Ahmed al-Ghamdi

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Ahmed Salih Said al-Kurshi al-Ghamdi (July 2, 1979 – September 11, 2001) was a Saudi terrorist hijacker. He was one of five hijackers of United Airlines Flight 175 as part of the September 11 attacks. Ahmed al-Ghamdi was born in Saudi Arabia in 1979. He dropped out of school to fight in Chechnya and was probably sent to train in al-Qaeda camps in Afghanistan, where he would be chosen by Osama bin Laden to participate in the terrorist attacks in the United States. He arrived in the United States in May 2001 on a tourist visa and helped in planning the attacks. On September 11, 2001, he boarded United Airlines Flight 175 and assisted in the hijacking of the plane, alongside his younger brother Hamza al-Ghamdi and 3 other terrorists, which allowed lead hijacker and trained pilot Marwan al-Shehhi to take control of the plane and crash it into the South Tower of the World Trade Center, as part of the coordinated attacks.

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