Ahmed al-Ghamdi
Ahmed Salah Sa'id al-Ghamdi (Arabic: احمد صلاح سعيد الغامدي, romanized: Aḥmad Ṣalāh Saʿīd al-Ghāmdī; 2 July 1979 – 11 September 2001) was a Saudi terrorist hijacker. He was one of five hijackers of United Airlines Flight 175 as part of the 11 September attacks.
Ahmed al-Ghamdi | |
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| أحمد الغامدي | |
| Born | Ahmed Salah Sa'id al-Ghamdi 2 July 1979 |
| Died | 11 September 2001 (aged 22) |
| Cause of death | Suicide by plane crash (September 11 attacks) |
| Nationality | Saudi Arabian |
| Relatives | Hamza al-Ghamdi (brother) |
Ahmed Al-Ghamdi was born in Saudi Arabia in 1979. He dropped out of school to fight in Chechnya and was probably sent to train in al-Qaeda camps in Afghanistan where he would be chosen by Osama bin Laden to participate in the terrorist attacks in America.
He arrived in the United States in May 2001 on a tourist visa and helped plan out how the attacks would take place. On 11 September 2001, he boarded United Airlines Flight 175 and assisted in the hijacking of the plane so that lead hijacker and trained pilot Marwan al-Shehhi could take over the plane and crash it into the South Tower of the World Trade Center, as part of the coordinated attacks.