Perpetrators of the September 11, 2001 Terrorist Attacks
There were 19 hijackers in all; five on three of the flights, four on one.U.S. authorities believe that the hijackers were in two groups--six core organizers, who included the four pilots and two others, and the remaining 13, who came to the United States later, in pairs in the spring and summer of 2001 via the UAE.
The six organizers were the pilots--Mohammed Atta, Marwan Alshehhi, Ziad Jarrah, and Hani Hanjour--and Khalid Almihdhar and Nawaf Alhazmi.
Several of the terrorist hijackers appeared to be traveling with false passports, assuming the identities of other people. Saudis Saeed Alghamdi, Abdulaziz Alomari, and Waleed Alshehri, whose photographs have appeared on CNN and other media outlets, have spoken to Saudi newspapers since the attack.
Their profiles do not seem to match that of past suicide terrorists (young, poor, uneducated and indoctrinated): many were in their late twenties and thirties, most with college educations, and had lived for prolonged periods of time in western countries. 15 came from Saudi Arabia. The remaining four came from Egypt, the United Arab Emirates and Lebanon.
There have been variations in the spelling of the names of the alleged hijackers in differing accounts of the attacks- one good example being the Alshehris from Flight 11. This is because there is no one correct way of translating from Arabic script to English letters.
Network Map of how hijackers were connected to each other and color-coded by their flight.
The hijackers aboard American Airlines flight 11 used the names
- Waleed Alshehri
- Wail M. Alshehri
- Mohammad Atta
- Abdulaziz Alomari
- Satam Al Suqami
Aboard United Airlines flight 175 the hijackers used the names
- Marwan Alshehhi
- Fayez Banihammad
- Mohald Alshehri
- Hamza Al Ghamdi
- Ahmed Al Ghamdi
The hijackers aboard American Airlines flight 77 used the names
Hani Hanjour is believed to have flown Flight 77 into the Pentagon.The hijackers aboard United Airlines flight 93 used the names
Ziad Jarrah is believed to have been at the controls when Flight 93 crashed in Pennsylvania.see also Ramzi Binalshibh and Zacarias Moussaoui
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See also: "War on Terrorism" -- U.S. invasion of Afghanistan -- 2001 anthrax attack -- World Trade Center -- The Pentagon -- New York City -- Washington, D.C -- AA Flight 11 -- UA Flight 175 -- AA Flight 77 -- UA Flight 93 -- U.S. Department of Defense -- Project Bojinka -- terrorism -- domestic terrorism -- Osama bin Laden -- Taliban -- Islamism -- Afghanistan -- collective trauma -- September 11
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