Nawaf al-Hazmi (9 August 1976-11 September 2001) was an al-Qaeda member from Saudi Arabia and 9/11 hijacker. Along with Khalid al-Mihdhar, he stayed in San Diego, California, and he was intended to be one of the hijacker pilots (Saudi agent Omar al-Bayoumi paid for Mihdhar and Hazmi to have flight lessons), but he was later demoted to a "muscle hijacker". He died when American Airlines Flight 77 was crashed into the Pentagon.
Biography[]
Nawaf al-Hazmi was born in 9 August 1976 in Mecca, Saudi Arabia to a Sunni Muslim Arab family, and in 1995 al-Hazmi and his friend Khalid al-Mihdhar left their homes to fight in the Bosnian War with the Bosnian Mujahideen before fighting alongside the Taliban against the Northern Alliance in the Afghan Civil War during the 1990s. His brother Salem al-Hazmi joined Nawaf as a member of the al-Qaeda group around this time, being trained in Afghanistan with his brother. al-Hazmi attended the 2000 summit of al-Qaeda leaders in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia to plan out the 9/11 attacks, and he was one of the men chosen as "muscle hijackers" to assist in taking over planes and crashing them into American targets. With extensive fighting experience, Nawaf was chosen by Osama bin Laden to hijack a plane and destroy the World Trade Center and other key governmental and economic buildings, and he helped Hani Hanjour in hijacking American Airlines Flight 77 and crashing it into the Pentagon.
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