Zakariyah Essabar (Arabic: زكريا الصبار) is, according to the governments of the United States, Germany, and other countries, a member of al-Qaida and an associate of many of the organizers of the September 11, 2001 attacks.

Born in Morocco, Essabar moved to Germany in 1997, and studied medical technology in college in Hamburg in 1998. Through the Muslim religious community there, Essabar met Ramzi Binalshibh and other members of the Hamburg cell. Essabar quickly became more religious and less tolerant, and lived for some time at the Hamburg cell apartment. After training in Afghanistan, he learned combat skills and passport alteration.

Essabar is later reported to have delivered the cryptic message from Binalshibh to Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, indicating the date that the September 11, 2001 attack would be carried out. Essabar may not have known the significance of the date, but he did relay the message, and he moved to Afghanistan just before the attacks (having been warned that travel would be more difficult after September 11). Essabar remains at large.

See also

• Planning and execution of the September 11, 2001 attacks

External link

• The Final 9/11 Commission Report