 a former law student, majed mashaan ghanem moqed (, ; also transliterated as moqued) (june 18, 1977  â september 11, 2001) was one of five hijackers of american airlines flight 77 as part of the september 11 attacks. a saudi, moqed was studying law at a university in saudi arabia before joining al-qaeda in 1999 and being chosen to participate in the 9/11 attacks. he arrived in the united states in may 2001 and helped with the planning of how the attacks would be carried out. on september 11, 2001, moqed boarded american airlines flight 77 and assisted in the hijacking of the plane so that it could be crashed into the pentagon. ==biography== moqed was a law student from the small town of al-nakhil, saudi arabia (west of medina), studying at king fahd university's faculty of administration and economics. before he dropped out, he was apparently recruited into al-qaeda in 1999 along with friend satam al-suqami, with whom he had earlier shared a college room.  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.arab news, 9/22/01 in november 2000, moqed and suqami flew into iran from bahrain together. 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 al-ghamdi, hamza al-ghamdi, ahmed al-haznawi and ahmed al-nami. known as al-ahlaf during the preparations,videotape of recorded will of abdulaziz al-omari and others moqed then moved in with hijackers salem al-hazmi, abdulaziz al-omari and khalid al-mihdhar in an apartment in paterson, new jersey. ===2001=== according to the fbi, moqed first arrived in the united states on may 2, 2001. i
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