Posted on 08/07/2004 9:39:04 AM PDT by knighthawk
HAMBURG - A suspected September 11 conspirator who is being hunted by police worldwide has e-mailed his wife in Germany to say he will never “bow to infidels” by surrendering, according to a report on Saturday.
German-born Said Bahaji, 29, e-mailed his Hamburg wife Nese to reject her repeated entreaties for him to surrender to authorities, said the report in Der Spiegel news magazine.
“I am convinced it would be a huge mistake for me to return,” he wrote in the e-mail dated July 20.
Dismissing assurances by German authorities that he would face a fair and objective trail, Bahaji wrote his wife, “Believe me, they will not handle me in a fair and just manner.”
At any rate, he added that his religious faith prevented him from surrendering to secular authorities.
“My Muslim faith would never permit me to bow to infidels,” he wrote.
Instead of returning to Germany, he told her, “My sole concern is how I can get you and Omar (their son) out of that godless country.”
German investigators believe Bahaji was the “logistician” of an eight-man cell in Hamburg that devised the 2001 attacks on New York and Washington and went to Afghanistan to obtain helpers and funding from Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden.
Three died as suicide pilots, three suspects are in custody and Bahaji and Zakariya es-Sabar, 27, also Moroccan, are still at large.
Bahaji, who is believed to be in hiding in the Pakistan- Afghanistan border region, has been in regular contact with his wife and with his parents via e-mail and by phone.
Clearly aware that investigators have tapped into his communications, Bahaji at times has even made joking references to his “party line listeners” during calls to his family.
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Your families will be well protected in Germany, Spain and France.
Why is it permissible for Muslims to hide behind Islam whenever convenient, as in 'Islam made me do it' -- but for Americans, belief in religion is denounced and spat upon by PC elitists? They hate America more than the terrorists and the ugly truth is that they don't care how many Americans die because of their stupidity. In another time this would be treason.
In either instance you cannot be suggesting those alternatives. At least, no civilized person would make such a suggestion.
So this murderer wants death rather than surrender.
Fine by me.
Great, I agree entirely. Kill the SOB slowly and with the infliction of severe pain. But what's his wife and child got to do with his terrorist crime?
You just did.
Even if used as a straw man, it is an insight into how you think. Did you enjoy beating on it?
Huh ??? Translation please.
Speaking of threatening terrorists and so on:
But Lefty Timothy Noah ... even found hints in an October 8, 2001 New Yorker article by Hersh that the veteran journalist admired the success of Jordan’s strong-arm tactic of threatening the families of terrorists as a way to deter and defeat terrorism.
Seymour Hersh, man after your own heart?
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