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	Tawfiq bin Attash - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Tawfiq bin Attash (Arabic: توفيق بن عطّاش‎), also referred to as 'Khallad' (Arabic: خلاد‎), was an Al Qaeda member first suspected of being a member of the network in August 1998, when investigators learned he had assigned Mohamed Rashed Daoud Al-Owhali to bomb the U.S. Embassy in Nairobi, Kenya.
		In October 2000 bin Attash was identified as the mastermind behind the USS Cole bombing which took place in Aden, Yemen.
		Bin Attash was captured by U.S. forces in May 2003 in Karachi, Pakistan.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Tawfiq_bin_Attash (265 words)

	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Tawfiq bin Attash
		Bin Attash claimed to be in Malaysia Federation of Malaysia (Persekutuan Malaysia in Malay) or simply Malaysia is a country in Southeast Asia.
		In October 2000 bin Attash was identified as the mastermind behind the USS Cole bombing The USS Cole bombing was a suicide bombing attack against the guided missile destroyer USS Cole (DDG 67) on October 12, 2000.
		Bin Attash was captured by U.S. forces in May May is the fifth month of the year in the Gregorian Calendar and one of seven Gregorian months with the length of 31 days.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Tawfiq-bin-Attash (367 words)

	Tawfiq bin Attash
		Bin Attash is quickly identified as one of the masterminds of the operation (see Late October-Late November 2000).
		Ramzi bin al-Shibh, a close associate of the hijackers, also leaves Yemen around this time and is also suspected of involvement in the bombing (see Around September 15-16 and October 10-21, 2000).
		Bin Attash is believed to be one of the planners behind the October 2000 bombing of the USS Cole (see October 12, 2000).
	www.cooperativeresearch.org /entity.jsp?entity=tawifiq_(_khallad_)_bin_attash (7181 words)

	MercuryNews.com \| 09/10/2006 \| To U.S., bin Laden's trail is `stone cold' (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		After downplaying bin Laden's importance and barely mentioning him for several years, Bush last week repeatedly invoked his name and quoted from his writings and speeches to underscore what he said was the continuing threat of terrorism.
		Although the hunt for bin Laden has depended to a large extent on technology, until recently pilotless aircraft known as UAVs were in short supply, especially when the war in Iraq became a priority in 2003.
		His 17 video or audiotapes in the past five years are said to be hand-carried to news outlets or nearby mail drops by a series of couriers who know nothing about the contents of their deliveries or the real identity of the sender, a simple method used by spies and drug traffickers for centuries.
	www.mercurynews.com /mld/mercurynews/news/15485889.htm (1883 words)

	Kurdish Man Linked to Al-Qaida Ordered Deported From US
		The one-legged bin Attash, a former bodyguard of Osama bin Laden, also known as Khallad, is suspected of helping plan the attack on the USS Cole in Yemen in 2000 and the 1998 embassy bombings in Kenya and Tanzania.
		Malkandi has adamantly denied knowingly assisting bin Attash, saying instead that in 1998 he was approached by a stranger at the Northgate Mall who befriended him and then later asked him to help a Yemeni friend.
		Bin Attash never made it to the U.S.; his visa application was denied.
	www.aina.org /news/20060214163450.htm (313 words)

	Abdulaziz al-Omari - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		He is alleged to have often served as an imam at his mosque in Saudi Arabia and is believed by American Authorities to have been a student of a radical Saudi cleric named Sulayman al Alwan, whose mosque is located in Al Qasim.
		According to Tawfiq bin Attash, al-Omari was one of a group of future hijackers who provided security at Kandahar airport after their basic training at an al-Qaeda camp.
		During the 2000 Al Qaeda Summit in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, American authorities claim that immigration records show that a person named Abdulaziz al-Omari was visiting the country, although they say they are not sure that this was the same person.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Abdulaziz_al-Omari (982 words)

