Mohamed Atta
Mohamed Mohamed el-Amir Awad el-Sayed Atta ( ; ""  ; September 1, 1968 – September 11, 2001) was an Egyptian hijacker and one of the ringleaders of the September 11 attacks in which four United States commercial aircraft were commandeered with the intention of destroying specific civilian targets. He served as the hijacker-pilot of American Airlines Flight 11 and crashed the plane into the North Tower of the World Trade Center as part of the coordinated attacks. At 33 years of age, he was the oldest of the 19 hijackers who took part in the attacks.
Mohamed Mahmoud Ould Mohamedou
Mohamedou was born in Atar, Mauritania. He studied in Spain at the Lycée Français de Madrid where he obtained his Baccalaureate in Economic and Social Sciences, in France where he received a law degree at the Pantheon-Sorbonne University Paris I, and the United States, where he earned a Bachelor in International Relations at Hunter College in New York and a Master's and a Ph.D. in Political Science at the City University of New York Graduate School. In 1996-1997, he was Visiting Scholar at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies of Harvard University and in 1998 Research Associate at the Ralph Bunche Institute on the United Nations in New York.