Mohand al-Shehri
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Mohand al-Shehri | |
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مهند الشهري | |
Born | Mohand Muhammed Fayiz al-Shehri May 7, 1979 |
Died | September 11, 2001 | (aged 22)
Cause of death | Suicide by plane crash (September 11 attacks) |
Nationality | Saudi Arabian |
Mohand Muhammed Fayiz al-Shehri (
A Saudi, al-Shehri was a former college student who dropped out after failing his courses. He later left his home to fight in Chechnya in 2000, but was probably diverted to Al-Qaeda training camps in Afghanistan. It was during that time that he would be chosen to take part in the attacks in America. He received a U.S. student visa in October 2000.
al-Shehri arrived in the United States in May 2001. On September 11, 2001, al-Shehri boarded United Airlines Flight 175 and assisted in its hijacking so that it could be flown into the South Tower of the World Trade Center.
History
Born 1979, al-Shehri was one of five hijackers to come from the
According to
Al-Ghamdi and al-Shehri flew together from Iran into Kuwait that October.[2] Three months later the pair rented a post office box in Delray Beach, Florida, where someone with the same name signed up to use the public library's computers.[3] According to FBI director Robert Mueller and the 9/11 Commission, however, al-Shehri did not first enter the United States until a London or Dubai flight on May 28 with al-Ghamdi and Abdulaziz al-Omari.[citation needed]
He was one of nine hijackers to open a
Al-Shehri occasionally trained on simulators at the
Attacks
On September 7, he flew from Fort Lauderdale to Newark, New Jersey with Hamza al-Ghamdi on $139.75 tickets purchased from the Mile High Travel agency in Lauderdale-by-the-Sea.
On September 10, 2001, he shared a room at the Milner Hotel in
On September 11, al-Shehri boarded Flight 175 and sat in first class seat 2B, next to Banihammad in 2A. About a half an hour into the flight, the plane was hijacked. It is believed that Banihammad and al-Shehri forcibly entered the cockpit and murdered the pilots while the al-Ghamdi brothers forced the remaining crew and passengers towards the rear of the aircraft, allowing al-Shehhi to take control of the plane. At 9:03 a.m., around 20 minutes after the hijacking began, al-Shehhi flew the plane into the South Tower of the World Trade Center between floors 77 and 85, killing all on board and killing or trapping hundreds of people inside the building. 56 minutes after the crash, at 9:59 a.m., the South Tower collapsed, killing all who were trapped and many more on the ground.
See also
References
- ^ "Staff Monograph on 9/11 and Terrorist Travel" (PDF). 9/11 Commission. 2004.
- ^ 9/11 Commission Report, p. 240.
- ^ "09.11.01: One Year Later." St. Petersburg Times. September 1, 2002.
- ^ "Hijacker True Name Usage Chart for 2001" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2009-05-12. Retrieved 2010-08-24.
External links
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