Editing Marwan al-Shehhi (section)

==Radicalization==
After moving to [[Hamburg]] in 1998, al-Shehhi helped form the [[Hamburg cell]] with Mohamed Atta and Ramzi bin al-Shibh. There, his views became more and more radical. They met three or four times a week to discuss anti-American feelings and plot possible attacks. When someone asked why he and Atta never laughed, al-Shehhi retorted, "How can you laugh when people are dying in Palestine?"<ref>{{Cite web |title=Page 179 |url=http://www.faqs.org/docs/911/911Report-179.html |access-date=2023-01-25 |website=www.faqs.org}}</ref>

On 9 October 1999, Marwan al-Shehhi was filmed at [[Said Bahaji]]'s wedding in [[Germany]] with other [[9/11]] hijackers including [[Ziad Jarrah]].<ref>[https://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2003-05-07-hijackers_x.htm "Wedding video shows Sept. 11 hijackers, plotters"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090913201359/http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2003-05-07-hijackers_x.htm |date=2009-09-13 }}, usatoday.com, 5 May 2003.</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.refworld.org/docid/4e65d8432.html|title=Refworld &#124; Still at Large Ten Years After 9/11: Said Bahaji, Mohammed Atta's Right Hand Man|first=United Nations High Commissioner for|last=Refugees|website=Refworld}}</ref>

In late 1999, al-Shehhi, Atta, Ziad Jarrah, Said Bahaji, and Ramzi bin al-Shibh decided to travel to [[Chechnya]] to fight against the [[Russia]]ns, but were convinced by [[Khalid al-Masri]] and [[Mohamedou Ould Slahi]] at the last minute to change their plans. They instead traveled to [[Afghanistan]] to meet with Osama bin Laden and trained for terrorist attacks. Immediately afterwards, Atta, al-Shehhi, and Jarrah reported their [[passport]]s stolen, possibly to erase travel visas to Afghanistan. After their training, the hijackers began to attempt to hide their radicalism. al-Shehhi shaved his beard and seemed to his old friends like he had become less religious. After the attacks, a librarian in Hamburg reported that al-Shehhi boasted to her "There will be thousands of dead. You will think of me ... You will see, in America something is going to happen. There will be many people killed."<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.cooperativeresearch.org/timeline.jsp?timeline=complete_911_timeline&startpos=500#a0400boasts |others=April–May 2000: Hijacker Tells Librarian About Major Attack in US. |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061001222905/http://www.cooperativeresearch.org/timeline.jsp?timeline=complete_911_timeline&startpos=500 |archive-date=October 1, 2006 |title=The Complete 9/11 Timeline: Cooperative Research |access-date=February 14, 2015 |work=Cooperative Research}}</ref><ref>Butler, Desmond. [https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=940DE3DF173FF93AA1575BC0A9649C8B63 "Germans Issue First Indictment in the 9/11 Plot"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081205054158/http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=940DE3DF173FF93AA1575BC0A9649C8B63 |date=2008-12-05 }}, nytimes.com, 29 August 2002.</ref><ref>Bernstein, Richard. [https://www.nytimes.com/2002/09/10/national/10PLOT.html?ex=1091505600&en=7ca523da35ee3dad&ei=5070 "On Path to the U.S. Skies, Plot Leader Met bin Laden"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160309000425/http://www.nytimes.com/2002/09/10/national/10PLOT.html?ex=1091505600&en=7ca523da35ee3dad&ei=5070 |date=2016-03-09 }}, nytimes.com, 10 September 2002.</ref>