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	Abu Zubaydah - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Abu Zubaydah (1973 - present) (Arabic: ابو زبيدة) was a high-ranking member of al-Qaida and close associate of Osama bin Laden.
		Zubaydah was sentenced to death in absentia by a Jordanian court for his role.
		In March of 2001, United States Condoleezza Rice was informed by the CIA that Zubaydah was planning a major operation in the near future.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Abu_Zubaydah (483 words)

	::: ABU ZUBAYDAH MAY HAVE BEEN KILLED IN MARCH :::
		Abu Zubaydah refused to surrender and fired on his Pakistani attackers saying to them, "You are not Muslims." Pakistani forces shot Abu Zubaydah in his stomach several times and then captured him.
		Abu Zubaydah's name happened to be one in a series of inflated and exaggerated claims of US victories.
		US officials claimed that Abu Zubaydah was providing them with all sorts of information and that they had thwarted several 'terrorist' attacks as a result of the information provided by him.
	www.muslimuzbekistan.com /eng/ennews/2002/08/ennews07082002_1.html (888 words)

	Suspected bin Ladin Lieutenant Handed Over to United States
		Abu Zubaydah, also known as Zain al-Abidin Mohammed Husain, is believed to be a Palestinian born in Saudi Arabia.
		Abu Zubaydah's role in possible future attacks would make his capture a significant blow to al-Qaida.
		The raids that netted Abu Zubaydah were the first in Pakistan involving American intelligence operatives in an active capacity.
	www.ict.org.il /spotlight/det.cfm?id=761 (1078 words)

	CBS News \| Bin Laden Deputy Profiled \| April 3, 2002 12:07:57
		Abu Zubaydah was shot three times trying to escape - in the stomach, groin and leg - but was expected to survive, said one official.
		Middle East sources said Abu Zubaydah helped set up the terrorist cell in Jordan charged with carrying out the millennium plot to attack American and Israeli targets, and was in constant touch with Khader Abu-Hosher, a Palestinian recruiter with the cell.
		Abu Zubaydah, who was at large, was found guilty of conspiracy to carry out terror attacks in Jordan.
	www.cbsnews.com /stories/2002/03/30/terror/main505014.shtml (944 words)

	rediff.com: Abu Zubaydah asked for six Canadian passports to launch attacks
		Top Al Qaeda operative Abu Zubaydah, arrested in Pakistan recently, had reportedly requested for six Canadian passports from millennium bomb plotter Ahmed Ressam to launch a series of terror attacks on various American cities prior to September 11 terrorist attacks.
		Abu Zubaydah, also known as Zayn al-Abidin Muhammad Husayn, graduated from Jazeera Secondary School in Riyadh and left his family home 10 years ago to participate in the jihad in Afghanistan.
		Abu Zubaydah was tracked by the FBI to the small Pakistani city of Faisalabad on Thursday and captured in a raid jointly carried out by US agents and Pakistani police.
	www.rediff.com /news/2002/apr/03abu.htm (435 words)

	BBC News \| AMERICAS \| 'Key' al-Qaeda recruiter captured
		Abu Zubaydah was apprehended in an overnight raid on Wednesday when about 60 people, including 29 mostly Arab and Afghans, were arrested by Pakistani and US security forces.
		Abu Zubaydah has been sentenced to death in Jordan, and is believed to have links to many of al-Qaeda's anti-US operations.
		Abu Zubaydah is also alleged to have worked in Pakistan recruiting and vetting al-Qaeda volunteers, arranging their training and assigning them to terrorist cells.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/americas/1907400.stm (422 words)

	CNN.com - Officials: Captured man says he's al Qaeda brass - April 1, 2002
		Zubaydah was shot three times by the Pakistanis while trying to escape, officials said.
		Zubaydah is charged in connection with a bomb plot in Jordan.
		Zubaydah is considered the operational coordinator of the al Qaeda terrorist network.
	archives.cnn.com /2002/WORLD/asiapcf/south/04/01/pakistan.alqaeda (858 words)

	CNN.com - Al Qaeda captive provides leads in terror fight - June 12, 2002
		Zubaydah, a Palestinian believed to be the chief of al Qaeda's military operations, also has been indicted in the "millennium plot" to bomb a hotel in Amman, Jordan.
		The magazine said the alert was a response to statements made by Zubaydah to his interrogators.
		In June, Zubaydah said that a Kuwaiti man -- wanted for his involvement in a 1995 plot to bomb commercial airliners flying to the United States from Southeast Asia -- was a top al Qaeda official and the money man behind the September 11 attacks, U.S. officials said.
	archives.cnn.com /2002/US/06/12/inv.zubaydah.tips (522 words)

