Said Bahaji

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Said Bahaji ( Arabic سعيد بحجي Said Bahadschi , DMG Saʿīd Baḥaǧī ; * July 15, 1975 in Haselünne ) is an alleged Islamist terrorist and alleged member of the Hamburg terror cell that was involved in the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001 .

Said Bahaji, who has German citizenship , has a German mother and a Moroccan father. When he was nine years old, the family moved to Morocco. In 1995 he moved to Hamburg, where he began to study electrical engineering at the Technical University of Hamburg-Harburg . There he got to know Mohammed Atta and Ramzi Binalshibh , with whom he shared an apartment in the Harburg district . In 1999 Bahaji married in the Al-Quds Mosque in Hamburg in the presence of Atta, Binalshib and Marwan al-Shehhi . The friendship with these made him suspect of complicity. According to investigations, he was alleged to have acted as the group's "bookkeeper", negotiating rent and providing computers. The thesis of his complicity is also supported by the fact that he flew to Karachi on September 4th, exactly one week before the attacks . Shortly afterwards, according to the BKA, he was seen in an Al-Qaeda camp in Afghanistan . In letters to his relatives in 2002, he denied having known about the 9/11 attack plans.

According to information from the German-Syrian terrorist Rami Makanesi, who was arrested in June 2010, to the Federal Criminal Police Office , Bahaji is said to have been in Mir Ali in Wasiristan in May 2010 , where he met other terror suspects from Germany. He is said to have lived for several years under the name of Abu Zuhair in the Pakistani-Afghan border area and was injured in fighting against US troops, as a result of which he limps today.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d spiegel.de August 29, 2011: On the Trail of Said Bahaji .
  2. ↑ Article on NDR of October 29, 2009: Passport found ( Memento of March 27, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ^ John Goetz, Hans Leyendecker, Frederik Obermaier, Bastian Obermayer : The German House . In: Süddeutsche Zeitung from June 1, 2013
personal data
SURNAME Bahaji, Said
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bahaji, Said
BRIEF DESCRIPTION suspected Islamist terrorist
DATE OF BIRTH 15th July 1975
PLACE OF BIRTH Haseluenne , Germany