Marwan al-Shehhi
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Marwan al-Shehhi was an Emirati terrorist hijacker for al-Qaeda. He was the hijacker-pilot on United Airlines Flight 175. As part of the September 11 attacks, he crashed the plane into the South Tower of the World Trade Center in a suicide attack. He was one of five hijackers aboard the aircraft and one of two Emiratis to take part in the attacks, the other being Fayez Banihammad, who helped him hijack the same plane.
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Aug 9, 2026
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Featured in a new report on how the future 9/11 hijacker used cash and a Visa card to pay for practice flight time.
For the left, the focus on hijackers' finances should not obscure the deeper foreign-policy failures that produced 9/11 and the surveillance state that followed.