Ahmed al-Ghamdi (b. July 2, 1979) was a hijacker on United Airlines Flight 175. The son of Ibrahim Almussallam Alghamdi, Ahmed came from Baljurshi in Baha Province of Saudi Arabia, which is the same town that Hamza al-Ghamdi and Ahmed al-Haznawi were from.[1][2]
A local official with the Red Crescent Society told the Boston Globe that Ahmed may have used a connection to the charity, to get support for his journey to jihad. The official said that it was "never clear if that would take Ahmed to Chechnya or to Afghanistan - it was all kept secret."[3] Ahmed's mother says that he called her two months prior to the attacks, and that he had visited during the previous Ramadan (December 2000).[2]
On September 19, 2008, As Sahab released a new video which includes approximately ten minutes of footage showing 9/11 hijacker Ahmed al-Ghamdi reciting his last will and testament. Ghamdi was one of the muscle hijackers aboard United Airlines Flight 175
In all, this video is nearly 1 1/2 hours. There is substantial footage of Ayman al-Zawahiri, Bin Laden's deputy. There also are a few clips of Bin Laden speaking about Palestine, which he says is a "great opportunity for mujahadeen who have been fighting in Iraq," speaking as though Al Qaeda has been doing well in Iraq lately (that is actually not the case, with foreign mujahadeen leaving in large numbers). The video also includes some old clips of Abdullah Azzam, who along with Bin Laden, established the Maktab al-Khidamat (Services Office) in 1984 for supporting the mujahadeen during the Soviet war in Afghanistan.
The video was released several days late, after technical problems with online forums and sites that Al Qaeda uses. This may mean that the organization Al Qaeda had previously with creating and disseminating videos and other material has been disrupted in some way. Adam Gadahn, a U.S. born Al Qaeda operative, has played a key role in the organizations media operations. There are unconfirmed reports that he was killed in a missile strike in North Waziristan, located in Pakistan along the Afghanistan border.