Marwan Yousef Mohamed Rashid Lekrab al-Shehhi was an Emirati al-Qaeda terrorist who served as the hijacker-pilot of United Airlines Flight 175, crashing the Boeing 767 into the South Tower of the World Trade Center as part of the September 11 attacks in 2001.
10 Facts About Marwan al-Shehhi
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Marwan al-Shehhi was one of five hijackers aboard the aircraft and one of two Emiratis to take part in the attacks, with the other being Fayez Banihammad, who helped him hijack the same plane.
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Marwan al-Shehhi arrived in the United States in May 2000, one month before Atta.
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Marwan al-Shehhi left Germany in June 1997 to attend to problems at home although the university forbade him.
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In early 1998, Marwan al-Shehhi transferred to the Technical University of Hamburg.
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Marwan al-Shehhi shaved his beard and seemed to his old friends like he had become less religious.
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Marwan al-Shehhi arrived in Newark, New Jersey on 29 May 2000.
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Marwan al-Shehhi remembered Hazmi from San Diego but denied having contact with Hazmi or Hanjour in Virginia.
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Atta and Marwan al-Shehhi returned to Florida and moved into an apartment in Coral Springs.
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Marwan al-Shehhi's register entry indicated that he was driving a blue Chevrolet Malibu, assumed to be the one rented by Atta two weeks prior, and manager Richard Surma said that he bent rules to allow Marwan to have another man as an overnight guest.