Kerim Chatty (born 15 January 1973) is a Swedish man who was suspected of attempted hijacking of an aircraft in 2002.
[1] In September 1996 he was accepted into the North American Institute of Aviation in Conway, South Carolina, where he undertook some flight training courses, but was expelled from the school a few months later for "lack of progress" in the program.
[1] While serving a sentence for firearms possession at the Österåker Prison in 1998, he shared a cell with Oussama Kassir, a militant Islamist charged with terrorism who has said that he "loves al-Qaeda and Osama bin Laden".
[1] According to BBC, friends and relatives have stated that at the time of the September 11, 2001, attacks he was attending a religious school in Saudi Arabia.
[11] In the absence of evidence, Chatty was released from custody on 30 September,[12] and on 30 October the preliminary investigation regarding attempted hijacking was closed.