• intended hijacker-pilot of American Airlines Flight 77, but he was repeatedly denied a visa for entry into the US. His role as one of the four hijacker-pilots...
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  • September 11 attacks as the 20th hijacker and was due to be onboard United Airlines Flight 93 along with the four other hijackers. He was refused entry due...
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    the hijackers were organized into four teams each led by a pilot-trained hijacker who would commandeer the flight with three or four "muscle hijackers" who...
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  • been the 20th hijacker on United Airlines Flight 93, but was unable to participate at the planned time. "Al Qaeda IDs A Would-Be 20th Hijacker", by Christine...
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  • August 25, 1978: TWA Flight 830 was hijacked by an unknown hijacker, who hid among the passengers. The hijacker delivered detailed instructions to the...
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    al-Shibh was the first to be publicly identified by the U.S. as the "20th hijacker", for whom there have been several more possible candidates. Bin al-Shibh...
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    the hijacker opened the aircraft's aft door, deployed the staircase, and parachuted into the night over southwestern Washington. The hijacker has never...
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  • A Hijacking (Danish: Kapringen) is a 2012 Danish thriller film written and directed by Tobias Lindholm about a ship hijacking. Pilou Asbæk and Søren Malling...
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    terrorist hijacker from al-Qaeda. Ideologically a pan-Islamist, he was the ringleader of the September 11 attacks and served as the hijacker-pilot of American...
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  • were commandeered by 19 al-Qaeda terrorists after takeoff. Two of these hijacked airliners, American Airlines Flight 11 and United Airlines Flight 175,...
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    Hijacker Comes". Most incidents occurred in the United States. There were two distinct types: hijackings for transportation elsewhere and hijackings for...
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  • Airlines Flight 11 was deliberately crashed into the World Trade Center by hijackers during the September 11 attacks. On September 11, 2001, Sweeney, who had...
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  • Airlines Flight 439 was hijacked en route from Delhi to Madras by a hijacker claiming to be strapped with explosives. The hijacker was later identified as...
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    concluded the man (Mohammed al-Qahtani, a Saudi, described as the "20th hijacker") was subjected to "abusive and degrading treatment" by "the cumulative...
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    9/11 attacks. Important members included Mohamed Atta, who led the four hijacking teams in 2001 and piloted American Airlines Flight 11; Ramzi bin al-Shibh...
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    August 1972 – 11 September 2001) was a Saudi Arabian terrorist who was the hijacker-pilot of American Airlines Flight 77, crashing the plane into the Pentagon...
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    September 11 attacks for his fifth book, Instinct: The Man Who Stopped the 20th Hijacker (2009), which tells the true story of Jose Melendez-Perez, a Customs...
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    alleged by federal prosecutors to have been a replacement for the "first" 20th hijacker, possibly Ramzi bin al-Shibh. Bin al-Shibh and Zakariyah Essabar were...
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  • Rudi Dekkers (category 20th-century Dutch businesspeople)
    people to be the possible 20th hijacker, to the attacks came from Dekkers' cooperation and records found from both hijackers. Dekkers also maintained that...
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  • Mohammed al-Masri and Khalid Sheikh Mohammed. Al-Ghamdi is one of the 20th hijacker suspects in the September 11 attacks. He is reported to have played...
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  • INVESTIGATION; An Unobtrusive Man's Odyssey: Polite Student to Suicide Hijacker". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Archived from the original on May...
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    history, causing the deaths of 2,996 people, including 2,977 victims and 19 hijackers who committed murder–suicide. Thousands more were injured, and long-term...
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    (August 9, 1976 – September 11, 2001) was a Saudi terrorist hijacker who was one of five hijackers of American Airlines Flight 77, which they crashed into...
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    aloud in the capital murder trial of Zacarias Moussaoui, the so-called 20th hijacker, and Moussaoui was spared the death penalty. Two years later, different...
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    Responsibility Al-Qaeda Osama bin Laden Alleged Saudi role Motives Hijackers 20th hijacker Hamburg cell Trials Inquiries U.S. congressional inquiry the 28...
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  • revealed the identity of all 19 hijackers, along with a copy of Atta's last will and testament. The passport of hijacker Abdulaziz Alomari was also found...
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    chief of operations for al-Qaeda; Ramzi bin al-Shibh, the so-called "20th hijacker"; Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the mastermind of the September 11, 2001 attacks...
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    Mohammed al-Qahtani, Saudi Arabian held at Guantanamo Bay thought to be a 20th hijacker suspect Mohammed Rafi (1924–1980), Indian Bollywood playback singer...
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  • Responsibility Al-Qaeda Osama bin Laden Alleged Saudi role Motives Hijackers 20th hijacker Hamburg cell Trials Inquiries U.S. congressional inquiry the 28...
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    along the Minnesota River's south bank. The city was visited by the "20th hijacker" of the September 11 attacks, Zacarias Moussaoui, before the attacks...
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