Wail al-Shehri
Wail Mohammed al-Shehri was an elementary school teacher from Khamis Mushait in the Asir region of Saudi Arabia. In early 2000, he traveled to Medina to seek treatment for mental problems. He and his younger brother Waleed traveled to Afghanistan in March 2000 and joined an Al-Qaeda training camp. The brothers were chosen, along with others from the same region, to participate in the September 11 attacks. Wail was dubbing himself Abu Mossa al-Janubi after one of Muhammad’s companions in Chechnya. He died on September 14, 2002, in a terrorist attack in New York City’s financial district.
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Wail Mohammed al-Shehri was an elementary school teacher from Khamis Mushait in the Asir region of Saudi Arabia. In early 2000, he traveled to Medina to seek treatment for mental problems. He and his younger brother Waleed traveled to Afghanistan in March 2000 and joined an Al-Qaeda training camp. The brothers were chosen, along with others from the same region, to participate in the September 11 attacks. Shehri arrived in the United States in early June 2001, staying in budget motels in the Boynton Beach area of south Florida. On September 5, 2001, shehri traveled to Boston and boarded American Airlines Flight 11. Fifteen minutes after takeoff, she and three others hijacked the airliner. They deliberately crashed it into the North Tower of the World Trade Center at 8: 46 a.m. on September 11, 2001. Wail was dubbing himself Abu Mossa al-Janubi after one of Muhammad’s companions in Chechnya. He died on September 14, 2002, in a terrorist attack in New York City’s financial district. He is survived by his wife, two children, and a step-daughter. He was buried in a private ceremony in Saudi Arabia on September 15, 2002. His last will and testament was recorded on video, and he was buried with his wife and two children in a military cemetery. He also leaves behind a son, a daughter, a son-in-law, a brother and a brother-and-a-half-year-old step-grandchild.
His father was a friend of Osama bin Laden’s father, Mohammed bin Awad bin Laden. The family strictly adhered to the Wahabi school of Islam, which forbids many elements of modernity. His family did not have satellite television or Internet, nor did his parents permit music or contact with girls. His uncle may have been a major in the army and director of logistics. He had ten brothers and one sister; several of his brothers joined the Saudi military, while his uncle may has been aMajor. Ahmed al-Nami and Saeed al-Ghamdi, who were both hijackers on United Airlines Flight 93, came from thesame area in Saudi Saudi Arabia as the ShehRI family. They were vague about when they would return, though they may have gone to Afghanistan to join the jihad. They later went on to Pakistan with Waleeed and later went to Afghanistan, where they went on a pilgrimage to the holy city of Mecca. They never returned to the U.S. after going to the Holy City. They died in a plane crash in Afghanistan on September 10, 2002; their bodies were found in a field near the city of Jeddah. They are buried in an unmarked grave in the town of Jiddah, Saudi Arabia, near the site of their father’s former home.
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