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...thing like that," says Jarrah, who came to Greifswald five years ago together with Ziad. He just doesn?t buy the circumstantial evidence pointing to Ziad?s involvement - flight lessons in Florida, a passport conveniently lost at the same time as those of members of the Hamburg cell, his inexplicable presence on the doomed plane...
Zakariya Essabar, 24 Moroccan Status: Wanted. International warrant issued by German police. Shared the same address in Hamburg as hijackers Mohamed Atta and Marwan al-Shehhi. He allegedly helped plan the Sept. 11 attacks but failed to get a U.S. entry visa. Pictured in wedding photo with hijackers...
...enduring mysteries of the Sept. 11 terror attacks is why the pilots of three suicide flights all came from Hamburg. That German city on the North Sea, U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft said last week, served as a "central base of operations." What was it about Hamburg that made it more attractive as a base than, say, Frankfurt, London or even Cairo...
Central to that question is whether or not the terrorists were originally sent to Hamburg as agents by Osama bin Laden. Were they "sleepers," for years going about their daily business until they were activated to take part in the hijacking plot? German police believe that scenario is unlikely. "We think the terrorists came to Hamburg to study, didn?t do anything extremist and were eventually recruited by agents of bin Laden," said a police official in Hamburg. In all, three of the hijackers and at least three accomplices who are now fugitives lived in Hamburg, at various times...
...After seven weeks of investigations there is no hard evidence that links the Hamburg cell to any other. There are fragments of a puzzle-Atta made a 10-day trip to Spain from Miami in July that continues to bother investigators, while French sources still think that Moussaoui may be connected to the Hamburg cell-but many pieces are missing...