Word: zubaydah
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...representatives in Southeast Asia, responsible for coordinating the activities of the region's disparate Islamic militant groups and employing their forces to conduct terror attacks against the U.S. and its allies. According to one regional intelligence memo, the CIA had been told of al-Faruq's role by Abu Zubaydah, the highest ranking al-Qaeda official in U.S. custody and a valuable, if at times manipulative, source of intelligence on the terror network and its plans. Initially, al-Faruq was not as cooperative. Though al-Faruq was subjected to three months of psychological interrogation tactics--a U.S. counterterrorism official says...
...Sept. 9, according to a secret CIA summary of the interview, al-Faruq confessed that he was, in fact, al-Qaeda's senior representative in Southeast Asia. Then came an even more shocking confession: according to the CIA document, al-Faruq said two senior al-Qaeda officials, Abu Zubaydah and Ibn al-Shaykh al-Libi, had ordered him to "plan large-scale attacks against U.S. interests in Indonesia, Malaysia, [the] Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Taiwan, Vietnam and Cambodia. In particular," the document continues, "[al-]Faruq prepared a plan to conduct simultaneous car/truck bomb attacks against U.S. embassies in the region...
...first taste of jihad in the early 1990s when he trained at an al-Qaeda camp in Khaldan, Afghanistan. He spent three years at the camp, becoming close to both al-Mughira al Gaza'iri, the camp's leader, and senior bin Laden associate Abu Zubaydah. In 1995, at Abu Zubaydah's suggestion, al-Faruq procured a fake passport and traveled with al-Mughira to the Philippines. There he joined Camp Abubakar, a terrorist-training facility run by the Moro Islamic Liberation Front, a Philippine-based rebel group fighting for independence from Manila. According to a regional intelligence report...
Saif al-Adil ASSUMED ALIVE --The onetime Egyptian army officer, formerly bin Laden's personal security chief, is now believed to have succeeded Abu Zubaydah. The Washington Post says intel sources place him in Iran...
...month before informing the public of Padilla's arrest. Senator John McCain has called on the Attorney General to explain his rationale for detaining Padilla--after all, if the feds have enough evidence to charge Padilla formally, why don't they do it? Intelligence officials have acknowledged that Abu Zubaydah's reliability is uncertain at best, and an Associated Press report in August had law-enforcement officials dismissing Padilla as a "small fish" whose plans never got beyond the drawing board. But the Justice Department shows no sign of loosening its grip on Padilla, and in the end, that...