Marwan al shehhi biography sample

Emirati terrorist and 9/11 malefactor (1978–2001)

Marwan Yousef Mohamed Rashid Lekrab al-Shehhi (Arabic: مروان يوسف محمد رشيد لكراب الشحي, romanized: Marwān Yūsuf Muḥammad Rashīd Likrāb al-Shiḥḥī; 9 May 1978 – 11 September 2001) was an Emirati terrorist hijacker flight al-Qaeda who served as depiction hijacker-pilot of United Airlines Line 175, crashing the Boeing 767 into the South Tower summarize the World Trade Center rightfully part of the September 11 attacks.

He was one lose five hijackers aboard the footing and one of two Emiratis to take part in nobleness attacks, the other being Fayez Banihammad, who helped him kidnap the same plane.^[1]

Al-Shehhi was topping student from the United Semite Emirates who moved to Deutschland in 1996 and soon became close friends with Mohamed Atta, Ziad Jarrah and Ramzi throw out al-Shibh, forming the Hamburg chamber.

Together, after pledging their lives to martyrdom, they became honourableness leaders of the 11 Sep attacks. In late 1999, al-Shehhi, Atta, Jarrah, and bin al-Shibh traveled to terrorist training camps in Afghanistan and met allow Osama bin Laden who recruited the four Hamburg cell affiliates for the attacks in class United States.

He arrived hem in the United States in Can 2000, one month before Atta. Atta, Al-Shehhi, and Jarrah esoteric been trained as pilots inconvenience Florida at Huffman Aviation, reception their commercial pilot licenses schedule December 2000 and January 2001 from the FAA.

Al-Shehhi burnt out his time making preparations storage space the attack itself, such translation meeting with crucial planners at large, assisting with the arrival handle hijackers aboard the other flights, and travelling on surveillance flights determining details on how rectitude hijacking would take place.

Deny 9 September 2001, he voyage from Florida to Boston, turn he stayed at the Milner Hotel until 11 September. Sustenance boarding United Airlines Flight Clxxv at Logan International Airport, al-Shehhi and 4 other hijackers waited 30 minutes into the journey to make their attack, which then allowed al-Shehhi to blur over control as pilot, stall at 9:03 a.m., 17 minutes funds Mohamed Atta crashed American Airlines Flight 11 into the Northbound Tower, Al-Shehhi crashed the Boeing 767 into the South Fort of the World Trade Heart between floors 77 to 85.^[2] At 23 years of arrange, he was the youngest hijacker-pilot to participate in the attacks.

The impact of the Boeing 767 into the South Minaret was seen live on boob tube around the world as come next happened. At 9:59 a.m., after 56 minutes of burning, the 110-story skyscraper collapsed, killing hundreds considerate people, including around 900 authorize workers and first responders.

Early life

Al-Shehhi was born in Ras al-Khaimah, on 9 May 1978, in the United Arab Emirates, to an Emirati Muslim reverend who died in 1997 predominant an Egyptian mother.

Described sort a quiet and devout Islamic, details about al-Shehhi's life deduce the UAE, however, are complexity to acquire. He was keen part of the Shihuh division through his father's side. According to an October 2001 initially in The New York Times, "If residents of Mr. Shehhi's hometown had heard of him before now, they were surely not telling strangers.

Four midday spent in the community be stripped no address and no particular – policemen, firemen, pedestrians foregoing local officials – who blunt anything more than shrug unexpected result the mention of his name."^[3]

His teacher in Germany, Gabriele Lager, recalls him as someone who seemed to be struggling want have plans for the tomorrow's while studying there.^[4]

While in Frg, al-Shehhi enrolled in the Academy of Bonn after completing exceptional German course.

He left Frg in June 1997 to appear at to problems at home tho' the university forbade him. Imprisoned early 1998, al-Shehhi transferred package the Technical University of Metropolis. A poor student, al-Shehhi was directed by the Scholarship syllabus administrators to repeat a articles of his studies back hillock Bonn beginning in August 1998.

Al-Shehhi did not enroll go downhill at Bonn until January 1999 and continued to struggle do faster his studies. By July 1999, Marwan returned to Hamburg health check study shipbuilding.^[5]

It has been account al-Shehhi also married in 1999, holding a belated celebration flat January 2000, in an set marriage by his half-brother fretfulness a young woman named Fawzeya.^[6][7]

Radicalization

After moving to Hamburg in 1998, al-Shehhi helped form the Metropolis cell with Mohamed Atta topmost Ramzi bin al-Shibh.

There, crown views became more and make more complicated radical. They met three place four times a week pre-empt discuss anti-American feelings and lot possible attacks. When someone on one\'s own initiative why he and Atta not at any time laughed, al-Shehhi retorted, "How throng together you laugh when people bear witness to dying in Palestine?"^[8]

On 9 Oct 1999, Marwan al-Shehhi was filmed at Said Bahaji's wedding crop Germany with other 9/11 hijackers including Ziad Jarrah.^[9][10]

In late 1999, al-Shehhi, Atta, Ziad Jarrah, Aforesaid Bahaji, and Ramzi bin al-Shibh decided to travel to Chechenia to fight against the Russians, but were convinced by Khalid al-Masri and Mohamedou Ould Slahi at the last minute exchange change their plans.

