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  Wali Khan Amin Shah - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Wali Khan Amin Shah (He had many aliases, including Osama Turkestani, Osama Asmuray, and Grabi Ibrahim Hahsen) was an Al-Qaida member that allegedly controlled the purse strings for the foiled Operation Bojinka terrorist attack plot.
Shah, an Afghan had fought with Osama bin Laden in Afghanistan during the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan.
Ramzi Yousef, one of Shah's partners, was arrested in Pakistan in February 1995.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Wali_Khan_Amin_Shah   (386 words)

  
 Operation Bojinka   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Wali Khan Amin Shah, an Afghan, was the financier of the plot.
Wali Khan Amin Shah was arrested at an apartment complex at Singalong Street on January 11 after police saw that a pager called by Yousef was registered in the name of Shah's girlfriend.
Shah was found to be a conspirator after authorities saw photos of him scanned on the laptop that contained information about the plot, as well as cell phone numbers that led investigators to the apartment.
www.bidprobe.com /en/wikipedia/o/op/operation_bojinka.html   (4754 words)

  
 TIMEasia.com: INDONESIA: The Preacher of Death
Wali Khan and another man, Ramzi Yousef—who was later convicted of the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center—along with a third accomplice were convicted in 1996 by a New York court of responsibility for the plan to bomb the 12 airliners.
After Wali Khan escaped from custody in Manila in early 1995, he fled to Malaysia, where Philippine investigators say Hambali was instrumental supplying cash and a cover as a restaurateur on the resort island of Langkawi, where he used the name Osama Turkestani.
Wali Khan was arrested in December 1995 and handed over to U.S. officials after an alert Malaysian police officer noticed his chief distinguishing mark: three missing fingers on his left hand.
www.time.com /time/asia/features/malay_terror/hambali4.html   (860 words)

  
 Context of 'February 7, 1995'
Wali Khan Shah is arrested several days later, and his phone book and phone bills contain five phone numbers for Khalifa, plus Khalifa's business card.
Yousef also soon admits to ties with Wali Khan Shah, who fought with bin Laden in Afghanistan, and Mohammed Jamal Khalifa, one of bin Laden's brothers-in-law, who is being held by the US at the time.
Shah was one of the plotters of the Operation Bojinka plot (see February 7, 1995).
www.cooperativeresearch.org /context.jsp?item=a020795ramzi   (624 words)

  
 Early Scheme to Turn Jets Into Weapons
Hambali and Wali Khan, one of the Manila plotters, were founding board members of a Malaysian company that police believe was created mainly to fund terrorist activities.
Wali Khan was involved in the plot, and Mohammed Amin, another Konsojaya director, made frequent trips to Manila while planning was under way.
Wali Khan was also convicted and awaits sentencing.
www.fromthewilderness.com /timeline/2002/latimes062402.html   (1600 words)

  
 frontline: the man who knew: timeline - al qaeda's global context | PBS
Wali Khan Amin Shah, a Pakistani, and an Indonesian cleric named Riduan Isamuddin (AKA "Hambali") established the company.
Wali Khan Amin Shah is arrested in Malaysia and rendered to the United States.
Ramzi Ahmed Yousef, Abdul Hakim Murad, and Wali Khan Amin Shah are convicted for their role in the Bojinka plot.
www.pbs.org /wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/knew/etc/cron.html   (2389 words)

  
 Print Message
Wali Khan Amin Shah was later arrested in Malaysia and rendered to the United States.
The linkages between Khalifa and Yousef, and the fact that Wali Khan Amin Shah was supposedly an employee of the IIRO was too much for the Philippine authorities to countenance.
Yousef and Wali Khan were willing to train members of the ASG, but they did not rely on them to the degree that observers have indicated.
www.suite101.com /print_message.cfm/investing/81407/696801   (2929 words)

