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	2000 al-Qaeda Summit - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The 2000 al-Qaeda Summit was a meeting of several high-level al-Qaeda members held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
		The meeting was held in the hotel room of Yazid Sufaat, a former army captain and businessman, in a hotel in Kuala Lumpur.
		The summit's purpose was allegedly to plan future terrorist attacks, which apparently included the October 2000 bombing of the USS Cole and the 9/11 plot.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/2000_al-Qaeda_Summit (280 words)

	OpinionJournal - REVIEW & OUTLOOK
		Shakir was present at the January 2000 al Qaeda "summit" in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, at which the 9/11 attacks were planned.
		The four-day al Qaeda meeting was attended by Khalid al Midhar and Nawaz al Hamzi, who were at the controls of American Airlines Flight 77 when it crashed into the Pentagon.
		Also on hand were Ramzi bin al Shibh, the operational planner of the 9/11 attacks, and Tawfiz al Atash, a high-ranking Osama bin Laden lieutenant and mastermind of the USS Cole bombing.
	www.opinionjournal.com /forms/printThis.html?id=110005133 (758 words)

	CNN.com - U.S.: Top al Qaeda operative arrested - Nov. 22, 2002
		Al Qaeda's chief of operations in the Persian Gulf is in U.S. custody after his recent capture in an undisclosed country, U.S. officials said Thursday.
		He is considered one of the highest ranking al Qaeda leaders captured in the international war on terrorism.
		Like other top al Qaeda officials, including bin Laden and Ayman al-Zawahiri, he was one the "Afghan Arabs" who fought against the Soviet Union in Afghanistan in the 1980s, officials said.
	edition.cnn.com /2002/US/11/21/alqaeda.capture/index.html (745 words)

	CalendarHome.com - 2000 - Calendar Encyclopedia
		Popular culture also holds the year 2000 as the first year of the 21st century and the 3rd millennium.
		March 18 - 2000 Taiwanese presidential election: Chen Shui-bian is elected President of the Republic of China (Taiwan).
		October 21 15 Arab leaders convened in Cairo, Egypt, for their first summit in four years; the Libyan delegation walked out, angry over signs the summit would stop short of calling for breaking ties with Israel.
	encyclopedia.calendarhome.com /2000.htm (3247 words)

	(K) Appendix B: Background Information on Terrorist Groups
		SL continued in 2000 to clash with Peruvian authorities and military units in the countryside and conducted periodic raids on villages.
		The military wing of the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP), the NPA is a Maoist group formed in March 1969 with the aim of overthrowing the government through protracted guerrilla warfare.
		In 2000 they held hundreds of UN peacekeepers hostage until their release was negotiated, in part, by the RUF's chief sponsor Liberian President Charles Taylor.
	www.state.gov /s/ct/rls/pgtrpt/2000/index.cfm?docid=2450 (9202 words)

	Terrorism - Al Qaeda in Southeast Asia
		al Qaeda connections in each country, various governments’ responses and actions, American involvement in the countries’ crackdown efforts, if any, and the political risks that are at stake as these countries participate in the global campaign against terrorism.
		Al Ghozi’s arrest came after police found a cache of weapons and explosives in Mindanao, which were reportedly to be used to attack U.S., Australian, Israeli and British targets in Singapore.
		al Qaeda, and the elusive and itinerant nature of their members all confirm that governmental cooperation is a fundamental prerequisite for a successful campaign against terrorism.
	www.cdi.org /terrorism/sea.cfm (2818 words)

	CNN.com - Spain remands al Qaeda suspects - Sep. 21, 2003
		A Spanish judge has ordered four suspected al Qaeda members to remain in jail after their arraignments, according to a copy of a court order obtained by CNN.
		The men -- a Moroccan and three Syrians -- have been accused of belonging to the al Qaeda branch in Spain and were ordered to be held without bail.
		The Syrian-born Allouni, who interviewed bin Laden soon after the September 11 attacks, was linked in the 700-page indictment to the Spanish branch of al Qaeda, but was not tied to the September 11 attacks.
	cnn.com /2003/WORLD/europe/09/21/spain.alqaeda/index.html (630 words)

	NGO Monitor - Human Rights NGOs - Arab Israeli Conflict (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Shakir is believed to be an al Qaeda operative who abetted the USS Cole bombing and 9/11 plots, among others.
		Along with 9/11 hijackers Khalid al Midhar and Nawaf al Hazmi, he was present at the January 2000 al Qaeda summit in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
		But there is no doubt that the Hussein regime, whatever its reasons, was eager to have the al Qaeda Shakir return to Iraq.
	www.ngo-monitor.org /archives/op-eds/AmnestyAndAlQaeda.htm (588 words)

