Marwan al-Shehhi arrived in Boston on September 9, and stayed at the Milner Hotel where he shared a room with Mohamed Atta.

Shehhi arrived in the United States in May 2000, one month before Atta.

When Mohamed Atta and other members of the Hamburg cell arrived in Afghanistan, bin Laden was involved in selecting them for the plot, and assigning Atta to be the leader.

Mohamed Atta, Ramzi bin al-Shibh, Marwan al-Shehhi and Ziad Jarrah came into the picture in 1999, when they arrived in Kandahar from Germany.

Atta, along with Marwan al-Shehhi arrived in Venice, Florida, and visited Huffman Aviation to " check out the facility.

Atta and the other Hamburg cell members were recruited by bin Laden and Khalid Sheikh Mohammed for the " planes operation " in the United States.

Atta returned to Hamburg in February 2000, and began inquiring about flight training in the United States.

" When he came to the United States, he used the name " Mohamed Atta.

" Atta also claimed different nationalities, sometimes Egyptian and other times told people that he was from the United Arab Emirates.

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Shehhi was a student from the United Arab Emirates who moved to Germany in 1996 and soon became close friends with Mohamed Atta, Ziad Jarrah and Ramzi bin al-Shibh, forming the Hamburg cell.

In late 1999, Shehhi, Atta, Jarrah, and bin al-Shibh traveled to terrorist training camps in Afghanistan and met with Osama bin Laden who recruited the four Hamburg cell members for the attacks in the United States.

Upon boarding United 175, Shehhi and 4 other hijackers waited 30 minutes into the flight to make their attack, which then allowed Shehhi to take over control as pilot, and at 9: 03 a. m., 17 minutes after Mohamed Atta crashed American 11 into the North Tower, 23-year-old Shehhi crashed the Boeing 767 into the South Tower of the World Trade Center.

Atta and Shehhi both encountered some difficulty reentering the United States, on January 10 and January 19, respectively.

According to the 9 / 11 Commission Report, Shehhi made a 3-minute call to Mohamed Atta ( 6: 52-6: 55 a. m .) on September 11, 2001, from within Logan International Airport as both American 11 and United 175 were to fly from Boston Logan to LAX.

After he failed to enter the United States, bin al-Shibh took on more of a " coordinator " role in the plot, and a link between Atta in the United States and Khalid Sheikh Mohammed in Afghanistan.

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Important members included Mohamed Atta, who led the four hijacking teams in 2001 and piloted American Airlines Flight 11 ; Ramzi bin al-Shibh, who conspired with the other three members but was unable to enter the United States ; and Marwan al-Shehhi, who piloted United Airlines Flight 175.

He helped coordinate with Mohamed Atta, the ringleader of the operation, to bring the " muscle hijackers " into the United States in 2001.

After he failed to enter the United States, bin al-Shibh took on more of a " coordinator " role in the plot, and a link between Atta in the United States and Khalid Sheikh Mohammed in Afghanistan.

Atta, Jarrah, and bin al-Shibh returned to Hamburg, early in 2000, while al-Shehhi went back to the United Arab Emirates to get a new passport and U. S. visa.

By the end of June, Atta, Jarrah, and al-Shehhi left for the United States.

After obtaining his visa, Atta traveled to Prague before going to the United States.

CNN later confirmed that it was " Ahmed Umar Syed Sheikh, whom authorities say used a pseudonym to wire $ 100, 000 to suspected hijacker Mohammad Atta, who then distributed the money in the United States.

In the same Meet the Press interviews, Cheney implied a connection between Iraq and Mohamed Atta ; " The Czech interior minister said today that an Iraqi intelligence officer met with Mohammed Atta, one of the ringleaders of the September 11 terrorists attacks on the United States, just five months before the synchronized hijackings and mass killings were carried out.

They further stated that a claim about Atta having been identified prior to the attacks had been made to the 9 / 11 Commission on July 12, 2004 ( just days before the Commission's report was released ), by a United States Navy officer employed at DOD, but that

In the interview, the man claimed his team had identified Mohamed Atta and three other 9 / 11 hijackers as likely Al-Qaeda terrorists operating in the United States, but were prevented from passing this information on to the FBI by government lawyers.

