Editing Mohamed Atta (section)

== Aliases ==
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Mohamed Atta had varied his name on documents, also using "Mehan Atta", "Mohammad El Amir", "Muhammad Atta", "Mohamed El Sayed", "Mohamed Elsayed", "Muhammad al-Amir", "Awag Al Sayyid Atta", and "Awad Al Sayad".<ref>{{cite news |author=Cherry, Alan |title=The Trail of Terror |work=Sun-Sentinel |date=28 September 2001}}</ref> In Germany, he registered his name as "Mohamed el-Amir Awad el-Sayed Atta", and went by the name Mohamed el-Amir at the [[Hamburg University of Technology]].<ref name="hooper">{{cite news |url=http://observer.guardian.co.uk/waronterrorism/story/0,,556630,00.html |title=The shy, caring, deadly fanatic |date=23 September 2001 |author=Hooper, John |work=The Guardian |access-date=16 September 2008 |location=London |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080125070524/http://observer.guardian.co.uk/waronterrorism/story/0,,556630,00.html |archive-date=25 January 2008 |url-status=live}}</ref> In his will, written in 1996, Atta gives his name as "Mohamed the son of Mohamed Elamir awad Elsayed".<ref name="will">{{cite web |url=https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/network/personal/attawill.html |title=Mohamed Atta's Last Will and Testament |publisher=PBS Frontline |access-date=1 August 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080930214842/http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/network/personal/attawill.html |archive-date=30 September 2008 |url-status=live}}</ref> He was known as Abd al-Rahman al-Misri by al-Qaeda. Atta also claimed different nationalities, sometimes Egyptian and other times telling people he was from the [[United Arab Emirates]].<ref name="hooper"/>