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 Said Bahaji -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
Bahaji, a German citizen, was born to a (A native or inhabitant of Morocco) Moroccan father and a (A person of German nationality) German mother in 1974.
Bahaji came to (A city in northern Germany on the Elbe River) Hamburg in 1995.
Bahaji told his employer in June 2001 that he was going to an internship for a software company in (A Muslim republic that occupies the heartland of ancient south Asian civilization in the Indus River valley; formerly part of India; achieved independence from the United Kingdom in 1947) Pakistan.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/s/sa/said_bahaji.htm   (646 words)

  
 Pakistan hunts for key terror suspect   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
Said Bahaji, 26, was believed to have returned to Pakistan to take a flight Tuesday from Karachi to Istanbul, Turkey.
Bahaji, a German citizen of Moroccan origin, is sought under an international arrest warrant in connection with the attacks on the World Trade Center in New York and the Pentagon.
Bahaji's arrest would be a major break in efforts to establish a connection between the Sept. 11 attacks and Osama bin Laden's al-Qaida organization.
www.hvk.org /articles/1101/4.html   (385 words)

  
 washingtonpost.com: Hamburg's Cauldron of Terror
Relatives of Said Bahaji were shocked by the change that had taken hold of him when they attended his wedding to a German woman at Al Quds in October 1999.
Bahaji's German mother, Anneliese Bahaji, in an interview at her home in Germany, said she was surprised by her son's full beard, the mark of a religious man.
Mohammed said it was his idea to target prominent buildings in the United States, and he said Atta and other operatives were earmarked as pilots sometime in 1999.
personal.ecu.edu /conradtd/pols2010/Fall023234/FALL023234030.htm   (4541 words)

  
 Internet Haganah::Haganah b' Internet   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
Said Bahaji, 29, a German of Moroccan origin who is alleged to have been the link between the Hamburg al-Qaeda cell - which masterminded the attacks - and Osama bin Laden, is believed to have been hiding in Pakistan and Afghanistan ever since the attacks.
Bahaji is said to have travelled to Afghanistan immediately before September 11, to inform the al-Qaeda leader that the attacks were imminent.
BKA officials said that Nese Bahaji had repeatedly begged her husband to turn himself in, and had hired a lawyer to represent him.
haganah.org.il /harchives/002375.html   (322 words)

  
 The Rest - German Police Arrest Second 9/11 Suspect in Hamburg - The St. Petersburg Times. General news from ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
Prosecutors said that his training in Afghanistan overlapped with fellow Moroccans and suspected Hamburg-cell logisticians Mounir el Motassadeq, who faces trial later this month, and Zakariya Essabar, who is at large.
They also said that he helped "cover up al-Shehhi's whereabouts," finding him a room in student housing where he was able to pass his last weeks in Germany "unnoticed" before departing at the end of May 2000 for flight school in the United States.
Bahaji disappeared days before the attacks and German authorities have issued a warrant for his arrest.
archive.sptimes.ru /archive/times/811/rest/r_7621.htm   (721 words)

  
 GN Online: Giant dhow launched
Bahaji said the only difference between the dhow in the earlier days and this one, is that it has a four tonne engine.
He said some UAE nationals are trying to revive their traditions, but with a modern touch.
Bahaji added that the weight of the Al Boom is about 100 tonnes and it is made mainly of wood, from the UAE.
www.gulf-news.com /Articles/print.asp?ArticleID=72874   (297 words)

