Editing Salem al-Hazmi (section)

==Biography==
Salem Muhammed al-Hazmi was born on February 2, 1981, to Muhammad Salim al-Hazmi, a grocer, in [[Mecca]], [[Saudi Arabia]]. His father described Salem as a quarrelsome teenager who had problems with alcohol and petty theft. However, he stopped drinking and began to attend the mosque about three months before he left his family.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://govinfo.library.unt.edu/911/report/911Report.pdf |title=''The 9/11 Commission Report'' |access-date=2012-01-06}}</ref>

There are reports that he fought in [[Afghanistan]] with his brother, [[Nawaf al-Hazmi]], and other reports say the two fought together in [[Chechnya]]. Salem al-Hazmi was an [[al-Qaeda]] veteran by the time he was selected for participation in the 9/11 attacks. U.S. intelligence learned of al-Hazmi's involvement with [[al-Qaeda]] as early as 1999, but he was not placed on any watchlists.<ref>{{cite web |author=John J. Lumpkin |url=http://www.globalsecurity.org/security/profiles/salem_al-hazmi.htm |title=Salem al-Hazmi |publisher=Globalsecurity.org |date=2004-07-22 |access-date=2012-01-06 |archive-date=2011-09-28 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110928041108/http://www.globalsecurity.org/security/profiles/salem_al-hazmi.htm |url-status=dead }}</ref>

Known as ''Bilal'' during the preparations,<ref name="willalOmari">Videotape of recorded will of Abdulaziz al-Omari and others</ref> both he and [[Ahmed al-Ghamdi]] flew to [[Beirut]] in November 2000, though on separate flights.

Along with [[Nawaf al-Hazmi]] and several other future hijackers, Salem al-Hazmi may have attended the [[2000 Al Qaeda Summit]] in [[Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia]]. It was there that the details of the 9/11 attacks were decided upon.
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