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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 February 1996, al-Shehhi enrolled in a language institute in Bonn, GermanyThe Federal Republic of Germany ( German: Bundesrepublik Deutschland is one of the world's leading industrialized countries, located in the middle of the European Union. It is bordered to the north by the North Sea, Denmark and the Baltic Sea, to the east. He boarded with a local family. It took two years for him to learn enough German before he enrolled in a university with a military scholarship. He spent several months in 19981998 was a common year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar), and was designated the International Year of the Ocean''. Events January January 1998 A massive ice storm, caused by El Nino, strikes New England, southern Ontario and Quebec, resulting trying to pass a language exam in HamburgHamburg is Germany's second largest city (after Berlin) and its principal port. The official name Freie und Hansestadt Hamburg recalls its membership in the mediaeval Hanseatic League and the fact that Hamburg is a city state and one of Germany's sixteen, but he came back to Bonn after he failed. In Germany, all foreign students must be fluent in the German languageGerman (called Deutsch in German in which germanisch refers to prechristian times), is a member of the western group of Germanic languages and one of the world's major languages. It is the language with the most native speakers in the European Union. to graduate.
Al-Shehhi moved to Hamburg in 1999For the album by Prince, see 1999 (album 1999 is a common year starting on Friday (see link for calendar), and was designated the International Year of Older Persons by the UN. Events Kosovo War Former child star Gary Coleman files for bankruptcy Y2K prep, and helped form the Hamburg cellThe Hamburg cell was, according to U. and German intelligence agencies, a group of radical Islamists that included students who eventually came to be key operatives in the 9/11 attacks. Important members included Mohamed Atta, who led the four hijacking t with Mohammed Atta and Ramzi BinalshibhRamzi Binalshibh ( Arabic: ; also transliterated as Ramzi bin al-Shibh Ramzi bin al-Shaibah and several other ways; born 1973), is a citizen of Yemen and according to the United States, Germany, and several other countries, a key al-Qaida member who helpe. There, his views became more and more radical. They met three or four times a week to discuss their anti-American feelings and plot possible attacks. Al-Shehhi committed himself to fighting and dying for his beliefs.
In late 1999For the album by Prince, see 1999 (album 1999 is a common year starting on Friday (see link for calendar), and was designated the International Year of Older Persons by the UN. Events Kosovo War Former child star Gary Coleman files for bankruptcy Y2K prep, al-Shehhi, Atta, Ziad Jarrah, Said Bahaji, and Ramzi Binalshibh 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. 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 passports 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. Interestingly, it was about this time that al-Shehhi boasted to a librarian in Hamburg that he was planning a terrorist attack. "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." He also reportedly mentioned the World Trade Center specifically.[1][2][3] There are other instances where other hijackers boasted of the plot ahead of time, but aparently no one acted on these claims.
Shehhi returned to Germany in March of 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.
This photograph of Marwan al-Shehhi was released by the FBI in the days following the attack.
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