Zakariya Essabar

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Zakariya Essabar (Arabic: زكريا الصبار, romanized: Zakariyā aṣ-Ṣabār) (3 April 1977–2003) was a Moroccan member of al-Qaeda who helped organize the September 11, 2001 attacks on the United States as part of the Hamburg cell. Essabar was born in Morocco on 3 April 1977 and immigrated to Germany in 1997. In 1998, he studied medical technology at Hamburg University of Technology. Through the Muslim religious community there he met Ramzi bin al-Shibh and other members of the Hamburg cell. Essabar quickly became more religious while in Germany. He lived for some time at the Hamburg cell apartment. He reportedly pressured one acquaintance with force to become more religious and to compel their wife to convert to Islam. Essabar's parents tried unsuccessfully to turn him away from radicalization. After being radicalized in 1999, Essabar trained in Afghanistan where he learned combat skills and passport alteration. He returned to the training camps in early 2000 and returned to Germany in August...

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