	How Good Is Abu Zubaydah’s Information? - NW-0402WTCEXC - MSNBC.com
		Administration officials think Zubaydah is still a committed member of a terror group that holds Western values in contempt and trains operatives to resist interrogations.
		But Zubaydah has told U.S. interrogators that the bin Laden network was deeply involved in efforts to put together a “dirty bomb” (known to U.S. atom scientists as a “radiological dispersal device”), a simple atomic weapon in which radioactive materials of any kind are packaged together with ordinary high explosives and then detonated.
		U.S. officials say Abu Zubaydah has not said that the bin Laden organization actually built one, only that it was trying to do so.
	msnbc.msn.com /id/3067224/site/newsweek (728 words)

	Lebanonwire.com \| Abu Zubaydah capture poses embarrassing questions
		Abu Zubaydah, considered to be bin Laden’s operations chief, was among around 30 suspected Al-Qaeda and Taleban members rounded up by Pakistan security authorities, supported by US Federal Bureau of Investigation operatives, in a middle class suburb of the industrial city of Faisalabad in Punjab Province in eastern Pakistan, 350 kilometers from the Afghan border.
		Abu Zubaydah, a 31-year-old Palestinian born in Saudi Arabia and whose real name is Zein al-Abedin Mohammed Hussein Abu Zubaydah, is by far the most important Al-Qaeda leader captured since Sept. 11.
		According to Agence France Presse, Abu Zubaydah was arrested by Pakistani authorities in the northwestern city of Peshawar in 1988, but got out on bail several months later and disappeared.
	www.lebanonwire.com /0204/02040812DS.htm (670 words)

	SOHH.com Global Forum - About 9-11 and that killer Abu Zubaydah'
		Zubaydah's capture and interrogation, told in a gripping narrative that reads like a techno-thriller, did not just take down one of al-Qaeda's most wanted operatives but also unexpectedly provided what one U.S. investigator told Posner was "the Rosetta stone of 9/11...
		Zubaydah said bin Laden "personally" told him of a 1991 meeting at which Turki agreed to let bin Laden leave Saudi Arabia and to provide him with secret funds as long as al-Qaeda refrained from promoting jihad in the kingdom.
		Zubaydah said he attended a third meeting in Kandahar in 1998 with Turki, senior isi agents and Taliban officials.
	forums.sohh.com /showthread.php?t=365336 (1354 words)

	From Threat To Threat - The Millennium Crisis (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Abu Zubaydah said, "The time for training is over." Suspecting that this was a signal for Abu Hoshar to commence a terrorist operation, Jordanian police arrested Abu Hoshar and 15 others and informed Washington.
		After late 1996, when Abu Hoshar was arrested and jailed, Hijazi moved back to the United States, worked as a cabdriver in Boston, and sent money back to his fellow plotters.
		With Abu Hoshar, he recruited in Turkey and Syria as well as Jordan; with Abu Zubaydah's assistance, Abu Hoshar sent these recruits to Afghanistan for training.
	911.gnu-designs.com /Chapter_6.html (3251 words)

	CBS News \| Bin Laden Deputy Profiled \| April 3, 2002 12:07:57
		(AP) Abu Zubaydah was drawn to Osama bin Laden's organization as a teen-ager whose religious fervor and radical Islamic ideology brought him to the training camps of Afghanistan.
		U.S. military and law enforcement officials said that Abu Zubaydah, a 31-year-old Palestinian, was captured in Pakistan four days ago - an arrest touted by White House officials as a "very serious blow" to the al Qaeda network.
		Last Thursday, Pakistani authorities, in concert with the CIA and FBI, captured Abu Zubaydah in a raid in Faisalabad, far from the Afghan border, according to U.S. officials who spoke on condition of anonymity.
	www.cbsnews.com /stories/2002/03/30/attack/main505014.shtml (963 words)

