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.
Muhammad al-Imadi
Mohammed Imady was born in Damascus on August 31, 1930 to Jawdat al-Imadi (1882-1958) and Yissra al-Hawasli (1898-1969). The Imadi family can be traced back to Bukhara, and earlier to Hijaz where it claims lineage to Abu Bakr al-Sidiq, the first successor of the Prophet. The first documented evidence of its presence in Damascus starts with the 16th century when Abd al-Rahman al-Imadi (1570-1641) was designated by the Ottoman Sultan as the Grand Mufti of Damascus. Subsequently, six additional descendants of Abd al-Rahman were also designated grand muftis. But by the time Mohammed Imady was born in the early twentieth century, the family's earlier glory had been largely forgotten, and the wealth, previously accumulated through land grants, largely dissipated. Imady studied law at the University of Damascus. In 1955, he was sent on a government scholarship to New York University (NYU) to pursue his higher education in economics. At NYU, he met and married (August 1956) Mildred Elaine Rippey (April 16, 1934) from Palisades NY. Imady received his Phd in 1960 with an honorary distinction and returned with his wife and daughter, Susan Sahar Imady (July 5, 1957), to Damascus.