Ramzi bin al-Shibh
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Ramzi Mohammed Abdullah bin al-Shibh is a Yemeni terrorist who served as al-Qaeda's communications officer. He has been detained by the United States in the Guantanamo Bay detention camp since 2006. H
Bin al-Shibh, circa 2023
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
Ramzi bin al-Shibh
…11 attacks in 2001. In the mid-1990s, bin al-Shibh moved to Hamburg, Germany, for studies. There, he became close friends with September 11 hijackers Mohamed Atta, Ziad Jarrah, and Marwan al-Shehhi. They were members of the Hamburg cell, which planned the details of the attacks. bin al-Shibh was the only one of…
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)