Ahmed al-Ghamdi | |
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أحمد الغامدي | |
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| Born | Ahmed Salah Sa'id al-Ghamdi 2 July 1979 Al-Bahah, Saudi Arabia |
| Died | 11 September 2001 (aged 22) South Tower, New York City, U.S. |
| Cause of death | Suicide by plane crash (September 11 attacks) |
| Nationality | Saudi |
| Relatives | Hamza al-Ghamdi (brother) |
Ahmed al-Ghamdi[a] (2 July 1979 – 11 September 2001) was a Saudi terrorist hijacker. He was one of five hijackers of United Airlines Flight 175 as part of the September 11 attacks.[1][2]
Ahmed Al-Ghamdi was born in Saudi Arabia in 1979. He dropped out of school to fight in Chechnya and was probably sent to train in al-Qaeda camps in Afghanistan where he would be chosen by Osama bin Laden to participate in the terrorist attacks in America.
He arrived in the United States in May 2001 on a tourist visa and helped plan out how the attacks would take place. On September 11 2001, he boarded United Airlines Flight 175 and assisted in the hijacking of the plane so that lead hijacker and trained pilot Marwan al-Shehhi could take over the plane and crash it into the South Tower of the World Trade Center, as part of the coordinated attacks.
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- ^ Unless otherwise sourced, statements in this article come primarily from the 9/11 Commission Report.
9/11 Commission Ben-Veniste, Richard; Fielding, Fred F.; Gorelick, Jamie; Gorton, Slade; Hamilton, Lee H.; Kean, Thomas; Kerrey, Bob; Lehman, John F.; Roemer, Timothy J.; Thompson, James R.) (2004). The 9/11 Commission Report: Final Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States. W.W. Norton & Company. ISBN 0-393-32671-3, also available online Archived 2010-08-07 at the Wayback Machine - ^ "Ahmed al-Ghamdi". www.globalsecurity.org. Archived from the original on 17 June 2019. Retrieved 17 June 2019.