Said Bahaji Said Bahaji ( , also transliterated as Saeed Bahaji , born 15 July 1975 in Haselünne , Lower Saxony ) was an alleged member of the Hamburg cell that provided money to the perpetrators of the September 11 attacks . History . 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 . 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 . He had already been under investigation by German intelligence for his connections with Mohammed Haydar Zammar , a radical Islamic cleric . Through this , German intelligence was able to learn some of the activities of Atta and others , but the investigation was eventually dropped for lack of evidence . In October 1999 , he got married at the Al - Quds Mosque in Hamburg . Atta , Jarrah , Shehhi , Zammar , and bin al - Shibh all attended his wedding . In late 1999 , Atta , Shehhi , Jarrah , and bin al - Shibh decided to travel to Chechnya to fight against the Russia ns , but were convinced by Khalid al - Masri and Mohamedou Ould Slahi at the last minute to change their plans . They instead traveled to Afghanistan to meet with Osama bin Laden and train for terrorist attacks . There are conflicting reports as to whether he went with them ; some news reports say that he went , but the 9 / 11 Commission Report says he stayed in Germany and helped cover for them in their absence . When the group returned to Germany , he was put on a border patrol watch list . He told his employer in June 2001 that he was going to an internship for a software company in Pakistan . His aunt , Barbara Arens , says that she was suspicious and that she went to the police and pleaded to them " to do something . " She says that police took no action against him . Al - Qaeda leader Khalid Sheikh Mohammed told him in August that if he wanted to go to Afghanistan , he should go in the next few weeks , because it would soon become more difficult . He left Germany on September 4 , 2001 , just a week before the attacks , and flew to Karachi via Istanbul . Aftermath of the attacks . He and cohort Ramzi bin al - Shibh were charged with 5 , 000 counts of murder by German officials . Bin al - Shibh has since been arrested , but Bahaji is still at large . During the October 2009 , Pakistan military operation against terrorists in South Waziristan , his German passport was found in a captured militant town .