Majed Mashaan Moqed
Born	Unknown Saudi Arabia
Died	September 11, 2001 The Pentagon, United States

Majed Mashaan Moqed (Arabic: ماجد مشعان موقد, also transliterated Moqued) was one of five men named by the FBI to be hijackers of American Airlines Flight 77 in the September 11, 2001 Terrorist Attack. Since the announcement however, it has been pointed out that "Moqed" is not an Arabic surname, but rather a Hebrew word meaning 'stake' or 'focal point'. ^[1] His aliases as reported by the FBI included Majed M.GH Moqed and Majed Moqed. Majed Moqed - http://www. ... September 11 is the 254th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (255th in leap years). ... 2001: A Space Odyssey. ... The Pentagon is the headquarters of the United States Department of Defense, located at 48 N. Rotary Road, Arlington, Virginia 22211 (Map). ... The Arabic language (Arabic: ‎ translit: ), or simply Arabic (Arabic: ‎ translit: ), is the largest member of the Semitic branch of the Afro-Asiatic language family (classification: South Central Semitic) and is closely related to Hebrew and Aramaic. ... Transliteration is a mapping from one system of writing into another. ... The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is the federal criminal investigative and intelligence agency, which is the principal investigative arm of the United States Department of Justice (DOJ). ... The September 11, 2001 attacks were carried out by 19 hijackers, with planning and organization of the attacks involving numerous additional members of al-Qaeda. ... Security camera image showing American Airlines Flight 77 (far right) just before impact. ... The World Trade Center on fire The September 11, 2001 attacks were a series of coordinated terrorist attacks against the United States on September 11, 2001. ... Hebrew (עִבְרִית or עברית, ‘Ivrit) is a Semitic language of the Afro-Asiatic language family spoken by more than seven million people in Israel and Jewish communities around the world. ...

History

Moqed was a law student from the small town of Annakhil, Saudi Arabia (west of Medina), studying at King Fahd University's Faculty of Administration and Economics, before he dropped out was apparently recruited into al-Qaeda in 1999 along with friend Satam al-Suqami, with whom he had earlier shared a college room. Medina (Arabic: ‎ or المدينة ; also transliterated into English as Madinah) is a city in the Hejaz region of western Saudi Arabia. ... King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals (abbreviated as KFUPM or UPM)(Arabic:جامعة الملك فهد للبترول Ùˆ المعادن - short:(جامعة البترول) is a public university in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia. ... Al-Qaeda (Arabic: القاعدة, the foundation or the base) is the name given to a worldwide network of militant Islamist organizations under the leadership of Osama bin Laden. ... 1999 (MCMXCIX) was a common year starting on Friday, and was designated the International Year of Older Persons by the United Nations. ... This photograph of Satam al-Suqami was released by the FBI in the days following the attack. ...

The two trained at Khalden, a large training facility near Kabul that was run by Ibn al-Shaykh al-Libi. A friend in Saudi Arabia claimed he was last seen there in 2000, before leaving to study English in the United States. ^[2] In November 2000, Moqed and al-Suqami flew into Iran from Bahrain together. The Khalden training camp was a military training camp in Afghanistan that is alleged to have been run by al Qaeda. ... A view of the old city Kabul Kabul (, Kâbl, in Persian کابل) is the capital and largest city of Afghanistan with a population variously estimated at 2 to 4 million. ... This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ... This article is about the year 2000. ...

Some time late in 2000, Moqed traveled to the United Arab Emirates, where he purchased traveler's cheques presumed to have been paid for by 9/11 financier Mustafa Ahmed al-Hawsawi. Five other hijackers also passed through the UAE and purchased travellers cheques, including Wail al-Shehri, Saeed Alghamdi, Hamza Alghamdi, Ahmed al-Haznawi and Ahmed al-Nami. This article is about the year 2000. ... A travellers cheque (US travelers check or travelers cheque) is a preprinted, fixed-amount cheque designed to allow the person signing it to make an unconditional payment to someone else as a result of having paid the issuer (usually a bank) for that privilege. ... Mustafa Ahmed al-Hawsawi is said to be to be the true identity of Mustafa Muhammad Ahmad, pseudonymous paymaster behind the September 11, 2001 attacks against New York and Washington D.C. He is believed to have been captured by authorities in Pakistan in March, 2003, but no information regarding... This photograph of Wail al-Shehri was captured by an ATM just days before the 9/11 attack. ... This photograph of Saeed al-Ghamdi was released by the FBI in the days following the attack. ... This photograph of Hamza al-Ghamdi was released by the FBI in the days following the attack. ... This photograph of Ahmed al-Haznawi was released by the FBI in the days following the attack. ... Ahmed Abdullah al-Nami (احمد النامي, also transliterated Alnami or al-Nawi) was named by the FBI as one of the hijackers of United Airlines flight 93 as part of the September 11, 2001 Terrorist Attack. ...

Moqed then moved in with hijackers Salem al-Hazmi, Abdulaziz al-Omari and Khalid al-Mihdhar in an apartment in Paterson, New Jersey. This is a photo of the alleged Salem al-Hazmi, released by the FBI. Salem al-Hazmi, (Arabic: سالم الحازمي, also transliterated Alhazmi) was one of five men named on September 14, 2001 by the FBI as hijackers of American Airlines flight 77 in the September 11, 2001 Terrorist Attack. ... This photograph of Abdulaziz al-Omari was released by the FBI in the days following the attack. ... This photograph of Khalid al-Midhar was released by the FBI in the days following the attack. ... The skyline of Paterson, New Jersey, showing the canyon of the Passaic River in the foreground. ...

