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Hijackers

The work's plot also treats the relationship among the hijackers in a dramatically compelling way, which again suggests the possibility of film adaptation. The special focus is the triadic relationship between Atta (stoic oldest child), Marwan al-Shehhi (south tower pilot-bomber, youngest, gets on well with everyone) and Ziad Jarrah (D.C. target, middle-child, only had 4 crew, failed, happily). Due to Jarrah's womanizing, Atta and Jarrah are constantly at odds with each other; the issue is not so much one of enemies, as of different personality types working for the same goal. These three, both in novella and in fact, formed the core of the attack: they were pilots, Hamburg Cell members, and unlike all-but-one of the last-minute muscle hijackers (who Atta resents as stupid beasts in the story), did not hail from Saudi Arabia.