Said Bahaji
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| Native name | سعيد بحجي |
| Born |
July 15, 1975 Haselünne, Lower Saxony, West Germany |
| Nationality | German |
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 Germany
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| Alma mater | Technical University of Hamburg |
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Electrical engineer Computer technician al-Qaeda facilitator terrorist |
Said Bahaji (Arabic: سعيد بحجي, also transliterated as Saeed Bahaji, born 15 July 1975 in Haselünne, Lower Saxony), is a citizen of Germany, electrical engineer, and an alleged member of the Hamburg cell that provided money and material support to the perpetrators of the September 11 attacks.
He is a German citizen, and was born to a Moroccan father and a German mother in 1975. The family moved to Morocco when he was nine years old. He came to Hamburg in 1995. He enrolled in an electrical engineering program at a technical university in 1996. He spent five months in the German army and then received a medical discharge. He lived in a student home during the weekdays and he spent weekends with his aunt, Barbara Arens. Both of them loved computers, and he called her his "high-tech aunt". She saw that he was secular until other students introduced him to radical Islam. She later put an end to the weekend visits.
On November 1, 1998, he moved into an apartment in Germany with future hijackers Mohamed Atta and Ramzi bin al-Shibh. The Hamburg cell was born at this apartment.[1] They met three or four times a week to discuss their anti-American feelings and plot possible attacks. Many al-Qaeda members lived in this apartment at various times, including hijacker Marwan al-Shehhi, Zakariya Essabar, and others. He apparently served as the group's Internet expert.
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