GERMANY: LEBANESE MAN SUSPECTED OF U.S. HIJACKING REPORTED TO HAVE STUDIED AIRCRAFT CONSTRUCTION IN HAMBURG.

Record ID: 566172

  • Title: GERMANY: LEBANESE MAN SUSPECTED OF U.S. HIJACKING REPORTED TO HAVE STUDIED AIRCRAFT CONSTRUCTION IN HAMBURG.
  • Date: 17th September 2001
  • Summary: HAMBURG, GERMANY (SEPTEMBER 17, 2001) (REUTERS - ACCESS ALL) 1. GV/CU: EXTERIORS UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES WHERE SUSPECT ZIAD JARRAH STUDIED/ SIGN READING MECHANICAL ENGINEERING (2 SHOTS) 0.10 2. GV/CU: NEWSPAPER ARTICLE READING THIS IS THE THIRD MAN, PHOTOGRAPH OF ZIAD JARRAH/ UNDATED REPRODUCTION PHOTOGRAPH SHOWING ZIAD AL-JARRAH (L) DANCING WITH HIS FRIENDS (3 SHOTS0 0.29 3. MV/GV: REPORTERS AT NEWS CONFERENCE (2 SHOTS) 0.41 4. CU: SOUNDBITE (German) HANS-GEORG HUSUNG, DIRECTOR HAMBURG UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES SAYING: "Mr. (Ziad) Jarrah started studying aircraft construction in the winter term of 1997 at Hamburg University. He had his last exam in July 1999. We can confirm that Mr. Jarrah regularly reported back until the summer term of this year." 1.13 5. GV: SIGN READING "STUDY IN THE U.S.A." 1.18 6. CU: SOUNDBITE (German) MICHAEL GOTZMANN, STUDENT WHO STUDIED WITH JARRAH SAYING: "One day we were studying together and in the middle of the term he asked me, Michael, would you be sad if I end my studies here and move to the States? ...Two weeks later he was gone." 1.34 7. CU: SIGN READING UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES 1.39 8. GV: VARIOUS OF WORKS ON DISPLAY 1.43 9. MCU: SOUNDBITE (English) MELIH DEMIR, STUDENT WHO STUDIED WITH JARRAH SAYING: "He was very happy all the time making jokes. We could make jokes about him and.... I can't believe that he did something like this." 1.56 10. MCU: SOUNDBITE (German) LUDWIG SCHWARZ, PROFESSOR OF AIRCRAFT CONSTRUCTION WHO TAUGHT JARRAH SAYING: "I was very surprised to hear about these connections. Only after some thinking did I remember Mr. Jarrah which leads me to believe that he was a very quiet student." 2.24 11. GV: STUDENTS LEAVING UNIVERSITY BUILDING 2.36 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
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  • Location: HAMBURG, GERMANY
  • Country: Germany
  • Reuters ID: LVA6NITAHZH8OIVGTA6O1I3WG57W
  • Story Text: A Lebanese man suspected of being among the hijackers
    in Tuesdays terror attacks on the United States has studied
    aircraft construction at Hamburg's University of Applied
    Sciences.



    University president Hans-Gerhard Husung told
    reporters on Monday (September 17) that Ziad Jarrah started
    studying aircraft
    construction in the winter term of 1997.

    "He had his last exam in July 1999. We can confirm that
    Mr. Jarrah regularly reported back until the summer term of
    this year," Husung said.

    Student Michael Gotzmann who used to study with Jarrah
    told reporters that "one day we were studying together and in
    the middle of the term he asked me, Michael, would you be sad
    if I ended my studies here and moved to the States?"
    Last week, Germany's Federal Prosecution Office said three
    of the 19 suicide hijackers lived in Hamburg for a time and at
    least two of them studied electronics at the city's Technical
    University (TU).

    German prosecutors have said they have found no link
    between the possible suspects and Osama bin Laden, the
    Saudi-born militant Islamic millionaire leading figures in the
    United States have singled out as the main suspect.



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