Mohand al-Shehri (هند الشحي, also transliterated Alshehri, and also used the aliases Mohammed Alshehhi and Mohald Alshehri) was named by the FBI as one of the hijackers aboard United Airlines flight 175 in the September 11, 2001 attacks. Saudi Arabia has named al-Shehri as a victim of mistaken identity, and claims he is still alive.
Al-Shehri came from the 'Asir province of Saudi Arabia, as did several other of the September 11 hijackers, including Waleed and Wail al-Shehri, two brothers who share his last name. Mohand al-Shehri began college, but his growing devotion to Wahhabiism distracted him from earning a degree. According to Arab News, al-Shehri went to fight in Chechnya in early 2000.
In January of 2001, he and alleged hijacker Hamza al-Ghamdi rented a post office box in Delray Beach, Florida.[1] FBI directer Robert Mueller, however, has testified that al-Shehri did not enter the country until May 28, 2001, and the 9/11 Commission agrees with this date.[2]
On September 10, 2001, the night before the suicide attack, al-Shehri and several other hijackers called around for prostitutes, but declined to sleep with them or pay them because it was too expensive.[3]
The next morning, al-Shehri boarded flight 175, helped to hijack it, and assisted as the plane crashed into the World Trade Center in a coordinated attack that killed thousands of people.
On September 20, Saudi Arabia's Foreign Minister Prince Saud Al-Faisal stated: "It was proved that [al-Shehri] had nothing to do with what happened." The Saudi embassy said that al-Shehri is "not dead and had nothing to do with the heinous terror attacks in New York and Washington." No other information was provided.
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