This future 9/11 hijacker used cash and VISA cards to pay for practice flight time

In this series, Newsweek describes the road of 9/11, as it happened 20 years ago, day after day.

August 8, 2001: Marwan Al-Shehhi paid for the 70-minute flight time of a single-engine Piper Warrior aircraft at Kemper Aviation in Lantana, Florida. He visited a private flight school on July 28th and 30th for ground and air teaching, each time he paid with cash or his VISA debit card.

UAE citizen al-Shehhi, will continue to pilot United Airlines Flight 175 to the South Tower of the World Trade Center in New York is the youngest of the four pilots and one of the three of the so-called “Hamburg Four.” He arrived in the United States on May 29, 2000, flew from Brussels to Newark, and entered the country as a tourist for six months. He listed his reservation address as the Days Hotel in New York. The next day, he bought an American Express traveler’s check worth US$2,000 at Green Point Bank at 1200 Avenue of the Americas in Manhattan. Then, on June 3, he met with the US 9/11 episode, who arrived in Newark via Prague.

On August 8, 2001, Marwan al-Shehhi paid for flying time to practice his driving skills. On September 11, he hijacked United Airlines Flight 175 and flew into the South Tower of the World Trade Center.
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Al-Shehhi and Atta have been inseparable since they met in 1999, and their journeys both began in Hamburg, Germany. The young Emirati was a sergeant in the UAE Armed Forces. He arrived in the country two years ago at the age of 18 and received a government-paid scholarship to study engineering. Before transferring to Hamburg-Harburg Technical University, he studied at the Language Institute in Bonn. There he met Atta and started attending the Al-Quds Mosque, where he also met the other two Ziad Jarrah and Ramzi Bin al-Shibh in the Hamburg quartet. Over time, al-Shehhi seldom attended classes, became more involved in radical careers, and deepened his relationship with Atta. On April 1, 2000, he was expelled from the UAE Armed Forces for “deserting soldiers”.

Al-Shehhi and Atta moved to Florida, lived together, and started flight training at the same school in Venice. Despite the hype, they lived a normal American life, renting apartments and houses, buying cars, and going to flight school. At the end of 2000, they all obtained pilot licenses.We know this today because FBI After 9/11, the lives of 19 hijackers, especially 4 pilots, were carefully reconstructed. The reconstruction records every credit and debit transaction, every move, every purchase and meal. Although there was a lot of publicity after 9/11, to the effect that these two men were “bad Muslims”, they drank and prostituted in the United States, and even were bad pilots (given that they successfully hit the South and North Towers, this is meaningless Statement), without any actual evidence.