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| Suspect beat it to Afghanistan |
| 2001-10-25 |
The Times reports that a key suspect in the attack on America, Moroccan student Said Bahaji, apparently fled to Afghanistan the week before Sept. 11. "Mr Bahaji, who has German nationality, flew on Turkish Airlines from Hamburg to Karachi on September 4 with two other Arab men. The three checked into one room in an hotel, where he is thought to have made final plans to escape across the border." The Times adds that Bahaji, who Attorney General John Ashcroft says is a member of a Hamburg-based al Qaeda cell, "used a public telephone booth near the Embassy Hotel in Karachi three times to make calls to a house in Hamburg used by Mohammed Atta, the hijack ringleader." There's no word on what happened to the two men who flew to Karachi with Bahaji; the FBI now wants to question them. |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |