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Ziad Jarrah: Hijackers
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As passengers charged the cockpit door, terrorist hijacker Ziad Jarrah began rolling the plane to the left and right, "attempting to knock the passengers off balance," the 9/11 commission report said. Jarrah told another hijacker in the cockpit to block the door.
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Hijacker pilot Ziad Jarrah arrives in Dubai to change planes when flying from Peshawar, Afghanistan, to Amsterdam, Holland. He is stopped in Dubai by United Arab Emirates (UAE) immigration officials and questioned because they suspect him of being a radical Islamist.
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On his last night, Ziad Jarrah was instructed to make an oath to die. A step-by-step manual told the hijackers how to prepare for paradise -- which assignments to perform, what clothes to wear, which prayers to say.
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In his absorbing new book about the Sept. 11 hijackers, the Los Angeles Times reporter Terry McDermott provides a detailed portrait of one of those hijackers, Ziad Jarrah, and his tortured marriage to the vivacious Aysel Senguen. When they first meet at a German university, McDermott writes in "Perfect Soldiers," he seemed a good match: "a big-city boy with an easy smile, like her a moderate Muslim who enjoyed a good time," and like her, an aspiring dental student
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The hijacker that day signed his name as "Zaid Jarrahi", which is very similar but not identical to Ziad Jarrah. His family claims he never spelled his name that way. Further, the passengers on the plane all reported three hijackers, not four; but it is possible that Jarrah slipped into the cockpit unnoticed.
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