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Khalid Shaikh Mohammed - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Abu Hafs al-Masri/Mohammed Atef, Bin Laden's chief of operations, arranged a meeting between Bin Laden and KSM in Tora Bora sometime in mid-1996, in which KSM outlined a plan that would eventually become the quadruple hijackings of 2001. Mohammed's cousin, Ali Abdul Aziz Ali, was one of the major financers of the September 11, 2001 attacks. Mohammed conspired with Ramzi Yousef on the plot until it was discovered on January 6, 1995. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Khalid_Shaikh_Mohammed   (1902 words)

atef ebeid Atef Mohammed Ebeid (born April 14, 1932) is the former Prime Minister of Egypt. Economic growth slowed and the price of living soared during his term, so Atef Ebeid resigned on 9 July 2004. www.yourencyclopedia.net /atef_ebeid.html   (1902 words)

Mohammed Atef - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Atef was a policeman in his native Egypt and a member of the group Egyptian Islamic Jihad before he joined Al-Qaida. Atef was killed when a U.S. air-strike struck his home near Kabul during the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan on November 16, 2001. Mohammed Atef (Arabic: محمد عاطف) (also transliterated as Muhammad Atef, Muhammed Atef, and several other ways) was the alleged military chief of the international terrorist organization al-Qaida. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mohammed_Atef   (210 words)

Atef Sedki -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article Atef Sedki (August 29 1930 – February 25 2005) was the prime minister of (A republic in northeastern Africa known as the United Arab Republic until 1971; site of an ancient civilization that flourished from 2600 to 30 BC) Egypt from 1986 until 1996. Atef Sedki -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article He is survived by his (A person of German nationality) German-born wife Ursula and two children. www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/a/at/atef_sedki.htm   (231 words)

Mohammed Atef - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Atef was a policeman in his native Egypt and a member of the group Egyptian Islamic Jihad before he joined Al-Qaida. Atef was killed when a U.S. air-strike struck his home near Kabul during the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan on November 16, 2001. Mohammed Atef (also transliterated as Muhammad Atef, Muhammed Atef, and several other ways) was the alleged military chief of the international terrorist organization al-Qaida. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Muhammed_Atef   (231 words)

BBC News SOUTH ASIA Profile: Muhammed Atef Muhammed Atef, also known as Abu Hafez, is believed to be one of Osama Bin Laden's most important lieutenants and the military commander of al-Qaeda. The ties between Bin Laden and Atef are believed to have become even closer when the Bin Laden's 19-year-old son married Atef's daughter earlier this year. Before joining forces with Bin Laden, Atef was an Egyptian policeman and member of Egyptian Islamic Jihad. news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/south_asia/1660487.stm   (231 words)

Atef Ebeid - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Atef Muhammad Ebeid (born 14 April 1932) was the Prime Minister of Egypt from October 1999 to July 2004. President Hosni Mubarak invited him to form the new government after the parliamentary elections in 1999. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Atef_Obeid   (231 words)

Mohammed Atef - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Mohammed Atef (also transliterated as Muhammad Atef, Muhammed Atef, and several other ways) was the alleged military chief of the international terrorist organization al-Qaida. Atef is believed to have been killed when a U.S. air-strike struck his home during the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan in Atef was a policeman in his native Egypt and a member of the group en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Abu_Hafez   (231 words)

Muhammed Atef Atef served for two years in the Egyptian army before leaving the country in the mid-1980s to join the jihad in Afghanistan against the Soviet Union. Atef eventually became bin Laden's right hand man, personally searching journalists who wanted to interview bin Laden. Born Sobhi Abu Sitta, he took the name Muhammad Atef and other aliases after joining Osama bin Laden's terrorist network, www.infoplease.com /ipa/A0886166.html   (231 words)

Al-Qaida Operations Chief Arrested in Pakistan Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, who American officials accuse of orchestrating the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, is believed to have taken over the position of operational commander after the death of Mohammed Atef in an American bombing raid in November of 2001. Mohammed has proved to be remarkably elusive until now, despite the fact that he was known to be operating out of Karachi on and off for a decade. Mohammed's older brother also is a member of Osama bin Laden's al-Qaida terror network and another brother died in Pakistan when a bomb he was making exploded. www.ict.org.il /spotlight/det.cfm?id=871   (610 words)

GN Online: Egypt seeks to refine Sumed pipeline crude Atef Obeid addresses a press conference in dubai. Egypt is negotiating with the UAE and other GCC states to refine part of the oil passing through the Sumed pipeline, according to Egyptian Prime Minister Atef Obeid. Obeid denied that Egypt had refrained from signing the partnership agreement with the EU and said that details — on customs tariffs reductions, and trade liberation — are now worked out. www.gulf-news.com /Articles/print.asp?ArticleID=18346   (610 words)

Kamal Ganzouri. Who is Kamal Ganzouri? What is Kamal Ganzouri? Where is Kamal Ganzouri? Definition of Kamal Ganzouri. Meaning of Kamal Ganzouri. He replaced Atef Sedki and was succeeded by Atef Ebeid. Kamal Ganzouri (born 1933) was the prime minister of Egypt from 1996 until 1999. Before becoming prime minister he was planning minister. www.knowledgerush.com /kr/encyclopedia/Kamal_Ganzouri   (610 words)

