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  Abdul Hakim Murad
Abdul Hakim Ali Hashim Murad (January 4, 1968-) was an alleged conspirator in the Operation Bojinka planned terrorist attacks.
As part of the Bojinka plot, Murad was slated to bomb two United Airlines aircraft, and was also slated to be the suicide pilot that would pilot a small plane filled with explosives into the CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia.
Abdul Hakim Murad was sent to the United States on April 12, 1995 and would later help convict Yousef based on Murad's testimony.
www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/abdul_hakim_murad   (644 words)

  
 Wikipedia: Operation Bojinka
Abdul Hakim Murad confessed details of Phase II in his torture and interrogation with Manila police after his capture.
Murad had been trained as a pilot in North Carolina, and was slated to be a suicide pilot.
Murad was sent to Camp Crame, a military installation that was on the outskirts of Manila.
www.factbook.org /wikipedia/en/o/op/operation_bojinka.html   (4666 words)

  
 Operation Bojinka - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
A conspirator named Abdul Hakim Murad came to Manila with Yousef and stayed at the same apartment.
Murad and Yousef wired an SCR as the switch to trigger the filaments to detonate the bomb.
Initially, the story told by Philippine authorities was that the fire was started when Abdul Hakim Murad started a chemical fire in the kitchen sink in Suite 603 in the 6th floor of the Doña Josefa apartment by pouring water on a substance.
www.kernersville.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Project_Bojinka   (5015 words)

  
 Feds hold man linked to terrorist / Tehama pilot's friend plotted plane bombs   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Murad was charged in federal court in New York City in 1995 with plotting to bomb 11 U.S. airliners in Asia.
Murad and Yousef, a native of Pakistan, are serving life terms in that case.
Abdul Hakim Murad (not pictured) was arrested in the Philippines in 1995 and sentenced to life for plotting to blow up 11 U.S. airliners and crash a plane into CIA headquarters.
www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2002/06/16/MN145615.DTL&type=printable   (1939 words)

  
 Chico News and Review - Cover Story - August 1, 2002
Murad was arrested in the Philippines in 1995 after the apartment he was renting with another convicted terrorist, 1993 World Trade Center bomber Ramzi Ahmed Yousef, exploded.
Murad is currently serving out a life sentence in a New York state prison for conspiring to detonate bombs on 11 commercial airplanes.
Murad apparently didn't stay more than two or three weeks in Red Bluff, and it was around then that Mubarak says he lost touch with his traveling companion.
www.newsreview.com /issues/chico/2002-08-01/cover.asp   (4370 words)

  
 ON CLINTON'S WATCH: FEDS NIXED DEAL FOR PLANE PLOT TIPOFF
Abdul Hakim Murad said he got his pilot's license after training at several American flight schools, including one that is now under scrutiny in the terror investigation.
Murad was convicted in 1996 for his role in a highly choreographed scheme to blow up 12 U.S.-bound jetliners flying out of Southeast Asia.
Murad was captured in January 1994 in Manila, where he told Philippine interrogators about a plot he called "bojinka," or "big sound." In that scheme, he, Yousef and at least 10 others planned to get off the planes at stops along the planes' routes.
www.papillonsartpalace.com /on.htm   (514 words)

  
 GN Online: Philippine spy agency knew of suicide plot   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Murad, who was extradited to the United States and convicted for a 1993 attack on New York's World Trade Centre, was a trained pilot and close to bin Laden, Razon told a news agency.
Murad's arrest led to the names of international terrorists and several safehouses in Manila, including one in Singalong Street where another terrorist was arrested and a laptop computer containing information on "Bojinka" was seized.
Murad admitted that a suicide bombing mission with the use of a hijacked U.S. commercial aircraft was his brainchild, said the report, adding: "What Murad had in mind was that he would board any American commercial aircraft pretending to be an ordinary passenger.
www.gulf-news.com /Articles/news.asp?ArticleID=26538   (822 words)