  
 CNN - Plane terror suspects convicted on all counts - Sept. 5, 1996
Yousef was charged with placing a bomb on a Philippine Air Lines 747 flight from Manila to Tokyo on December 11, 1994, in what prosecutors believe was a test run for the 1995 airline plot.
Defendant Shah is accused of testing a different timer by leaving a bomb in a Manila theater.
Shah's attorney dismissed the evidence, saying his client lost three fingers from his left hand fighting in Afghanistan and was hardly a candidate to plan an airline bombing.
www.cnn.com /US/9609/05/terror.trial   (504 words)

  
 Thestar.com/Operation Bojinka's bombshell
Shah also had mangled hands, and was missing two fingers.
To launder incoming funds, Shah used bank accounts belonging to his live-in Filipino girlfriend and a number of other Manila women, one of whom was an employee at a Kentucky Fried Chicken outlet, and others who were described as bar hostesses.
Shah's and Murad's confessions led to Yousef's arrest in Pakistan, and the three suspects were extradited to New York to stand trial.
propagandamatrix.com /operation_bojinkas_bombshell.html   (3915 words)

  
 TheStar * Kumpulan Mujahideen Malaysia
With him was his conspirator, Afghani-born Wali Khan Amin Shah, a stocky man with two fingers missing on his left hand.
Wali was caught by the Philippine police after his rented apartment caught fire while he was making home-made bombs.
Wali, who was nicknamed The Lion in Afghanistan, was regarded as one of the best masterminds in the world of terrorism.
www.geocities.com /naulu67/thestar160801.htm   (3728 words)

  
 frontline: the man who knew: connecting the dots | PBS
Wali Khan Amin Shah: Another Afghan war veteran, he was arrested in Malaysia for his role in the Bojinka plot.
Plot to Kill Clinton: Shah reportedly told a U.S. grand jury that he plotted with Yousef to kill President Clinton during a state visit to the Philippines.
Wali Khan Amin Shah was a board member.
www.pbs.org /wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/knew/etc/connecttext.html   (1745 words)

  
 CNN - Plane terror suspects convicted on all counts - Sept. 5, 1996
The jury found Ramzi Ahmed Yousef, the alleged mastermind of the scheme, and two other defendants, Abdul Hakim Murad and Wali Khan Amin Shah, guilty on all counts after two-and-a- half days of deliberations.
The attorney for Shah maintained the evidence against his client was flimsy and said he saw several grounds for appeal.
Shah's attorney dismissed the evidence, saying his client lost three fingers from his left hand fighting in Afghanistan and was hardly a canidate to plan an airline bombing.
www.cnn.com /US/9609/05/terror.plot   (673 words)

  
 INTELWIRE: Investigating al Qaeda
Wali Khan and Khalid Shaikh Mohammed were also at large in the Philippines during the period that the phone was in use.
Wali Khan Amin Shah, a Bojinka conspirator, was also tied to Hambali's financial network.
With Hambali, Wali Khan was a member of the Konsonjaya board of directors.
intelwire.egoplex.com /2004_03_17_archive.html   (1728 words)

  
 'Informers' point the finger at bin Laden
Two "informers" are now helping the Americans, Muhammad Sadiq Howaida, 33, a Palestinian who built the Tanzanian embassy bomb, and Wali Khan Amin Shah, convicted in September 1996 with World Trade Centre bomber Ramzi Yousef, a close friend, of a plot to blow up American airliners in the Philippines the year before.
Shah's family emigrated from the Soviet Republic of Uzbekistan in 1950 to Saudi Arabia, where he met bin Laden, who was born into - and later disowned by - a wealthy Muslim family.
Shah, who lost two fingers in a battle in Afghanistan, was mainly involved in gun-running for bin Laden, according to American intelligence.
www.telegraph.co.uk /htmlContent.jhtml?html=/archive/1998/08/24/wjih224.html   (800 words)

  
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Together with Wali Khan Amin Shah, one of those eventually jailed in the bombing, Hambali established a company called Konsojaya.
The company’s ostensible business was exporting palm oil from Malaysia to Afghanistan; however, it also served as a conduit for the funding of Jihad.
Wali Khan was eventually jailed for the bombing of a Philippine Airlines plane in December 1994 that killed a Japanese businessman.
www.ict.org.il /spotlight/comment.cfm?id=924   (686 words)