  
 Student believed to be key organizer in U.S. attacks
Sahid Bahaji, who was a roommate of two people believed to have been among the hijackers of planes that crashed into the World Trade Center, handled many of the logistical arrangements for the hijackers, including renting apartments and applying for U.S. visas, Hamburg police say.
Severin said he identified two as former students who were identified by the FBI as hijackers involved in the New York attack.
According to the newspaper interview, Bahaji was born in Lower Saxony in 1975 and moved in 1984 to Morocco, the birthplace of his father, Abdallah.
www.dailyegyptian.com /fall01/terrorist/germany.html   (946 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: Zacarias Moussaoui
Moussauoi is said to have been a replacement for the "first" 20th hijacker, possibly Ramzi Binalshibh (bin al-Shibh), a member of the Hamburg cell.
Prevost said later that in pre-simulator instruction, Moussaoui would ask questions that had the right jargon but were otherwise nonsense.
He said that it was not his conspiracy and that he intended to free blind sheikh Omar Abdel-Rahman.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Zacarias-Moussaoui   (4530 words)

  
 CNN.com - Germany hunts for key suspects in terror attacks - October 31, 2001
Today, Bahaji is one of the world's most wanted men; he and the other two men are accused by the German government of helping provide logistics and financing to those who flew the four hijacked planes.
Bahaji’s roommates, the men traveling as Abdellah Hosayni and Ammar Moulla flew to Islamabad, and then it is believed, went on to Afghanistan.
With Said Bahaji, they have told CNN, they believe he was at the heart of the plot.
archives.cnn.com /2001/WORLD/europe/germany/10/31/inv.karachi.connection   (999 words)

  
 German Fugitives Sought in Attack Investigation (washingtonpost.com)
U.S. law enforcement officials have said that fewer than 10 of those in custody in the United States are suspected of being associated with the plot, and none may be as central as the German fugitives.
Ashcroft said Essabar went to Florida in February at a time when both Atta and al-Shehhi were known to be there; German authorities had said previously that Essabar failed in two attempts to get a U.S. visa in December 2000 and January 2001.
Bahaji, who served briefly in the German military and was skilled with computers, is now believed to have been in charge of logistics for the Hamburg cell, including working with the hijackers so they could secure U.S. visas.
www.washingtonpost.com /ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&node=&contentId=A39318-2001Oct23¬Found=true   (897 words)

  
 Agents scour hijackers' trail
Said Bahaji, a 26-year-old German Moroccan, at one time was under observation for involvement in Islamic groups in Hamburg, but the investigation was dropped.
Bahaji is believed to have since fled the country.
In the emerging structure of the Hamburg terror cell, Bahaji and another man sought by police worldwide, Ramzi Binalshibh, were the logisticians--providing the infrastructure so the three so-called sleepers could carry on quiet lives and escape notice until they were activated.
www.suntimes.com /terror/stories/cst-nws-terr30.html   (811 words)

  
 N.Y. Times - Retracing a Trail to Sept. 11 Plot"
Kul said he did not know until much later that some of the seemingly nice young men at the wedding were radical Muslim students involved in the plotting for Sept. 11.
Bahaji is thought to have obtained apartments, organized financing and communications, and helped the German hijackers apply for visas to the United States.
Bahaji left the apartment on Marienstrasse and moved with his wife into a two-room, ground-floor apartment nearby that still has his name on the mailbox.
www.webcom.com /hrin/magazine/hamburg.html   (1178 words)

  
 Boston.com / Fighting Terrorism / War in Afghanistan
Meanwhile, Ashcroft said a terrorist cell operating in Hamburg, Germany, and the United States since at least 1999 included three of the hijackers and three accomplices who are being sought in connection with the Sept. 11 attacks.
He said Binalshibh and Atta started a Muslim prayer group in Hamburg and Essabar went to Florida in February at a time when both Atta and al-Shehhi were known to be there.
Bahaji, Binalshibh and Essabar "are all wanted for membership in a terrorist organization that has existed since at least 1999 in both Germany and the United States," said Ashcroft.
www.boston.com /news/daily/23/attacks_investigation.htm   (816 words)

  
 CNN.com - Germany names Yemeni suspect - September 21, 2001
Chief federal prosecutor Kay Nehm said Binalshibh and Said Bahaji, 26, were part of a terrorist cell that planned the hijackings after forming in Germany.
He said Bahaji lived in the same Hamburg apartment as Atta and studied electronics at the same Hamburg technical college attended by Atta and al-Shehhi.
He said Bahaji signed over the rights to handle his affairs to his wife's stepfather, "in case something should happen to me," a few days before leaving.
archives.cnn.com /2001/WORLD/europe/09/21/inv.germany.warrants   (401 words)

