A German-Moroccan fugitive allegedly involved in the September 11 attacks has been sending email messages from Pakistan to his wife in Germany, according to a report to be published on Monday. The German news magazine Focus says in its latest edition German police have traced Internet messages from Said Bhaiji from Islamabad and Lahore in Pakistan. The report, which does not quote sources, says investigators have intercepted 14 email messages between March and the beginning of July.
| Go ahead. Compromise your sources. There's lots more where that one came from... |
| Maybe he'll use his sat phone next. |
An international arrest warrant has been issued for Bhaiji, who fled Germany shortly before September 11 and is suspected of having belonged to a so-called "Hamburg cell", believed to be a rear base for the September 11 suicide squads. Bhaiji was born in Germany of a German mother and a Moroccan father. He is alleged to have been in charge of the logistics of the Hamburg cell. He is said to have lived in a Hamburg apartment belonging to Muhammad Atta, one of the suicide squads who died in the anti-American attacks, and founder of the Hamburg group. Focus quotes Bhaiji in the emails as refusing to turn himself in to the authorities as his wife requests him to do. "No! I do not want to end up in a position of weakness towards an infidel," he is quoted as saying in one of the messages. |