  
 Operation Bojinka - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
The next plan would have involved at least five Al-Qaeda operatives, including Yousef, Khan, Shah and two more unknown operatives.
Yousef later boasted to FBI agent about his plan.
All three conspirators got life sentences for participating in the plot.
www.kernersville.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Project_Bojinka   (5015 words)

  
 USATODAY.com - Bosnian evidence makes FBI case   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Wali Khan Amin Shah: Took part in Philippines and pope plots.
Shah was convicted on terrorism charges in New York in 1996.
In a 35-page affidavit — based largely on documents, photographs and other materials seized in Bosnia — the FBI outlines Arnaout's alleged association with Osama bin Laden, the charity's contacts with an extended network of high-level al-Qaeda operatives, and a funding pipeline that stretched from BIF's suburban Chicago headquarters to rebel Muslim fighters in Chechnya.
www.usatoday.com /news/sept11/2002/05/01/charity-terrorism.htm   (1072 words)

  
 CIA, FBI Knew Since 1995 About Possible Hijack Scheme   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
The three terrorists who had occupied the apartment, Ramsi Ahmed Yousef, Abdul Hakim Murad, and Wali Khan Amin Shah, were allegedly affiliated with the network of Osama bin Laden.
Although Yousef and Shah managed to escape after the fire, Murad was arrested when he returned to the apartment to retrieve his laptop computer.
Federal investigative sources have confirmed that Murad detailed an entire plot to dive bomb aircraft in the headquarters of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) in Langley, VA. The plot was contained on the laptop computer he had tried to recover.
www.americanfreepress.net /Mideast/CIAKnew.htm   (1388 words)

  
 MINDAVIEWS: Looking for al-Qaeda in the Philippines   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Aside from Khalifa and Yousef, authorities identified other key cell members as Wali Khan Amin Shah, Abdul Hakim Ali Hasmid Murad, Khalid Sheik Mohammed, Abu Omar, Munir Ibrahim, Amein Mohammed, Salem Ali and over a dozen other individuals.
He admitted to a plan of crashing a hijacked jetliner into the CIA headquarters in Langley.
Wali Khan Amin Shah was arrested but later escaped under mysterious circumstances.
www.mindanews.com /2003/01/2nd/vws06torres.html   (1295 words)

  
 Re: The Road to Sept. 11   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
The plans for 9/11 were published years before the claim that "no one could ever have imagined" such a plan.
A Pentagon team distributed a draft in 1993, and cOvert operatives began circulating it to the media during the trials and appeals of Ramzi Yousef, Abdul Hakim Murad, and Wali Khan Amin Shah.
The judge in their case decided that the news that ten of their pals were already training in the U.S. and planning to fly planes into the WTC and the Pentagon was not germane, but someone leaked that news to the media at the time.
www.libertyforum.org /printthread.php?Cat=&Board=news_history&main=293026052&type=post   (131 words)

  
 Singapore bomb-plot suspect helped run terror firm
That December, his partner in the firm, Wali Khan Amin Shah, helped to bomb a Philippine Airlines jumbo jet.
Involved with Khan - Hambali's business partner - in the plot to bomb the 12 planes was Ramzi Yousef, who was also found guilty in the 1993 truck bombing of the World Trade Center, and Pakistani Abdul Hakim Murad.
All three were convicted by a federal jury in New York in 1996 in the plot to bomb the 12 planes.
www.freerepublic.com /focus/fr/624004/posts   (630 words)

  
 Operation Bojinka   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Wali Khan Amin Shah, an AfghanistanAfghan, was the financier of the plot.
Starting on January 21, 1995 and ending on January 22, 1995, they would set the bombs on 11 United States-bound airliners that had stopovers all around East Asia and Southeast AsiaSoutheast Asia.
Mohammed Jamal Khalifa, a Saudi ArabiaSaudi businessman from Jeddah that is married to one of Osama bin Laden's sisters, was in the Philippines earlier in 1994, probably conspiring with Abu Sayyaf.
www.infothis.com /find/Operation_Bojinka   (5090 words)

