Muhammad atta biography

Mohamed Atta was an Egyptian terrorist hijacker for al-Qaeda.
Mohamed Atta (1 September 1968 – 11 September 2001) was an Egyptian terrorist hijacker for al-Qaeda.
Mohammed Atta was an Egyptian militant Islamist and al-Qaeda operative who helped plot and lead the September 11 attacks.

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Mohamed Atta

Egyptian terrorist and 9/11 hijacker (1968–2001)

Not to be confused with Mohammad Hatta, Mohammed Atef, or Mahmoud Mahmoud Atta.

Mohamed Atta^[b] (1 September 1968 – 11 September 2001) 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 Flight 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 1990, 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 bin al-Shibh, and Ziad Jarrah, together forming the Hamburg cell. Atta disappeared from Germany for periods of time, embarking on the hajj in 1995 b

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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 1999, 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 socially awkward boy into one of history's great villains, Kobek demonstrates the need for a ne

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As we discuss in more detail in the next chapter, in August 2000 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-539) 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, 2000, but did not adjudicate it until July 2001. Atta finished his flight training at Huffman Aviation on December 19, 2000.

Processing Atta at the POE

On January 4, 2001, Atta left the United States from Miami International Airport for Madrid, Spain. Six days later, on January 10, 2001, 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 inspector, however, Atta was sent to secondary. After an interview at secon