Mohamed Atta
Sign in to saveEgyptian hijacker and one of the ringleaders of the September 11 attacks (1968–2001)
Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1968-09-01
- Died
- 2001-09-11
- Works
- 1
Top works
- Tubulointerstitial Nephritis
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 7
- Total plays
- 9
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Global burden of 369 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019
· 2020 · cited 15,328x
- Global, regional, and national incidence, prevalence, and years lived with disability for 354 diseases and injuries for 195 countries and territories, 1990–2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017
· 2018 · cited 10,795x
- Global Burden of Cardiovascular Diseases and Risk Factors, 1990–2019
· 2020 · cited 9,734x
- The Cityscapes Dataset for Semantic Urban Scene Understanding
· 2016 · cited 9,489x
- Reticular synthesis and the design of new materials
· 2003 · cited 7,863x
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Key facts
- Born
- Mohamed Mohamed el-Amir Awad el-Sayed Atta , ( 1968-09-01 ) September 1, 1968, Kafr El Sheikh , Egypt
- Died
- September 11, 2001 (2001-09-11) (aged 33), New York City , U.S.
- Cause of death
- Suicide by plane crash during the September 11 attacks
- Alma mater
- Cairo University , Hamburg University of Technology
- Organization s
- Al-Qaeda , Hamburg cell (1990s–2001)
- Known for
- Ringleader of the 9/11 attacks
- Motive
- Motives for the September 11 attacks
- Accomplices
- Abdulaziz al-Omari , Wail al-Shehri , Waleed al-Shehri , and Satam al-Suqami
- Date
- September 11, 2001, 8:46 a.m. ( EDT )
- Country
- United States
- State
- New York
- Target
- 1 World Trade Center
Key dates
- Born
- 1 September 1968
- Died
- 11 September 2001
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Muhammad
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Saudi Arabia
- Place of birth
- Kafr el-Sheikh
- Place of death
- 1 World Trade Center
- Educated at
- Hamburg University of Technology
- Languages spoken
- German
- Native language
- Egyptian Arabic
- Religion
- Sunni Islam
Article
Mohamed Atta (September 1, 1968 – September 11, 2001) 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 33, he was the oldest of the 19 hijackers who took part in the mission. Before the attacks, he worked as a civil 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 attended prayers at the al-Quds Mosque where he met Marwan al-Shehhi, Ramzi bin al-Shibh, and Ziad Jarrah, with whom he formed the Hamburg cell. Atta disappeared from Germany for periods of time, embarking on the hajj in 1995 but also meeting Osama bin Laden and other top al-Qaeda leaders in Afghanistan from late 1999 to early 2000. Atta and the other Hamburg cell members were recruited by bin Laden and Khalid Sheikh Mohammed for a "planes operation" in the United States.