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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.
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Shehhi and was
Shehhi was born in Ras al-Khaimah, on May 9, 1978, in the United Arab Emirates, to a Muslim cleric who died in 1997.
After graduating from high school in 1995, Shehhi enlisted in the Emirati military and received a half a year of basic training before he was admitted into a military scholarship program that allowed him to continue his education in Germany.
Shehhi was the first of the Hamburg group to leave for the United States.
Shehhi posed as a body guard of Atta, who was also posing as a " Saudi Arabian royal family member " while the two of them took flying lessons in Venice, Florida.
After learning that his family was looking for him, Shehhi telephoned them on January 20 and said he was living and studying in Hamburg.
Back in Germany, it had been Bahaji's 1999 wedding during which Shehhi was filmed.
On September 10, 2001, Shehhi was one of four hijackers including Fayez Banihammad, Mohand al-Shehri, and Satam al-Suqami, sharing a room at the Milner Hotel in Boston, Massachusetts.
Shehhi boarded United 175 at 7: 27 a. m. Around 30 minutes into the flight, between 8: 42 and 8: 46 a. m., the plane was hijacked.
Shehhi flew the plane faster and lower into the tower than Atta did, in the corner of the South Tower's southern facade, leading to the South Tower collapsing before the North Tower ; which was the first to be hit.
Bin al-Shibh, Shehhi and Jarrah visited Slahi in Duisburg, where he convinced them that it would be best to train in Afghanistan first, because further experience would be useful, and anyway it was difficult at that time to get into Chechnya.
Shehhi and from
On September 9, 2001, Shehhi flew from Florida to Boston, where he stayed at the Milner Hotel up until September 11.
After returning to Florida from their trips, Atta and Shehhi visited Georgia, staying briefly in Norcross and Decatur, and renting a single-engine plane to fly with an instructor in Lawrenceville.
Atta and Shehhi returned to Virginia Beach from their travels in Georgia, making their way to a large Dar Al-Hijrah mosque, sometime in early April.
Shehhi, on the other hand, bought a ticket to Cairo and flew there from Miami on April 18.
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.
Shehhi and United
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.
Shehhi arrived in the United States in May 2000, one month before Atta.
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.
Shehhi and who
Those who knew him described Shehhi as a very religious and friendly individual who wore western clothes and sometimes rented cars for trips to Berlin, France, and the Netherlands.
Shehhi did meet with Atta's father, who stated in a post-9 / 11 interview that Shehhi just wanted to pick up Atta's international driver's license and some money.
Witnesses told Spanish investigators they saw a man who resembled Shehhi on July 17, 2001 at the Universal Studios PortAventura theme park next to Salou, Spain.
Shehhi and moved
Upon arriving in Germany in April 1996, Shehhi moved into an apartment, which he shared three other scholarship students for two months before boarding with a local Germany family.
After several more months, Shehhi moved into his own apartment.
Atta and Shehhi returned to Florida and moved into an apartment in Coral Springs.
Shehhi and Germany
While in Germany, Shehhi enrolled in the University of Bonn after completing a German course.
Shehhi returned to Germany in March 2000, and began to learn to fly airplanes.
Shehhi and friends
Shehhi shaved his beard and seemed to his old friends like he had become less religious.
Shehhi and with
Shehhi obtained a commercial pilot's license while training in south Florida, training together with Flight 11 hijacker and plot coordinator, Mohamed Atta.
Shehhi spent 2001 making preparations for the attack itself, such as meeting with crucial September 11 planners abroad, assisting with the arrival of hijackers aboard the other flights, and travelling on surveillance flights determining details on how the hijacking would take place.
Shehhi did not enroll back at Bonn until January 1999 and continued to struggle with his studies.
After moving to Hamburg in 1998, Shehhi helped form the Hamburg cell with Mohamed Atta and Ramzi bin al-Shibh.
An individual named Khalid al Masri ( or Khalid al-Masri ) approached bin al-Shibh and Shehhi ( because they were Arabs with beards, bin al-Shibh thinks ) and struck up a conversation about jihad in Chechnya.
An individual named Khalid al Masri approached Binalshibh and Shehhi ( because they were Arabs with beards, Binalshibh thinks ) and struck up a conversation about jihad in Chechnya.
Shehhi and Mohamed
Only four of the names are known for certain including Shehhi ; Nawaf al-Hazmi, Mohamed Atta, and Khalid al-Mihdhar.
Shehhi and Atta
In 2005, Army Lt. Col. Anthony Shaffer and Congressman Curt Weldon alleged that the Defense Department data mining project Able Danger identified Mihdhar, Hazmi, Shehhi and Atta as members of a Brooklyn-based al-Qaeda cell in early 2000.
Atta and Shehhi obtained instrument ratings in November 2000, and continued training on simulators and flight training.
Jarrah reported his passport stolen in February 2000 and received a duplicate, just as hijackers Atta and Shehhi had done the previous month.
When someone asked why he and Atta never laughed, Shehhi retorted, " How can you laugh when people are dying in Palestine?
In late 1999, Shehhi, Atta, Ziad Jarrah, Said Bahaji, and Ramzi bin al-Shibh decided to travel to Chechnya to fight against the Russians, but were convinced by Khalid al-Masri and Mohamedou Ould Slahi at the last minute to change their plans.
Immediately afterwards, Atta, Shehhi, and Jarrah reported their passports stolen, possibly to erase travel visas to Afghanistan.
Ziad Jarrah, Atta, and Shehhi, having progressed in their training, all took foreign trips during the holiday period of 2000-2001.
When Atta returned to Florida, Shehhi left for Morocco, traveling to Casablanca in mid-January 2001.
By February 19, Atta and Shehhi were in Virginia.
In early April, Atta and Shehhi returned to Virginia Beach and closed the mailbox they had opened in February.
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