Word: khalid
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...Yemen as a sign that al-Qaeda sleeper cells have been activated. Kandari and Hajiri would certainly not be the first known al-Qaeda operatives to hail from Kuwait. The group's oft-videotaped spokesman is a militant Kuwaiti preacher named Sulaiman Abu Ghaith. And a Kuwait-born Palestinian, Khalid Sheik Mohammed, is believed to have played a central role in planning the September 11 attacks...
...before Sept.11 released a scathing staff report last week accusing the CIA of not devoting enough resources to uncovering Osama bin Laden's plots against the U.S. One FBI agent testified that he warned headquarters just 13 days before the attacks that because he was denied permission to pursue Khalid Almihdhar, above, who later turned out to be one of the 19 hijackers, "someday, someone will die." President Bush announced he would now support a blue-ribbon commission to investigate what went wrong. The CIA denies it was aslei*Aep, but since last Sept. 11, its Counter-Terrorism Center...
...arrangements for the hijack team, funneling cash to them and also, on one occasion, to Zacarias Moussaoui, who was detained in Minnesota before the attacks and has since been charged with six counts of conspiracy to commit acts of terrorism. Binalshibh also is thought to have worked closely with Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, 38, a Pakistani born in Kuwait with a long history of links to terrorist groups, who investigators believe was also involved in the Sept. 11 plot. Mohammed, too, appears in the al-Jazeera interviews, in which he describes himself as "the head of the al-Qaeda military committee...
...allies. Afghan intelligence officials say he has been spotted in Helmand province--the Taliban-friendly region that produced Rahman, who joined Sherzai's guard about two weeks before trying to assassinate Karzai. After the shooting, police and military officers in Kandahar detained 17 Rahman associates for questioning, according to Khalid Pashtoon, a spokesman for Sherzai. "Once the interrogations and investigations are completed," says Pashtoon, "Hekmatyar's name will be mentioned." Some Afghan leaders believe that Hekmatyar's re-emergence has been facilitated by outsiders eager to destabilize the Western-friendly government in Kabul. Possible troublemakers include Iran's hard-line...
Ayman al-Zawahiri ASSUMED ALIVE --Initially reported killed last year, bin Laden's right-hand man apparently survived, as did Khalid Shaikh Mohammed and Mustafa Ahmed, operations and finance heads, respectively...