	TIME.com: Person of the Week: Abu Zubaydah -- Page 1
		When the U.S. captured Zubaydah in a daring raid in Pakistan in late March it was the biggest catch of the war on al-Qaeda so far.
		Now Zubaydah resides in that aforementioned undisclosed overseas location, where the U.S. may or may not be using torture to extract information.
		Zubaydah has every reason to lie, to throw his captors off the trail, to sow fear and doubt, to poke the U.S. so that his al-Qaeda fellows can observe how we react.
	www.time.com /time/pow/article/0,8599,249910,00.html (839 words)

	USATODAY.com - Pakistan hands over senior al-Qaeda leader (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Zubaydah was shot in the stomach, legs and groin by Pakistanis as he tried to escape one of the raids at a compound in Faisalabad, one U.S. official said, speaking on the condition of anonymity.
		Zubaydah, as a senior al-Qaeda operational planner, would plot attacks based on guidance from Osama bin Laden and his inner circle.
		Zubaydah was among 70 people, including 45 Arabs and Afghans, who were arrested in nearly a dozen raids starting before dawn Thursday in Faisalabad, Lahore and a third, undisclosed location.
	www.usatoday.com /news/sept11/2002/04/01/usat-pakistan.htm (887 words)

	CNN.com - Captured al Qaeda leader 'not well' - April 8, 2002
		Zubaydah is recovering from gunshot wounds to the groin, thigh and stomach he suffered when he tried to flee during a Pakistani raid two weeks ago, according to U.S. officials.
		Sources said material gathered from safe houses in the raids where Zubaydah and other leaders were arrested in Pakistan is providing hundreds of leads to investigators.
		Zubaydah, a Palestinian born in Saudi Arabia, is also wanted by Jordan, which indicted him for his alleged role in a thwarted millennium bomb plot.
	edition.cnn.com /2002/US/04/08/zubaydah.health (414 words)

	Abu Zubaydah (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Early in 2002, intelligence experts said Abu Zubaydah was reorganizing the far-flung remnants of the al-Qaeda network to plan further terrorist actions.
		Abu Zubaydah also organized terrorist attacks on the millennium celebrations in the Los Angeles in Dec. 1999, according Ahmed Ressam, an Algerian convicted of involvement in that plan.
		Ressam indicated that Abu Zubaydah told him to obtain Canadian passports so others could carry out attacks against the U.S. Assumed to travel widely to work with al-Qaeda terrorist cells, Abu Zubaydah has a light complexion and apparently enjoys considerable success assuming false identities and moving from country to country undetected.
	www.factmonster.com /ipka/A0900557.html (265 words)

	InFact 9/11 Commission Report Index
		Here Abu's name is on the right, because in this sentence he was not the "source", or performer, of the action, but rather the "target", or reciever of the action.
		In the third instance, Abu Zubaydah is described as being a major figure in the millenium plot.
		In the fourth instance, a detainee is described as being Abu Zubaydah.
	www.insightful.com /products/infact/911/example.html (325 words)

	Defense Department Report, April 3: Abu Zubaydah, Iraq (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		ABU ZUBAYDAH IS IN AND WILL REMAIN IN U.S. Intelligence officers will question al-Qaida terrorist leader Abu Zubaydah, but at no time will he be tortured by anyone to extract information, says U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld.
		Responding to more questions about Zubaydah, Rumsfeld said, "I am saying we have him, he is under U.S. control at the present time, we are responsible for him, he is receiving medical care, and we intend to get every single thing out of him to try to prevent terrorist acts in the future.
		[Abu Zubaydah is reported to be one of the highest-ranking members of al-Qaida, and to have been personally responsible for selecting recruits for the group's training programs.
	japan.usembassy.gov /e/p/tp-se1258.html (417 words)

	AV Press: Captured bin Laden deputy highly skilled
		AMMAN, Jordan - Abu Zubaydah was drawn to Osama bin Laden's organization as a teenager whose religious fervor and radical Islamic ideology brought him to the training camps of Afghanistan.
		U.S. military and law enforcement officials said that Abu Zubaydah, a 31-year-old Palestinian, was captured in Pakistan four days ago - an arrest touted by White House officials as a "very serious blow" to the al-Qaida network.
		The job description and slot at the top led U.S. officials to worry that Abu Zubaydah may try to reestablish al-Qaida in Pakistan, where many members fled the U.S.-led military campaign in Afghanistan.
	www.avpress.com /n/sp/attack/sty724.hts (850 words)