  
 SITE Institute: News Archive - 9/11 Suspect Cut Unlikely Figure in Terror Plot; Even Within Cell, Viewed as Outsider
Said Bahaji brought his friends Mohamed Atta and Ramzi Binalshibh to view an apartment at Marienstrasse 54, right near the campus of the technical university, in October 1998.
When Bahaji boasted to Nickels that he had become "a strong Muslim in a very short period of time," Nickels thought Bahaji's views seemed shallow and uninformed.
Bahaji, who a couple of years before had been discharged from the German army after only four weeks as medically unfit, struck Ademi as too sensitive and complained that he had problems breathing.
www.siteinstitute.org /bin/articles.cgi?ID=news5603&Category=news&Subcategory=0   (1204 words)

  
 Suspected Accomplices in Terror Cell Named
Attorney-General John Ashcroft said the fugitives - a German, a Moroccan and a Yemeni, all previously identified as accomplices by German authorities - were part of a Hamburg-based cell that had existed since at least 1999 in Germany and the United States.
Bahaji, a German of Moroccan descent, attended the same technical university in Hamburg as Atta, and together they petitioned the university to open a Muslim prayer room.
He said "it is quite natural" that "in front of these threats, the dangers of worldwide terrorism, we are at the side of the United States".
www.fromthewilderness.com /timeline/2001/nyt102501.html   (695 words)

  
 9/11: The Pakistan connection - Sify.com
Bahaji and his room-mates checked out of the hotel the next day, after the former had called a Hamburg number and e-mailed a note to his 21-year old wife, Nese, in Hamburg.
Bahaji was one of the anonymous warriors of the Al Qaeda.
Twenty-six-year-old Bahaji was fluent in four languages, had been in the German Army for a year and pursued a course in Computer Science at Hamburg's Technical University.
sify.com /news/pioneer/fullstory.php?id=13220000   (1262 words)

  
 rediff.com US edition: Pakistan launches manhunt for suspect in Sept 11 attacks
Bahaji did not show up for the flight, but is believed to be still hiding in Karachi.
Bahaji, a German citizen of Moroccan origin, is sought under an international arrest warrant in connection with the September terrorist attacks on the World Trade Centre in New York and the Pentagon.
German authorities have said Bahaji had close contacts with some of the hijackers who flew commercial airliners into the World Trade Centre in the biggest terrorist attacks in American history.
www.rediff.com /us/2001/nov/02ny3.htm   (288 words)

  
 The Tribune, Chandigarh, India - World
Bahaji did not show up for the flight but is believed still hiding in Karachi, the officials yesterday said on condition of anonymity.
Bahaji, a German citizen of Moroccan origin, is sought under an international arrest warrant in connection with the September terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center in New York and the Pentagon.
Bahaji rented an apartment in Hamburg in 1998 and shared it with Mohammed Atta, a Bin Laden lieutenant believed to have been the leader of the hijackers.
www.tribuneindia.com /2001/20011103/world.htm   (3166 words)

  
 BBC News | EUROPE | Islamic 'plotters' held in France
Police sources said some of the suspects had been under surveillance since July when a French-Algerian man held in Dubai confessed to planning to attack the US embassy in Paris, according to Reuters news agency.
At least one of the group arrested in France is said to have been in contact with him.
"Bahaji and Binalshibh were part of preparations for the plan at least since 1999," the prosecutor's office said.
news.bbc.co.uk /1/low/world/europe/1555994.stm   (515 words)

