Suspected hijacker's farewell letter found

FRANKFURT, Germany -- Authorities have found a package containing a lengthy letter from suspected Sept. 11 hijacker Ziad Jarrah to his girlfriend, telling her he would not return from the United States, German prosecutors confirmed Saturday.

Frauke Scheuten, spokeswoman for the federal prosecutors office, said a package containing the letter had been sent to Germany by Jarrah, suspected of flying the plane that crashed in Pennsylvania. The package was later returned to the United States, where authorities discovered it, she said.

Besides the letter, which Scheuten described as a love letter bidding his girlfriend farewell, the package also contained papers about Jarrah's flight training and diving instructions, she said.

"I have done what I had to do," the German weekly Der Spiegel quoted the letter as saying in a Saturday release of its Monday edition. "You should be very proud, because it is an honor and in the end you will see that everyone will be happy."

According to Spiegel, the four-page letter is dated Sept. 10 and authorities believe it was written hours before the attacks on the Pentagon and the World Trade Center were carried out.