Mohamed Atta
Mohammed Atta ( full name is Muḥammad Muḥammad al - Aamir ' Awad al- Sayyid ' Ata ' - Arabic محمد عطا السيد, Muḥammad ʿ DMG Atta al- Sayyid, born September 1, 1968 in Kafr al- Sheikh, Egypt; † 11 September 2001 in New York ) was an Islamist terrorist and one of the perpetrators of the attacks on 11 September 2001.
Life
Atta was born in Kafr al- Sheikh, an Egyptian city in the Nile Delta. His father was a lawyer. He also had a Saudi Arabian passport. Atta grew up in Cairo and completed an architecture degree with a diploma. He then moved to Germany and studied under the name of Mohamed el -Amir 1992-1999 Urban development / urban planning at the Technical University of Hamburg -Harburg; He finished his studies as a graduate engineer in urban planning. The topic of the thesis was Khareg Bab -en- Nasr. An endangered old town part in Aleppo. Urban development in an Islamic- Oriental city, the caregivers were Dittmar Machule and tungsten Droth. From 1998 to 2001, together with Ramzi Binalshibh, Atta lived and Said Bahaji putatively also belonged to the Hamburg terror cell in which Marie Road 54 in Eißendorf.
Attacks of 11 September 2001
Atta was one of five hijackers of American Airlines Flight 11, the first aircraft, which was controlled at the terrorist attacks on 11 September 2001 in the United States at 8:46 clock in the north tower of the World Trade Center. The others were Abdulaziz al -Omari, Satam al Suquami, Wail al Shehri, and Waleed al Shehri. Probably Atta was their leader and flew the plane. He joined in the attack were killed. Like all terrorists of September 11, Atta belonged to the Salafist branch of Islam. The U.S. Senate Intellegence Comittee later stated that there was no connection between Iraq Prague under the government of Saddam Hussein and Mohammed Atta.
Pop culture
In the two-part miniseries The Path to 9 /11 - ways of Terror Atta is represented by Martin Brody. In it the action of the bombing of the World Trade Center in 1993 and the terrorist attacks on 11 September 2001 is reconstructed.