9 11 hijackers biography wikipedia

The aircraft hijackers in the September 11 attacks were 19 men affiliated with jihadist organization al-Qaeda.

He was one of five hijackers of American Airlines Flight 11 as part of the September 11 attacks in He arrived in the United States in April On September 11, , al-Suqami boarded American Airlines Flight 11 and participated in the hijacking of the plane so that it could be crashed into the North Tower of the World Trade Center as part of the coordinated attacks.

He is believed to have perpetrated the first fatality of the attacks in killing passenger Daniel Lewin in the process of hijacking the plane. Al-Suqami died along with everyone else on the plane on impact with the North Tower. While there he joined a possible [ citation needed ] former roommate named Majed Moqed in training for Al-Qaida at Khalden, a large training facility near Kabul that was run by Ibn al-Shaykh al-Libi.

However, these residents and several others who claim to have known the hijackers, claim that the FBI photographs of al-Suqami and al-Hazmi are reversed. Lacking proper documentation however, they were stopped upon landing, and returned to Florida the same day and rented a red Kia Rio from a Avis Car Rental agency. He was one of nine hijackers to open a SunTrust bank account with a cash deposit around June , and on July 3 he was issued a Florida State Identification Card.

Around this time, he also used his Saudi license to gain a Florida drivers' license bearing the same home address as Wail al-Shehri. A Homing Inn in Boynton Beach.

Beginning in May , Atta assisted with the arrival of the "muscle" hijackers whose role was to subdue passengers and crew to enable the hijacker-pilots to.

Known as Azmi during the preparations, [ 4 ] al-Suqami was called one of the "muscle" hijackers, who were not expected to act as pilots. CIA director George Tenet later said that they "probably were told little more than that they were headed for a suicide mission inside the United States. On the day of the attacks, al-Suqami checked in at the flight desk using his Saudi passport, and boarded American Airlines Flight At Logan International Airport , he was selected by CAPPS , [ 6 ] which required his checked bags to undergo extra screening for explosives and involved no extra screening at the passenger security checkpoint.

The passport of al-Suqami was found by a passerby in the vicinity of Vesey Street , [ 12 ] before the towers collapsed.