Twenty-five years after the September 11 terror attacks, the identities and roles of the 19 al-Qaeda members who hijacked four passenger aircraft remain central to the historical record of the deadliest terror attack on U.S. soil. On September 11, 2001, the attack was carried out by 19 members of the Al-Qaeda group led by Osama bin Laden, killing nearly 3,000 people, including all 19 terrorists. The 19 Al-Qaeda members hijacked four planes.
Two were crashed into the two towers of the World Trade Center in New York City. American Airlines Flight 11 struck the North Tower at 8:46 a.m. ET, while United Airlines Flight 175 hit the South Tower at 9:03 a.m.
A third plane, American Airlines Flight 77, smashed into the west side of the Pentagon (the headquarters of the U.S. Department of Defense in Virginia) at 9:37 a.m. The fourth aircraft, United Airlines Flight 93, crashed in a field in southern Pennsylvania after passengers and crew fought hijackers to prevent it from hitting its target in Washington, either the U.S.
Capitol or the White House. The 9/11 attacks killed more than 2,600 people at the World Trade Center, while 125 were killed at the Pentagon; 256 passengers died on the planes. Below is a closer look at the 19 hijackers in the 9/11 attacks.
All data below is sourced from the Central Intelligence Agency. Name: Muhammed Muhammed el-Amir Awad al-Sayed Atta (pilot of the plane) Name: Abd al-Aziz Abdal-Rahman Muhammed al-Umari Name: Ustam bin Muhammad Abd al-Rahman al-Saqami Name: Marwan Yousef Muhammed Rashid Lekrab al-Shehhi (pilot of the plane) Name: Ahmad Salih Said al-Kurshi al-Ghamdi Name: Hamza Salih Ahmad al-Hamid al-Ghamdi Name: Hani Salih Hasan Hanjur (pilot of the plane) Hanjur's date of arrival in the U.S. listed above "represents entry we believe is related to 11 September attacks, but Hanjur, unlike the other suspected hijackers, had traveled in and out of the US since 1991," the CIA noted. Name: Khalid bin Muhammed bin Abdallah al-Mihdhar Name: Ziad Samir Jarrah (pilot of the plane) Name: Ahmad Abdullah Abd al-Rahman al-Nami Name: Said Abdalah Ali Sulayman al-Ghamdi Based on the list, most of the 19 hijackers were from Saudi Arabia.
Fifteen were Saudi nationals, two were from the United Arab Emirates, one was Egyptian and one was Lebanese. Contact Newsweek editors on this story: James Rushton and Dave Siminoff.
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