Where is mohamed atta

Information concerning Mohamed Atta was collected from media reports in the one-month period following the attack and synthesized into a personality profile using the second edition of the Millon Inventory of Diagnostic Criteria MIDC , which yields 34 normal and maladaptive personality classifications congruent with Axis II of DSM-IV. This composite character complex is rooted in deep ambivalence between obedience and defiance, and characterized by the dual ego defenses of reaction formation against forbidden thoughts and sadistic displacement of hostile impulses.

The research was conducted at the Unit for the Study of Personality in Politics USPP , a collaborative faculty—student research program in the psychology of politics at St. Benedict in Collegeville and St. Joseph, Minnesota, directed by Aubrey Immelman , Ph. Immelman, A. Atta pursued an engineering degree at Cairo University and graduated in Under pressure from his father, he continued his studies overseas at the Hamburg Technical University in Germany.

While in Germany, Atta worked part-time for an urban planning company. He became more religious and started to follow certain Muslim dietary rules, such as abstaining from drinking alcohol. According to some reports, Atta spoke out about the Egyptian government's treatment of fundamentalist groups back home. He also expressed anti-Semitic and anti-American views.

At the university, Atta insisted on a prayer room for himself and other fellow Muslims. He also lived with fellow September 11th terrorists Marwan al Shehhi and Ziad Jarrah at some point during his time in Germany. In the late s, Atta is believed to have trained at an al Qaeda camp in Afghanistan. He was linked to an al Qaeda terror cell in Hamburg in Atta entered the United States on June 3, He and Shehhi soon enrolled in flight school in Venice, Florida. Atta spent six months earning his pilot's license.

In January , he went to Germany to give a progress report to an al Qaeda official there. Atta later traveled to Spain that July for a final meeting with al Qaeda operatives on the Mediterranean coast. Corning Gorilla Glass TougherTogether. ET India Inc. ET Engage. ET Secure IT. US covers for Pak slip-ups on terror, proliferation US has downplayed reports of alleged Pak's promotion of terrorism. NY bomb plot raises questions about Pak military-terror nexus Long in thrall of the Pakistani military for geo-political reasons, Washington is finally starting to examine that institution's ties to terrorism.

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