Talk:Mohand al-Shehri

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I removed However after further information (in Feb of 2002) Saudi Arabia changed their position. "The names that we got confirmed that," Interior Minister Prince Nayef said in an interview with The Associated Press. "Their families have been notified." Previously, Saudi Arabia had said the citizenship of the 15 hijackers was in doubt despite U.S. insistence they were Saudis. as it is not specific to al-Shehri, and doesn't mean that the Saudis are now saying that al-Shehri was the one involved...I agree it's true, but it's more relevant to Background history of the September 11, 2001 attacks or one of the more generic articles. I welcome any discussion on the matter here on the talk page. Sherurcij 01:44, 30 October 2005 (UTC)

The Saudi statement regards al-Shehri and a few others. The reason its relevant to this article is that the previous sentence gives an official Saudi statement that Mohand al-Shehri was not involved in the attacks - quite a momentous claim. The fact that they backpeddled (either due to new info or pressure from the U.S. government) is important. Without that paragraph, it is misleading; it makes it appear that the previous paragraph was Saudi Arabia's final word on the matter. – Quadell ^{(talk) (bounties)} 04:22, 30 October 2005 (UTC)

I agree it's important if it's about al-Shehri, but them simply saying "Yes, we admit Saudis were behind it" doesn't actually rescind their earlier statement that al-Shehri was not behind it. Perhaps all we need is to find a better, clearer quote from the Saudis, one that specifically references al-Shehri? (And if we can find them for the other 14 Saudi hijackers, all the better!). Or perhaps even just different word-choice along the lines of 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", though Interior Minister Prince Nayef conceeded X months later that the attack was carried out by Saudis, something in that vein? Sherurcij 04:35, 30 October 2005 (UTC)

Ahhhh. I had misinterpreted what Nayef was saying. The two statements don't contradict each other after all. So I agree that that paragraph doesn't belong there. – Quadell ^{(talk) (bounties)} 04:43, 30 October 2005 (UTC)

I see the link ([1]) has now been removed. That's fine, but I think the link should be somewhere on Wikipedia. Perhaps Background history of the September 11, 2001 attacks? – Quadell ^{(talk) (bounties)} 14:54, 12 January 2006 (UTC)

Either background, or the main article even - I have nothing against the link, I think it does help put things in context. I just personally believe it's not specific enough about individual hijackers to be put on their pages. Sherurcij ^{(talk) (Terrorist Wikiproject)} 21:38, 12 January 2006 (UTC)

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Correct me if I'm wrong but shouldn't his birth date be May, 7th instead of July, 5th? At the Visa applecation he uses the the DD/MM/YY format for the date his passport was issued (27/11/99), so why would he use the MM/DD/YY format for his birthday (it says 07/05/79)?