Mohamed Atta is still alive, according to his father, as reported in newspapers like the Guardian.
This seems clear enough, until you look at other interviews given by Atta's father, and see how his story changes. The September 2002 Guardian article mentions a phone call the day after the attacks, for example, but here's what he's reported as saying on September 19th, 2001:
This was from an interview that took place on the 18th, supposedly 6 days after the phone call from his son, yet this isn't mentioned at all. In fact in this first account he suggests his son many have been murdered.
What’s more, an Arab News report, also published on the 19th, specifically says Atta hadn’t been in contact since the attacks:
Why not tell reporters that his son had been in touch?
A Newsweek interview less than a week later contained another change or two:
When Mohamed al-Amir Atta, the father of the man thought to be at the controls of American Airlines Flight 11 when it slammed into the North Tower of the World Trade Center, opened the door to his 11th floor apartment in Cairo last Saturday, the first thing he said was: “I’m not benefiting from these interviews. My son is gone. He is now with God. The Mossad killed him.”...
“The Mossad kidnapped my son,” he says. “He is the easiest person to kidnap, very surrendering, no physical power, no money for bodyguards. They used his name and identity.”
On Sept. 12, Atta claims, he was at his vacation home on the Mediterranean coast, shielded from the radio and television and thus unaware of the attacks the previous day, when his son called. They talked about “normal things.” Only later that day, did he hear about the destruction in New York and Washington, and see his son’s picture in the newspaper. He concluded: “They forced him to make the phone call after the attack to cause controversy. Then they killed him. This was done by the Mossad, using American pilots.”...
...Atta visited Egypt in October 1999. “We found him a bride who was nice and delicate, the daughter of a former ambassador.” But Atta said first he had to return to Germany to pursue a Ph.D. The woman’s father, insisting that his daughter not leave Egypt, promised she would be waiting for Atta when he returned. But he never did...
The younger Atta called his family once a month. When he canceled a visit in late 2000, saying that his studies required him to stay in Germany, he worried about how this would affect his mother: “His mother was very much attached to him,” said his father. “She was suffering all sorts of illnesses because of him being absent from her. I’ve never seen such a strong bond of love between a mother and a son.”
According to his father, Atta always said he was calling from Germany and the senior Atta had no knowledge his son had ever been in the United States. More absurd to him was the idea that his son had enrolled in a Florida flight school. “Did he ever learn to fly? Never. He never even had a kite.” Added Atta senior: “My daughter, who is a doctor, used to get him medicine before every journey, to make combat the cramps and the vomiting he feels every time he gets on the plane.”...
http://web.archive.org/web/20040917033829/http://msnbc.msn.com/id/3067635
The September 19th account has Atta senior last seeing his son "a year ago", and saying that "he did not know many details of his son's life in the United States, other than that he thought he was going there for more education". Six days later we're told he last saw him in October 1999, and never even knew Atta was in the US. This is contradicted both by the earlier interview, and a 9/11 Commission document on an interview with an unnamed "associate" of Atta, who was told by Atta's father in 2000 that his son was in Florida:
One year on, in the Guardian story mentioned above, Atta's father is no longer suggesting that Atta has been murdered, and the blame now moves from Mossad to "American Christians".
And in 2005 we have an apparent admission to CNN that the 9/11, 7/7 attacks are justified, and that they would involve "many more fighters like his son":
CAIRO, Egypt (CNN) -- The father of one of the hijackers who commandeered the first plane that crashed into the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001, praised the recent terror attacks in London and said many more would follow.
Speaking to CNN producer Ayman Mohyeldin Tuesday in his apartment in the upper-middle-class Cairo suburb of Giza, Mohamed el-Amir said he would like to see more attacks like the July 7 bombings of three London subway trains and a bus that killed 52 people, plus the four bombers.
Displayed prominently in the apartment were pictures of el-Amir's son, Mohamed Atta, the man who is believed to have piloted American Airlines Flight 11 into the north tower of the World Trade Center as part of the attacks on the United States.
El-Amir said the attacks in the United States and the July 7 attacks in London were the beginning of what would be a 50-year religious war, in which there would be many more fighters like his son.
He declared that terror cells around the world were a "nuclear bomb that has now been activated and is ticking."
The man, who gave his age as "at least 70," said he had no sorrow for what happened in London, and said there was a double standard in the way the world viewed the victims in London and victims in the Islamic world.
Cursing in Arabic, el-Amir also denounced Arab leaders and Muslims who condemned the London attacks as being traitors and non-Muslims.
He passionately vowed that he would do anything within his power to encourage more attacks.
When asked if he would allow a CNN crew to videotape another interview with him, el-Amir said he would give his permission -- for a price of $5,000.
That money, he said, would not be kept for himself, but would be donated to someone to carry out another terror attack.
El-Amir said that $5,000 was about how much it would cost to finance another attack in London.
CNN's crew refused to pay for the interview and left after el-Amir's request.
http://edition.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/meast/07/19/atta.father.terror/index.html
So now it seems he accepts Mohamed Atta was a "fighter" in the attacks, after all.
The 9/11 Commission raise a further question about the role and knowledge of Atta's father:
And even some amongst the 9/11 truth movement have issues with Mohammed El-Amir. Daniel Hopsicker claims he was visiting Atta two weeks before the attacks, for instance:
True? We've no idea, but even if you forget Hopsicker and the 9/11 Commission issue, Mohammed El-Amir is still clearly an unreliable witness. And his contradictory statements fall far short of serious evidence that Atta is still alive.