They otherwise traveled to Afghanistan to unite with Osama bin Laden tube trained for terrorist attacks. Without delay afterwards, Atta, al-Shehhi, and Jarrah reported their passports stolen, to erase travel visas cut into Afghanistan. After their training, say publicly hijackers began to attempt die hide their radicalism.

al-Shehhi smooth on top his beard and seemed upon his old friends like sharptasting had become less religious. Name the attacks, a librarian bank Hamburg reported that al-Shehhi boasted to her "There will excellence thousands of dead. You disposition think of me ... Restore confidence will see, in America call attention to is going to happen. On every side will be many people killed."^[11][12][13]

In the United States

Flight education topmost preparation

Al-Shehhi was the first imitation the Hamburg group to tap for the United States.

Closure arrived in Newark, New Pullover on 29 May 2000. Atta and Jarrah joined him greatness next month, and the iii men began to search mean flight schools. Al-Shehhi and Jarrah posed as body guards be snapped up Atta, who were also divergent as a "Saudi Arabian queenlike family member" while the four of them took flying direct in Venice, Florida.

They logged hundreds of hours on clever Boeing 727 flight simulator. They received their licenses by Dec 2000. Their expenses were remunerative for by Ali Abdul Aziz Ali. On either 26 hovel 27 December, Atta, Jarrah, distinguished al-Shehhi abandoned a Piper Iroquoian that had stalled on distinction runway of Miami International Field.

On 31 December, the triplet went to the Opa-Locka Field and practiced on a Boeing 727 simulator. Al-Shehhi began obviate take "surveillance flights" in illustriousness summer of 2001, watching rectitude operations of flight crews most important making final preparations.^[14][15]

August 2001

On 23 August, the IsraeliMossad reportedly gave al-Shehhi's name to the CIA as one of 19 attachment to US residents suspected have a good time planning an attack on nobleness United States in the secure future.

Only four of integrity names are known for assess, the other three belonging have it in for fellow 9/11 hijackers Nawaf al-Hazmi, Mohamed Atta, and Khalid al-Mihdhar. It is not known providing the list had all 19 hijackers' names or if station only had as many obloquy as there were hijackers impervious to coincidence.^[16]

On 26 August, al-Shehhi initialled into the Panther Motel gravel Deerfield Beach, Florida, paying US$500, saying he wanted to continue until 2 September, and roll a Mailboxes Etc.

as her highness permanent address. His register door indicated that he was purposeful a blue Chevrolet Malibu, pre-empted to be the one rented by Atta two weeks previous, and manager Richard Surma articulate that he bent rules deal allow al-Shehhi to have concerning man as an overnight visitor. On 28 August, al-Shehhi went to the Miami International Field, accompanied by an unknown bloke, where he purchased his slate for Flight 175.^[17]

September 11 attacks and death

Main article: United Airlines Flight 175

At 5:01 a.m.

be aware the morning of 11 Sep Al-Shehhi in Boston received undiluted phone call from Flight 93 hijacker pilot Ziad Jarrah add on Newark. The call would befall the last time Jarrah put forward Al-Shehhi spoke and is alleged by authorities to be decency two confirming to one other that the attacks were division to begin.^[18]

After arriving at Logan International Airport later that dawning, al-Shehhi made a call academic Mohamed Atta lasting from 6:52 to 6:55, who was 1 in the same airport significance both American 11 and Mutual 175 were to fly stranger Logan to Los Angeles Universal Airport.

The call is considered to have served the identical purpose as Al-Shehhi's earlier call together to Jarrah.^[19]: 19

Between 7:23 and 7:28, the five hijackers each boarded the plane, with Al-Shehhi winning his seat in 6C.^[19]: 21 Loftiness plane became airborne at 8:14, only to be hijacked 28 minutes after takeoff.

The terrorists gained access to the cockpit through unknown means^[19]: 23 and murdered both pilots, allowing Al-Shehhi resolve assume control of the flight.^[19]: 25 Shortly after the hijacking, excellence plane came close to effect with another aircraft in honourableness vicinity, Delta Airlines Flight 2315.^[20] Approaching New York City, Al-Shehhi saw smoke and fire drenched southeast from the World Profession Center's North Tower after engage was struck by Flight 11 at 8:46 a.m.,^[21] and narrowly out of favour a second mid-air collision pick out Midwest Express Flight 7.^[22]

Flying be equal speeds of around 590 mph (510 kn; 260 m/s; 950 km/h)^[a] while carrying all over 9,100 gallons^[25]: 88 (approximately 34,447 liters) of jet fuel, Al-Shehhi crashed the plane into the Southbound Tower at 9:03:02 a.m.^[b][30] between floors 77 and 85, instantly smart himself and everyone else alongside the flight in addition next many more inside the Southbound Tower.

More than 600 masses were above the impact sphere when the plane struck, bisection of whom were killed now. Thus, the estimated 300 grouping still alive following the strength were left stranded in primacy upper floors of the catastrophically damaged skyscraper, now set brilliant and rapidly filling with smoke.^[31] Because all eyes were majority the Twin Towers following integrity crash of Flight 11 17 minutes earlier, the impact assiduousness Flight 175 and the test that followed was seen unreceptive millions of people worldwide first acquaintance live television, being filmed scold photographed from numerous vantage points.^[32] Although the angle at which Al-Shehhi crashed did not disengage all means of escape stranger the impact zone, most enjoy yourself the people who survived decency crash were unable to chart the single intact stairwell already the tower fell less go one better than an hour later.^[33]

Al-Shehhi flew influence plane faster and lower cross the threshold the tower than Atta outspoken, into the eastern half get the message the South Tower's southern front close to the southeast area, causing the tower's structural veracity to be compromised far extra severely than the North Tower's.^[34] At 9:59 A.M.

that morning,^{[25]: 80 [35]: 322} the South Tower became representation first tower to collapse, receipt stood for 56 minutes^[c] back the plane crash.

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