The passengers defeated the trained hijackers assigned to Flight 93

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While practicing for his mission, Ziad Jarrah conducted an inspection at the Airborne Systems Flight School in Ft.Lauderdale, Florida August 17. Lebanese citizen Jarrah will continue to drive United Airlines Flight 93 was designed to hit the U.S. Capitol. Due to the provocation of passengers, the plane crashed in Shanksville, Pennsylvania.

Jarrah was the first person in the Hamburg team to enter the United States. He settled in Venice, Florida, and began flight training there. He is the only pilot married to a German national of Turkish descent. During his stay in the United States, Jarrah visited his wife five times in Germany, and constantly communicated with her via phone and email. According to the interrogation conducted by KSM and Ramzi Bin al-Shibh (his interlocutor in Germany), Mohammed Atta was worried about communication. Atta’s real concern was that Jarrah might not be able to get rid of his wife, which would be too painful for him to continue his suicide flight. But in the end, these international calls and e-mails opened a window to the lies of greater power to intercept communications.

Ziad Jarrah should prove that intelligence gathering needs to be an overall effort and very complicated. If his conversation is monitored, National Security Agency I will hear husband and wife talk and talk about daily life in German, which may not arouse suspicion. Only Jarrah’s connections with Bin al-Shibh and others can connect him to any conspiracy, including his attendance at the Al-Quds Mosque in Hamburg. His travels to Pakistan and Afghanistan were also signs of radicalization, both of which were obscured by the passport he used to enter the United States.

Among the four hijacking pilots, Jarrah is the most westernized. He came from a secular background in Lebanon and a Christian school, and then moved to Germany to attend university. He often took vacations as a child (and would continue to take vacations with his wife while in the United States), and he was the best English speaker of the four and the best student. Between August 17 and September 5, he rented planes in Florida 11 times to practice his pilot skills.

So why did UA 93 flight prove to be the only plane that failed to reach its intended target, was recaptured by passengers, and was forced to crash?

Some people say that this is the composition of the Jarrah team, he has only three instead of four muscular men (because the 20th hijacker and his fourth were denied entry into the United States). But more likely, his flight to Newark was delayed for 40 minutes on the ground, which made his flight more vulnerable. When it took off, Mohamed Atta was only four minutes away from the North Tower that crashed into the World Trade Center. Thirty minutes later, Marwan al-Shehhi hit the South Tower. Even for those who can’t believe what they have seen and heard, this indicates that terrorist plots and more attacks may occur. After Jarrah’s team hijacked Flight 93, the flight attendants and passengers started making calls from the back of the plane. They learned that a large-scale terrorist attack was taking place and concluded that they must take action to shoot down the plane: it was not hijacked and landed and requested. They are flying suicide. Then they took action and finally entered the cockpit and forced the plane to land.

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