Majed Moqed

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Majed Moqed

Majed Moqed
Majed Moqed
American Airlines
Flight 11
Mohamed Atta
Abdul Aziz al-Omari
Wail M. al-Shehri
Waleed M. al-Shehri
Satam M. A. al-Suqami
United Airlines
Flight 175
Marwan al-Shehhi
Fayez Banihammad
Ahmed al-Ghamdi
Hamza al-Ghamdi
Mohand al-Shehri
American Airlines
Flight 77
Hani Hanjour
Salem al-Hazmi
Nawaf al-Hazmi
Majed Moqed
Khalid al-Mihdhar
United Airlines
Flight 93
Ziad Jarrah
Saeed al Ghamdi
Ahmed al-Haznawi
Ahmed al-Nami

Majed Moqed was a hijacker on American Airlines Flight 77, which crashed into the Pentagon. Moqed was from Saudi Arabia, where he attended King Fahd University. His father was head of the Baniauf tribe.

"Friends have said that he was known for his desire to join a jihad and was a relative of an extremist leader who took part in the 1979 storming of Mecca's Grand Mosque, Islam's most holy shrine."[1]

Timeline

2000

  • November 20 - Majed Moqed applied for and received a two-year B-1/B-2 (tourist/business) visa in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. His application was incomplete. He claimed to be a “student” but left blank the line on which he was asked to supply the street address of his present school. The officer who adjudicated his visa said they did not interview Moqed: “I would have written some notes on the application form if I had.” He was not interviewed because, according to the officer who issued the visa, “We only interviewed Saudis if there was a previous denial of a visa application or if there was something wrong with the application.” Incompleteness by itself evidently did not trigger an interview.[2]

2001

  • May 2 - Arrived at Dulles International Airport, with Ahmed al-Ghamdi, on a flight from London originating in Dubai.[3] Each was processed by different immigration inspectors. Moqed was admitted as a tourist for six months.[2]
  • May - Al Ghamdi and Moqed moved into an apartment with Nawaf al-Hazmi and Hani Hanjour.[4]
  • July - Moqed and Salem al Hazmi acquired USA identification cards.[2]
  • Late July - Moqed reportedly stopped at the Adult Lingerie Center in Beltsville (Maryland, which also has adult videos. He stayed there ten minutes, looked through some magazines, and browsed the videos, but did not buy anything. He returned at lease once again. The manager thought maybe that Moqed was a cop.[5]
  • August - Ahmed al Ghamdi and Moqed obtained USA identification cards.[2]
  • August 2 - Ahmed al Ghamdi, Moqed, Salem al Hazmi, and Omari acquired Virginia identification cards, with help of Mihdhar and Hanjour. All of these identifications were obtained fraudulently.[2]
  • September 7 - Salem and Nawaf al Hazmi, along with Moqed, requested that their Virginia identification cards be reissued.[2]

References

  1. ↑ "Hijackers were from wealthy Saudi families", The Sunday Times, October 29, 2001.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 Staff Monograph on 9/11 and Terrorist Travel. 9/11 Commission (2004).
  3. ↑ http://www.9-11commission.gov/report/911Report_Notes.htm
  4. ↑ http://www.9-11commission.gov/report/911Report_Notes.htm
  5. ↑ "Cracking the Terror Code", Newsweek, October 15, 2001.
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