Senior Bin Ladin Aide Believed Killed in U.S. Bombing Raid Atef was indicted by a grand jury in New York for his role in those attacks. Muhammad Atef, also called Abdulaziz abu Sitta or Abu Hoffs al-Masri, is -- or was -- bin Ladin's top military commander and designated successor. Atef was appointed al-Qaida's military chief in 1996. www.ict.org.il /spotlight/det.cfm?id=707   (610 words)

Al Queda Terrorists and Bin Laden Muhammad Atef, the military commander of Al Qaeda, was killed in American airstrikes last November; he was the most senior member of Al Qaeda to be killed during the fighting in Afghanistan. Muhammad, who was identified last week as being suspected of having a major operational role in the Sept. 11 attacks, the officials identified six other people whom they view as the planners of new attacks. Muhammad was Al Qaeda's chief operative in Kenya in the mid-1990's. www.warriorsfortruth.com /alquedaterrorists.html   (610 words)

washingtonpost.com Muhammad Atef, the top al Qaeda military commander who was reportedly killed in a U.S. bombing raid, has been accused of helping plan many of the al Qaeda terrorism network's operations around the world – deadly attacks that targeted everything from a mud-hut marketplace in Mogadishu, Somalia, to the skyscraper canyons of Lower Manhattan. Atef, born in 1944, was thought to be extremely close to bin Laden, serving not only as military commander but also as chief of security for the United States's most wanted man. Some experts had considered him a possible successor to bin Laden. Atef is accused of murder and conspiracy in plotting the embassy bombings, which killed 224 people and injured 5,500. www.washingtonpost.com /wp-srv/articles/world/ATEF11101.html   (610 words)

BBC News SOUTH ASIA US 'kills Bin Laden deputy' Atef was regarded as one of the key planners behind the 11 September attacks on New York and Washington. Atef: One of a number of al-Qaeda leaders reported killed Mr Rumsfeld added that reports that American air strikes near the capital Kabul had killed Mohammed Atef, a key deputy of al-Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden, "seem authoritative". news.bbc.co.uk /hi/english/world/south_asia/newsid_1659000/1659494.stm   (610 words)

Al-Qaida - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Muhammed Atef, was allegedly killed in a U.S. bombing raid on Saif al Islam el Masry, and Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri) or dead (including Mohammed Atef). Al-Qaida evolved from the Maktab al-Khadamat (MAK) — a mujahideen resistance organization fighting the Soviet forces in Afghanistan in the 1980s. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Al-Qaida   (610 words)

CNN.com - Reports suggest al Qaeda military chief killed - November 17, 2001 Atef was at bin Laden's side during a 1998 press conference in which bin Laden announced a "fatwah," or religious ruling, against the United States. If Atef was killed in an airstrike, he was probably with other al Qaeda personnel as well, meaning the airstrike had a larger impact on the terrorist network, said retired Gen. Wesley Clark, a CNN military analyst and the former supreme commander of NATO forces in Europe. Atef is on the FBI's most-wanted terrorist list for the killings of U.S. nationals and conspiracy to murder U.S. nationals outside the United States, and for an attack on a federal facility resulting in death, according to the FBI's Web site. archives.cnn.com /2001/WORLD/asiapcf/central/11/17/ret.atef.reports   (915 words)

Guardian Unlimited Archive Search Mohammed Atef, who was killed, aged 57, in an United States air raid near Kabul was, according to US intelligence, the military planner of the Islamist al-Qaida group. Atef, according to militants who encountered him while training in Afghanistan, was a very quiet man. In the first tape released by Bin Laden after the US bombing campaign against Afghanistan began on October 7, Zawaheri, Atef and the al-Qaida spokesman, the Kuwaiti, Suleiman Abu Geith sat next to each other. Atef was a devout man whose hope, like all members of al-Qaida, had been to die as a martyr. www.guardian.co.uk /Archive/Article/0,4273,4301821,00.html   (651 words)

MSNBC Atef was reported killed in mid-November 2001 in a U.S. airstrike near Kabul, according to "credible" intelligence reports received from the region. Atef also was a co-founder of the al-Qaida terror network and was a member of the group's ruling council, the officials said. U.S. officials said Atef, 57, was one of bin Laden's most senior deputies and a family member - his daughter was married to one of bin Laden's sons in January 2001. www.msnbc.com /modules/wtc/wtc_globaldragnet/custody_alqaida.htm   (1212 words)

BBC News In Depth War on Terror Investigation on Terror Mohammed Atef was the military leader of al-Qaeda, and described by the US as one of the top two associates of Osama Bin Laden. Atef, who is thought to have been in his late 50s, is a former member of Egyptian Islamic Jihad, the group which killed the Egyptian President Anwar Sadat in 1981. Mullah Mohammed Omar, the spiritual and political leader of the Taleban, has been accused of harbouring Osama Bin Laden and other members of the al-Qaeda network. news.bbc.co.uk /hi/english/static/in_depth/world/2001/war_on_terror/investigation_on_terror/people_3.stm   (835 words)

