The Most Famous
EXTREMISTS from Lebanon
This page contains a list of the greatest Lebanese Extremists. The pantheon dataset contains 283 Extremists, 1 of which were born in Lebanon. This makes Lebanon the birth place of the 39th most number of Extremists behind Afghanistan, and Czechia.
Top 2
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Lebanese Extremists of all time. This list of famous Lebanese Extremists is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography's online popularity.
1. Ziad Jarrah (1975 - 2001)
With an HPI of 60.18, Ziad Jarrah is the most famous Lebanese Extremist. His biography has been translated into 24 different languages on wikipedia.
Ziad Samir Jarrah (Arabic: زياد سمير جراح; 11 May 1975 – 11 September 2001) was a Lebanese aerospace engineer and terrorist hijacker for al-Qaeda. He was the hijacker-pilot of United Airlines Flight 93, which crashed into a rural area near Shanksville, Pennsylvania, as part of the September 11 attacks. He was born in Beirut to a secular, wealthy and respected Arab family. He completed his early education at Lebanon's prestigious French-speaking Christian schools. In 1996, at the age of 21, he moved to Germany to pursue his university education. He continued his secular life, far removed from religious devotion, even in his early university years. While studying aerospace engineering at Hamburg University of Applied Sciences, he met Mohamed Atta and Marwan al-Shehhi. Between 1997 and 1998, he began to grow closer to religion. He quit drinking alcohol and smoking, and began salah and reading the Quran. He was influenced by the verses on jihad in the Quran and believed that only martyrdom could erase the sins he had committed in the past. Later, Ramzi bin al-Shibh, an al-Qaeda communications officer, met these three university students and founded the group known as the Hamburg cell with them. In 1999, bin al-Shibh took him and his two other school friends, Atta and al-Shehhi, to Afghanistan to meet Osama bin Laden. In June 2000, he flew to New Jersey, United States. Shortly thereafter, he moved from New Jersey to Venice, Florida and trained with flight instructors Rudi Dekkers at Huffman Aviation alongside Atta and al-Shehhi until January 2001. On 7 September 2001, he arrived in Newark, New Jersey from Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Four days later, he boarded United Airlines Flight 93 and hijacked the plane along with Saeed al-Ghamdi, Ahmed al-Haznawi, and Ahmed al-Nami. They attempted to crash the plane into the United States Capitol Building or the White House. However, the mission failed when a passenger uprising took place forcing Jarrah to crash the plane into a field in Somerset County, Pennsylvania, twenty minutes away from D.C. According to the 9/11 Commission Report and Aysel Şengün's (his girlfriend) statements to German police, Jarrah spoke at least four languages at a high level: Arabic, French, German, and English.
2. Fuad Shukr (1961 - 2024)
With an HPI of 58.28, Fuad Shukr is the 2nd most famous Lebanese Extremist. His biography has been translated into 19 different languages.
Fuad Shukr (Arabic: فؤاد شكر; 15 April 1961 – 30 July 2024; sometimes spelled Fouad Shukar and also known by his aliases Al-Hajj Mohsen or Mohsen Shukr) was a Lebanese militant leader who was a senior member of Hezbollah. A member of Hezbollah's founding generation, Shukr was a senior military leader in the organization from the early 1980s. For over four decades, he was one of the group's leading military figures and was a military advisor to its leader Hassan Nasrallah. Shukr was, according to Israeli intelligence, a key figure in the transfer of Iranian guidance systems for Hezbollah's long-range missiles. He was believed to have played a role in the 1983 Beirut barracks bombings, that killed 241 U.S. and 58 French military personnel, six civilians and two attackers. The U.S. Department of State designated Shukr as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist in 2013. On 30 July 2024, Shukr was killed in an Israeli airstrike in Beirut for his alleged responsibility for the Majdal Shams attack three days earlier, which killed 12 children.
People
Pantheon has 2 people classified as Lebanese extremists born between 1961 and 1975. Of these 2, none of them are still alive today. The most famous deceased Lebanese extremists include Ziad Jarrah, and Fuad Shukr. As of April 2024, 1 new Lebanese extremists have been added to Pantheon including Fuad Shukr.
