Editing Majed Moqed (section)

==Early life and activities==
Moqed was a law student from the small town of Al-Nakhil, [[Saudi Arabia]] (west of [[Medina]]), studying at [[King Fahd University]]'s Faculty of Administration and Economics.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://coop.vaed.uscourts.gov/moussaoui/exhibits/prosecution/PE00114.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211015132733/https://coop.vaed.uscourts.gov/moussaoui/exhibits/prosecution/PE00114.html |archive-date=2021-10-15 |title=PE00114 |publisher=United States District Court — Eastern District of Virginia |access-date= 2023-10-27 |url-status=live }}</ref> Before he dropped out, he was apparently recruited into [[al-Qaeda]] in 1999 along with friend [[Satam al-Suqami]], a hijacker of [[American Airlines Flight 11]], with whom he had earlier shared a college room.<ref>{{cite web |author=John J. Lumpkin |url=http://www.globalsecurity.org/security/profiles/majed_moqed.htm |title=Majed Moqed |publisher=Globalsecurity.org |access-date=2012-01-06 |archive-date=2011-09-28 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110928041915/http://www.globalsecurity.org/security/profiles/majed_moqed.htm |url-status=dead }}</ref>{{Failed verification|date=July 2023}}

The two trained at Khalden, a large training facility near [[Kabul]] that was run by [[Ibn al-Shaykh al-Libi]]. A friend in [[Saudi Arabia]] claimed he was last seen there in 2000, before leaving to study English in the United States.<ref>[http://www.cooperativeresearch.org/timeline/2001/arabnews092201.html Arab News, 9/22/01]{{Dead link|date=March 2020 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> In November 2000, Moqed and al-Suqami flew into [[Iran]] from [[Bahrain]] together.{{cn|date=September 2024}}

Some time late in 2000, Moqed traveled to the [[United Arab Emirates]], where he purchased [[traveler's cheques]] presumed to have been paid for by 9/11 financier [[Mustafa Ahmed al-Hawsawi]]. Five other hijackers also passed through the UAE and purchased travellers cheques{{cn|date=September 2024}}, including [[Wail al-Shehri]], [[Saeed al-Ghamdi]], [[Hamza al-Ghamdi]], [[Ahmed al-Haznawi]] and [[Ahmed al-Nami]].

Known as ''al-Ahlaf'' during the preparations,<ref name="willalOmari">Videotape of recorded will of Abdulaziz al-Omari and others</ref> Moqed then moved in with hijackers [[Salem al-Hazmi]], [[Abdulaziz al-Omari]] and [[Khalid al-Mihdhar]] in an apartment in [[Paterson, New Jersey]].{{cn|date=September 2024}}

===2001===
Moqed first arrived to the United States on or about May 2, 2001 with [[Ahmed al-Ghamdi]].<ref name="9_11_report" /><ref name="indictment_Bharara">{{cite court |litigants=United States of America v. Mohammed, Attash, Al-Shibh, Ali, and Al-Hasawi  |court= U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York |url=https://www.justice.gov/archive/opa/documents/ksm-indictment.pdf |quote=Majed Moqed and Ahmed al-Ghamdi arrived in the Washington,
D.C. area, on or about May 2, 2001  }}</ref>

Later that year, Moqed, [[Hani Hanjour]], Hazmi and [[Ahmed al-Ghamdi]] rented a minivan and travelled to [[Fairfield, Connecticut]]. There they met a contact in the parking lot of a local convenience store who provided them with [[Identity document forgery|false ID]]s. (This was possibly Eyad Alrababah, a Jordanian charged with document fraud).{{cn|date=September 2024}}

Moqed was one of the five hijackers who asked for a state identity card on 2 August 2001. On 24 August, both Mihdhar and Moqed tried to purchase flight tickets from the [[American Airlines]] online ticket-merchant, but had technical difficulties resolving their address and gave up.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.fas.org/irp/congress/2002_hr/092602mueller.html |title=Statement of FBI Director Robert S. Mueller III to 9/11 Joint Intelligence Committee |publisher=Fas.org |access-date=2012-01-06}}</ref>

Employees at Advance Travel Service in [[Totowa, New Jersey]], later claimed that Moqed and Hanjour had both purchased tickets there. They claimed that Hani Hanjour spoke very little English, and Moqed did most of the speaking. Hanjour requested a seat in the front row of the airplane. Their credit card failed to authorize, and after being told the agency did not accept personal [[cheque]]s, the pair left to withdraw cash. They returned shortly afterwards and paid $1842.25 in cash.<ref>{{cite news| url=http://www.boston.com/news/packages/underattack/news/planes_reconstruction.htm | work=The Boston Globe | title=Boston.com / Fighting Terrorism}}</ref> During this time, Moqed was staying in Room 343 of the ''Valencia Motel''. On September 2, Moqed paid cash for a $30 weekly membership at [[Gold's Gym]] in [[Greenbelt, Maryland]].<ref>{{Cite news |last=Masters |first=Brooke A. |last2=Smith |first2=Leef |last3=Shear |first3=Michael D. |date=2001-09-19 |title=Dulles Hijackers Made Maryland Their Base |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/2001/09/19/dulles-hijackers-made-maryland-their-base/82209bac-0a4e-4508-9a93-28b902af1497/ |access-date=2025-03-13 |work=The Washington Post |language=en-US |issn=0190-8286}}</ref>

Three days later he was seen on an [[Automated teller machine|ATM]] camera with [[Hani Hanjour]]. After the attacks, the manager at an [[pornography|adult video store]], ''Adult Lingerie Center'', in [[Beltsville, Maryland|Beltsville]] claimed that Moqed had been in the store three times.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Young |first=Monte R. |date=2001-09-23 |title=Tracing Trail Of Hijackers |page=43 |work=Newsday (Suffolk Edition) |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/newsday-suffolk-edition-tracing-trail/128758852/ |access-date=2023-07-24 |via=[[Newspapers.com]]}}</ref>