	Race Matters - Jihad 2
		Abu Zubaydah was the nom de guerre for Zein al-Abideen Muhammad Hassan, a 27-year-old Palestinian and former Afghanistan veteran who had risen quickly in Al Qaeda's ranks.
		Abu Zubaydah told him that from then on, he was authorized to act in Mr.
		The Jordanians were listening on Nov. 30 as Abu Zubaydah gave the orders to begin carrying out the plot, which he referred to as "al yom alfieh," or the day of the millennium.
	www.racematters.org /jihad2.htm (2985 words)

	HoustonChronicle.com - Abu Zubaydah: The operations chief
		Born in Saudi Arabia in 1973, Abu Zubaydah represents the new generation of terrorism organizers around Osama bin Laden.
		A detailed description of Abu Zubaydah's role was provided by Ahmed Ressam, an Algerian convicted of attempting to carry out a terrorist attack in Los Angeles to coincide with the millennium celebrations in December 1999.
		A Jordanian military court last year sentenced Abu Zubaydah in absentia to death for allegedly coordinating a plot to attack tourist sites in Jordan around the time of the millennium celebrations.
	www.chron.com /cs/CDA/story.hts/side/1073930 (251 words)

	GN Online: Police: Man held is Abu Zubaydah aide
		A Yemeni national arrested last week during a routine security check at a roadblock in Faisalabad is believed to be an aide of Abu Zubaydah, a senior lieutenant of Al Qaida chief Osama bin Laden, a police official said.
		The man, identified only as Abu Saleh, was arrested along with a fellow Yemeni and a Pakistani, when police stopped their car at a checkpoint as they left Faisalabad.
		Abu Saleh worked closely with Abu Zubaydah, who was captured in March 2002 in Faisalabad, said a police official.
	www.gulf-news.com /Articles/news.asp?ArticleID=101527 (329 words)

	BBC News \| SOUTH ASIA \| Profile: Abu Zubaydah
		Abu Zubaydah is the most senior member of the al-Qaeda network to fall into US hands so far.
		Zubaydah is alleged to have briefed Richard Reid
		He has strong connections with Jordanian and Palestinian groups and was sentenced to death in absentia by a Jordanian court for his role in a thwarted plot to bomb hotels there during millennium celebrations.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/south_asia/1907462.stm (416 words)

	InFact 9/11 Commission Report Index (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Suspecting that this was a signal for Abu Hoshar to commence a terrorist operation, Jordanian police arrested Abu Hoshar and 15 others and informed Washington.
		In late 1998, Hijazi and Abu Hoshar had settled on a plan.They would first attack four targets: the SAS Radisson Hotel in downtown Amman, the border crossings from Jordan into Israel, and two Christian holy sites, at a time when all these locations were likely to be thronged with American and other tourists.
		In early 1999, Hijazi and Abu Hoshar contacted Khalil Deek, an American citizen and an associate of Abu Zubaydah who lived in Peshawar, Pakistan, and who, with Afghanistan-based extremists, had created an electronic version of a terrorist manual, the Encyclopedia of Jihad.They obtained a CD-ROM of this encyclopedia from Deek.
	www.insightful.com /products/infact/911/page/162/6.html (530 words)

	The Millenium Plot
		In late 1998 two Palestinians, Raed Hijazi and Abu Hoshar settled on a plan to attack multiple targets throughout the middle east.
		Hijazi and Abu Hoshar cased the intended targets and sent reports to Abu Zubaydah, a longtime ally of Osama Bin-Ladin, who approved their plan.
		In early 1999, Hijazi and Abu Hoshar contacted Khalil Deek, an American citizen and an associate of Abu Zubaydah who lived in Peshawar, Pakistan, and who, with Afghanistan-based extremists, had created an electronic version of a terrorist manual, the Encyclopedia of Jihad.
	www.globalsecurity.org /security/ops/millenium-plot.htm (890 words)

	Print Message (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		American investigators said they were convinced that Abu Zubaydah was now trying to activate al-Qaeda sleeper cells for new strikes on the United States and its allies, The New York Times reported.
		Abu Zubaydah travels the world using false passports and multiple aliases, the Times said.
		According to DEBKA, Zubaydah is now in Lebanon, protected by a 30-35 man band of al-Qaeda and some 50 Iran-backed Hizballah and being closely watched by USA.
	www.suite101.com /print_message.cfm/investing/68672/602764 (336 words)

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