Word: ramzy
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...Mustafa Ahmad, also known as Shaykh Saiid, an Egyptian believed to have served as paymaster and field commander for the Sept. 11 attacks. Investigators have traced $100,000 from a bank account in Dubai controlled by Ahmad to Mohamed Atta, suspected of orchestrating the attacks. The other is Ramzi Binalshibh, pictured here, a Yemeni who once lived in Hamburg with Atta and who the FBI believes was the 20th hijacker, who was supposed to have been aboard United Flight 93, which crashed in Pennsylvania. The whereabouts of Ahmad and Binalshibh, however, are unknown. U.S. authorities believe they may be hiding...
Other Muslims who had studied in the Philippines maintained links there. It was from Manila that Ramzi Yousef, the convicted mastermind behind the first World Trade Center bombing, hatched a plan to blow up 12 American airliners as they flew over the Pacific. In the mid-1990s, Mohammed Jamal Khalifa, married to one of bin Laden's sisters, allegedly funded Islamic schools in the south of the country, where Muslim insurgents have been fighting for years. The Filipino government has long claimed that Abu Sayyaf, the most bloodthirsty of the groups--its specialty is beheadings--has been supported...
...cell of alleged conspirators in Hamburg, the characteristics of modern European life were a godsend. In addition to the hijackers known to have lived there, other men alleged to be part of the Hamburg cell have had arrest warrants issued for them: Said Bahaji, Zakariya Essabar and Ramzi Binalshibh. German officials believe that last spring both Essabar and Binalshibh tried to get to the U.S. to take flying lessons. The three almost certainly arrived in Pakistan from Germany on Sept. 4 and have since gone to ground--possibly in Afghanistan...
ATTACK FEB. 26, 1993 WORLD TRADE CENTER, NEW YORK CITY The first attempt to bring down the Twin Towers resulted in six deaths and more than 1,000 injuries. The al-Qaeda organization was never mentioned at the trial of convicted mastermind Ramzi Yousef, but he was later convicted of other foiled plots that authorities suspect had al-Qaeda links...
FOILED LATE 1994, EARLY 1995 MANILA, PHILIPPINES Then-fugitive Ramzi Yousef had already slipped out of the U.S. and the Philippines when officials investigated an explosion in a Manila apartment occupied by two people linked to him. Investigators discovered plots to assassinate the Pope and President Clinton during visits to the Philippines and to explode a dozen commercial jets over the Pacific...