Mohamed Atta
Atta was born in 1968 in a small town in Egypt's Nile Delta. He was 10 years old when he moved with his family to the Abdeen section of Cairo. Atta studied architecture at Cairo University, graduating in 1990, and continued his studies in Germany at the Hamburg University of Technology. In Hamburg, Atta became involved with the al-Quds Mosque, where he met Marwan al-Shehhi, Ramzi bin al-Shibh, and Ziad Jarrah, together forming the Hamburg cell. Atta disappeared from Germany for periods of time, spending some time in Afghanistan, including several months in late 1999 and early 2000 when he met Osama bin Laden and other top al-Qaeda leaders. Atta and the other Hamburg cell members were recruited by bin Laden and Khalid Sheikh Mohammed for the "planes operation" in the United States. Atta returned to Hamburg in February 2000, and began inquiring about flight training in the United States.
Awad Saud Awad
Awad Saud Awad was born in 1943 in Job Josef – Safad in Mandatory Palestine. His parents left their home to Syria in 1948 because of the 1948 war. He lived in Khan Al-Shih camp which the UNRWA take the responsibility about it. He got the bachelor of Arts – History -from Damascus University in 1971. In 1970 he got married to Palestinian woman from Lebanon Mariam Al-Hamed. They lived first three years in Khan Al-Shih camp till the war of 1973, they left the camp and lived about 6 years in Joubar and then moved to Zamalka near Damascus, they have 5 children two boys and 3 girls. He worked as a teacher in the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) in Damascus – Syria from 1968 to 1996, where he obliged to resign from his work because of the bad treatment from the administration of UNRWA in Syria.