Abu Turab al-Urduni () was a Jordanian jihadist. He was the son-in-law of

Ayman al-Zawahiri Ayman Mohammed Rabie al-Zawahiri (June 19, 1951 – July 31, 2022) was an Egyptian-born terrorist and physician who served as the second emir of al-Qaeda from June 16, 2011, until his death. Al-Zawahiri graduated from Cairo University with ...

9/11 Commission The National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States, also known as the 9/11 Commission, was set up on November 27, 2002, "to prepare a full and complete account of the circumstances surrounding the September 11 attacks", includin ...

9/11 Report: Notes to Chapter 7.
August 2004 who has been described by the United States government as one of five individuals who were aware of the operational details of the September 11th attacks, along with

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Khalid Sheik Mohammed Khalid Sheikh Mohammed (sometimes also spelled Shaikh; also known by at least 50 pseudonyms; born March 1, 1964 or April 14, 1965) is a Pakistani Islamist militant held by the United States at the Guantanamo Bay detention camp under terrorism-re ...

Ramzi bin al-Shibh Ramzi Mohammed Abdullah bin al-Shibh ( ar, رمزي محمد عبدالله بن الشيبة; also transliterated as bin al-Shaibah; born 1 May 1972Mohammed Atef Mohammed Atef ( ar, محمد عاطف, ; born Sobhi Mohammed Abu Sitta Al-Gohary, also known as Abu Hafs al-Masri) was the military chief of al-Qaeda, and was considered one of Osama bin Laden's two deputies, the other being Ayman Al Zawahiri, ...

. US intelligence reports indicated that he was killed by US troops in 2001.

Training

He has been described as the trainer of the "muscle" hijackers at the

al-Matar complex According to American counter-terrorism analysts the Al-Matar complex was an Afghan training camp run by al Qaeda. In 1999, Mohammed Atef met repeatedly with Bin Laden and Khalid Sheikh Mohammed at the Al-Matar complex to discuss possible targe ...

and training them to disarm air marshals, physical fitness and basic English phrases. He also prepared them for truck bombing, blowing up buildings, and hijacking trains for

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, so they wouldn't be able to reveal their target if they were captured. At

al-Faruq camp The Al Farouq training camp, also called ''Jihad Wel al-Farouq'', was a Taliban and Al-Qaeda training camp near Kandahar, Afghanistan. Camp attendees received small-arms training, map-reading, orientation, explosives training, and other training. N ...

, he had each hijacker butcher a sheep and a camel with a Swiss army knife to prepare them for using their knives during the hijackings.

Aftermath

CNN reports anonymous government sources as believing that Abu Turab Al-Urduni had been killed by U.S. forces during the first stages of the war in Afghanistan.Todd, Brian.

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br>Voices of 9/11
March 31, 2006 In September 2006, Abu Turab was shown in a video released by

as-Sahab As-Sahab Media (Arabic: السحاب, "The Cloud") is the official media wing of Al-Qaeda’s core leadership based in Pakistan and Afghanistan. It produces media featuring original sermons and speeches by senior Al-Qaeda commanders as well as f ...

that showed the training and preparations for the 2001 attacks. It also demonstrated that he had taught them how to falsify documents, and suggested that he had later died fighting in

Kandahar Kandahar (; Kandahār, , Qandahār) is a List of cities in Afghanistan, city in Afghanistan, located in the south of the country on the Arghandab River, at an elevation of . It is Afghanistan's second largest city after Kabul, with a population ...

.Kuwaiti State News
Jazeera broadcasts video showing al-Qaeda leaders were planning attacks on September 11.
2006

References

Jordanian al-Qaeda members Year of birth missing 2001 deaths {{Jordan-paramilitary-bio-stub