Mohamed atta biography
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Mohamed Atta
Egyptian terrorist and 9/11 hijacker (–)
Not to be confused with Mohammad Hatta, Mohammed Atef, or Mahmoud Mahmoud Atta.
Mohamed Atta[b] (1 September &#;&#; 11 September ) was an Egyptian 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 flygning 11, which he crashed into the North Tower of the original World Trade Center as part of the coordinated suicide attacks. Aged 33, he was the oldest of the 19 hijackers who took part in the mission. Before the attacks, he worked as a construction engineer.
Born and raised in Egypt, Atta studied architecture at Cairo University, graduating in , and pursued postgraduate studies in Germany at the Hamburg University of Technology. In Hamburg, Atta became involved with the al-Quds Mosque where he met Marwan al-Shehhi, Ramzi insekter som pollinerar al-Shibh, and Ziad Jarrah, together forming the Hamburg cell. Atta disa
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As we discuss in more detail in the next chapter, in August Atta (and Alshehhi) enrolled in a professional pilot course at Huffman Aviation International, a flight training school in Venice, Florida. He submitted an application to the INS (INS form I) requesting that his status as a visitor to the United States be changed to that of a student. The INS received his change of status form on September 19, , but did not adjudicate it until July Atta finished his flight training at Huffman Aviation on December 19,
On January 4, , Atta left the United States from Miami International Airport for Madrid, Spain. Six days later, on January 10, , he re-entered the United States at Miami Airport from Madrid.
[Timeline of the INS's contacts with Atta is not available electronically.]
The OIG confirmed that a "hit" or a "lookout" did not appear on the IBIS screen when the primary inspector swiped Atta's passport. After being interviewed by the primary inspecto
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ATTA
A disorienting fictionalized portrayal of 9/11 mastermind Mohamed Atta and the meaning of madness.
Ours is a century of fear. Governments and mass media bombard us with words and images: desert radicals, “rogue states,” jihadists, WMDs, existential enemies of freedom. We labor beneath myths that neither address nor describe the present situation, monstrous deceptions produced by a sound bite society. There is no reckoning of actuality, no understanding of the individual lives that inaugurated this echo chamber.
In the summer of , Mohamed Atta defended a master's thesis that critiqued the introduction of Western-style skyscrapers in the Middle East and called for the return of the “Islamic-Oriental city.” Using this as a departure point, Jarett Kobek's novel ATTA offers a fictionalized psychedelic biography of Mohamed Atta that circles around a simple question: what if 9/11 was as much a matter of architectural criticism as religious terrorism? Following the development of a