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Ramzi Binalshibh
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Ramzi Binalshibh

Born May 1, 1972 - Present
Yemen and Germany
Ramzi Binalshibh (Arabic: Ø±Ù…Ø²ÙŠ Ø¨Ù† Ø§Ù„Ø´ÙŠØ¨Ø©; also
transliterated as Ramzi bin al-Shibh, Ramzi bin al-Shaibah, and several
other ways; born May 1, 1972 [1]), is a citizen of Yemen and according
to the United States, Germany, and several other countries, a key
al-Qaeda member who helped in planning the September 11, 2001 attacks.
He was the first to be publicly identified as the "20th hijacker," of
whom there were several individuals thought to have consecutively been
tasked to fill out the single missing slot among the four terrorist
teams. Since 2002, Binalshibh has been a prisoner of the U.S., at an
undisclosed location, but most likely thought to be at Guantanamo Bay,
Cuba.

Ramzi Binalshibh used the name Ramzi Omar while he was in Germany. He
claimed that he was a political refugee from Sudan and requested
political asylum in 1995. The judge refused his asylum request and
Binalshibh returned to the Hadramaut region of Yemen. Binalshibh later
received a German visa under his real name.

The Hamburg cell member was refused an entry visa to the United States
four times prior to the attacks, where he allegedly wanted to join the
19 hijackers. According to the 9/11 commission, this refusal of a visa
was out of general US concern that people from Yemen would illegally
overstay their visit and seek work in the US. His friend, Zakariyah
Essabar, was also denied visas.

Binalshibh was the first to be publicly identified as the "20th
hijacker," of whom there were several individuals, including Essabar,
who were thought to have consecutively been tasked to fill out the
single missing slot among the four terrorist teams. The one spot was
never filled, and consequently United Flight 93 ended up short by one
hijacker, which is believed to have led in part to the success of the
passenger revolt, and which in turn resulted in the crash of the plane
into the ground near Shanksville, Pennsylvania.

According to al-Jazeera reporter Yosri Fouda's documentary Top Secret:
The Road to September 11, three weeks prior to the attacks, Saeed
al-Ghamdi is believed to have used the name 'Abdul Rahman' to message
Ramzi Binalshibh (who was posing as a girlfriend) online, where he
messaged

The first semester commences in three weeks. Two high schools and two
universities. ... This summer will surely be hot ...19 certificates for
private education and four exams. Regards to the professor. Goodbye.

This was said to be a reference to two military targets and two
civilian, 19 hijackers. [2]

Similarly, Binalshibh later said that Mohammed Atta had phoned him on
the morning of August 29th.

He said, "A friend of mine gave me a puzzle and I want you to help me
out." I said to him, "Is this the time for puzzles, Mohammed?" He said,
"Yes, I know, but no one else but you could help me." He said, "Two
sticks, a dash and cake with a stick down. What is it?" I said, "Did
you wake me up just to tell me this?" As it turns out, two sticks is
the number 11. A dash is a dash. And cake with a stick down is the
number nine. And that was September 11. [3]

After January 14, 2002 Ramzi Binalshibh was found to be among five
suspected al-Qaeda members delivering what United States Attorney
General John Ashcroft described as "martyrdom messages from suicide
terrorists" on five discovered videos. NBC News said that the five
videos had been recorded after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks in the
United States.

On January 17, 2002 the FBI published the first Most Wanted Terrorists
Seeking Information list (now known as the FBI's "Seeking Information -
War on Terrorism" list), in order to profile the five wanted terrorists
about whom very little was known, but who were suspected of plotting
additional terrorist attacks in martyrdom operations. [4] (see current
version displaying photos of five terrorists on the remaining martyrdom
videos FBI list, as of June 2006) [5]

Ramzi Binalshibh was one of the four known names among the five. The
other three are still featured in compiled video clips, in order of
appearance, Muhammad Sa'id Ali Hasan, Abd al-Rahim, and Khalid Ibn
Muhammad Al-Juhani. [6] [7] [8] The fifth was identified a week later
as Abderraouf Jdey, alias: Al Rauf Bin Al Habib Bin Yousef Al-Jiddi.

Ashcroft said the five videotapes, shown by the FBI without sound, had
been recovered from the rubble of the home of Mohammad Atef outside of
Kabul, Afghanistan. Ashcroft called upon people worldwide to help
"identify, locate and incapacitate terrorists who are suspected of
planning additional attacks against innocent civilians." "These men
could be anywhere in the world," he said. The sound was left out to
guard against the possibility that the messages contained signals for
other terrorists. Ashcroft added that an analysis of the audio
suggested "the men may be trained and prepared to commit future suicide
terrorist acts." Ashcroft said not much was known about any of them
except Binalshibh.

Binalshibh was captured in Pakistan on September 11, 2002, after a
gunbattle in Karachi. On September 14, 2002 he was subsequently turned
over to the United States, which is holding him in an undisclosed
location, possibly Guantanamo Bay.

He is wanted by German courts where he shared a Hamburg apartment with
Mohammed Atta, the suspected ringleader of the September 11 hijackers.
However, Germany has deferred a request for extradition pending
resolution of Binalshibh's legal status by the United States.

Look up the other filthy dozen yourself, they include the guy who
planned the Bali murders of 44 auzzies, the man who planned the attack
on the USS Cole..ect..ect..ect.