Zacarias Moussaoui

French al-Qaeda terrorist (born 1968)

Zacarias Moussaoui (Arabic: زكريا موسوي, Zakariyyā Mūsawī; born 30 May 1968) is a French terrorist who was a member of the al-Qaeda militant organization. He likely planned to participate in the September 11 attacks (9/11) in 2001, in which 19 members of al-Qaeda hijacked four American airliners in an attempt to crash them into U.S. landmarks. Many of the hijackers went to flight schools in the U.S. in the lead-up to the attacks.

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