The Most Famous

EXTREMISTS from Lebanon

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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 42nd most number of Extremists behind Bangladesh, and Nigeria.

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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.

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1. Ziad Jarrah (1975 - 2001)

With an HPI of 40.80, Ziad Jarrah is the most famous Lebanese Extremist.  His biography has been translated into 22 different languages on wikipedia.

Ziad Samir Jarrah (11 May 1975 – 11 September 2001) was a Lebanese terrorist hijacker. He was one of the four hijackers of United Airlines Flight 93, which was crashed into a field in a rural area near Shanksville, Pennsylvania, following a passenger revolt, as part of the September 11 attacks. After a wealthy upbringing, Jarrah moved to Germany in 1996. He became involved in the planning of the 9/11 attacks while attending Hamburg University of Applied Sciences (HAW) in the late 1990s, meeting Mohamed Atta, Marwan al-Shehhi and Ramzi bin al-Shibh, forming what is now known as the Hamburg cell. Jarrah was recruited by Osama bin Laden for the attacks in 1999. He was reportedly the only hijacker who had any apprehensions about carrying out the attacks. Jarrah arrived in the United States in June 2000. He trained at Huffman Aviation together with Atta and Al-Shehhi with their flight instructor Rudi Dekkers from June 2000 to January 2001, after relocating to Florida from New Jersey. On 7 September 2001, Jarrah flew from Fort Lauderdale to Newark. Four days later, he boarded United Airlines Flight 93, and was believed to have taken over as the pilot of the aircraft along with his team of hijackers, which included Saeed al-Ghamdi, Ahmed al-Nami and Ahmed al-Haznawi, who together made an attempt to crash the plane into either the United States Capitol or the White House, which was thwarted when the passengers revolted against the hijackers.

People

Pantheon has 1 people classified as Lebanese extremists born between 1975 and 1975. Of these 1, none of them are still alive today. The most famous deceased Lebanese extremists include Ziad Jarrah.

Deceased Lebanese Extremists

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