National Review Online (http://www.nationalreview.com) Atef's personal oversight of al Qaeda's WMD programs means that Zarqawi, as the commander of al Qaeda's WMD training camps in Afghanistan (where the videos of choking dogs were filmed), would have reported directly to Atef. Mohammed Atef, in the role of military commander (a position analogous to the secretary of defense for al Qaeda, i.e. In fact, Atef's predecessor, Abu-Ubaydah al-Banshiri, was on a mission to procure material for a dirty bomb — possibly part of the embassy-bombing plot originally planned for 1996 but delayed until 1998 — when he drowned in Lake Victoria in May of 1996. www.nationalreview.com /script/printpage.p?ref=/comment/brown200505100812.asp   (897 words)

Printer Friendly Version - Mastermind of 9/11 busted Bin Laden's military commander, Mohammed Atef, was killed last year during a U.S. air strike. Khalid Shaikh Mohammed - the elusive mastermind of the Sept. 11 terror attacks - was captured in Pakistan yesterday in a raid by Pakistani agents and the CIA. Mohammed has not yet been charged in the Sept. 11 attacks but was indicted in New York for his alleged involvement in a failed 1995 plot to blow up 11 U.S.-bound planes flying out of Asia. www.nydailynews.com /news/v-pfriendly/story/63828p-59496c.html   (574 words)

Senior Bin Ladin Aide Believed Killed in U.S. Bombing Raid Atef was indicted by a grand jury in New York for his role in those attacks. Atef was appointed al-Qaida's military chief in 1996. Last week reports began to circulate in the media that Atef was the man referred to in a British "white paper" outlining the evidence of bin Ladin's connection to the September 11 attacks. www.ict.org.il /spotlight/det.cfm?id=707   (895 words)

WEEKLY NEWS GULF Egyptian Prime Minister Atef Obeid outlined a plan to kickstart the economy, including curbs on imports and a programme of support for "honest debtors" in arrears, in remarks published on Tuesday. Obeid said in interviews with the editors of Egyptian newspapers that a key aim of the plan was to control the unhealthy increase in supplies of goods, especially imports, whose growth he said was "dangerous", having doubled in under 10 years. "Most of these capacities and goods were funded through borrowing...," said Obeid, adding that borrowers failed to sell their excess goods or reactivate their unused capacities and so they fell back on repaying their obligations to banks. www.pakistaneconomist.com /issue2000/issue36/news6.htm   (895 words)

NameTraq Last Name: Obeid The Egyptian side was officially informed of the decision through a message Prime Minister Faisal Fayez sent to his Egyptian counterpart, Atef Obeid, on... Foreign Minister Jean Obeid led a delegation that left overnight from Beirut for the Benin capital Cotonou to organise the repatriation of Lebanese survivors. Jean Obeid, the Lebanese Foreign Minister, said at least 110 of the dead were Lebanese nationals, part of a thriving expatriate community. nametraq.org /Jan04/O/Obeid.shtml   (895 words)

Egyptian Prime Minister, Cabinet Resigns (phillyBurbs.com) Friday's resignations of Prime Minister Atef Obeid and 32 ministers were long expected. Obeid's ministers were blamed for failing to address the needs of the beleaguered Egyptian economy, which during the past four years has suffered from its floating of the Egyptian pound, a shortage of foreign currency, declining exports and rising imports. Mubarak's choice of Nazief follows a pattern of appointing technocrats rather than more politically inclined lawmakers to the post, a situation critics say is designed to ensure political power is not placed in the hands of a potential challenger to his presidency. www.phillyburbs.com /pb-dyn/news/93-07092004-329150.html   (895 words)

Worldandnation: Egypt cabinet quits; prime minister named State-run television interrupted its programming to report that Mubarak named Ahmed Nazief, a 52-year-old former state minister for communications and information, to replace the prime minister of the past four years, Atef Obeid, 72. Obeid's ministers had been blamed for failing to address the needs of this Arab country's beleaguered economy, which during the past four years has suffered from its floating of the Egyptian pound, a shortage of foreign currency and a drastic lack of exports against rising imports. The resignations of Obeid and 32 ministers were announced after an emergency cabinet meeting late Friday. www.sptimes.com /2004/07/10/news_pf/Worldandnation/Egypt_cabinet_quits_p.shtml   (895 words)

Muhammad Atef as Mabus Muhammad Atef is alleged to be Osama/ Usama Bin Laden's second in command of the terrorist organization, Al-Qaeda. Muhammad Atef has been indicted for his alleged involvement with the August 7, 1998, bombings of the United States Embassies in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, and Nairobi, Kenya. Abu Abbas, Hassan Nasrallah, Abdul Qadeer Khan, Muhammad Atef, Ariel Sharon, Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, Imad Fayez Mugniyah, www.mabus.biz /who/atef   (895 words)

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