Mohamed Atta
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Mohamed Atta was an Egyptian engineer, architect, and the lead terrorist hijacker for al-Qaeda on American Airlines Flight 11. Ideologically a pan-Islamist, he was the ringleader of the September 11 a
Atta in May 2001
Mohamed Atta (left) as a student in Germany, May 1993
The apartment Atta, Bahaji, and bin al-Shibh shared from 1998 until 2001 in Marienstrasse, Hamburg, Germany
Atta's U.S. visa (photocopies of some of the visa pages were found in Atta's luggage which wasn't loaded onto the plane)
Hamburg cell
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The Hamburg cell was a terrorist cell of Islamist extremists living in Hamburg, Germany, around the late 1990s. They helped plan al-Qaeda's terrorist attacks against the United States on 11 September
Mohamed Atta
…In Hamburg, Atta attended prayers at the al-Quds Mosque where he met Marwan al-Shehhi, Ramzi bin al-Shibh, and Ziad Jarrah, with whom he formed the Hamburg cell. Atta disappeared from Germany for periods of time, embarking on the hajj in 1995 but also meeting Osama bin Laden and other top al-Qaeda leaders in…
On 9/11, United Airlines Flight 175 crashes into 2 WTC (center), while 1 WTC (right) is damaged from the impact of American Airlines Flight 11
The interior of al-Quds Mosque in 2009