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Key 9/11 plotter operating from Waziristan
Amir Mir
Saturday, April 07, 2012
One of the last remaining members of al-Qaedas Hamburg cell which had carried out the 9/11 terrorist attacks in the US is operating from North Waziristan and managing the media production wing of al-Qaeda which is responsible for creating propaganda films.
According to well-placed diplomats in Islamabad, the American Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and the German Federal Intelligence Service (BND) have passed on this information to their Pakistani counterparts, seeking their help to capture Saeed Bahaji, a 37-year old German national who is one of the last remaining members of al-Qaedas Hamburg cell. Bahaji, who is accused of aiding and helping the 9/11 suicide pilots, had fled Germany on September 4, 2011, a week before the attacks, which were carried out by his Hamburg cell aides from al-Qaeda. While the suicide pilots led by Mohammed Atta and their guru Osama bin Laden are already dead, and the chief plotter of 9/11, Khalid Sheikh Mohammad and his closest aide Ramzi Binalshibh, are behind the bars in Guantanamo (after being arrested from Pakistan in 2002 and 2003 respectively), Saeed Bahaji remains at large even a decade after 9/11.
Charged with 5,000 counts of murder by the German authorities, Bahaji was a part of the Germany Armys 72nd Armoured Infantry Battalion from January to May 1999 before receiving a medical discharge. The American and the German authorities had extracted plenty of precious information about Bahajis whereabouts and his activities in North Waziristan during interrogation of a 30-year-old German national of Syrian extraction from Hamburg, Rami Mackenzie. He was arrested by the Pakistani troops on June 22, 2012 while donning a burqa and trying to cross over from North Waziristan to the Bannu district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. An expert in making suicide vests and wanted by the US and German authorities for his links with al-Qaeda, Rami made several disclosures during interrogations, the most important being that the North Waziristan-based al-Qaeda leadership was plotting to target several Western capitals on the pattern of the 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks.
While conceding that he had been working closely with Saeed Bahaji in Mir Ali area of North Waziristan, Rami told his American interrogators (before being handed over to the German authorities) that Saeed Bahaji has been living in a German Colony in North Waziristan along with his second wife, who is a Spanish national, and children. Bahajis wife, Raquel Garcia Burgos, was originally married to another al-Qaeda operator from Morocco, Amer Azizi, but tied the knot with Bahaji after Azizi was killed in a US drone attack in Waziristan in 2009. The small German Colony is meant for white militants from Germany who had moved to the region to join the ongoing jehad against the allied forces stationed in Afghanistan, as well as their allies in Pakistan. There are many instances in recent years of youngsters from the West travelling to the Pakistani tribal belt on the Pak-Afghan border to join hands with different al-Qaeda and Taliban linked jehadi groups.
An increasing number of Westerners have travelled to the Pakistani tribal areas in recent years to join the jehad that al-Qaeda is waging against US-led allied forces in Afghanistan. Among these white militants are Americans, Britons, Germans, French and Australians. The al-Qaeda-trained white militants have formed their own contingents in North Waziristan and are fighting alongside al-Qaeda militants on Pak-Afghan border. Some of the Waziristan-based white militants were trained to carry out terrorist attacks once they returned to their home countries in Europe. Rami used to be one of them. Now serving a prison sentence in the central German town of Weiterstadt after being convicted by a court in Frankfurt, Rami in fact became a key witness and provided vital information on al-Qaeda structures in North Waziristan and also on Saeed Bahaji and his family.
The Pakistani authorities have endorsed the Western intelligence findings by informing the American and German authorities that Saeed Bahajis German passport was found in a captured town of Sherwangi in South Waziristan (which is a stronghold of the Mahsud tribe that makes up the backbone of the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan) during the October 2009 military operation in the area. The last entry stamp in his passport is dated September 4, 2001, just a week before the 9/11 terrorist attacks, when Bahaji had entered Pakistan on a tourist visa through Quaid-i-Azam International Airport in Karachi.
