Fawaz bin Mohammed al-Nashimi (, ; died June 2004), also known as Turki bin Fuheid al-Muteiry (, ), was a member of

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and was identified by the group as the

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of the

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.'Al-Qaeda video' of 20th hijacker
, ''BBC News'', June 21, 2006. Accessed June 21, 2006 Born in Saudi Arabia, Nashimi participated in the 2004 Khobar massacre and successfully escaped Saudi security forces. He was killed by Saudi forces in June 2004. On June 21, 2006, a US intelligence contractor in

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, IntelCenter, released a 54-minute Al-Qaeda video in which Nashimi justifies attacking the

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. Several days before on June 13, an audio webpost supposedly from Al-Qaeda claimed that Nashimi was to have been the 20th hijacker on

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, but was unable to participate at the planned time.

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