When we reviewed INS records, they appeared to reflect two entries by Atta into the United States on January 10, 2001, which initially raised a question as to whether Atta had entered twice on the same day or whether a second person posing as Atta also entered on January 10, 2001.

In Hamburg, Atta became involved with the al-Quds Mosque, where he met Marwan al-Shehhi, Ramzi bin al-Shibh, and Ziad Jarrah, together forming the Hamburg cell.

Shehhi obtained a commercial pilot's license while training in south Florida, training together with Flight 11 hijacker and plot coordinator, Mohamed Atta.

One high-ranking German police official stated, “ The only information we have connecting the three Hamburg suspects is the FBI ’ s assertion that there is a connection .” In October 2006, however, a video surfaced showing Atta and Jarrah together in Afghanistan, clearly connecting Jarrah to the members of the Hamburg cell.

That day, Atta and Jarrah were together, about 30 miles to the north, visiting a Department of Motor Vehicles office in Lauderdale Lakes, Florida, to get Florida driver's licenses.

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On November 1, 1998, future-hijackers Mohamed Atta, Marwan al-Shehhi, and Ramzi bin al-Shibh moved into a three-room apartment ( two bedrooms, one living room, one kitchen ) together on Marienstrasse.

Inside the vehicle, authorities found a letter written by Mohamed Atta, a hijacker aboard American Airlines Flight 11 ; maps of Washington, D. C. and New York City ; a cashier's check made out to a Phoenix, Arizona flight school ; four drawings of a Boeing 757 cockpit ; a box cutter ; and a page with notes and phone numbers, which contained evidence that led investigators to San Diego.

Born in 1968 in a small town in Egypt's Nile Delta, Atta moved with his family to the Abdeen section of Cairo at the age of 10.

Beginning in May 2001, Atta assisted with the arrival of the muscle hijackers.

In July 2001, Atta traveled to Spain where he met with bin al-Shibh to exchange information and finalize the plot.

Atta then traveled to Boston, and on September 10, with Abdulaziz al-Omari to Portland, Maine.

Atta's father continued to keep the family private, and did not allow Atta to socialize with other neighborhood kids.

In 1990, Atta graduated with a degree in architecture, and joined the Muslim Brotherhood-affiliated Engineers Syndicate organization.

Atta initially stayed with the two high school teachers, but they found Atta frustrating owing to his closed-mindedness and intensely introverted personality.

By early 1993, Atta had moved into university housing, sharing an apartment in Centrumshaus with two roommates.

During that time, his roommates became aggravated with Atta, who seldom cleaned, and kept to himself to the extent that he would walk in and out of a room without acknowledging others.

Volker Hauth, who was traveling with Atta, described Amal as " attractive and self-confident.

During the summer of 1995, Atta spent three months with co-students Volker Hauth and Ralph Bodenstein in Cairo, on a grant from the Carl Duisberg Society.

Atta remained in Cairo to stay with his family, after Hauth and Bodenstein returned to Germany.

Hazmi met frequently with Mohamed Atta, the ringleader of the attacks, during the summer of 2001.

Inside the vehicle, authorities found a letter written by Mohamed Atta, maps of Washington, D. C. and New York City, a cashier's check made out to a Phoenix flight school, four drawings of a Boeing 757 cockpit, a box cutter, and a page with notes and phone numbers.

The 9 / 11 Commission Report states that Jarrah was a member of the Hamburg cell, along with Mohamed Atta and the others.

In 2006, a video surfaced showing Jarrah, still bearded, reading his will in January 2000 along with Mohamed Atta.

However, the October 2006 emergence of a “ martyrdom ” video shot on January 18, 2000, along with Mohamed Atta has cast heavy doubt on such claims.

On October 23, 2001, John Ashcroft claimed that Jarrah had shared a Hamburg apartment with Mohamed Atta and Marwan al-Shehhi, though German authorities that same day told the Los Angeles Times that they had no evidence that any of Jarrah ’ s three apartments in Hamburg had been connected with the other hijackers.