Fawaz bin Mohammed al-Nashimi ( ar, فواز بن محمد النشمي, ; died June 2004), also known as Turki bin Fuheid al-Muteiry (, ), was a member of

Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula ( ar-at, تنظيم القاعدة في جزيرة العرب, Tanẓīm al-Qā‘idah fī Jazīrat al-‘Arab, lit=Organization of the Base in the Arabian Peninsula or , ''Tanẓīm Qā‘idat al-Jihād fī Jaz� ...

and was identified by the group as the

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of the

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.'Al-Qaeda video' of 20th hijacker
, ''BBC News'', June 21, 2006. Accessed June 21, 2006 Born in Saudi Arabia, Nashimi participated in the

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and successfully escaped Saudi security forces. He was killed by Saudi forces in June 2004. On June 21, 2006, a US intelligence contractor in

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, released a 54-minute Al-Qaeda video in which Nashimi justifies attacking the

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. Several days before on June 13, an audio webpost supposedly from Al-Qaeda claimed that Nashimi was to have been the 20th hijacker on

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, but was unable to participate at the planned time.

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