Bassam Kanj (1965–2000) was a Lebanese-American Islamist militant.
one of four men, along with Mohamad Elzahabi, Nabil al-Marabh and Raed Hijazi, who met each other at the Khalden training camp during the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan.
He first moved to the United States in 1984, marrying an American woman and becoming a naturalized citizen.
[4] He returned to the United States in 1995, moving to Boston where he took work as a cab driver.
[3] He returned to Lebanon around 1997, where he founded a group of the radical Islamist Takfir wal-Hijra movement.