Future 9/11 hijacker Marwan "al-Shehhi obtained his new papers [passport, to erase any record of having traveled to Pakistan] in the Emirates before he ever returned to Germany. …On January 18 [2000], Shehhi, using his brand-new passport became the first of the men [9/11 hijackers] to receive a U.S. visa."
– Terry McDermott, Perfect Soldiers, 193