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...Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and you catch Abu Zubayda and you catch Abu Faraj Al-Libbi, once you start taking down senior operational planners, logisticians, financiers, then you start to understand your impact on the capability of an organization to do things because it's that operational level just below Bin Laden and Zawahiri that you care about the most. Is it a permanent kind of report card? No, because they're always going to try to reconstitute. The issue for them, of course, is the people who succeed, that layer that you've taken away, are never quite as good...
...July 2004, Harvard returned a high profile $2.5 million gift from the President of the United Arab Emirates. President Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan al-Nahyan requested the return of the gift after Harvard had placed it on hold...
...Information released by the Interior Ministry revealed that three of the cells involved had been using Iraq as a theater of terror operations as well as a training and staging area for attacks against Saudi Arabia. That may be a case of history repeating itself - Saudi native Osama bin Laden and other Arabs who had participated in the Afghanistan jihad of the '80s later returned to their home countries to fight the authorities during the '90s. One cell of 59 Saudis and non-Saudis sent members to "external training camps" to "participate in regional conflicts" - a reference to Iraq, according...
...revenues and causing massive oil price rises to disrupt to global economy. Saudi officials said that one of the cells consisting of five people had been involved in the February 2006 failed attack on the giant oil processing facility at Abqaiq in eastern Saudi Arabia. Starting in December 2004, bin Laden and al-Qaeda deputy leader Ayman al-Zawahiri had called for attacks against Saudi oil facilities...
...cells even planned to overthrow Saudi King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz Al Saudi and replace him with an al-Qaeda leader. The Interior Ministry said that a collection of cells consisting of 61 members had duped a large number of people out of "huge amounts of money" in raising funds for its operations, including the training of suicide pilots outside the country. The ministry said that the leader of the group, who was not identified, received baya, or allegiance as an Islamic authority, from its members in a secret ceremony at the Kaaba in Mecca, Islam's holiest site...