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Wail al-Shehri (وائل الشهري, also transliterated Alshehri) was named by the FBI as one of the hijackers of American Airlines Flight 11 from Boston to Los Angeles that crashed into the World Trade Center as part of the September 11, 2001 attacks. His brother, Waleed al-Shehri, is also a suspected 9/11 hijacker.

Little of al-Shehri's history is known. He used the date of birth September 1, 1968. There are reports that he was having psychological problems in 2000, and traveled with his brother Waleed to Mecca. Afterwards, they both disappeared for a time, saying they were going to Chechnya to defend Muslims there. This has not been confirmed.[1]

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On September 11, 2001, al-Shehri boarded American Airlines flight 11, hijacked it, and assisted Mohammed Atta in flying it into the World Trade Center in an attack that killed thousands of people.