	9/11 commission staff statement No. 15 - U.S. Security - MSNBC.com
		Bin Ladin and his senior associates touted the subsequent withdrawal of U.S. forces from Somalia in March 1994 as a victory for the mujahidin and a demonstration that the Americans could be forced to retreat.
		Bin Ladin is said to have requested space to establish training camps, as well as assistance in procuring weapons, but Iraq apparently never responded.
		Bin Ladin portrayed “martyrdom” in the service of jihad as a highly desirable fate, and many recruits were eager to go on suicide missions.
	www.msnbc.msn.com /id/5224036 (5319 words)

	MichaelMoore.com : Bin Laden Trail 'Stone Cold'
		After playing down bin Laden's importance and barely mentioning him for several years, Bush last week repeatedly invoked his name and quoted from his writings and speeches to underscore what Bush said is the continuing threat of terrorism.
		Attash, who helped plan the 2000 USS Cole bombing, told interrogators that the meeting took place in the Afghan mountains about two hours from the town of Khost.
		Although the hunt for bin Laden has depended to a large extent on technology, until recently unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) were in short supply, especially when the war in Iraq became a priority in 2003.
	www.michaelmoore.com /words/latestnews/index.php?id=7833 (2943 words)

	Cageprisoners.com - serving the caged prisoners in Guantanamo Bay
		Whalid ba Attash, also known as Tawfiq bin Attash or Khallad, was arrested Tuesday along with five other suspected al Qaeda members in a police raid in the port city of Karachi, Pakistan's Information Ministry said.
		Bush praised Pakistan for its role in apprehending Attash and said the coalition is winning the war on terror.
		Attash is believed to be "very close" to bin Laden and served as an intermediary between Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, the September 11 plot's mastermind, and some of the hijackers.
	www.cageprisoners.com /print.php?id=6231 (431 words)

	Boston.com / Latest News / World
		Waleed Mohammed Bin Attash, best known as Tawfiq bin Attash or Tawfiq Attash Khallad, was arrested Tuesday during a pair of raids conducted in southern Karachi by Pakistani authorities.
		Attash is wanted in the USS Cole bombing," said Brig.
		In March 2002, Abu Zubaydah, once bin Laden's top terror coordinator, was caught in the city of Faisalabad.
	www.boston.com /news/daily/30/pakistan_arrests.htm (686 words)

	Tawfiq bin Attash Details, Meaning Tawfiq bin Attash Article and Explanation Guide
		Tawfiq bin Attash, aka Khallad, is an Al Qaeda member of long standing.
		In January 2000 bin Attash attended the 2000 Al Qaeda Summit, wherein he met with two of the September 11, 2001 hijackers.
		Bin Attash claimed to be in Malaysia to take delivery of a prosthesis (his leg had been amputated below the knee following an injury in the Afghan-Soviet War).
	www.e-paranoids.com /t/ta/tawfiq_bin_attash.html (188 words)

	Asia Times
		The explosions of May 12 in Riyadh in Saudi Arabia, which has a strong presence of al-Qaeda and the LET, and of May 16 at Casablanca in Morocco in which al-Qaeda and the local Salafi Jihadi movement are suspected have added to the concerns of the Pakistani authorities.
		Saudi Arabia, Pakistan and Morocco were among those described as apostate by bin Laden in his message of February 11.
		Shamzai, the head of the Binori madrassa (religious school) of Karachi, is reputed to be the mentor of Mulla Omar, the amir of the Taliban, and bin Laden.
	www.atimes.com /atimes/South_Asia/EE21Df01.html (1074 words)

	Kirkland Man Allegedly Linked To Al-Qaida Ordered Deported \| KOMO-TV - Seattle, Washington \| News Archive (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Immigration Judge Kenneth Josephson found that Sam Malkandi, of Kirkland, lied on his 1998 asylum application when he said he had been imprisoned in Iran for possessing forbidden political materials.
		Malkandi came to the attention of authorities after bin Attash was captured in Pakistan in 2003.
		They discovered Malkandi had made arrangements for bin Attash, under a pseudonym, to obtain a new prosthetic foot at a clinic in Bellevue in 1999, ICE said in a news release announcing Josephson's decision.
	www.komotv.com /stories/41862.htm (451 words)

