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Ziad Jarrah
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Ziad Jarrah was born in Lebanon on May 11, 1975. His full name was Ziad Samir Jarrah. Jarrah is suspected of being the hijacker pilot of United Airlines Flight 93, which crashed near Shanksville on September 11.
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Ziad Samir Jarrah was a child of war. In Lebanon, clashes between Christians, Muslims and Druse, dating back centuries, gave violence a new meaning. About a year after Ziad's birth in 1975, troops from Syria, 20 miles from his home in the Bekaa Valley, entered the volatile brew. A new civil war killed thousands, and much of Lebanon, once called the "Switzerland of the Middle East," was essentially reduced to rubble.
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The training has changed since Ziad Jarrah's day. Pakistan's president, Pervez Musharraf, has joined George W Bush in his "war on terror", and has attempted to flush out the jihadi movements within his country. This means that the training camps that Jarrah attended, in Afghanistan and the tribal areas of Pakistan, can no longer operate openly. So they have simply gone underground. Young men now go to madrasas in Pakistan whose sheikhs are sympathetic to Osama Bin Laden. These places operate ostensibly as schools, but behind the walls and the gates guarded by men with Kalashnikovs, classes sit under the banyan trees in the sumptuous grounds learning jihadi philosophy and military techniques.
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Growing up in the Bekaa Valley - a rich swath of green fields between two mountain ranges - Ziad Jarrah wanted for little. The area produces much of Lebanon's fruit and vegetables and is ... home to many of its well-to-do.
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Ziad Jarrah had come to the hotel a day earlier and paid cash for seven rooms. He and his companions ate the night before at Priscilla's, the hotel's upscale restaurant, where prime steak sells for $34, baby New Zealand lamb goes for $30, and cream of watercress soup starts at $10.
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A business card for Assem Jarrah (Ziad's uncle) was recovered from the Flight 93 crash scene. The Moussaoui trial ... presented a burned passport page and US visa page, claimed also to be Jarrahs, although there's so little left it's very hard to tell.
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