Friday September 11th, 2026, our nation will mark the 25th anniversary of the September 11th, 2001 terror attack which was based out of Sarasota Fl and San Diego CA. The 9/11 hijackers ate in our Sarasota restaurants, shopped in our Sarasota stores and learned to fly planes into buildings in Sarasota County. President George W. Bush read to schoolchildren here in Sarasota as the horror of their actions was relayed to him in a whisper. A mysterious family from Saudi Arabia with ties to the terrorists lived in the gated community of Prestancia Sarasota. Aside from New York City and Washington, D.C., perhaps no other place in the nation has more important connections to the events of Sept. 11, 2001 than Sarasota Fl. VIDEO Sarasota Mosque Imam Muneer Arafat came to Sarasota in March of 2000 his prior roommate in St Louis was al-Qaeda procurement agent Ziyad Khaleel . In July of 2000 Mohamed Atta and his 9/11 hijack pals followed Muneer Arafat to Sarasota FL. The unfinished business of S...