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HISTORY Al-Shehhi was born in Ras Al Khaimah , in the United Arab Emirates , to a Muslim cleric. Al-Shehhi was seen as a quiet and devout Muslim. In , but returned to Bonn after he failed. In Germany, all foreign students must be fluent in the German Language to graduate. Al-Shehhi moved to Hamburg in 1999 , and helped form the Hamburg Cell with Mohammed Atta and Ramzi Binalshibh . There, his views became more and more radical. They met three or four times a week to discuss anti-American feelings and plot possible attacks. When someone asked why he and Atta never laughed, Al-Shehhi retorted, "How can you laugh when people are dying in Palestine?" {Link without Title} Al-Shehhi committed himself to fighting and dying for his beliefs. In late 1999, al-Shehhi, Atta, Ziad Jarrah , Said Bahaji , and Ramzi Binalshibh decided to travel to Chechnya to fight against the Russia ns, but were convinced by Khalid Al-Masri and Mohamedou Ould Slahi at the last minute to change their plans. They instead traveled to Afghanistan to meet with Osama bin Laden and train for terrorist attacks. Immediately afterwards, Atta, al-Shehhi, and Jerrah reported their Passport s stolen, possibly to erase travel visas to Afghanistan. After their training, the hijackers began to attempt to hide their radicalism. Al-Shehhi shaved his beard and seemed to his old friends like he had become less religious. After the attacks, a librarian in Hamburg reported that al-Shehhi boasted to her "There will be thousands of dead. You will think of me ... You will see, in America something is going to happen. There will be many people killed." {Link without Title} {Link without Title} {Link without Title} al-Shehhi returned to Germany in March, 2000, and began to learn to fly a jet. Ali Abdul Aziz Ali , one of the most important 9/11 financial organizers, bought a Boeing 747 Flight Simulator program using al-Shehhi's credit card. Eventually they decided that German flight schools would not work for them, and they decided to train in the United States. IN THE UNITED STATES 2000 Al-Shehhi left for the United States on May 29 , 2000 . Mohammed Atta joined him the next month, and the two began to search for flight schools. Al-Shehhi posed as a body guard of a " Saudi Arabia n royal family member" (really Atta) while the two of them took flying lessons in Venice, Florida . They also logged hundreds of hours on a Boeing 727 flight simulator. They received their licenses by December of 2000. Their expenses were paid for by Ali Abdul Aziz Ali . On the 26th or 27th, Atta and Marwan abandoned a Piper Cherokee that had stalled on the runway of Miami International Airport . On the 29th, Atta and Marwan went to the Opa-Locka Airport and practised on a Boeing 727 simulator. 2001 Al-Shehhi travelled to Morocco to reassure his family that he was well, and then returned to the U.S. He and Atta visited Virginia and Georgia for unknown reasons, and then returned to Florida. They moved into an apartment together. Al-Shehhi traveled to Cairo, Egypt on April 18 , 2001 , and met with Atta's father to get Atta's international driver's license. He returned on May 2 . He began to take "surveillance flights" in the summer, watching the operations of flight crews and making final preparations. On August 23rd, Israel i Mossad reportedly gives his name to the CIA as part of a list of 19 names they say are planning an attack in the near future. Only four of the names are known for certain - Nawaf, Atta, Marwan and al-Mihdhar. {Link without Title} {Link without Title} On August 26th, Marwan signs into the , flight manuals and local airport listings. Another employee later reported finding a Boxcutter . According to librarian Kathleen Hensmen, Wael Al-Shehri and Waleed Al-Shehri used Internet access at Delray Beach Public Library in August, 2001 , where they may have been looking at information on Crop Dusting ; they reportedly left the library with a third middle-eastern man thought to be Marwan al-Shehhi, whom Hensmen claims asked her for the name of a local restaurant. Staff at Shuckum's Oyster Bar claimed they recognized both Atta and Marwan as two of the gentlemen who had been at the restaurant on either September 7th or 8th. While there are varying stories about Atta's activities, all sources indicate that al-Shehhi drank Rum And Coke s while talking to the others. On September 10 , 2001 , al-Shehhi was one of four hijackers (Marwan, Banihammad, Mohand, and al-Suqami) sharing a room at the Milner Hotel in Boston, Massachusetts , where one of them called around for prostitutes, but eventually nixed the idea, possibly based on finances. THE ATTACK According to the 9/11 Commission Report , al-Shehhi called Mohammed Atta at 6:45am on September 11th, after parking the rented Mitsubishi. This is thought to have been a final confirmation that the plans were intact. He boarded flight 175 around 7:25. About a half an hour into the flight, the plane was hijacked. Al-Shehhi is believed to have taken control of the plane and directed it to New York City . The plane flew into the south tower of World Trade Center in a coordinated attack that killed thousands of people. After the attacks, it is reported that Marwan got in an argument with an unnamed person over a parking spot at the airport. A lack of detail makes the story suspicious. {Link without Title} TIMELINE IN AMERICA Late in 2005, Army Lt. Col. Anthony Shaffer and Congressman Curt Weldon alleged that the Defense Department data mining project Able Danger had kept Marwan, Khalid Al-Mihdhar , Nawaf Al-Hazmi and Mohamed Atta all under surveillance as Al-Qaeda agents.3
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