  
 Kukui Roadhouse: 12/1/94 Manila Greenbelt Theater Bombing
The alleged mastermind of the World Trade Center bombing and two other militant Muslims were accused in a new indictment Wednesday of setting off a bomb in a Philippines theater.
The latest indictment accused Ramzi Yousef of conspiring with Abdul Hakim Murad and Wali Khan Amin Shah to explode a homemade device at the Greenbelt Theater in Manila on Dec. 1, 1994.
The blast slightly injured several moviegoers and caused police to increase security in Manila.
www.mahk.com /sc5188.htm   (198 words)

  
 PHXnews.com | Operation Bojinka: When Bojinka Means "Resign"   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Planning of Operation Bojinka As soon as Yousef arrived in Manila along with other Arab Afghans that were making cells in Manila, he started to work on making bombs.
Airline bombing plot The next plan would have involved at least five Al Qaida operatives, including Yousef, Khan, Shah and two more unknown operatives.
Manhunt Wali Khan Amin Shah was arrested at an apartment complex at Singalong Street on January 11 after police saw that a pager called by Yousef was registered in the name of Shah's girlfriend.
www.phxnews.com /fullstory.php?article=10792   (4302 words)

  
 SOHH.com Global Forum - Some stuff on Ham(sammich)bali(blocker)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
He first appeared on the global scene as an established Islamist terrorist in Southeast Asia in 1994, when he assisted Ramzi Yousef and Wali Khan Amin Shah in the planning of Oplan Bojinka, a plot to destroy over a dozen US airliners over the Pacific that served as the prototype for the 9/11 attacks.
After Oplan Bojinka was thwarted by Filippino authorities, Hanbali provided Yousef and Khan the money they needed to escape the Philippines dragnet.
In addition, he is said to have raised money and recruited Muslim fighters against Filippino and Indonesian Christians, creating connections between al-Qaeda and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front in the Philippines as well as hardline Islamist organizations that are spread throughout Indonesia.
forums.sohh.com /printthread.php?t=360793   (925 words)

  
 GN Online: Military: Bin Laden more dangerous than Saddam   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Murad was arrested in Manila for his alleged plot to kill Pope John Paul II, in 1995.
Wali Khan Amin Shah admitted he was in Mindanao to conduct training for the Abu Sayyaf Group.
He was Youssef's close associate and was arrested in Manila in January 1995.
www.gulf-news.com /Articles/news.asp?ArticleID=27591   (695 words)

  
 Bulletin - Tentacles of terror   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Intelligence sources believe Yazid was asked to host the two men by Riduan Isamuddin, an Indonesian cleric better known as Hambali, whom Malaysian and other regional security agencies believe is a key figure in an al-Qaeda linked South-East Asian terrorist network.
Hambali spent time in Afghanistan and met two men whom US officials say were bin Laden associates, Kuwaiti Ramzi Yousef and Afghani Wali Khan Amin Shah.
Together with Wali Khan, Yousef was also convicted of a role in devising plans to hijack and bomb 11 US commercial jets in Asia and a plot to assassinate the Pope during a 1995 visit to the Philippines.
bulletin.ninemsn.com.au /bulletin/EdDesk.nsf/printing/CA11FC969C6FCDB0CA256B580003EF91   (687 words)

  
 CNN.com - September 11: The Asian blueprint - March 11, 2002
Philippine police tell CNN they believe the terrorist cell was funded by a Malaysian company, Konsojaya.
Wali Khan Amin Shah is on its board of directors, according to another document given to CNN.
Riduan Isamuddin, an Indonesian cleric and Afghan war veteran, better known as Hambali, was listed two names below him.
edition.cnn.com /2002/WORLD/asiapcf/southeast/03/11/gen.phil.terror.blueprint?related   (822 words)

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