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Ziad Jarrah

1975 - 2001

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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. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Ziad Jarrah is the 175th most popular extremist (up from 256th in 2019), the 80th most popular biography from Lebanon (up from 127th in 2019) and the most popular Lebanese Extremist.

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Among EXTREMISTS

Among extremists, Ziad Jarrah ranks 175 out of 283. Before him are Eugène Terre'Blanche, Dmitry Ilyich Ulyanov, Jerry Brudos, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Ross Ulbricht, and Baby Face Nelson. After him are Stefano Delle Chiaie, Jonathan Wild, Viktor Bout, Joaquin Murrieta, Ahmad Sa'adat, and Perkin Warbeck.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1975, Ziad Jarrah ranks 60. Before him are Andrew Yang, David Harbour, Suriya, Albin Kurti, Lita, and Daron Malakian. After him are Marc-Vivien Foé, Vladimir Kramnik, David Leitch, José Manuel Pinto, Terence Tao, and Joey Jordison. Among people deceased in 2001, Ziad Jarrah ranks 128. Before him are Josef Klaus, Edwin H. Colbert, Jason Miller, Betty Everett, Marta Hillers, and Jelle Zijlstra. After him are Burt Kennedy, Bill Roberts, Nigel Hawthorne, William P. Rogers, Friedrich Franz, Hereditary Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, and Dorothy McGuire.

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In Lebanon

Among people born in Lebanon, Ziad Jarrah ranks 80 out of 145. Before him are Ahmad Shukeiri (1908), Gabriel Yared (1949), Abdalonymus (-305), Antoun Saadeh (1904), Aram I (1947), and Fakhr al-Din II (1572). After him are Charles Helou (1913), Nancy Ajram (1983), Elie Hobeika (1956), Butrus al-Bustani (1819), Rashid Karami (1921), and Bashir Shihab II (1767).

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Among EXTREMISTS In Lebanon

Among extremists born in Lebanon, Ziad Jarrah ranks 1. 

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