  
 Operation Bojinka   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
According to an investigator, he finally confessed out of fear of Jews after an agent masqueraded as the Mossad and told him that he was being sent to Israel.
Murad admitted in his interrogations, "This is my -- the best thing.
Murad confessed that he was on a quest to be a martyr.
www.bidprobe.com /en/wikipedia/o/op/operation_bojinka.html   (4754 words)

  
 KSM Confession Contradicts Previous Intel On Abdul Hakim Murad Role In Bojinka Conspiracy
Murad argued in trial and on appeal that the confession was coerced by torture, and therefore inadmissable.
Contrary to Murad's confession, in which he described his intended role as one of the five operatives who would plant bombs on board the targeted aircraft, KSM has said that Murad's role was limited to carrying the $3,000 from Dubai to Manila.
Murad told the FBI that he had been scheduled to be on at least one flight with the final destination of San Francisco, which potentially corresponded with the operative code name Zyed or another code named Mirqas.
intelwire.egoplex.com /2004_07_22_exclusives.html   (3942 words)

  
 FBI Knew Terrorists Were Using Flight Schools (washingtonpost.com)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Murad was arrested in Manila in 1995 and later convicted in New York of plotting to blow up a dozen U.S. airliners over the Pacific, then crash a suicide plane into CIA headquarters.
Murad, he said, had indicated that he wanted to use his flight training to become a commercial pilot until he was recruited by Ramzi Ahmed Yousef, a bin Laden operative who also plotted the 1993 World Trade Center bombing.
Murad confessed to authorities that part of his planned role in the terror attack was to crash a plane into CIA headquarters in Langley.
www.washingtonpost.com /ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&contentId=A10840-2001Sep22¬Found=true   (1456 words)

  
 Signs of the Times - Early Warnings   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
The warning came in police interrogations of convicted terrorist Abdul Hakim Murad and from a computer seized in the Philippines from Ramzi Yousef, mastermind of the 1993 attack on the World Trade Center.
But Murad, who was arrested in Manila in January 1995, said he was unaware of the specifics of the plan to attack nuclear facilities.
Murad also told investigators that he and other Middle Eastern students took pilot training at U.S. flight schools in the early 1990s and that he had proposed a suicide mission in which he would fly a jetliner into a federal building.
www.loper.org /~george/trends/2002/Mar/68.html   (518 words)

  
 CNN.com - Investigators think Sept. 11, 1995 plot related - February 25, 2002
Yousef's partner, Abdul Hakim Murad, told authorities here that Yousef planned to target the World Trade Center again, along with other buildings.
Murad was a commercial pilot trained in the Philippines, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and the United States.
That led to Murad's arrest and forced Yousef to flee to Pakistan, where he was arrested.
archives.cnn.com /2002/WORLD/asiapcf/southeast/02/25/Philippines.Sept11   (628 words)

  
 Clinton and 9/11   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
The article discussed Operation Bojinka, which came to the attention of U.S. authorities in 1995 when Abdul Hakim Murad, a terrorist, was captured in the Philippines.
Murad narrated to us about a plan by the Ramzi cell in the continental U.S. to hijack a commercial plane and ram it into the CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia, and also the Pentagon," said Rodolfo Mendoza, a Philippine intelligence investigator.
One of them was to crash [the planes] into specific targets." Abdul Hakim Murad, also convicted in the 1993 bombing and Yousef's Manila roommate, admitted to Philippine investigators that he suggested to Yousef hijacking a U.S. airliner and crashing it into the CIA building.
www.frontpagemag.com /Articles/Printable.asp?ID=10324   (2903 words)

  
 Context of 'February 1995'
Murad continues to reveal more information about this plot until he is handed over to the FBI in April.
Abdul Hakim Murad, a conspirator in the 1995 Bojinka plot with Ramzi Yousef, Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, and others, was convicted in 1996 of his role in the Bojinka plot (see January 6, 1995).
Murad is sentenced in May 1998 and given life in prison plus 60 years.
www.cooperativeresearch.org /context.jsp?item=a0295thirdplot   (938 words)

