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Zacarias Moussaoui

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Zacarias Moussaoui (Arabic: زكريا موسوي, Zakariyyā Mūsawī; born 30 May 1968) is a French member of al-Qaeda who pleaded guilty in U.S. federal court to conspiring to kill citizens of the United States as part of the 9/11 attacks. He is serving life imprisonment without the possibility of parole at the Federal ADX Supermax prison in Florence, Colorado. Moussaoui is the only person ever convicted in U.S. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Zacarias Moussaoui has received more than 2,088,755 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2019). Zacarias Moussaoui is the 240th most popular extremist (down from 194th in 2019), the 4,922nd most popular biography from France (down from 4,090th in 2019) and the 10th most popular French Extremist.

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  • 44.80

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 22

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.24

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.10

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Zacarias Moussaouis by language

Over the past year Zacarias Moussaoui has had the most page views in the with 352,298 views, followed by French (38,858), and Spanish (30,622). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Simple English (85.09%), Esperanto (84.50%), and Ido (74.21%)

Among EXTREMISTS

Among extremists, Zacarias Moussaoui ranks 240 out of 283Before him are Yvan Colonna, Abdul Quader Molla, Howard Marks, Robert Pickton, Bobby Joe Long, and Ramzi Yousef. After him are Abu Mohammad al-Julani, Yang Xinhai, Eric Rudolph, Thomas Lubanga Dyilo, Hamza bin Laden, and Karla Homolka.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1968, Zacarias Moussaoui ranks 296Before him are Iris Chang, Jason Donovan, Jill Hennessy, Rafael Alkorta, Andriy Kuzmenko, and Wu'erkaixi. After him are Megan Follows, Lawrence Makoare, Hikaru Midorikawa, Juan Martín Maldacena, John Ortiz, and Kristin Chenoweth.

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In France

Among people born in France, Zacarias Moussaoui ranks 4,922 out of 6,770Before him are Marie NDiaye (1967), Antoine Blondin (1922), Laurent Garnier (1966), Édouard Pailleron (1834), Albert Auguste Perdonnet (1801), and Mohamed Sissoko (1985). After him are Georges Johin (1877), Lucien Mérignac (1873), Élodie Bouchez (1973), Octave Chanute (1832), Cécile DeWitt-Morette (1922), and Pierre Pincemaille (1956).

Among EXTREMISTS In France

Among extremists born in France, Zacarias Moussaoui ranks 10Before him are Henri Désiré Landru (1869), Jean II, Duke of Alençon (1409), Robert-François Damiens (1715), Jacques Mesrine (1936), Édouard Vaillant (1840), and Yvan Colonna (1960).