Word: khalid
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...actual killers are still at large. While prosecutors say Saeed was the mastermind who grabbed Pearl, Karim denies that Saeed was in Karachi during the kidnapping. Karim, a former mujadedin fighter in Afghanistan, has told police that the man who actually drew the knife across Pearl's throat was Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, a top al-Qaeda terrorist. Mohammed, whom U.S. investigators say was a chief architect of the 9/11 attacks, is now believed to be hiding in Pakistan...
...Jabarah, a 21-year-old Cana-dian operative of al-Qaeda in southern Thailand. Hambali, who trained and fought in Afghanistan from 1987 to 1991, is a member of both the JI and al-Qaeda consultative councils. Ham-bali proposed to Jabarah?who was dispatched to the region by Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, head of al-Qaeda's military committee?that the terror campaign evolve to bombing bars, nightclubs and restaurants frequented by Westerners...
...Operation Anfal, which included a 1988 gas attack on Halabja that killed 5,000 Kurdish civilians. Khazraji, a possible successor to Saddam Hussein, said Iraqi secret police had made up the claims to stop him from organizing a dissident movement. KUWAIT In the Firing Line A Kuwaiti policeman, Khalid Messier al-Shimmari, was arrested in Saudi Arabia for shooting and seriously wounding two U.S. soldiers near Kuwait City. The attack followed the killing of another American soldier in October. Kuwait hosts 10,000 U.S. troops and the emirate is expected to be one of the launch pads for any invasion...
...officials confirm that there is an ongoing investigation into whether Omar Al Bayoumi, a Saudi who befriended two 9/11 hijackers, Nawaf Al Hazmi and Khalid Al Midhar, when all three were living in San Diego, funneled money or other support to them. The investigation has concluded that Bayoumi, now in England, had no idea the pair were Al Qaeda terrorists and aided them only out of hospitality. But the FBI is still trying to sort out his sources of funds, some of which, other officials now tell TIME, came through third parties with links to the Saudi Royal family...
...Ramadan." While they try to anticipate the next attack, security forces are sifting through previous ones for clues. Last Tuesday French investigators resumed interrogation of six family members of the Djerba suicide bomber Nizar Naouar, whose last phone call before his death was to suspected Sept. 11 mastermind Khalid Sheik Mohammed. The satellite phone he used was purchased in Paris by his supposedly impoverished 22-year-old brother, Wahid, for [EURO] 1,900. The cost, and the complicated manner in which the phone was sent to Tunisia, suggest the backing of an organized group. But even if officials unearth...