The son-in-law of

Ayman al-Zawahiri Ayman Mohammed Rabie al-Zawahiri (; 19 June 195131 July 2022) was an Egyptian-born pan-Islamism, pan-Islamist militant and physician who served as the second general emir of al-Qaeda from June 2011 until Killing of Ayman al-Zawahiri, his dea ...

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9/11 Report: Notes to Chapter 7.
August 2004 Abu Turab al-Urduni (''Abu Turab the Jordanian'') was a

Jordan Jordan, officially the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, is a country in the Southern Levant region of West Asia. Jordan is bordered by Syria to the north, Iraq to the east, Saudi Arabia to the south, and Israel and the occupied Palestinian ter ...

ian who has been described by the United States government as one of five individuals who were aware of the operational details of the

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, along with

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, Khalid Sheik Mohammed,

Ramzi bin al-Shibh Ramzi Mohammed Abdullah bin al-Shibh (; born May 1, 1972) is a Yemenis, Yemeni Terrorism, terrorist who served as al-Qaeda's communications officer. He has been detained by the United States in the Guantanamo Bay detention camp (NSGB) since 200 ...

, and

Mohammed Atef Mohammed Atef (; born Sobhi Abd Al Aziz Mohamed El Gohary Abu Sitta, also known as Abu Hafs al-Masri and al-Khabir; 1944 – November 2001) was an Egyptian militant and prominent military chief of al-Qaeda, and a deputy of Osama bin Laden, althou ...

. US intelligence reports indicated that he was killed by US troops in 2001.

Training

He has been described as the trainer of the "muscle" hijackers at the al-Matar complex and training them to disarm air marshals, physical fitness and basic English phrases. He also prepared them for truck bombing, blowing up buildings, and hijacking trains for

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, so they wouldn't be able to reveal their target if they were captured. At al-Faruq camp, he had each hijacker butcher a sheep and a camel with a Swiss army knife to prepare them for using their knives during the hijackings.

Aftermath

CNN reports anonymous government sources as believing that Abu Turab Al-Urduni had been killed by U.S. forces during the first stages of the war in Afghanistan.Todd, Brian.

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br>Voices of 9/11
March 31, 2006 In September 2006, Abu Turab was shown in a video released by as-Sahab that showed the training and preparations for the 2001 attacks. It also demonstrated that he had taught them how to falsify documents, and suggested that he had later died fighting in

Kandahar Kandahar is a city in Afghanistan, located in the south of the country on Arghandab River, at an elevation of . It is Afghanistan's second largest city, after Kabul, with a population of about 614,118 in 2015. It is the capital of Kandahar Pro ...

.Kuwaiti State News
Jazeera broadcasts video showing al-Qaeda leaders were planning attacks on September 11.
2006

References

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