18 July 2004	Sunday	29 Jamadi-ul-Awwal 1425

MUNICH, July 17: A German-Moroccan fugitive suspected by US agencies of involvement in the Sept 11, 2001, attacks has been sending email messages from Pakistan to his wife in Germany, according to a report to be published on Monday.

The German news magazine Focus says in its latest edition that German police have traced Internet messages from Said Bahiji from Islamabad and Lahore.

The report, which does not quote sources, says investigators have intercepted 14 email messages between March and the beginning of this month.

An international arrest warrant has been issued for Mr Bahaji, who fled Germany shortly before Sept 11, 2001, and is suspected of having belonged to the "Hamburg cell", believed to be a rear base for the Sept 11 suicide squads.

Said Bahiji was born in Germany of a German mother and a Moroccan father. He is alleged to have been in charge of the logistics of the Hamburg cell.

He is said to have lived in a Hamburg apartment belonging to Mohammed Atta, one of the suicide squad who died in the attacks, and founder of the Hamburg group.

Focus quotes Mr Bahiji in the emails as refusing to turn himself in to the authorities as his wife requests him to do.

"No! I do not want to end up in a position of weakness towards an infidel," he is quoted as saying in one message.-AFP