Mahmoud Mahmoud Atta (born 1954) is (or was) a Jordan

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ian militant who was responsible for bombing a bus in 1986 on the Israel

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i-occupied Palestinian West Bank

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, killing one and severely injuring three.

A naturalized US

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 citizen, he was subsequently deported from Venezuela

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 to the United States, extradited to Israel in 1990, tried and sentenced to life in prison. The Israeli supreme court later invalidated his extradition and set him free.

Following the September 11, 2001 Attacks

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 in the United States it was initially thought that Mahmoud Mahmoud Atta was one of the hijackers on board the first plane to hit the World Trade Center

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. This led to the harsh questioning of US immigration authorities and the intelligence community, because it was felt that they had failed to stop a known terrorist from entering the country under his true name. However his identity was confused with the Egypt

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ian militant leader Mohamed Atta

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Mohamed Mohamed el-Amir Awad el-Sayed Atta was one of the masterminds and the ringleader of the September 11 attacks who served as the hijacker-pilot of American Airlines Flight 11, crashing the plane into the North Tower of the World Trade Center as part of the coordinated attacks.Born in 1968...

who was actually on board the flight.

Mahmoud Mahmoud Atta's current whereabouts are unknown.