	Daily Alert - September 30, 2002
		In comparison, of the 61 homicide attackers between 1993 and September 2000, 41 were from Hamas and 20 were from Islamic Jihad.
		U.S. officials found that Shakir had been present at a January 2000 al Qaeda “summit” in Malaysia attended by two of the 9-11 hijackers.
		Authorities believe the summit may have been a planning session for both the October 2000 attack on the USS Cole and 9-11.
	www.dailyalert.org /archive/2002-09/2002-09-30.html (1510 words)

	Fahad al-Quso (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Media accounts are consistent that the operatives at the meeting are photographed and even videotaped (see February 2000), but there is no wiretapping or other recording of their conversations.
		The CIA is highly aware of the January 2000 al-Qaeda summit in Malaysia (see January 5-8, 2000), which was considered so important that CIA Director George Tenet and other CIA leaders were repeatedly briefed about it (see January 6-9, 2000).
		The CIA is very aware about the Malaysia summit meeting that Soufan remains ignorant of, and in fact considered it so important that CIA Director George Tenet and other CIA leaders were repeatedly briefed about it (see January 6-9, 2000).
	www.cooperativeresearch.org /entity.jsp?id=1521846767-236 (2886 words)

	CNN.com - Ricin suspects linked to al Qaeda - Jan. 16, 2003
		The four men were arrested during a January 5 raid by British police on two addresses in north and east London where traces of ricin, one of the world's deadliest poisons, were discovered.
		However, the official says there is no evidence to date of a link between the ricin suspects and the Ansar al Islam group which holds a tiny piece of northern Iraq and is fighting with the Kurds who control the rest of the north.
		The four were charged Saturday under the UK's Terrorism Act 2000 with "possessing articles of value to a terrorist" and involvement in developing or producing "chemical weapons" under the Chemical Weapons Act of 1996.
	www.cnn.com /2003/WORLD/europe/01/16/ricin.alqaeda/index.html (512 words)

	Law, Terrorism & Homeland Security- Greg McNeal - Al Qaeda (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		But when al Qaeda operative Zacarias Moussaoui asked a flight instructor how to turn off the oxygen and transponder on a jet, two managers at the flight school had a hunch something was up.
		Abu Musab Zarqawi, the commander of Al Qaeda's Middle East branch, issued a warning to Israel on the group's website, boasting that Katyusha rockets fired two weeks ago from southern Lebanon were just the "beginning of a welcome operation to strike deep in enemy territory, at the instructions of Osama bin Laden."" LINK
		But Pakistani officials tell ABC News that five of those killed were high-level al Qaeda figures, and their bodies are now undergoing forensic tests for positive identification." Terrorism experts Peter Bergen on CNN and Brian Ross on ABC say his death would be "major blow" to the organization.
	terrorismblog.powerblogs.com /al_qaeda (8354 words)

	Complete 911 Timeline: Monitoring the 2000 Al-Qaeda Malaysia Summit (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		However, the hub also serves as a planning center for the 2000 attack on the USS Cole in Yemen, which is successful (see October 12, 2000).
		Prince Turki al Faisal, Saudi intelligence minister until shortly before 9/11 (see August 31, 2001), will later claim that around this time its external intelligence agency tells the CIA that hijackers Nawaf Alhazmi and Khalid Almihdhar have been put on a Saudi terror watchlist.
		On January 6, 2000, the CIA office in Malaysia begins passing details from the Malaysian government’s surveillance of the al-Qaeda summit in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, to the CIA Counter Terrorism Center (CTC) (see January 5-8, 2000 and January 6-9, 2000).
	www.cooperativeresearch.org /timeline.jsp?timeline=complete_911_timeline&projects_and_programs=complete_911_timeline_al-qaeda_malaysia_summit (8471 words)

	kdconverse - 100 Non Arguable Facts? Pt. 1
		A government, that by design of its own new constitution has every ability to ask for the Coalition Forces to leave but has instead requested they stay until proper security forces are trained within their own country and can take over the security of that nation.
		The Boston Globe reported, "Indeed, intelligence agencies tracked contacts between Iraqi agents and Al Qaeda agents in the '90s in Sudan and Afghanistan, where bin Laden is believed to have met with Farouk Hijazi, head of Iraqi intelligence.
		According to the sources, one of the Iraqi intelligence officers, Salah Suleiman, was captured in October by the Pakistanis near the border with Afghanistan.
	kdconverse.livejournal.com /8066.html (2826 words)

