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=== Travels in early 2001 === After completing their flight training Atta, Jarrah, and Al-Shehhi all took foreign trips during the holidays season of 2000-2001. Atta went to [[Berlin]], [[Germany]] to coordinate with [[Ramzi bin al-Shibh]] about their flight training, Jarrah went to [[Lebanon]], and Germany to visit his family and girlfriend, while Al-Shehhi went to [[Morocco]] then to the [[United Arab Emirates]] to visit his wife. After not hearing from Al-Shehhi for a long time, his family reported him missing to the Government of the UAE. As a response, the embassy in UAE contacted Hamburg to inform the authorities. After learning that his family were concerned for him Al-Shehhi finally called them on January 20, 2001 to assure them that he was okay. Atta and al-Shehhi both encountered some difficulty reentering the United States on January 10th and 19th, respectively. As neither had presented a student visa, both of them had to persuade [[Immigration and Naturalization Service|INS]] inspectors that they should be admitted so that they could continue their flight training. Neither operative had any problem clearing customs. After returning to Florida from their trips, Atta and al-Shehhi visited [[Georgia (U.S. state)|Georgia]], staying briefly in [[Norcross, Georgia|Norcross]] and [[Decatur, Georgia|Decatur]], and renting a single-engine plane to fly with an instructor in [[Lawrenceville, Georgia|Lawrenceville]]. By 19 February, Atta and al-Shehhi were in [[Virginia]]. They had rented a mailbox in [[Virginia Beach, Virginia|Virginia Beach]], cashed a check, and then promptly returned to Georgia, staying in [[Stone Mountain, Georgia|Stone Mountain]]. In mid-March, [[Ziad Jarrah]] was in Georgia as well, staying in Decatur. At the end of the month, Jarrah left the United States again and visited Sengün in Germany for two weeks. In early April, Atta and al-Shehhi returned to Virginia Beach and closed the mailbox they had opened in February. Atta and al-Shehhi returned to [[Virginia Beach, Virginia|Virginia Beach]] from their travels in Georgia, making their way to a large [[Dar Al-Hijrah]] mosque, sometime in early April. They were joined there by 9/11 hijackers [[Nawaf al-Hazmi]] and [[Hani Hanjour]] who had moved out of [[San Diego]] and [[Arizona]] after living in or visiting [[Abdussattar Shaikh|Abdussattar Shaikh’s]] house, where [[Khalid al-Mihdhar]] also stayed. The mosque had recently hired the same [[imam]] [[Anwar al-Awlaki]] with whom Hazmi had spent time at the Rabat mosque in [[San Diego]]. He remembered Hazmi from San Diego but denied having contact with Hazmi or Hanjour in Virginia. Atta and al-Shehhi returned to Florida and moved into an apartment in [[Coral Springs, Florida|Coral Springs]]. Atta stayed in Florida, awaiting the arrival of the first muscle hijackers. Al-Shehhi, on the other hand, bought a ticket to [[Cairo]] and flew there from [[Miami]] on 18 April. Al-Shehhi met with Atta's father, who stated in a post-9/11 interview that al-Shehhi wanted to pick up Atta's international driver's license and some money. Al-Shehhi returned to Miami on 2 May. That day, Atta and Jarrah were together, about 30 miles to the north, visiting a Department of Motor Vehicles office in [[Lauderdale Lakes, Florida|Lauderdale Lakes]], Florida, to get Florida driver's licenses. 4 days later on 6 May 2001 Atta, Jarrah, and Al-Shehhi signed up at the US1 Fitness Center, a gym in [[Dania Beach, Florida]] where the men learned how to fight in hand to hand combat. Al-Shehhi began to take "surveillance flights" in the summer of 2001, watching the operations of flight crews and making final preparations.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Statement of Robert S. Mueller: Joint Investigation Into September 11: (published September 26, 2002) |url=https://irp.fas.org/congress/2002_hr/092602mueller.html |access-date=2021-09-09 |website=irp.fas.org}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2001-09-14 |title=How 'shy foreigners' learned to pilot flying-bomb Boeings |url=http://www.theguardian.com/world/2001/sep/14/september11.usa18 |access-date=2021-09-09 |website=the Guardian |language=en}}</ref>
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