Marwan al-Shehhi is drawing 60x more Wikipedia traffic than normal

What this article is

Marwan al-Shehhi was an Emirati engineering student and terrorist hijacker for al-Qaeda. He was the hijacker-pilot on United Airlines Flight 175. As part of the September 11 attacks, he crashed the plane into the South Tower of the World Trade Center in a suicide attack. He was one of five hijackers aboard the aircraft and one of two Emiratis to take part in the attacks, the other being Fayez Banihammad, who helped him hijack the same plane.

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