	Bin Laden Trail 'Stone Cold'
		Only two months later, Bush decided to pull out most of the special operations troops and their CIA counterparts in the paramilitary division that were leading the hunt for bin Laden in Afghanistan to prepare for war in Iraq, said Flynt L. Leverett, then an expert on the Middle East at the National Security Council.
		His 23 video or audiotapes in the last five years are thought to have been hand-carried to news outlets or nearby mail drops by a series of couriers who know nothing about the contents of their deliveries or the real identity of the sender, a simple method used by spies and drug traffickers for centuries.
		Stanley A. McChrystal, the JSOC commander since 2003, has become the de facto leader of the hunt for bin Laden and developed a good working relationship with the CIA to the extent that he recently was able to persuade the former station chief in Kabul to become his special assistant.
	www.prisonplanet.com /articles/September2006/110906Laden.htm (2874 words)

	IRAQI NATIONAL TIED TO SENIOR AL QAEDA OPERATIVE ORDERED DEPORTED FROM THE UNITED STATES
		According to a footnote on page 492 of The 9/11 Commission Report, bin Attash told U.S. officials in August 2003 that an individual in Bothell, Washington, whose name sounded like "Barzan," had tried to help him obtain a U.S. visa to enter the United States.
		Among other things, federal agents were able to obtain documents indicating that Malkandi had made arrangements with a clinic in Bellevue, Washington for bin Attash, under an alias, to obtain a new prosthetic foot in 1999.
		Bin Attash was never able to come to the United States as his visa application was denied.
	www.ice.gov /pi/news/newsreleases/articles/060214seattle.htm (507 words)

	US authorities fly suspected bin Laden aide from Pakistan - smh.com.au
		Adil Al-Jazeeri was blindfolded with his hands tied behind his back while he was taken to an American plane in Peshawar late on Sunday night, a Pakistani intelligence official said yesterday on condition of anonymity.
		Others include Abu Zubaydah, once bin Laden's top terror co-ordinator, who was caught in the city of Faisalabad in March 2002.
		Also caught in Pakistan was Waleed Mohammed Bin Attash, best known as Tawfiq bin Attash or Tawfiq Attash Khallada, a Yemeni who was one of two people described as masterminds of the bombing of the US Navy destroyer Cole in Yemen on October 12, 2000.
	www.smh.com.au /articles/2003/07/15/1058034956246.html (421 words)

	Pacific Publishing Company - Kirkland man faces deportation - U.S. Customs Enforcement Agency calls decision an ...
		An Iraqi Kurdish immigrant from Kirkland has been ordered deported for ties to Tawfiq bin Attash, a senior al-Qaida operative suspected of involvement in a 2000 attack on the USS Cole in Yemen and the 1998 bombings of U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania.
		The man in need of a leg was bin Attash, who used a false name when he applied for a visa (that was never granted) to come to the United States, according to The 9/11 Commission Report.
		But bin Attash was captured in Pakistan in 2003 and mentioned a man in Bothell with a similar name to Malkandi's had tried to help him get a visa to the U.S., according to an ICE press release.
	www.zwire.com /site/tab6.cfm?newsid=16238209&BRD=855&PAG=461&dept_id=515250&rfi=6 (771 words)

	Millennium Ark: Hot News
		TACOMA -- The large chart pictured Osama bin Laden at the top and one of his former lieutenants, Tawfiq bin Attash, beneath him.
		He has emphatically denied knowingly who bin Attash was or of supporting al-Qaida in any way.
		The friend, according to the government, was bin Attash, planner of the bombing of the Navy ship USS Cole in Yemen in 2000 and the bombings of the American embassies in Kenya and Tanzania in 1998.
	www.millennium-ark.net /NEWS/05_Terror/051110.WA.immigrant.html (586 words)

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		Intelligence sources said Al-Jazeeri was a longtime aide to bin Laden and was involved in the terror network's training.
		Also in caught in Pakistan was Waleed Mohammed Bin Attash, best known as Tawfiq bin Attash or Tawfiq Attash Khallada, a Yemeni who was one of two people described as masterminds of the bombing of the U.S. Navy destroyer Cole in Yemen on Oct. 12, 2000.
		TAWFIQ ATTASH KHALLAD, Yemeni, operational leader, suspected mastermind of USS Cole bombing in October 2000: At large.
	www.active-duty.com /MI_TerroristGroupProfiles.htm (974 words)

