Said Bahaji

Said Bahaji was a member of the Hamburg cell. Bahaji was born in Germany to Moroccan parents. At age 9, the family moved back to Morocco. Bahaji returned to Germany in 1995, where he continued his studies in Hamburg. He was an electrical engineering student at Harburg. He also worked part-time as a computer programmer.^[1]

When he came to Germany, Bahaji lived in student dormitories and stayed with his aunt, Barbara Arens, on weekends. He also had a girlfriend, a German Catholic student, but she was sent abroad by her parents and the relationship ended. Soon thereafter, Bahaji fell in with a "new circle of friends" at Al Quds. His aunt wanted none of his "lecturing everyone he knew about Islam". They drifted apart and she refused to all him to stay with her. Bahaji was introduced to Ramzi Binalshibh and Mohamed Atta by Mounir el-Motassadeq at Al Quds.^[2]

Contents 1 Timeline 1.1 1998 1.2 1999 2 References

Timeline

1998

• November - Bahaji, along with Mohamed Atta and Ramzi Binalshibh, moves into an apartment on Marienstrasse near the university in Hamburg.^[3] Bahaji may have signed the lease, but not lived there right away.

1999

• Al-Shehhi left after a month after the group took the apartment at Marienstrasse, and took his own apartment nearby. Said Bahaji replaced al-Shehhi as a tenant at Marienstrasse.^[2]

References