1. 2 years ago 
    MARIENSTRASSE 54 HAMBURG-HARBURG 21073, DEUTSCHLAND In this apartment nearly a decade ago lived four Arab students attending the nearby Hamburg-Harburg Technical University: Mohammed Atta, an Egyptian, Ziad Jarrah from Lebanon, Marwan al-Shehhi of the UAE, and Ramsi Binalshibh from Yemen. In this very apartment building these four planned the September 11 terrorist attacks in the United States, the former three active hijackers and the latter their liason with Al-Qaeda. German authorities were aware of this “Hamburg Cell” prior to the attacks, but were still unsure of their capabilities and intentions until they executed a raid of the premises far too late, on September 11th, 2001, the day of the attacks. I happened to be in the neighborhood of Harburg on September 12th, 2009. A friend of mine informed me that we were near this location and suggested I take a look. Here is the blackberry image that I have held onto for all this time. Think about it.

    MARIENSTRASSE 54 HAMBURG-HARBURG 21073, DEUTSCHLAND

    In this apartment nearly a decade ago lived four Arab students attending the nearby Hamburg-Harburg Technical University: Mohammed Atta, an Egyptian, Ziad Jarrah from Lebanon, Marwan al-Shehhi of the UAE, and Ramsi Binalshibh from Yemen.

    In this very apartment building these four planned the September 11 terrorist attacks in the United States, the former three active hijackers and the latter their liason with Al-Qaeda. German authorities were aware of this “Hamburg Cell” prior to the attacks, but were still unsure of their capabilities and intentions until they executed a raid of the premises far too late, on September 11th, 2001, the day of the attacks.

    I happened to be in the neighborhood of Harburg on September 12th, 2009. A friend of mine informed me that we were near this location and suggested I take a look. Here is the blackberry image that I have held onto for all this time.

    Think about it.

     

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So I, Sean Kesluk, left Los Angeles for a 6 month adventure abroad in Europe and South America. After a few weeks studying the Deutsch in Freiburg, Germany, it's two months up north in Hamburg working for the city's Jewish community center. After a brief foray into Sweden, I'll head South to Buenos Aires for some Spanish classes and volunteer work in a La Boca soup kitchen. After that it's back home to the States and national service with AmeriCorps NCCC. With a month of training at the VA medical campus in Perry Point, MD, it 's off to Baltimore for my first project, two months working for The Samaritan Women, a non-profit renovating a hundred-year-old mansion to use as a transitional home for women in recovery from heroin addiction and human trafficking, in addition to expanding a farm/urban garden to distribute produce to soup kitchens, shelters, and those in nutritional poverty. The second project will see us down in New Orleans, LA doing post-Katrina work with The Phoenix of New Orleans, a non-profit which renovates homes for Lower Mid-City homeowners who can't afford to do so.
 
 

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