	Jihadi Du Jour (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		DUBAI (Reuters) - A man believed to be a top al Qaeda militant who escaped from a U.S. jail near Kabul was shown in a new videotape broadcast on Tuesday exhorting followers in Afghanistan to fight on until they attack the White House.
		The summit resulted in the creation of the "Committee of Three" that would meet on a regular basis for the "coordination, planning and execution of attacks" against the United States and Israel.
		Al Masri, an Egyptian national with ties to al-Zawahiri, said that al-Qaida had made arrangements to smuggle nuclear weapons and supplies to Mexico.
	jihadidujour.blogspot.com /search/label/al-Qaeda (8819 words)

	Al-Qaida - dKosopedia
		From January 5, to January 8, 2000, al-Qaida held the 2000 al-Qaida Summit in a condominium in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
		On January 3, 2000, al-Qaida also planned attacks against U.S. and Israeli tourists visiting Jordan for millennial celebrations, however the Jordanian authorities thwarted the planned attacks and put 28 suspects on trial.
		Al-Qaida also attempted the bombing of the Los Angeles International Airport in Los Angeles, California during the millennium holiday, although the bomber Ahmed Ressam was caught at the U.S.-Canadian border with bombs in the trunk of his car.
	www.dkosopedia.com /wiki/Al-Qaeda (2435 words)

	BillHobbs.com - Grassroots journalism from Nashville.
		Even if we now find evidence that Saddam and al Qaeada were linked (keeping in mind that as late as last February the head of al Qaeada, Osama bin Laden, was publicly calling for the overthrow of Saddam Hussein) we still didn't have that evidence before the war.
		Actually, he might have done so - an al Qaeda attempt to release a chemical weapon that would have killed tens of thousands in Jordan was thwarted, and the chemicals seized.
		So, you issue a statement that you loathe Saddam and want him gone figuring that, if the Americans go ahead and invade and oust Saddam, you have hedged your bets and can claim to the Iraqi people to be on their side in hopes of having enough Iraqis to rise up against the American occupiers.
	billhobbs.com /hobbsonline/003927.html (1765 words)

	QandO: Links? (Pt 2)
		In short, a leaked document indicates an Al Qaeda insider "present at the January 2000 al Qaeda "summit"...at which the 9/11 attacks were planned" was an Iraqi agent.
		If the administration had serious, credible evidence of ties between Iraq and Al Qaeda, they would be, at a minimum, talking it up.
		We probably have more resources devoted to Al Qaeda, Syria and North Korea and Iran, than to finding proof for a case that is essentially - for all intents and purposes - closed.
	qando.net /archives/003116.htm (1339 words)

	2000 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		January 5-January 8 - The 2000 al-Qaeda Summit of several high-level al-Qaeda members (including 2 9/11 American Airlines hijackers) is held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
		March 18 - ROC presidential election, 2000: Chen Shui-bian is elected President of the Republic of China (Taiwan).
		October 21 Fifteen Arab leaders convene in Cairo, Egypt, for their first summit in 4 years; the Libyan delegation walks out, angry over signs the summit will stop short of calling for breaking ties with Israel.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/2000 (3835 words)

	Part Three: The Clinton Years
		As with the previous attack, the FBI was not allowed to interview any of the suspects, thus escalating the suspicon about Saudi support for Al Qaeda and Osama bin Laden..The US changed the air base for the flights to Iraq from Dhahran to the more distant desert base of al-Kharj.
		Definitely at the trial of Dr. Haydar Abu Doha, one of the principal leaders of GIA (and the man who was Ressam's mentor.) Doha is alleged to have met with Osama bin Laden in December 1998 to discuss coordination between their two groups.
		September 27, 2000 An aide for the Taliban Minister of Foreign Affairs, Abdur Rahmin Zahid, meets with representatives of the State Department at the Middle East Institute in Washington.
	www.janrainwater.com /htdocs/3.htm (8472 words)

	The Shape of Days: Saddam’s files
		According to sensitive reporting, a Malaysia-based Iraqi national ([Ahmed Hikmat] Shakir) facilitated the arrival of one of the Sept 11 hijackers for an operational meeting in Kuala Lumpur (Jan 2000).
		Other intelligence reports indicate that Shakir whisked not one but two September 11 hijackers—Khalid al Midhar and Nawaq al Hamzi—through the passport and customs process upon their arrival in Kuala Lumpur on January 5, 2000.
		Authorities found in his possession contact information for terrorists involved in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, the 1998 embassy bombings, the 2000 attack on the USS Cole, and the September 11 hijackings.
	theshapeofdays.com /2004/05/saddams_files.html (926 words)

