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Topic: Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani


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In the News (Sat 19 Dec 09)

  
  CNN.com - Pakistan captures high-level al Qaeda operative - Jul 30, 2004
Ghailani, 30, was indicted December 16, 1998, along with three other fugitives, in U.S. District Court in the Southern District of New York.
Ghailani is alleged to have purchased the truck that was used to deliver the Dar es Salaam bomb.
Ghailani was one of seven alleged terrorists who were highlighted by Attorney General John Ashcroft in a news conference in Washington on May 26.
www.cnn.com /2004/WORLD/asiapcf/07/29/pakistan.alqaeda.capture   (701 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | Africa | Profile: Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani
Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani is accused of involvement in the twin bombings of US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, which between them killed 224 people and wounded over 5,000 more.
Dr Livingstone told the BBC that Mr Ghailani was probably sent to east Africa at the time of the bombings by Osama Bin Laden's second-in-command, Ayman al-Zawahiri.
Pakistani officials believe Mr Ghailani's arrest is the most significant since the detention in March 2003 of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the suspected mastermind of the 11 September attacks on the US.
news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/africa/3938267.stm   (504 words)

  
 Pakistan Holds Top Al Qaeda Suspect (washingtonpost.com)
Ghailani was indicted on Dec. 16, 1998, in the Southern District of New York for his alleged role in the embassy bombings in Nairobi, Kenya, and Dar es Salaam, Tanzania on Aug. 7, 1998.
Ghailani is suspected of buying the truck used as the vehicle bomb in the attack in Dar es Salaam, in which 12 people were killed.
Ghailani was also implicated in an effort by al Qaeda to finance terrorist operations by trading diamonds in Africa, an operation that began six months after the embassy bombings.
www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/articles/A25194-2004Jul29.html   (907 words)

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