Abu Turab al-Urduni
{{Short description|Jordanian member of al-Qaeda}}
The son-in-law of Ayman al-Zawahiri,Intelligence report, interrogation of Abu Zubaydah, Feb. 18 20049/11 Commission, [http://govinfo.library.unt.edu/911/report/911Report.pdf 9/11 Report: Notes to Chapter 7.], August 2004 Abu Turab al-Urduni (Abu Turab the Jordanian9/11 Commission, [http://govinfo.library.unt.edu/911/report/911Report.pdf Full report], pp. 236-236) was a Jordanian who has been described by the United States government as one of five individuals who were aware of the operational details of the September 11 attacks, along with Osama bin Laden, Khalid Sheik Mohammed, Ramzi bin al-Shibh, and Mohammed Atef. US intelligence reports indicated that he was killed by US troops in 2001.{{Cite web |url=http://www.start.umd.edu/start/data_collections/tops/terrorist_organization_member.asp?id=6374 |title=Terrorist Organization Member Profile - START - National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism |access-date=2011-06-12 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130730122344/http://www.start.umd.edu/start/data_collections/tops/terrorist_organization_member.asp?id=6374 |archive-date=2013-07-30 |url-status=dead }}
Training
He has been described as the trainer of the "muscle" hijackers at the al-Matar complex and training them to disarm air marshals, physical fitness and basic English phrases. He also prepared them for truck
bombing, blowing up buildings, and hijacking trains for operational security, so they wouldn't be able to reveal their target if they were captured.{{cite news
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At al-Faruq camp, he had each hijacker butcher a sheep and a camel with a Swiss army knife to prepare them for using their knives during the hijackings.
Aftermath
CNN reports anonymous government sources as believing that Abu Turab Al-Urduni had been killed by U.S. forces during the first stages of the war in Afghanistan.Todd, Brian. CNN [http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0603/31/lt.01.html Voices of 9/11], March 31, 2006
In September 2006, Abu Turab was shown in a video released by as-Sahab that showed the training and preparations for the 2001 attacks.(arabic) al-Motamar [http://www.almotamar.net/news/34711.htm Jazeera broadcasts a video of al-Qaeda training Sept. 11 attacks], September 2006 It also demonstrated that he had taught them how to falsify documents, and suggested that he had later died fighting in Kandahar.Kuwaiti State News, [http://www.news.gov.kw/a/27356 Jazeera broadcasts video showing al-Qaeda leaders were planning attacks on September 11.]{{Dead link|date=May 2019 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}, 2006
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