Obeidi was born on 7 September 1991 in
Mazar-i-Sharif, Afghanistan. Her father, Ghulam-Mohammed Obeidi, a member of the
Afghan Communist Party, piloted military aircraft. He left the country as pro-Soviets lost control of Afghanistan at the end of the
Soviet–Afghan War, and in 1992 arrived in Hamburg, which already had a sizeable expatriate Afghan population. Morsal, then three, and her brother, then ten, came to Germany two years later. She, her brother, and her other family members became German citizens. Her father, who became a bus driver, had difficulty obtaining high quality employment and assimilating into German society, and he criticized Morsal for assimilating too much and Ahmad for committing crimes. Ahmad was convicted of a crime and sentenced to a prison term of one year and five months in October 2007; he had no parole eligibility. The court ordered him to report to prison on 2 May 2008 but he did not begin his sentence at that time. On 9 May, his lawyer made a request to start the sentence at a later time, but on 15 May the court upheld the start of his sentencing. Morsal had not been in contact with Ahmad for awhile; Barbara Hans of
Der Spiegel stated "But she never succeeded in entirely breaking off contact with her family." In 2008 the father lived in Rothenburgsort. ==Crime==