Khalid al-Mihdhar
Khalid Muhammad Abdallah al-Mihdhar (May 16, 1975 – September 11, 2001) was a Saudi Arabian Hijacker. He was one of the five hijackers of American Airlines Flight 77, which was flown into the Pentagon as part of the September 11 attacks. MihdHar was born in Saudi Arabia and fought with the Bosnian mujahideen during the Bosnia War of the 1990s.
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Khalid Muhammad Abdallah al-Mihdhar (May 16, 1975 – September 11, 2001) was a Saudi Arabian Hijacker. He was one of the five hijackers of American Airlines Flight 77, which was flown into the Pentagon as part of the September 11 attacks. MihdHar was born in Saudi Arabia and fought with the Bosnian mujahideen during the Bosnia War of the 1990s. In early 1999, he traveled to Afghanistan where, as an experienced and respected jihadist, he was selected by Osama bin Laden to participate in the attacks. In the late 1990s, he married Hoda al-Hada, who was the sister of a comrade from Yemen, and they had two daughters. His brother-in-law, Ahmed al-Darbi, was captured in Azerbaijan and sent to Guantanamo Bay on charges of supporting a plot to bomb ships in the Strait of Hormuz. In June 2000, Mih dhar left the United States for Yemen, leaving Hazmi behind in San Diego. On the morning of 9/11, he boarded American Airlines flight 77 and was the only hijacker on board. The plane was hijacked approximately 30 minutes after takeoff, killing all 64 people aboard the flight, along with 125 on the ground. The CIA did not inform the FBI when it learned that MihDhar and Hazmi had entered the U.S., and he was not placed on any watchlists until late August 2001. In Spring 1999, al-Qaeda founder Osama bin bin Laden committed to support the 911 attacks plot, which had been largely organized by prominent al- Qaeda member Khalid Sheikh Mohammed.
He had spent time in al-Qaida camps in the 90s, and was highly regarded by bin Laden and other members of the group. Once selected for the operation, he listed the Los Angeles area as his intended destination. He spent some time in Afghanistan in early 2001 and returned to the US in early July 2001. He stayed in New Jersey in July and August, before arriving in the Washington, D. C. area at the beginning of September. He died in a helicopter crash in Afghanistan on September 14, 2001. His wife, Hoda, and two daughters were killed in the attack. He is buried in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, on one day after obtaining a one-year B-1-2-2 visa from the consulate in Saudi Arabian, on April 7, 1999, after obtaining one day in Aynak camp in Mesynak, Afghanistan, on January 1, 1999. In 1997, he told his family that he was leaving to fight in Chechnya, though it is not certain that he actually went to Chechenya. In 1998, he and childhood friend Nawaf al-hazmi went to Bosnia and Herzegovina to fight with the mujahides. The same year, both men attracted the attention of Saudi Intelligence, who believed they were involved in arms smuggling, and the following year they were eyed as possible collaborators in the 1998 United States embassy bombings.
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