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Muhammad Ali al-Shehri, the Shehri brothers ' true father, was identified prior to September 17, 2001, and told Arab News that he had not heard from his sons in ten months prior to September 2001.

An ABC News story in March 2002 repeated this, and during a report entitled " A Saudi Apology " for Dateline NBC on Aug 25 2002, NBC reporter John Hockenberry traveled to ' Asir, where he interviewed the third brother, Salah, who agreed that his two brothers were dead and claimed they had been " brainwashed ".