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Law Enforcement Sensitive (LES) On 9/13/01, the supplemental SCB Visa card in the name of Abdulrahman Al- Ghamidi was used to make six ATM withdrawals in Karachi, Pakistan. vii. Said Bahaii FBI and German investigations indicate Bahaji was a member of the Hamburg cell. Bahaji's connection to the attacks on 9/11/01 is primarily by his close association to three of the hijackers, along with his departure from Gerrnany with Binalshibh and Essabar. (LES) In 1997 Bahaji began his association with other members of the Hamburg Cell, including Ramzi Binalshibh, Mohamed Atta, Mounir Motassadeq, Abdelghani Mzoudi, Zakariya Essabar and Marwan Al-Shehhi. According to Mohammed Raji, Bahaji attended the Al Quds Mosque regularly and was offen accompanied by Mohammied Atta. In 9/98, Bahaji shared an apartment with Atta, Alshehhi and Binalshibh, and later moved into 54 Marienstrasse with Atta and Binaishibh. Visitors to this apartment included Mohammed Haydar Zammar, Mounir Motessadeq, Abdelghani Mzoudi, Ziad Jarrah and Marwan Alshehhi. Bahaji vacated the apartment to get married. in late 8/99 and was replaced by Abedelghani Mzoudi. (LES) On 10/8/99, Bahay search of Bahaji's residence on 9/14/01 speech by Binalshibh stating that Jews are a problem for all Moslems. Binalshibh ends his statement with a poem in Arabic, which was described by a BEA translator as a “war poem." Also on the tape is Marwan Al-Shehhi and Abdelghani Mzoudi singing a song described.as an appeal for war and then a song about an old warrior that praises conquests of forcign lands. The video contains other songs with Jihad as the theme. 1 the Quds Masque. During a (LES) Bahaji obtained Power of Attorney over El Motessadeq's affairs in 4/00. This was the same time period in which El Motessadeq traveled to Afghanistan to attend an Al Qaeda training camp. Between 8/99 and 2/00, seventy-seven connections between Bahaji's and El Motessadeq's lines were determined. Further, three years of account statements seized from Bahaji's apartment show Bahaji dialed El Motessadeq's telephone number 279 tumes from 8/10/00 to 8/9/01. He also dialed Essabar numerous times. A cell phone belonging to Bahaji was also seized at his residence. A review of a. computer disk seized at the residence revealed a letter from Atta to a number of different flight schools in the US . (LES) On 8/3/01, Bahaji gave power of attorney to his father-in-law and told his family he was traveling to Pakistan to further his studies in engineering. (LES) On 9/21/01, the German Federal Prosecutor's Office issued an arrest warrant in the Federal Republic of Germany charging Bahaji as being a member of a terrorist organization, 83 Law Enforcement Sensitive MISC. REQ. #44 900003927