  
 Taipei Times - archives   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
Over coffee in his living room, Kul said he did not know until much later that some of the seemingly nice young men at the wedding were radical Muslim students involved in the plotting for Sept. 11.
Bahaji is thought to have obtained apartments, organized financing and communications, and helped the German hijackers apply for visas to the US.
After marrying, Bahaji left the apartment on Marienstrasse and moved with his wife into a two-room, ground-floor apartment nearby that still has his name on the mailbox.
www.taipeitimes.com /News/archives/2001/11/21/0000112482/print   (1146 words)

  
 Fortune.com - SPECIAL REPORT   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
It was in Hamburg, said Ashcroft, that Atta had extensive connections with Bahaji and other confirmed and suspected terrorists.
But Bahaji's Hamburg phone number listed on the receipt is real, and investigators soon learned that Bahaji had flown to Karachi and on to Quetta just days before Sept. 11.
On Sept. 5, Bahaji flew on a Pakistani Airlines flight to Quetta, and his movements have been traced no further than a call (origin unknown) on Oct. 1 to his mother in Germany.
www.fortune.com /fortune/specials/2001/wtc/article.html   (1947 words)

  
 The Tribune, Chandigarh, India - World
German prosecutors said today they had issued arrest warrants for two men of Arab origin who had lived in Hamburg and were suspected of involvement in last week’s attacks on US cities.
Federal prosecutor Kay Nehm said the men they were seeking were Ramzi Mohamed Abdullah Binalshibh (29) from Yemen and Said Bahaji (26) a German citizen of Moroccan origin.
Nehm said both men were sought on suspicion of membership of a “terrorist organisation”, the murder of several thousand people and other serious crimes, adding that the two were believed to have been planning the attacks at least since 1999.
www.tribuneindia.com /2001/20010922/world.htm   (2326 words)

  
 USATODAY.com - Germany seeks second fugitive in terrorism probe   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
Bahaji lived in the same apartment as Mohamed Atta, identified by the FBI as being on one of the planes that hit the World Trade Center.
Bahaji and Binalshibh had prepared for the Sept. 11 attacks since at least 1999, prosecutors said in a written statement.
It said Bahaji left Germany in early September, flying via Turkey to Pakistan; and that Binalshibh was last seen in Hamburg in August.
www.usatoday.com /news/nation/2001/09/21/germany.htm   (281 words)

  
 Boston.com / News / World / Europe / Judge raises doubts on Sept. 11 retrial   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
A German judge said Friday the case against the only Sept. 11 suspect convicted may collapse if it goes to a retrial, adding that he will decide next week whether to free Mounir el Motassadeq.
Consequently, Schudt said that "in the further course of the proceedings it may have to be considered that...
Graessle-Muenscher said prosecutors on Friday introduced an intercepted letter that suspected cell member Said Bahaji wrote to his mother in 2002.
www.boston.com /news/world/europe/articles/2004/04/02/sept_11_suspect_in_germany_seeks_release?mode=PF   (581 words)

  
 Cabal Communique
He said Hizb Allah propounded a Palestinian right to resist Israeli occupation of their land, by which the group usually means both Israel and the West Bank and Gaza Strip that the Israelis seized in the 1967 war.
The suspect, Said Bahaji, sent an e-mail to his wife on Jan. 27, her stepfather, Andreas Scholz, told the Hamburg state court.
Bahaji, a German national, is believed to have provided logistical support for the Hamburg cell that included suicide hijackers Mohamed Atta, Marwan al-Shehhi and Ziad Jarrah.
cabalcom.blogspot.com /2005_03_16_cabalcom_archive.html   (1267 words)

  
 German Secret Service 'Failed To Act On Terrorist Warnings'
The source said it would be "absolutely right" to say that the intelligence agency had known about the flat before September 11.
Bahaji, who has since fled abroad, probably to Pakistan, is thought to have provided key logistical back-up to the suicide attackers.
Another source on the committee said the intelligence services had had "one clue or another" about Islamic extremists operating in Hamburg before September 11 and that they had observed the Mosque where Bahaji and Atta prayed.
billstclair.com /911timeline/2001/telegraph112401.html   (1127 words)

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