Khalid al mihdhar biography of albert

Saudi terrorist and 9/11 hijacker (1975–2001)

Khalid Muhammad Abdallah al-Mihdhar (Arabic: خالد المحضار, romanized: Khālid al-Miḥḍār; also transliterated as AL Mihdhar; 16 May 1975^[a] – 11 September 2001) was a Saudi terrorist 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.

Al-Mihdhar was born in Saudi Arabia. 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.

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Three hijackers carried passports with indicators of Islamic extremism linked to al Qaeda; two others carried passports manipulated in a.

Al-Mihdhar arrived in California with fellow hijacker Nawaf al-Hazmi in January 2000, after traveling to Malaysia for the Kuala Lumpur al-Qaeda Summit. At this point, the CIA was aware of al-Mihdhar, and he was photographed in Malaysia with another al-Qaeda member who was involved in the USS Cole bombing.

The CIA did not inform the FBI when it learned that al-Mihdhar and al-Hazm