Saeed Bahaji seems to have moved from South Waziristan to North Waziristan since then. Born in Germany to a Moroccan father and a German mother in 1975, he was raised in both Germany and Morocco. Bahaji met with Mohammed Atta and Ramzi Binalshibh at the Technical University in Hamburg as an electrical engineering student, focusing on computer science. He fled to Pakistan hardly a week before the 9/11 terror attacks (after failing to get a US visa), telling his friends and family that he was going to Pakistan on an internship at a software company in the port city of Karachi. Bahaji travelled from Hamburg to Karachi as Abu Zuhair on a fake passport while shedding his old identity, although 9/11 attacks had not yet taken place.
As per the US intelligence findings, following the invasion of Afghanistan by the US-led allied forces, Bahaji fought in the Kandahar district on the side of Osama bin Laden. According to Ramis account, when he left North Waziristan, Saeed Bahaji was not only managing the technical infrastructure of al-Sahab, the official propaganda organ of al-Qaeda, but also working as a speaker by reading out the texts of documentaries in Arabic. Considered to be a highly skilled operator who has managed to outlast many of his co-conspirators while outliving much of al-Qaedas original leadership, Bahaji has not only managed to evade US drone attacks in North Waziristan but is still actively involved with the terrorist groups core.
But Rami Mackenzie is not the only white militant from Germany to have been trained in Waziristan and arrested before carrying out an al-Qaeda-backed terror plot in Europe. Ahmad Wali Siddiqi, a 37-year German-Afghan who is accused of having been trained with al-Qaeda-linked militant groups in the North Waziristan, was put on trial by the German Federal Office of Criminal Investigations in Germany on March 19, 2012. We wanted to fight against Americans, he told the German court in Koblenz in a lengthy statement, adding that he expected to go to war against the US-led allied forces in Afghanistan after undergoing his training in Pakistan. Captured by American troops in Kabul in July 2010, he too provided details on alleged al-Qaeda plots allegedly targeting several Western cities.
Ahmad Wali Siddiqi is accused of membership in al-Qaeda and the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan and faces a possible 10 years in prison if convicted. He is identified as one of a dozen radical Muslims who left the northern German port city of Hamburg in 2009 to pursue terrorist training aimed at taking part in the war. Several of them have already been captured or killed in the Pak-Afghan tribal belt in US drone attacks. Before going to Pakistan, Ahmad Wali Siddiqi and several other potential white militants from Germany met at Hamburgs Al-Quds Mosque, the same place which used to serve as a gathering point for some of the 9/11 attackers before they moved to the US to attend flight schools. Siddiqi too has already confessed having met with Bahaji in the Mir Ali area of North Waziristan.
According to the information provided by Rami Mackenzie and Ahmad Siddiqi to their interrogators, the white militants living in the German Colony of North Waziristan are led by two real brothers who are German nationals 29-year-old Mouneer Chouka alias Abu Adam al Almani and 27-year-old Yaseen Chouka alias Abu Ibrahim al Almani. Coming from Bonn, the two brothers lead a group of 100-plus German militants who had travelled to the border areas of Pakistan in recent years. While unveiling the terror plans of two most wanted German terrorist leaders based in North Waziristan, Rami and Siddiqi reportedly told their interrogators that Chouka brothers have already sent back to Europe over a dozen well-trained, battle-hardened German militants to carry out terror attacks in London, Paris, Berlin and other European cities similar to those carried out in Mumbai.
In a latest video of the North Waziristan-based German militants which was posted on several jehadi web forums on February 9, 2012, Mouneer Chouka alias Abu Adam al Almani has urged the militant elements to carry out attacks in Germany. While accusing the German rulers of aiding the CIA to kill the German militant in US drone attacks in Pakistan, Mouneer Chouka has stated in his video message: Jehad in Germany is only a matter of time. The video has already set alarm bells ringing in some key Western capitals, prompting their intelligence agencies to step up their efforts to track down suspected al-Qaeda connections in Waziristan in a desperate bid to eliminate al-Qaedas European franchise.
