’s license.

Kamfar returned to Makkah a month ago. A source close to Kamfar told Arab News that the flight engineer had never owned a silver Chrysler Plymouth and he had offered his complete cooperation in the investigation.

Already taken in for questioning in the US is Saudi national Adnan Bukhari. A pilot trainee, Bukhari has been detained as a witness, not a suspect. In the international investigative furor, Philippine immigration detained Saudi national Muhammad Bukhari. A pilot for Saudi Arabian Airlines, Muhammad Bukhari was “invited for questioning” when he checked in at Manila’s airport to fly a scheduled flight to Riyadh yesterday afternoon.

On Thursday night CNN apologized for reporting that Ameer Bukhari, a Saudi pilot trainee who died in the crash of a small plane, was involved in the hijacking. However, CNN’s website has not been updated to remove Ameer Bukhari’s photo and the false report about him.

Saudi pilots contacted by Arab News were furious at the way they were being portrayed by CNN. They stated that all pilots zealously protect their reputation. The men asserted that pilots working for Saudi Arabian Airlines are very well trained and of the highest caliber. The Saudi pilots do not appreciate CNN’s negative commentary as it is internationally damaging.

Investigators have found that Muhammad Atta and Marwan Al-Shehhi, who have been accused of being pilots in the hijacking, did not have behavior typical of pious Muslims. While the two UAE nationals are remembered from their days in Germany as Islamic fundamentalists who wore traditional Arab garb, they switched in the US to donning Western attire and were noticed drinking in bars.

The investigation into the US terrorist attacks is intensifying worldwide, with Arabs and Muslims being targeted.

Belgian and Dutch police have arrested militants suspected of planning attacks on US targets, as European police forces joined hands to crack down on extremist networks. Authorities in the two countries said police arrested six suspected extremists on Thursday following a Belgian intelligence tip-off, but there was no immediate link with Tuesday’s US attacks.

After arresting two suspects in Brussels, police found two Uzi machine pistols during a house search in the wealthy suburb of Uccle, home to many embassies and diplomats, a spokeswoman for Brussels prosecutors said. The other four were arrested in the Dutch port of Rotterdam on Thursday night, a Dutch prosecutor’s spokesman said.

The public prosecutor’s office will ask an examining magistrate to charge the two suspects in Belgian custody with illegal possession of weapons of war, a spokeswoman said. The arrests followed a tip-off from the Belgian State Security Service that one of the suspects might be preparing attacks on US targets in Europe, she said.

The international police agency Interpol has announced that it has set up a special task force to cooperate with the United States by sharing intelligence on counter-terrorism. Interpol said it was working flat out to assist US authorities investigating this week’s attacks.

“For the first time in history, Interpol has established a crisis taskforce,” Interpol General Secretary Ronald Noble said. “We’ve received messages from over 50 countries around the world with information that we’ve relayed to Washington that might be helpful,” Noble added.

Germany released yesterday an airport worker held for 24 hours in connection with the attacks in the US. He had been arrested because he lives in a Hamburg apartment used by two of the suspected plane hijackers.

German investigators were continuing a probe into Hamburg-based extremists. Three of the alleged hijackers lived in Hamburg for a time and at least two of them studied electronics at the city’s Technical University, prosecutors said on Thursday.

German and FBI agents also questioned an Iranian man in prison in Hanover who had warned last week that there would be terror attacks that would threaten the world order.