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Like most of the Sept. 11 hijackers, Zubaydah grew up in a comfortable middle-class home. His real name is Zayn al-Abidin Mohammed Husayn, and he was born into a Palestinian family living in Riyadh. In his teens, he was lured into Islamic extremism through the Palestinian cause. At 18, he surfaced in Gaza as a member of the Islamic Jihad. In the mid-1990s, he moved to Afghanistan, where his zeal and efficiency earned him a place in al-Qaeda's inner circle. Fastidious by nature, he was more a logistician than a fighter. Bin Laden trusted...
DIED. ABDULLAH BIN LADEN, 75, patriarch of one of Saudi Arabia's wealthiest families and estranged uncle of Osama bin Laden; of undisclosed causes; in Riyadh. After the Sept. 11 attacks, he condemned the "tragic incident...which contradicts the teachings of our religion, Islam." In 1994, the year Osama was stripped of his citizenship, the family disavowed links with...
...hard to imagine an Israeli embassy in Riyadh...
...Like most of the Sept. 11 hijackers, Zubaydah grew up in a comfortable middle-class home. His real name is Zayn al-Abidin Mohammed Husayn, and he was born into a Palestinian family living in Riyadh. In his teens, he was lured into Islamic extremism through the Palestinian cause. At 18, he surfaced in Gaza as a member of the Islamic Jihad. In the mid-1990s, he moved to Afghanistan, where his zeal and efficiency earned him a place in al-Qaeda's inner circle. Fastidious by nature, he was more a logistician than a fighter. Bin Laden trusted...
...hard to imagine an Israeli embassy in Riyadh...