	USATODAY.com - U.S. links 1 of 6 arrested to Sept. 11 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Waleed Mohammed Bin Attash was among those arrested Tuesday in Karachi.
		U.S. officials say Attash, also known as Tawfiq Bin Attash, was a go-between for al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden and the plotters of the bombing in October 2000 in Yemen that killed 17 U.S. sailors on the Cole.
		In January 2000, intelligence officials photographed Attash attending a meeting in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, that also was attended by two al-Qaeda members who would be among the Sept. 11 hijackers.
	www.usatoday.com /news/world/2003-04-30-pakistan-arrests_x.htm (423 words)

	CBS News \| Alleged Cole, Sept. 11 Suspect Nabbed \| May 15, 2003 06:46:07
		Waleed Mohammed Bin Attash, who is best known as Tawfiq bin Attash or Tawfiq Attash Khallad, is wanted in connection with the suicide bombing of the American destroyer that killed 17 sailors, Brig.
		Last September, Ramzi Binalshibh, a suspected planner of the attacks in the United States, was captured after a gun battle in southern Karachi.
		In March 2002, Abu Zubaydah, once Osama bin Laden's top terror coordinator, was caught in the city of Faisalabad.
	www.cbsnews.com /stories/2003/05/15/attack/printable553982.shtml (622 words)

	BORR Terrorism News: The Linchpin That Could Have Stopped 9/11
		The tangled web of bin Attash's connections to the al Qaeda terror network go back at least to 1998, when the organization conducted synchronized attacks on the U.S. embassies in Nairobi, Kenya, and Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, killing at least 224 people.
		FBI officials first picked up the scent of bin Attash when they arrested Mohamed Rashed Daoud Al-Owhali in Nairobi five days after the African embassy bombings.
		Although investigators were unaware then of the exact role bin Attash played in the terrorist network at the time of the Malaysia meeting, they learned eight months later when, on Oct. 12, 2000, the USS Cole was attacked at the Yemeni port of Aden.
	www.borrull.org /e/noticia.php?id=17108 (592 words)

	Al Jazeera English - Archive (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		detainees, Hassan bin Attash, Binyam Mohamed and Shaker Aamer, in its report.
		Attash was transferred to Jordanian custody in 2002 for 16 months after being arrested in
		The brother, Waleed Tawfiq bin Attash, is an alleged senior al-Qaeda figure.
	english.aljazeera.net /NR/exeres/259EFFE3-38E7-4901-BE80-7B0D0145FE61.htm (419 words)

	CCM Sector Invest (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		AIVD, which questioned Bouyeri in 2003, determined that he was only on the periphery of a network, and therefore did not place him under surveillance.
		In the course of tracking suspected militant Tawfiq bin Attash to and from meetings in Malaysia in January 2000, the CIA came across two other people, Khalid al-Midhar and Nawaf al-Hazmi.
		Surveillance revealed that the pair met with bin Attash, also known as Khallad, a known al Qaeda associate under investigation in connection with the 1998 bombings of U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania.
	www.ccmsectorinvest.com /print_detailedintel_briefs.asp?intReleaseID=17 (777 words)

	AL QAEDA: Jitters in Pakistan
		The Lashkar-e- Jhangvi (LEJ), a Sunni extremist organisation which is a member of Osama bin Laden's International Islamic Front (IIF), had claimed the responsibility for the parcel bombs in an E-mail sent to newspaper offices.
		Saudi Arabia, Pakistan and Morocco were amongst those described as apostate by bin Laden in his message of February 11, 2003.
		From India's point of view, the most important point in the message, allegedly of Osama bin Laden, broadcast by Al Jazeera on February 11, 2003, is the inclusion of Pakistan in the list of so-called anti-Muslim, apostate States which have to be liberated by Muslims by waging a jihad against it.
	www.saag.org /papers7/paper692.html (1344 words)

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