9/11, Mohamed Atta and the Venice Flying Circus Three of the four terrorist pilots connected with the 9/11 tragedy learned to fly airplanes in the tiny town of Venice, Florida, a sleepy retirement community with the second oldest population of any city in the entire United States. They attended flight schools owned by two Dutch nationals, one of whom has Mob ties. So the question is... Did 19 Arab terrorists responsible for the 9/11 disaster of 2001 roam around in Florida as if they'd been listening to Tom Petty albums all their lives? Or were they being trained here in a still-secret covert intelligence operation that somehow went horribly wrong?