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Ziad Jarrah: Mohamed Atta
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Ziad Jarrah has an unofficial wedding with his girlfriend, Aysel Senguen. Interestingly, a photo apparently taken by Jarrah at the wedding is found by German intelligence several days after 9/11. An undercover agent is able immediately to identify ten of the 18 men in the photo, as well as where it was taken: the prayer room of Hamburg’s Al-Quds mosque. He is ... able to identify which of them attended Mohamed Atta’s study group. He knows even “seemingly trivial details” of some of the men, showing that “probably almost all members of the Hamburg terror cell” has been watched by German state intelligence since this time, if not before. The head of the state intelligence had previously maintained that they knew nothing of any of these men.
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Ziad Jarrah, the pilot of the plane that crashed in Pennsylvania en route to Washington, apparently clashed with the plot's ringleader, Mohammed Atta, and had second thoughts about participating. Jarrah was different from the other Sept. 11 pilots. He came from an affluent family and studied at private Christian schools instead of Muslim schools.
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Fin 1999, Ziad Jarrah, Mohammed Atta, Marwan al-Shehhi, Said Bahaji, et Ramzi Binalshibh décident de partir en Tchétchénie pour combattre les Russes. Par la suite ils seront convaincus par Khalid El-Masri et Mohamedou Ould Slahi à la dernière minute et se dirigent en Afghanistan pour rencontrer Osama Ben Laden et suivre un entraînement terroriste ; ils seront informés du secret de leurs missions et renvoyés en Allemagne pour s'inscrire à des écoles aéronautiques de pilotage. En 1999 Ziad sera filmé au mariage de Said Bahaji en compagnie d'autres futurs pirates de l'air dont Marwan al-Shehhi.
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Ziad Jarrah, 26, was born in the Bekaa Valley of Lebanon just as the nation was beginning to unravel into civil war. A Sunni Muslim, he was educated in Christian schools and sent to Hamburg, Germany, to study. It was there he met Mohamed Atta, the apparent ringleader of the Sept. 11 attacks.
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Hamburg cell members Mohamed Atta, Marwan Alshehhi, Ziad Jarrah, Ramzi bin al-Shibh, and possibly Said Bahaji travel to Afghanistan via Turkey and Karachi, Pakistan. They travel along a route often used by one of their associates, al-Qaeda recruiter Mohammed Haydar Zammar, to send potential operatives to Afghanistan for training. Turkish intelligence is aware of the route and informed German intelligence of it in 1996, leading to an investigation of Zammar (see 1996). However, it is unclear whether German or Turkish intelligence register the Hamburg cell members’ travel and how and whether they disseminate and act on this information. Jarrah is reportedly noticed by an intelligence service in the United Arab Emirates on his return journey from Afghanistan (see January 30, 2000).
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In mock battles at a gym near Fort Lauderdale, Ziad Jarrah practiced how to evade an attacker's punch. He learned to block a knife-wielding hand and to stun a wily enemy with a gun.
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