Ziad Jarrah arrives back in Hamburg, the first of the “Hamburg four” to return from Afghanistan, where they received their assignments to be pilots in the “planes operations” being organized by Khalid Sheikh Mohammed.
The four – Jarrah, Mohammed Atta, Marwan al-Shehhi, and Ramzi Binalshibh, went from Kandahar, where they met with Osama bin Laden, to Karachi, where they meet KSM, who provides instruction on plans, travel, and operational security. Jarrah and al-Shehhi leave first, Atta returning to Hamburg in late February, and Binalshibh arriving shortly thereafter. (911 Commission, p. 167)