The second kamikaze slayer of Ahmad Shah Masood last September was a 29-year-old Tunisian textile worker residing in Belgium, RTL-TVI broadcasting reported. The Belgian station identified him as Burawi El Wahir. El Wahir was believed to have planned the Masood assassination in Brussels with the second man, Abdessattar Dahman, 39, a former journalism student at the University of Tunis. The station said the two men met in Brussels, "probably" through a third man, a Muslim named Tarek Maaroufi, an avowed sympathizer with Algerian Muslim fundamentalists. Maaroufi was arrested in Belgium last December 18 for recruiting people for terrorist activities, said RTL, which added that he had sent Dahmane et El Wahir to Afghanistan. The two men were believed to have gone to an Afghan training camp run by Osama bin Laden, and been trained by a Tunisian identified as Mohamed Zitli. Zitli, who went to Afghanistan in 1998 with his Belgian wife and their five children, was arrested on February 15 in Iran after entering the country from Afghanistan.
That ties up that end of the investigation. Next step is to resolve who the inside man was, who set Masood up for the hit. My guess is still the Saudis' creature, Rasool Sayyaf. |