  
 ON CLINTON'S WATCH: Feds Nixed Deal for Plane Plot Tipoff   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Murad was a codefendant to Ramzi Yousef in the Philippine airline bombing case in federal court in New York.
The fact that Murad, while in custody, is a co-defendant and a close associate of the alleged ringleader of the bombing on the World Trade Center (and not incidently [sic] also the federal building in Manhattan) were a Ryder truck was used to carry a fertilizer bomb is also highly relevant.
Murad confessed to authorities that part of his planned role in the terrorist attack was to crash a plane into CIA headquarters in Langley, Va.
www.freerepublic.com /focus/news/531806/posts   (18266 words)

  
 Aida Fariscal - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
She, along with a group of investigators and police then uncovered evidence, before arresting a suspect who called himself Ahmed Saeed.
She refused to let go of a suspect, who turned out to be Abdul Hakim Murad, after he offered her 110,740 Philippine pesos ($2,000 U.S. dollars).
Her decision to investigate the fire saved thousands of lives, including that of Pope John Paul II.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Aida_D._Fariscal   (472 words)

  
 [The Harborsite] Haunted by Years of Missed Warnings   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
After the plot was uncovered in 1995, a co-conspirator, Abdul Hakim Murad, told police in the Philippines that he had hoped to hijack a passenger plane and crash it into CIA headquarters outside Washington.
After the plot was uncovered in 1995, a co-conspirator, Abdul Hakim Murad, told police in the Philippines that he had hoped to hijack a passenger plane and crash it into CIA headquarters outside Washington.
Murad had attended four U.S. flight schools.

Yet no surveillance was in place to scrutinize aspiring pilots or to raise a warning flag when the men who would eventually hijack four jetliners Sept. 11 trained at flight schools around the country.

Agents have been slow to recognize suspects.
grunt.space.swri.edu /pipermail/harborsite/2001-October/000130.html   (6185 words)

  
 GN Online: Bin Laden's relative linked to attempt on Pope's life - FBI   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
At the same time, Khalifa was "directly linked" to Ramzi Yousef and Abdul Hakim Hasim Murad who were both convicted in a U.S. court for the 1993 World Trade Centre bombing, said the FBI affidavit which was recently filed in Chicago.
Yousef managed to escape arrest when he and Murad tested a bomb that exploded in their apartment in Manila's Malate district, during the Pope's visit in 1995.
Murad and Youssef had spent time with Khalifa in the Philippines, said the report, adding that Khalifa, married to bin Laden's sister, has two other Filipina wives.
www.gulf-news.com /Articles/print.asp?ArticleID=49992   (363 words)

  
 Monthly Minhaj-ul-Quran
Shaykh Abdul Hakim Murad recently visited Pakistan where he made an exclusive visit to the central secretariat of Minhaj-ul-Quran International (MQI) and all campuses and institutions of The Minhaj University (TMU).
At his arrival at Lahore International Airport Shaykh Abdul Hakim Murad was received by a high level delegation of MQI and TMU representing Dr Tahir-ul-Qadri who was out of Lahore at the time.
In this meeting Dr Tahir-ul-Qadri gave Shaykh Abdul Hakim Murad his Ijaza in Hadith, which was a very scholarly ceremony.
www.minhaj.info /home/03-02/abdul_hakeem.php   (748 words)

  
 Accuracy In Media - Media Monitor - Bojinka Back In The News
It said Murad was a commercial pilot, trained in the U.S. and other countries, who had been recruited by Yousef for a suicide mission.
CNN quoted Col. Rodolfo Mendoza, an intelligence investigator who had interrogated Murad for nearly four months, as saying that Murad had told him that Yousef’s idea was to dive commercial planes into the CIA headquarters, the Pentagon, the Sears building in Chicago and the Transamerica Building in San Francisco.
One transcript shows Murad suggesting to Yousef that they "dive to CIA building" and Yousef, saying, "OK, we will think about it." The interrogator asked Murad, "You are willing to die for Allah or for Islam?" Murad replied, "Yes" Later, he said, "All my thinking was that I should fight the Americans.
www.aim.org /publications/media_monitor/2002/03/28.html   (826 words)

