Ziad Jarrah
Ziad Samir Jarrah ( Arabic زياد سمير جراح Ziyād Samīr Jarrah , DMG Ziyād Samīr Ǧarrāḥ ; * May 11, 1975 in Mazraa, Lebanon ; † September 11, 2001 in Shanksville , Pennsylvania , USA ) was a terrorist named by the FBI as one of the hijackers of United Airlines Flight 93 and as a participant in the September 11, 2001 attacks .
Life
It is certain that he was the pilot in the aircraft during the attacks of September 11, 2001 . The White House , the Capitol or the country residence of the US President in Camp David were later suspected as targets . In an interview with Al Jazeera editor Yosri Fouda in June 2002, al-Qaeda member Ramzi Binalshib said the fourth plane was supposed to hit the Capitol. All occupants died in the crash in a field. A partially burned copy of his US visa was recovered from the Somerset County crash site , according to the 9/11 Commission .
In 1996/1997 Jarrah successfully completed a DSH German course in an affiliated institute of the University of Greifswald in order to gain admission to study in Germany. From 1997 he studied aircraft construction at the Hamburg University of Applied Sciences . Together with Mohammed Atta and other Islamists studying in Hamburg, he formed the Hamburg terror cell . Like all 9/11 terrorists , he was a Salafist .
In October 2006, the Sunday Times became aware of an Al-Qaida video that had not been set to audio, in which Jarrah and Mohammed Atta could be seen on January 18, 2000, presumably in an Afghan training camp. In one scene, Atta reads from a document called a will.
Before the assassination, Jarrah was dating a medical student. During this liaison he stayed in Bochum for a longer period and lived together with his girlfriend in a student residence. After the assassination, the German Office for the Protection of the Constitution seized Jarrah's letters to his girlfriend, which, in addition to previous investigation results, revealed his involvement in the attacks. As a result, there were also raids in mosques that Jarrah had visited in Bochum.
On November 23, 2008, the US television station MSNBC released excerpts from a video tape showing Jarrah more than a year before 9/11 being instructed by alleged al-Qaeda instructors to make his own propaganda martyr video .
In the movie
- Jarrah was portrayed by British actor Khalid Abdalla in the film Flight 93 .
- Jarrah was portrayed by Dominic Rains in the film Flight 93 .
- Karim Saleh plays him in the feature film The Hamburg Cell . Jarrah is the main character in this film about the Hamburg terror cell .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Press release of the FBI National Press Office ( Memento of October 1, 2001 in the Internet Archive ) of September 27, 2001 (English), accessed on October 13, 2009
- ↑ The Terror Codes: The Pentagon Was The "Art Academy" , Der Spiegel, September 13, 2002, accessed on July 16, 2014
- ^ 9/11 and Terrorist Travel - Staff Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States , 173
- ↑ Radical Islamic proselytizing. On behalf of the Lord , Süddeutsche Zeitung of April 9, 2012, accessed on April 10, 2012
- ↑ The Last Will of the Death Pilots , NZZ Online, October 1, 2006, accessed on March 29, 2019
- ^ Wilhelm Dietl , Carl Thalmann, Josef Hufelschulte : Investigation. In Murderous Mission , Focus No. 47, November 19, 2001, accessed October 13, 2009
- ↑ An intimate look at one 9/11 hijacker ( Flash video), MSNBC, accessed October 13, 2009
Web links
- The Hamburg Contingent - Chapter 5.3 of the 9/11 Commission Report (English)
- Ziad Jarrah in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Oliver Schröm: The Terrorist's Love , Die Zeit No. 38, September 9, 2004
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Jarrah, Ziad |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Jarrah, Ziad Samir (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Lebanese hijacker on United Airlines Flight 93 |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 11, 1975 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Mazraa , Lebanon |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 11, 2001 |
| Place of death | Shanksville , Pennsylvania, United States of America |