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| Terror Networks & Islam |
| Nasar travel timelines |
| 2005-08-05 |
| The travels of international terror figure Mustafa Setmarian Nasar: - 1988, Afghanistan - Nasar makes contact with Osama bin Laden while fighting alongside other mujahedeen there. Occasionally travels to Khartoum, Sudan, after bin Laden sets up operations there in 1991. - Mid-1990s, Madrid and London - Keeps contacts with extremists, works at extremist newsletter al-Ansar, or ``the supporters.'' - July 25, 1995, a blast in a Paris metro station opens campaign of eight bombings or attempted bombings in France, blamed on the Algerian Armed Islamic Group. British Secret Service detain and later release Nasar, suspecting his involvement. - Fall 1997, Afghanistan - By now, he has returned there and runs a bin Laden-financed camp, keeps contact with Taliban leader Mullah Omar. - By 1998, serves on al-Qaida's Shura, or ``consultation'' council, as Syrian representative. - Fall of 2001, Afghanistan - There for the attacks of Sept. 11 and the U.S.-led invasion. - Late 2001, Iran - believed to have fled there with other al-Qaida operatives after the fall of the Taliban. - U.S. officials believe he has been to Iraq since Saddam Hussein's fall, perhaps as late as last summer. Thought to be in Pakistan, Afghanistan or Iraq since then. |
| Posted by:Dan Darling |