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Instead of offering billions of dollars to Turkey for support, the U.S. would be much wiser to use the money to get Saddam and his cronies to leave Iraq and settle in a safe place. SHAKIR LAKHANI Karachi...
...Sept. 11 hijackers were also present, and is thought to have run--under Mohammed's guidance--the operation later that year to bomb the U.S.S. Cole in Aden harbor. According to reports out of Pakistan, bin Atash's brother, Umar al-Gharib, was arrested in the raid in Karachi last September that collared Ramzi Binalshibh, a Yemeni who allegedly ran the logistics for the Sept. 11 attacks out of Hamburg. Other possible replacements for Mohammed include three of his nephews. One is named Ali Abd al-Aziz; the other two--Abd al-Karim Yousef and Abd al-Mun'im Yousef...
Mohammed's name would not surface again until after he helped complete the job Yousef bragged to the FBI about doing: toppling the World Trade Center towers. (Intelligence officials still can't fill that five-year gap in his dossier.) Last year in Karachi, he and Binalshibh gave an interview to an al-Jazeera TV reporter in which they spoke proudly of carrying out what they called "the martyrdom operation inside America." On camera, they provided details of the attack, disclosing coded e-mails that had referred to the Twin Towers as "the Faculty of Town Planning." They also displayed...
...Hambali helped plot the 9/11 attacks, and he met with Mohammed in Karachi in 2001 to plan a major terrorist strike in Asia?deliberations that led to the Bali bombings. "The arrest of Khalid Shaikh Mohammed does make the role of Hambali in Southeast Asia much more important," says Zachary Abuza, author of a forthcoming book about al-Qaeda in Asia. But Hambali is now clearly on the run and, according to a regional intelligence source, "that will cramp his style quite a bit." The last confirmed sighting of Hambali was in Bangkok in February 2002. Some...
...Pakistani court has sentenced to death one man, Ahmad Omar Saeed Sheikh, 28, and imprisoned three others for their roles in the abduction and murder of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl a year ago in Karachi. But the mystery of who wielded the knife that beheaded Pearl is still unsolved. Now Pakistani police sources tell TIME that at least one witness says Pearl's throat was slit by a top al-Qaeda terrorist, Khalid Shaikh Mohammed. A Kuwaiti of Pakistani descent, Mohammed is believed by U.S. authorities to have been a key organizer of the Sept. 11 hijackings...