	TCS Daily - Better Right Than Never
		The memo discussed bringing an envoy from Osama bin Laden to Baghdad for the purpose of "discussing the future of our relationship with him." Unlike the hotly-debated reports of Mohammed Atta meeting Mukhabarat officer Ahmed al-Ani in Prague in April, 2000, this was something that was not relying on eyewitness identification.
		This is not the first time the elite media have taken such great pains -- and in a somewhat disingenuous manner.
		In 2004, three Fedayeen rosters were leaked to the Wall Street Journal's editorial page, which apparently showed that Ahmed Hikmat Shakir, the Iraqi who attended the January 2000 al-Qaeda summit in Kuala Lampur, Malaysia.
	www.tcsdaily.com /article.aspx?id=032306E (577 words)

	No Iraq-Al Qaeda link, you say? \| Gamers With Jobs (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The Iraqi next turned up in Qatar, where he was arrested on September 17, 2001, four days after the attacks in the U.S. A search of his pockets and apartment uncovered such information as the phone numbers of the 1993 World Trade Center bombers' safe houses and contacts.
		That''s the analogy to me of this Iraqi-al Qaeda connection: could be a smoking gun, or a red herring.
		I''m going to go out on a limb here and say that if we knew that this guy was meeting with Al Qaeda, so did Saddam, who was incredibly paranoid and known for keeping police-state level tabs on his people.
	www.gamerswithjobs.com /node/7843 (3472 words)

	February, March, August, April, first, years, United, elected, actor, Texas, about, Israel, British - 2000
		Popular culture also holds the year 2000 as the first year of the twenty first century and the third millennium.
		* November 7 - U.S. presidential election, 2000: Republican challenger George W. Bush defeats Democrat Vice President Al Gore, but the final outcome is not known for over a month because of disputed votes in Florida.
		Dieser Artikel basiert auf dem Artikel 2000 aus der freien Enzyklo.
	www.alphasearch.org /2000.html (4015 words)

	Terror Watch: Bin Laden’s Mystery Man - Newsweek National News - MSNBC.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		In the recently published report by the September 11 commission, Barot is identified under another name—Issa al-Britani, a veteran Al Qaeda operative who was dispatched by September 11 mastermind Khalid Shaikh Mohammed to case economic and “Jewish” targets in New York City in early 2001.
		A source close to the investigation said that evidence gathered by investigators in Britain and Pakistan indicates that participants in the plot were exchanging messages that authorities believe related to the plot’s execution and that such messages continued to be exchanged right up until a couple of weeks ago.
		For all his high level Al Qaeda connections, little is still publicly known about Barot, the man at the center of the U.K. plot.
	www.msnbc.msn.com /id/5738292/site/newsweek (1477 words)

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		This is a letter reporting a discussion with Taliban leadership shortly after the attacks of September 11, 2001.
		This is the second document to emerge that confirms a relationship between Saddam Hussein's regime and al Qaeda, the first being a memo recovered by a Toronto Star reporter in April, 2003, shortly after the liberation of Iraq.
		In 2004, three Fedayeen rosters were leaked to the Wall Street Journal's editorial page, which apparently showed that Ahmed Hikmat Shakir, the Iraqi who attended the January 2000 al Qaeda summit in Kuala Lampur, Malaysia, was working for Iraq.
	www.strategypage.com /htmw/htiw/articles/20060321.aspx (445 words)

	The Strata-Sphere » Blog Archive » Spring Time in Prague With Iraqis, Opportunities Lost
		We have pointed out many times that connections between the 9-11 Al Qaeda members and the WTC bombing in 1993 was going to create a clear connection to Iraq.
		Mohammed Atta, Ramzi bin al Shibh, and their roommates in Hamburg came under surveillance by German intelligence and the CIA in 1998 because of their association with al-Qaeda operatives in Hamburg who had been linked to the 1998 U.S. embassy bombings in Kenya and Tanzania.
		The FBI and the 9/11 Commission report say that al-Hazmi and al-Mihdhar first entered the United States in 2000, but the Washington Post and the LA Times report that the two first came in 1999, and that al-Hazmi’s name was on their future apartment’s lease in November of 1999.
	strata-sphere.com /blog/index.php/archives/976 (4837 words)

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