U.S. Suicide Attacks—The Jarrah Family Connection

An-Nadar [Lebanon newspaper]
November 8, 2001
http://www.naharnet.com/domino/tn/Newsdesk.nsf/Lebanon/06802B1FBB8A8F3442256AFC003F2848?OpenDocument


Assem Omar Jarrah has admitted to give his German work permit to his distant cousin Ziad Samir Jarrah, one of the 19 suspected hijackers who demolished the New York World Trade Center and the Pentagon's West Wing.

Assem, who works as the Middle East manager of the German company Frizenios, also said in a Beirut TV interview that he would be leaving for Germany on Tuesday to sue the German weekly Der Spiegel for libel.

The magazine said in this week's edition that the records of the former East German Stassi secret service show that Assem served with the Libyan secret service and collaborated with Palestinian terrorist mastermind Abu Nidal in the 1980s.

This data was spotted by federal German investigators reviewing Stassi's records in the wake of the New York and Washington bombings, when Ziad Jarrah's name appeared as an FBI suspect.

"This is absolutely untrue," Assem said. "I enlisted in the school of pharmacy in Hamburg University in 1982. I graduated five years later and started a pharmaceutical company and lived there until July this year, when I transferred permanently to Beirut for my job with Frizenios."

Assem said he never had any political activity or political leanings. He said he had made two trips to Germany since the Sept. 11 terrorist assaults in the United States. The first was in response to a summons by Frizenios to inquire about his relationship with Ziad Jarrah.

"I gave my testimony in this regard and informed the company that I had lent my German work permit to Ziad well before the Sept. 11 attacks," Assem said.

"It was during my second trip that the FBI informed me that my work permit was found on the hijacked plane that crashed in Pennsylvania," he said. That plane was destined for Washington to hit either the White House or Capitol Hill.

Ziad Jarrah's family in Baalbek says he was a passenger on that aircraft, not a hijacker.



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