Amir Mir
Saturday, April 07, 2012
One of the last remaining members of al-Qaedas Hamburg cell which had carried out the 9/11 terrorist attacks in the US is operating from North Waziristan and managing the media production wing of al-Qaeda which is responsible for creating propaganda films.
According to well-placed diplomats in Islamabad, the American Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and the German Federal Intelligence Service (BND) have passed on this information to their Pakistani counterparts, seeking their help to capture Saeed Bahaji, a 37-year old German national who is one of the last remaining members of al-Qaedas Hamburg cell. Bahaji, who is accused of aiding and helping the 9/11 suicide pilots, had fled Germany on September 4, 2011, a week before the attacks, which were carried out by his Hamburg cell aides from al-Qaeda. While the suicide pilots led by Mohammed Atta and their guru Osama bin Laden are already dead, and the chief plotter of 9/11, Khalid Sheikh Mohammad and his closest aide Ramzi Binalshibh, are behind the bars in Guantanamo (after being arrested from Pakistan in 2002 and 2003 respectively), Saeed Bahaji remains at large even a decade after 9/11.
Charged with 5,000 counts of murder by the German authorities, Bahaji was a part of the Germany Armys 72nd Armoured Infantry Battalion from January to May 1999 before receiving a medical discharge. The American and the German authorities had extracted plenty of precious information about Bahajis whereabouts and his activities in North Waziristan during interrogation of a 30-year-old German national of Syrian extraction from Hamburg, Rami Mackenzie. He was arrested by the Pakistani troops on June 22, 2012 while donning a burqa and trying to cross over from North Waziristan to the Bannu district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. An expert in making suicide vests and wanted by the US and German authorities for his links with al-Qaeda, Rami made several disclosures during interrogations, the most important being that the North Waziristan-based al-Qaeda leadership was plotting to target several Western capitals on the pattern of the 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks.
While conceding that he had been working closely with Saeed Bahaji in Mir Ali area of North Waziristan, Rami told his American interrogators (before being handed over to the German authorities) that Saeed Bahaji has been living in a German Colony in North Waziristan along with his second wife, who is a Spanish national, and children. Bahajis wife, Raquel Garcia Burgos, was originally married to another al-Qaeda operator from Morocco, Amer Azizi, but tied the knot with Bahaji after Azizi was killed in a US drone attack in Waziristan in 2009. The small German Colony is meant for white militants from Germany who had moved to the region to join the ongoing jehad against the allied forces stationed in Afghanistan, as well as their allies in Pakistan. There are many instances in recent years of youngsters from the West travelling to the Pakistani tribal belt on the Pak-Afghan border to join hands with different al-Qaeda and Taliban linked jehadi groups.
An increasing number of Westerners have travelled to the Pakistani tribal areas in recent years to join the jehad that al-Qaeda is waging against US-led allied forces in Afghanistan. Among these white militants are Americans, Britons, Germans, French and Australians. The al-Qaeda-trained white militants have formed their own contingents in North Waziristan and are fighting alongside al-Qaeda militants on Pak-Afghan border. Some of the Waziristan-based white militants were trained to carry out terrorist attacks once they returned to their home countries in Europe. Rami used to be one of them. Now serving a prison sentence in the central German town of Weiterstadt after being convicted by a court in Frankfurt, Rami in fact became a key witness and provided vital information on al-Qaeda structures in North Waziristan and also on Saeed Bahaji and his family.
The Pakistani authorities have endorsed the Western intelligence findings by informing the American and German authorities that Saeed Bahajis German passport was found in a captured town of Sherwangi in South Waziristan (which is a stronghold of the Mahsud tribe that makes up the backbone of the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan) during the October 2009 military operation in the area. The last entry stamp in his passport is dated September 4, 2001, just a week before the 9/11 terrorist attacks, when Bahaji had entered Pakistan on a tourist visa through Quaid-i-Azam International Airport in Karachi.
