The Most Famous

EXTREMISTS from Lebanon

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This page contains a list of the greatest Lebanese Extremists. The pantheon dataset contains 283 Extremists, 1 of which were born in Lebanon. This makes Lebanon the birth place of the 39th most number of Extremists behind Afghanistan, and Czechia.

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The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Lebanese Extremists of all time. This list of famous Lebanese Extremists is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography's online popularity.

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1. Ziad Jarrah (1975 - 2001)

With an HPI of 60.18, Ziad Jarrah is the most famous Lebanese Extremist.  His biography has been translated into 24 different languages on wikipedia.

Ziad Samir Jarrah (11 May 1975 – 11 September 2001) was a Lebanese aerospace engineer and terrorist hijacker for al-Qaeda. He was the hijacker-pilot of United Airlines Flight 93, which crashed into a rural area near Shanksville, Pennsylvania, as part of the September 11 attacks. After growing up in Beirut, Jarrah moved to Germany in 1996. He became involved in the planning of the 9/11 attacks while attending Hamburg University of Applied Sciences (HAW) in the late 1990s, meeting Mohamed Atta, Marwan al-Shehhi, and Ramzi bin al-Shibh, forming what became known as the Hamburg cell. Jarrah was recruited by Osama bin Laden for the attacks in 1999. He was reportedly the only hijacker who had any apprehension about carrying out the attacks. Jarrah arrived in the United States in June 2000. He trained at Huffman Aviation together with Atta and Al-Shehhi with their flight instructor Rudi Dekkers from June 2000 to January 2001, after relocating to Florida from New Jersey. On 7 September 2001, Jarrah flew from Fort Lauderdale to Newark. Four days later, he boarded United Airlines Flight 93, and took over the aircraft along Saeed al-Ghamdi, Ahmed al-Haznawi, and Ahmed al-Nami. Although they made an attempt to crash the plane into either the United States Capitol or the White House, their plans were thwarted when the passengers revolted against the hijackers, forcing Jarrah to crash the plane rather than cede control.

People

Pantheon has 1 people classified as Lebanese extremists born between 1975 and 1975. Of these 1, none of them are still alive today. The most famous deceased Lebanese extremists include Ziad Jarrah.

Deceased Lebanese Extremists

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