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9-11 Suicide Pilot Hijacker

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Ziad Jarrah

Details
	Importance	Medium
	Means of Death	Plane crashed into field
	Date of Death	Sept. 11, 2001
	Location of Death	Shanksville, Pennsylvania, United States
	Affiliation	9-11 plotters
	Role	Pilot
	Supervisor	Mohamed Atta
	Affiliation	United Airlines Flight 93 Hijackers
	Affiliation	Hamburg Cell
	Affiliation	Al-Qaeda
	Full Given Name	Ziad Samir Jarrah
	Nationality	Lebanese
	Alternate Spelling(s)	Zaid Jarrah
	Age at Death	26
	Date of Birth	May 11, 1975¹
	Place of Birth	Al Marj, Lebanon²
	Gender	Male

Narrative and Notes

	Reliable	Pilot-hijacker of United Airlines Flight 93, which crashed in a field in Pennsylvania after passengers rose up against the hijackers. He came from an affluent family in Lebanon and attended private Christian schools. He moved to Germany in 1996 and found a girlfriend, Aysel Senguen. He lived a secular lifestyle before growing more devout in late 1996 and thereafter. He was fully radicalized by 1999 and joined the other Hamburg plotters around then. But his behavior differed somewhat from the other hijackers in the Hamburg cell. He remained in touch with his family, which tried to dissaude him from his course, and his girlfriend.¹

	Possible	He may have harbored doubts about going forward with the attacks.¹

Sources
¹ The 9-11 Commission Final Report, July 22, 2004, Chapter 5.3.
² The 9-11 Commission Final Report, says he was born in Mazraa, Lebanon.
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Ziad Jarrah

9-11 Suicide Pilot Hijacker