the leaders,
the pilots.
not quite cavemen in education and training..
in fact most had the privilege of education and wealth..
not quite caveman.. well educated men from wealthy backgrounds..Bin Laden attended the "élite" secular Al-Thager Model School.[8] Bin Laden studied economics and business administration[10] at King Abdulaziz University. Bin Laden is antisemitic, and has delivered warnings against alleged Jewish conspiracies (He also writes poetry)
Osama bin Laden was born in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.[5] In a 1998 interview, he gave his birth date as March 10, 1957.[6] His father Muhammed Awad bin Laden was a wealthy businessman with close ties to the Saudi royal family
Dr. Ayman Muhammad Rabaie al-Zawahiri Al-Zawahiri is a qualified surgeon,
Ayman al-Zawahiri was born to a prominent upper middle class family in Maadi, Egypt, a suburb of Cairo, and was reportedly a studious youth. His father, Mohammed Rabie al-Zawahiri, was a pharmacologist and a chemistry professor[8] coming from a large family of doctors and scholars, while his mother, Umayma Azzam, came from a wealthy, politically active clan. He excelled in school, loved poetry, "hated violent sports"
Khalid Sheikh Mohammed attended Chowan University, in Murfreesboro, North Carolina, for a semester (beginning in 1983) before transferring to the North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University and completing a degree in mechanical engineering
Khalid Sheikh Mohammed after the Afghan jihad went to work for an electronics company, working on communications equipment. In 1988, he helped to head a non-governmental organization, moved to Qatar to work in a government office as a project engineer for the Qatari Ministry of Electricity and Water
the pilots.
Atta studied architecture at Cairo University, graduating in 1990, and continued his studies in Hamburg, Germany at the Technical University of Hamburg
Atta arrived in the United States, together with Marwan al-Shehhi, in June 2000. Both ended up in south Florida at Huffman Aviation where they entered the Accelerated Pilot Program. Atta and al-Shehhi obtained instrument ratings in November 2000, and continued training on simulators and flight training
Marwan al-Shehhi After graduating from high school in 1995, al-Shehhi enlisted in the Emirati military he was admitted into a military scholarship program that allowed him to continue his education in Germany.
after completing a German course al-Shehhi enrolled in the University of Bonn,.. returned to Hamburg to study shipbuilding.
Al-Shehhi posed as a body guard of a "Saudi Arabian royal family member" (really Atta) while the two of them took flying lessons in Venice, Florida. They also logged hundreds of hours on a Boeing 727 flight simulator. They received their licenses by December 2000.
Hani Hanjour born to a food-supply businessman in Ta’if, Saudi Arabia, located near Mecca. During his youth, Hanjour wanted to drop out of school to become a flight attendant, Hanjour first came to the United States in 1991 to study English at the University of Arizona's Center for English as a Second Language
Hanjour returned to the United States, heading to Oakland, California to study English and attend flight school.[5][notes 1] Hanjour was admitted to the Sierra Academy of Aeronautics, but before beginning flight training, the academy arranged for Hanjour to take intensive English courses at Holy Names College in Oakland. Hanjour completed the English program in August,
Hanjour began advanced simulator training in Mesa Arizona. taking flight lessons Arizona Aviation, In addition to flight training at Arizona Aviation, Hanjour enrolled in flight simulator classes at the Sawyer School of Aviation, Hanjour gained his FAA commercial pilot certificate in April 1999, getting a "satisfactory" rating from the examiner.
Ziad Jarrah one of the masterminds of the September 11th attacks, was born in Mazraa, Lebanon, to a wealthy family His parents sent him to a Catholic school in Beirut, La Sagesse, began studying aerospace engineering at the Fachhochschule (University of Applied Sciences) in Hamburg and eventually had lessons in close-quarters combat
he enrolled full-time at the Florida Flight Training Center in Venice obtained his license to fly small planes, and began training to fly large jets late in 2000.
not quite cavemen in education and training..
in fact most had the privilege of education and wealth..