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Date of birth used: May 9, 1978 Possible residence(s): Nokomis, FL / Hollywood, FL Visa status: B-2 visa Believed to be a pilot. Al-Shehhi was born in the United Arab Emirates. Like his cousin Mohammed Atta, Al-Shehhi received pilot training at Huffman Aviation in Venice, Fla., and took two courses at SimCenter Inc. in Opa-locka, Fla., where he also trained on a Boeing 727 flight simulator. He studied electrical engineering for one year at the Technical University in Hamburg and had connections to Islamic extremists. He and Atta lived together in Venice, Fla., and in Hamburg. A relative of Marwan Al-Shehhi said he was the son of a Muslim cleric who died two years ago. While in Germany, he told his family he wasn't coming back to the Emirates. His mother once said that she felt someone was listening to their calls and threatening him to keep him from returning. The relative described Al-Shehhi as extremely religious and withdrawn. A senior official in the United Arab Emirates says authorities are checking the possibility that he might have been a member of Osama bin Laden's Al Qaeda terrorist group. Boeing 757 manuals and East Coast flight maps were found in a Deerfield Beach, Florida, motel where Al-Shehhi is believed to have stayed. Separately, it is reported that Al-Shehhi and Atta were spotted in Switzerland last summer, buying pocket knives and box cutters, the weapon of choice in the Sept. 11 hijackings. |
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Possible residence: Delray Beach, FL The Spartan School of Aeronautics in Tulsa, Okla., is listed as the address on his pilot's license but the school says there is no record that he ever took a class there. Mohammed Atta and Marwan Al-Shehhi are reported to have visited that same flight school, considering it for training, which they then pursued elsewhere. |
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Possible residence(s): Pensacola, FL / Delray Beach, FL Little information has surfaced except that he may have lived in Delray Beach, Fla., and that he is reported to have lived briefly at a Vienna, Virginia, boarding house near CIA headquarters. Waleed M. Alshehri is also reported to have lived in that same Vienna house. |
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Possible residence(s): Delray Beach, FL / Tulsa, OK Believed to be a pilot. |
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Possible residence: Delray Beach, FL Visa status: B-2 visa Believed to be a pilot. |
