Mohand al-Shehri

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Mohand al-Shehri
مهند الشهري
Born	Mohand Muhammed Fayiz al-Shehri (1979-05-07)May 7, 1979 'Asir, Saudi Arabia
Died	September 11, 2001(2001-09-11) (aged 22) New York City, New York, U.S.
Cause of death	Deliberate crash of United Airlines Flight 175 into the World Trade Center as part of the September 11 attacks
Nationality	Saudi Arabian

Mohand Muhammed Fayiz al-Shehri (Arabic: مهند الشهري‎, Muhand ash-Shehrī; also transliterated as Alshehri) (May 7, 1979 – September 11, 2001) was one of five hijackers aboard United Airlines Flight 175 as part of the September 11 attacks. Despite his name, he was not related to Wail al-Shehri nor Waleed al-Shehri, brothers who boarded American Airlines Flight 11 to hijack it as part of the attacks.

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.

Aliases[]

Al-Shehri was also known under the aliases "Mohammed al-Shehhi" and "Mohald al-Shehri".

History[]

Visa Application

Born 1979, al-Shehri was one of five hijackers to come from the 'Asir province of Saudi Arabia, the others being Ahmed al-Nami, Abdulaziz al-Omari and Waleed and Wail al-Shehri, two brothers unrelated to him.

According to Arab News, Mohand al-Shehri went to fight in Chechnya in early 2000, where he may have met Hamza al-Ghamdi. On October 23, al-Shehri applied for a US B-1/B-2 visa in Jeddah. Other than an error on his school's address the application was not suspicious and he was not interviewed before being granted the visa.^[1]

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 SunTrust bank account with a cash deposit around June 2001, and on July 2 gained a Florida State ID Card.^[4]

Al-Shehri occasionally trained on simulators at the FlightSafety Aviation School in Vero Beach, Florida together with Abdulaziz al-Omari and Saeed al-Ghamdi.

Attacks[]

Fayez Banihammad purchased both his and al-Shehri's one-way first class tickets for United Airlines Flight 175 online on August 27 or 29, charging the $4,464.50 to a Visa card from Mustafa al Hawsawi, listing their addresses both as a Mail Boxes Etc. in Delray Beach. This was not the same postal box used by Hamza and Ahmed al-Ghamdi, who purchased their tickets for the same flight a day later, with another Mailboxes Etc. postal box in Delray Beach, although both groups listed the same phone number.

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 with four hijackers; Fayez Banihammad, Marwan al-Shehhi and Satam al-Suqami at the Milner Hotel in Boston, Massachusetts.

On September 11, al-Shehri boarded Flight 175, and he sat next to Banihammad. About a half an hour into the flight, the plane was hijacked and was flown into the South Tower of the World Trade Center.

See also[]

• Hijackers in the September 11 attacks
• PENTTBOM

References[]

External links[]

Media related to Mohand al-Shehri at Wikimedia Commons

• The Final 9/11 Commission Report