Hijacker spoke to girlfriend about waging ‘holy war’

ONE of the September 11 hijackers transformed from a western-oriented man into a fervent Muslim who often talked about waging a jihad or holy war, his former girlfriend told a German court yesterday.

“He was a lovely man, very nice, rather introverted. He only became really religious at the end,” Aysel Sengun, a German-born doctor, said of Ziad Jarrah, who US officials believe flew the hijacked jet that crashed in Pennsylvania on September 11, 2001.

Ms Sengun testified at the Hamburg trial of Abdelghani Mzoudi, a Moroccan man accused of helping Jarrah and other attackers.