Saeed Bahaji seems to have moved from South Waziristan to North Waziristan since then. Born in Germany to a Moroccan father and a German mother in 1975, he was raised in both Germany and Morocco. Bahaji met with Mohammed Atta and Ramzi Binalshibh at the Technical University in Hamburg as an electrical engineering student, focusing on computer science. He fled to Pakistan hardly a week before the 9/11 terror attacks (after failing to get a US visa), telling his friends and family that he was going to Pakistan on an internship at a software company in the port city of Karachi. Bahaji travelled from Hamburg to Karachi as Abu Zuhair on a fake passport while shedding his old identity, although 9/11 attacks had not yet taken place.
As per the US intelligence findings, following the invasion of Afghanistan by the US-led allied forces, Bahaji fought in the Kandahar district on the side of Osama bin Laden. According to Ramis account, when he left North Waziristan, Saeed Bahaji was not only managing the technical infrastructure of al-Sahab, the official propaganda organ of al-Qaeda, but also working as a speaker by reading out the texts of documentaries in Arabic. Considered to be a highly skilled operator who has managed to outlast many of his co-conspirators while outliving much of al-Qaedas original leadership, Bahaji has not only managed to evade US drone attacks in North Waziristan but is still actively involved with the terrorist groups core.
But Rami Mackenzie is not the only white militant from Germany to have been trained in Waziristan and arrested before carrying out an al-Qaeda-backed terror plot in Europe. Ahmad Wali Siddiqi, a 37-year German-Afghan who is accused of having been trained with al-Qaeda-linked militant groups in the North Waziristan, was put on trial by the German Federal Office of Criminal Investigations in Germany on March 19, 2012. We wanted to fight against Americans, he told the German court in Koblenz in a lengthy statement, adding that he expected to go to war against the US-led allied forces in Afghanistan after undergoing his training in Pakistan. Captured by American troops in Kabul in July 2010, he too provided details on alleged al-Qaeda plots allegedly targeting several Western cities.
Ahmad Wali Siddiqi is accused of membership in al-Qaeda and the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan and faces a possible 10 years in prison if convicted. He is identified as one of a dozen radical Muslims who left the northern German port city of Hamburg in 2009 to pursue terrorist training aimed at taking part in the war. Several of them have already been captured or killed in the Pak-Afghan tribal belt in US drone attacks. Before going to Pakistan, Ahmad Wali Siddiqi and several other potential white militants from Germany met at Hamburgs Al-Quds Mosque, the same place which used to serve as a gathering point for some of the 9/11 attackers before they moved to the US to attend flight schools. Siddiqi too has already confessed having met with Bahaji in the Mir Ali area of North Waziristan.
According to the information provided by Rami Mackenzie and Ahmad Siddiqi to their interrogators, the white militants living in the German Colony of North Waziristan are led by two real brothers who are German nationals 29-year-old Mouneer Chouka alias Abu Adam al Almani and 27-year-old Yaseen Chouka alias Abu Ibrahim al Almani. Coming from Bonn, the two brothers lead a group of 100-plus German militants who had travelled to the border areas of Pakistan in recent years. While unveiling the terror plans of two most wanted German terrorist leaders based in North Waziristan, Rami and Siddiqi reportedly told their interrogators that Chouka brothers have already sent back to Europe over a dozen well-trained, battle-hardened German militants to carry out terror attacks in London, Paris, Berlin and other European cities similar to those carried out in Mumbai.
In a latest video of the North Waziristan-based German militants which was posted on several jehadi web forums on February 9, 2012, Mouneer Chouka alias Abu Adam al Almani has urged the militant elements to carry out attacks in Germany. While accusing the German rulers of aiding the CIA to kill the German militant in US drone attacks in Pakistan, Mouneer Chouka has stated in his video message: Jehad in Germany is only a matter of time. The video has already set alarm bells ringing in some key Western capitals, prompting their intelligence agencies to step up their efforts to track down suspected al-Qaeda connections in Waziristan in a desperate bid to eliminate al-Qaedas European franchise.
