Mohamed Atta

Born

September 1, 1968

Died

September 11, 2001 (aged 33)

Known as

engineer, building engineer

Mohamed Atta was an Egyptian engineer, architect, and terrorist hijacker for al-Qaeda. Ideologically a pan-Islamist, he was the ringleader of the September 11 attacks and served as the hijacker-pilot of American Airlines Flight 11, which he flew into the North Tower of the original World Trade Center as part of coordinated suicide attacks. Aged thirty-three years, he was the oldest of the 19 hijackers who took part in the mission. Before the attacks, he worked as a civil engineer.

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