70. CIA analytic report, "The Plot and the Plotters," June 1, 2003, p. 23; German BKA report, investigative
Mohamed Abdulla Mohamed Awady on Oct. 24, 2003, at the Mzoudi trial, Dec. 5, 2003.
73. Ibid.
74. FBI electronic communication, summary of testimony of Mohamed Abdulla Mohamed Awady on Oct.
76. German BKA report, investigative summary re Jarrah, July 18, 2002; Federal Prosecutor General (Germany),
ceremony not recognized under German law. Senguen has only acknowledged that she and Jarrah were engaged.
German BKA report, investigative summary re Jarrah, July 18, 2002.
78. Ibid.
79. Ibid.
80. On Jarrah's accommodations in Hamburg and his meeting with Binalshibh, see ibid. On Jarrah and Zam-
ally Intelligence report, interrogation of Binalshibh, Nov. 6, 2003; Intelligence report, "Terrorism: Background
Information on Usama Bin Ladin Associate Muhammad Haydar Zammar," Jan. 14, 2002. For Zammar encourag-
ing jihad, see Intelligence report, interrogation of detainee, Jan. 14, 2002.
such a gathering was mentioned. An individual phoning Zammar's house on February 17, 1999, was told that he
was away on a trip to a distant,"bad" region, but that "people" at 54 Marienstrasse knew where he was.The same
conversation revealed that these "people" included "Said, Mohamed Amir, [and] Omar," likely a reference to the
apartment's original occupants, Said Bahaji, Atta, and Binalshibh. Federal Prosecutor General (Germany), response
to Commission letter, June 25, 2004, p. 9. Shehhi also appears to have lived there briefly, in November 1998 and
again in the summer of 1999. German BKA report, investigative summary re Shehhi, July 9, 2002. The Marien-
strasse apartment remained an important location for the group even after Binalshibh, Atta, and Shehhi all moved
out, as some of their closest associates, including Zakariya Essabar and Abdelghani Mzoudi, moved in. See German
BKA report, investigative summary re Binalshibh, July 4, 2002.
el Ansar," which refers to the name of a guesthouse Bin Ladin established in Afghanistan for mujahideen recruits.
Ibid.
5, 2003.The diskettes seized from Bahaji's residence also contained bomb-making instructions. Federal Prosecutor
General (Germany), response to Commission letter, June 25, 2004, p. 10. A videotape of Bahaji's October 9, 1999,
wedding at the Quds mosque, recovered by German authorities after the September 11 attacks, depicts Binalshibh
giving a speech denouncing Jews as a problem for all Muslims. On the videotape, Binalshibh also reads a Palestin-
ian war poem, and Shehhi and Mzoudi sing a jihad song. Also shown attending the wedding are Jarrah and Zam-
mar. FBI report,"Hijackers Timeline," Nov. 14, 2003 (citing 265A-NY-280350-BN-415).
he became a member of al Qaeda's media committee. Intelligence report, interrogations of KSM and Binalshibh,
May 27, 2003.
86. German BKA report, investigative summary re Mzoudi, Jan. 13, 2003; German BKA report, investigative
to the 9/11 attacks. Mzoudi was acquitted in February 2004, in part because Binalshibh was not produced as a wit-
ness. Motassadeq was convicted in 2003 for being an accessory to the attacks and received a 15-year prison sen-
tence, but his conviction was reversed. See Richard Bernstein,"Germans Free Moroccan Convicted of a 9/11 Role,"
New York Times, Apr. 8, 2004, p. A18.
to Nickels, who was distancing himself from the group by this time,"Atta was just too strange." Ibid.