Editing Ziad Jarrah (section)

== Mistaken identity claims ==
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There have been claims that Jarrah was not a hijacker but rather an innocent passenger or that he was not present on the plane and his identity was stolen. It has been pointed out that his behavior deviated from the profile presented by the other hijackers and that the passengers reported three and not four hijackers. However, the October 2006 emergence of a video shot on 18 January 2000, showing Jarrah recording his will alongside [[Mohamed Atta]] has cast heavy doubt on such claims.<ref name="TimesOnlineVideo" />

Shortly after the 11 September attacks, family and friends claimed that Jarrah did not exhibit the same "smoldering political resentments" or "cultural conservatism" as Mohamed Atta and the other hijackers. Although his family was Sunni Muslim, Jarrah was not raised with a background of religious conviction and did not hold to an obviously conservative lifestyle. Personnel at the flight school Jarrah attended described him as "a normal person". Jarrah called his family two days, and his girlfriend Aysel Şengün three hours, before boarding United Airlines Flight 93; Şengün described the conversation as "pleasant" and "normal". She also claimed that he never mentioned any names of the other hijackers.<ref name="CJW Friends" /> In his call two days before the attack, Jarrah told his family he would be coming home for a cousin's wedding. "It makes no sense," his uncle Jamal claimed. "He said he had even bought a new suit for the occasion." Jarrah's family in [[Lebanon]] claimed in September 2001 that he was an innocent passenger on the plane.<ref name="BostonGlobe" /> His uncle, Jamal Jarrah, is currently a deputy in the [[Lebanese parliament]] and was appointed minister on 18 December 2016, and a member of the [[Future Movement]], a pro-Saudi Arabian political party led by [[Saad Hariri]]. On 2 January 2012, in a televised interview on Future TV, [[Member of parliament|MP]]{{nbsp}}Jarrah denied his nephew's involvement in the 9/11 attacks, alluding to a conspiracy.{{citation needed|date=September 2013}}

On 23 October 2001, [[John Ashcroft]] claimed that Jarrah had shared a Hamburg apartment with [[Mohamed Atta]] and [[Marwan al-Shehhi]],<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&node=&contentId=A39318-2001Oct23&notFound=true |title=German Fugitives Sought in Attack Investigation |last=Eggen |first=Dan |newspaper=The Washington Post |date=October 23, 2001 |access-date=September 8, 2006 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110224023639/http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&node=&contentId=A39318-2001Oct23&notFound=true |archive-date=February 24, 2011 }}</ref> though [[Germany|German]] authorities that same day told the ''[[Los Angeles Times]]'' that they had no evidence that any of Jarrah's three apartments in Hamburg had been connected with the other hijackers. One high-ranking German police official stated, "The only information we have connecting the three Hamburg suspects is the FBI's assertion that there is a connection."<ref name="CJW Friends" /> In October 2006, however, a video surfaced showing Atta and Jarrah together in Afghanistan, clearly connecting Jarrah to the members of the Hamburg cell.<ref name="TimesOnlineVideo" />

The [[9/11 Commission]] concluded without qualification that Jarrah was a hijacker on the plane when it crashed in Shanksville, Pennsylvania.<ref>{{cite book|title=The 9/11 Commission Report: Final Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States|date=2004|page=14}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Friends of terror suspect say allegations make no sense |url=http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/southflorida/sns-worldtrade-jarrah-lat.story |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20020203214236/http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/southflorida/sns-worldtrade-jarrah-lat.story |archive-date=February 3, 2002}}</ref>

In October 2006, an [[al-Qaeda]] video was released showing Jarrah and Mohamed Atta recording their wills in January 2000 in [[Osama bin Laden]]'s [[Tarnak Farms]] base near [[Kandahar]], Afghanistan.<ref name="TimesOnlineVideo">{{cite news|title=Watch the video: Osama Bin Laden's HQ|work=The Times|url=http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2089-2382919,00.html|date=October 1, 2006|location=London|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061004072035/http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2089-2382919,00.html|archive-date=October 4, 2006}}</ref>