  
 Detainee argues for his release / Pakistani native accused of link to convicted terrorist
The Immigration and Naturalization Service alleges that Mubarak had an "association" with Pakistan native Abdul Hakim Murad, who was convicted of a 1995 plot to bomb 11 U.S. airlines and who allegedly admitted connections to Osama bin Laden.
But Mubarak told the court that his last contact with Murad had been in 1992 and that he had no knowledge Murad was involved in terrorism.
Murad, who is serving a life term, was convicted of the airline bombing plot along with Ramzi Ahmed Yousef, who also was convicted in the 1993 truck bombing of the World Trade Center.
www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2002/06/26/MN189936.DTL   (774 words)

  
 frankenlies.com :: Al Franken and the 1995 Pope, Bojinka plots in the Philippines   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Abdul Murad was captured after he and Yousef accidentally started a fire in their apartment while trying to mix explosives.
Upon interrogation, Murad confessed to the plot to kill the Pope.
When Murad was handed over to the F.B.I. months later, the work (and heroics) had already been done...
www.frankenlies.com /frankenpope.htm   (241 words)

  
 Similar Plot First Uncovered In Philippines, Says Police Chief   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Murad "is part of a terrorist cell established by Ramzi Yousef under the direction of Osama bin Laden," Razon said.
Both Murad and Yousef were then wanted by US authorities for the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center.
Murad was later extradited to the United States, where he and Yousef were later convicted for the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center with the help of Philippine police who testified.
billstclair.com /911timeline/2001/afp091301.html   (646 words)

  
 Borderless Network of Terror (washingtonpost.com)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
MANILA -- Abdul Hakim Murad washed his hands, and broke a basic rule of bombmaking.
As she was looking around, Murad, a 26-year-old Pakistani who called himself Saeed Ahmed, returned.
Murad had earned a commercial pilot's license, and told investigators he had planned to fly a plane into the CIA headquarters.
www.washingtonpost.com /ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&node=&contentId=A10543-2001Sep22   (4185 words)

  
 abdul hakim murad   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
The QandA was conducted by Philippine investigators after Murad was arrested in that country on U.S. charges.
Born Timothy J. Winter in 1960, Abdal Hakim studied at the prestigious Westminster School in London, UK and later at the...
Abdul Hakim Murad, another terrorist with a critical link to the blind sheik, is serving a life sentence for plotting to blow up a dozen passenger planes over...
murad.get4less.info /abdul-hakim-murad   (394 words)

  
 OpinionJournal - LIFE DURING WARTIME
In 1995, a little-known operative, Abdul Hakim Murad, was arrested in the Philippines on a policeman's hunch.
Inside Murad's apartment were passports and a homemade bomb factory--beakers, filters, fuses and funnels; gallons of sulfuric acid and nitric acid; large cooking kettles.
More ominously, Murad recounted a horrific plot to assassinate Pope John Paul II in Manila, simultaneously blow up 11 U.S. airplanes in the Pacific, and fly another plane, loaded with nerve gas, into the Central Intelligence Agency.
www.opinionjournal.com /forms/printThis.html?id=95001363   (1584 words)

  
 The Smoking Gun: FALL CLEARANCE SALE
These are excerpts from a transcript of an interrogation of terrorist Abdul Hakim Murad.
The Q&A was conducted by Philippine investigators after Murad was arrested in that country on U.S. charges.
Murad and alleged World Trade Center bombing mastermind Ramzi Ahmed Yousef were later convicted of plotting to bomb various airplanes.
www.thesmokinggun.com /fall/murad1.html   (82 words)

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