A University student, Marwan Yousef al-Shehhi (Arabic: مروان يوسف الشحي, Marwān Yūsuf ash-Sheḥḥī, also transliterated Alshehhi) (May 9, 1978 – September 11, 2001) was a student from the United Arab Emirates who moved to Hamburg in 1996 and soon became close friends with Mohammed Atta, Ziad Jarrah and Ramzi Binalshibh. Together, after pledging their lives to martyrdom, they became the masterminds of the September 11th Attacks. Al-Shehhi was name...
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A University student, Marwan Yousef al-Shehhi (Arabic: مروان يوسف الشحي, Marwān Yūsuf ash-Sheḥḥī, also transliterated Alshehhi) (May 9, 1978 – September 11, 2001) was a student from the United Arab Emirates who moved to Hamburg in 1996 and soon became close friends with Mohammed Atta, Ziad Jarrah and Ramzi Binalshibh. Together, after pledging their lives to martyrdom, they became the masterminds of the September 11th Attacks. Al-Shehhi was named by the FBI as the suicide pilot aboard United Airlines Flight 175 which crashed into the second World Trade Center tower on September 11, 2001. He trained at the Huffman Aviation pilot school with Mohammed Atta. At 23 years of age, he was the youngest of the four pilots.
Al-Shehhi was born in Ras al-Khaimah, in the United Arab Emirates, to a Muslim cleric. He was described as a quiet and devout Muslim.
In February, 1996, al-Shehhi enrolled in a language institute in Bonn, Germany. He boarded with a local family. It took two years for him to...
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