2001

According to the FBI, Moqed first arrived in the United States on May 2, 2001. The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is a Federal police force which is the principal investigative arm of the United States Department of Justice (DOJ). ... May 2 is the 122nd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (123rd in leap years). ... 2001: A Space Odyssey. ...

In March 2001, Moqed, Hani Hanjour, al-Hazmi and Ahmed al-Ghamdi rented a minivan and travelled to Fairfield, Connecticut. There they met a contact in the parking lot of a local convenience store who provided them with false IDs. (This was possibly Eyad Alrababah, a Jordanian charged with document fraud). This photograph of Hani Hanjour was released by the FBI in the days following the attack. ... This photograph of Ahmed al_Ghamdi was released by the FBI in the days following the attack. ... Fairfield is a town located in Fairfield County, Connecticut, United States, about five miles southwest of Bridgeport on the Gold Coast of Connecticut. ... Identity document forgery is the process by which identity documents issued by governing bodies are copied and/or modified by persons not authorized to create such documents or engage in such modifications, for the purpose of deceiving those who would view the documents about the identity or status of the... Born in Jordan, Eyad Mustafa Alrababah was a Jordanian citizen arrested following the September 11, 2001 Terrorist Attack. ...

Moqed was one of the five hijackers who asked for a state identity card on August 2, 2001. On August 24, both al-Mihdhar and Moqed tried to purchase flight tickets from the American Airlines online ticket-merchant, but had technical difficulties resolving their address and gave up.^[3] August 2 is the 214th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (215th in leap years), with 151 days remaining. ... 2001: A Space Odyssey. ... American Airlines and American Eagle aircraft at San Juan American Airlines is the largest airline in the world in terms of total passengers transported and fleet size, and the second-largest airline in the world (behind Air France-KLM) in terms of total operating revenues. ...

Hani Hanjour and Majed Moqed

Employees at Advance Travel Service in Totowa, New Jersey later claimed that Moqed and Hanjour had both purchased tickets there. They claimed that Hani Hanjour spoke very little English, and Moqed did most of the speaking. Hanjour requested a seat in the front row of the airplane. Their credit card failed to authorize, and after being told the agency didn't accept personal cheques, the pair left to withdraw cash. They returned shortly afterwards and paid $1842.25 total in cash. ^[4] This claim is contradicted by other claims that Hanjour never had a ticket for the flight. Image File history File links HanjiMajedATM.jpg File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... Image File history File links HanjiMajedATM.jpg File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... Map of Totowa in Passaic County Totowa is a borough located in Passaic County, New Jersey. ... Typical cancelled personal cheque as used in the U.S. A cheque, or (in American English) check, thought to have developed from Persian Ú†Ùƒ chek, is a negotiable instrument instructing a financial institution to pay a specific amount of a specific currency from a specific demand account held in the maker...

During this time, Moqed was staying in Room 343 of the Valencia Motel.

Three days later he was seen on an ATM camera with Hani Hanjour. After the attacks, employees at an adult video store, Adult Lingerie Center, in Beltsville claimed that Moqed had been in the store three times, although there were no transactions slips that confirmed this.^[5] An NCR interior, multi-function ATM in the USA Smaller indoor ATMs dispense money inside convenience stores and other busy areas, such as this off-premise Wincor Nixdorf mono-function ATM in Sweden An on-premise NCR interior, multi-function through-the-wall ATM at a CIBC branch in Canada... This photograph of Hani Hanjour was released by the FBI in the days following the attack. ... Pornographic movies Pornography (from Greek πόρνη (porni) prostitute and γραφή (grafi) writing) (more informally referred to as porn or porno) is the representation of the human body or sexual activity with the goal of sexual arousal. ... Beltsville is a census-designated place located in Prince Georges County, Maryland. ...

Attack

According to the 9/11 Commission Report, Moqed set off the metal detector at the airport and was screened with a hand-wand. He passed the cursory inspection, and was able board his flight at 7:50. He was seated in 12A, adjacent to al-Mihdhar who was in 12B. Moqed helped to hijack the plane and assisted Hani Hanjour in crashing the plane into the Pentagon at 9:37 A.M., killing 189 people (64 on the plane and 125 on the ground). The National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States, also known as the 9/11 Commission, was set up in late 2002 to prepare a full and complete account of the circumstances surrounding the September 11, 2001 attacks including preparedness for and the immediate response to the attacks. ... This photograph of Hani Hanjour was released by the FBI in the days following the attack. ... The Pentagon is the headquarters of the United States Department of Defense, located at 48 N. Rotary Road, Arlington, Virginia 22211 (Map). ...

After the attacks his family told Arab News that Moqed had been a fan of sports, and enjoyed travelling. Additionally, the U.S. announced it had found a "Kingdom of Saudi Arabia Student Identity Card" bearing Moqed's name in the rubble surrounding the Pentagon. They also stated that it appeared to have been a forgery^[6] ArabNews is the leading English language source of news presented from an Arab perspective. ...

Notes and References

External links

• The Final 9/11 Commission Report
• Photo gallery