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Al-Zawahiri Stayed with Bin Laden’s Security Chief in San Jose in 1995
According to court records and extensive media reports, Ayman al-Zawahiri came to the U.S. in early 1995 on a fundraising trip for al Qaeda. He stayed near San Jose, Calif., with bin Laden’s chief of security, Ali Mohammed — who had been subpoenaed by the Justice Department about his connections to terrorism only weeks before. ....

The FBI was already well aware of Ali Mohammed, whom the Justice Department had interrogated in December 1994, according to trial testimony and published accounts. Mohammed had links to known terrorists dating back to 1989, when the FBI photographed him training some of the World Trade Center plotters in firearms .... A former sergeant in the U.S. Special Forces, Ali Mohammed had even volunteered himself to the CIA and the FBI as an informant. According to a 2001 report in the San Francisco Chronicle, Mohammed’s Army superiors suspected that the Egyptian native had been sponsored to Special Forces by the CIA. ....
Posted by: Mike Sylwester 2004-03-19
http://www.rantburg.com/poparticle.php?ID=28641