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http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/0,,3-2002018867,00.html
FRIDAY JANUARY 11 2002
Bin Laden's terror mastermind identified
BY DANIEL MCGRORY
INVESTIGATORS believe that they have identified the terrorist
mastermind picked by Osama bin Laden to carry out future attacks on
the West.
Abu Zubeida, who was the group�s director of external affairs,
trained most of al-Qaeda�s surviving terrorists and, now that several
key figures have been killed in the US-led bombing raids, he has been
entrusted with keeping the network going.
After thousands of hours of questioning al-Qaeda suspects captured in
Afghanistan, Europe and the US, intelligence chiefs have identified
Zubeida as the chief strategist behind the group�s most notorious
terrorist strikes
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He has cultivated close links with terrorist cells abroad, which is why it is thought
that al-Qaeda made sure that he was safely smuggled out of Afghanistan.
Using one of his many disguises, Zubeida is thought to have slipped away from his
hideout weeks ago, taking with him the secret of where al-Qaeda is hiding its
surviving terrorists.
While others in al-Qaeda�s high command never risked leaving their adopted base in
Afghanistan, the elusive figure of Zubeida would use his various fake identities to
travel abroad, including making a trip to Europe last
year. One report suggests that he slipped through Iran before US and British Forces
closed in on al-Qaeda�s last hideouts.
What makes this manhunt so difficult is that Zubeida uses more than 40 aliases and has
documents to match each bogus identity. Biographical details about him are vague. He
is reported to be in his mid-thirties and is desc
ribed as a tall, sullen figure.
Nobody is even sure where he came from, with Algeria, Saudi Arabia and the Gaza Strip
variously given as his birthplace. There are no recent photographs of him and,
surprisingly, his name does not appear on the FBI�s Most
Wanted list.
He has amassed a collection of passports, from Sudan, Saudi Arabia, Jordan and Egypt
among others, and has travelled to Asia, Africa and even to Bosnia, cultivating links
with his former terrorist students.
He poses as a businessman, or a honey salesman. Since September 11 his name has
cropped up time and again in the evidence of al- Qaeda suspects and intelligence
investigations.
He first came to prominence by organising the synchronised bomb attacks on the US
Embassies in East Africa in 1998 which killed 224 people.
An intelligence file sent to the US State Department days before the suicide hijackers
struck also named Zubeida as the architect of the bomb attack on the USS Cole in Aden
in October 2000, when 17 sailors were killed.
Detectives who have questioned suspects held in Paris, Italy and Spain say that
Zubeida was given the job of co-ordinating bomb attacks on targets in Europe,
including the US Embassy in Paris. Only now have security exper
ts under President Clinton disclosed that they tried to kidnap the elusive Zubeida in
Sudan in March 2000, but he escaped again.
One of eight men held in jail as suspected Islamic terrorists under controversial new
emergency laws has agreed to be sent to Morocco rather than face an indefinite stay in
a British prison.
Djamel Ajouaou has had to leave behind his British wife and four-
month-old daughter. The Moroccan-born transalator, who had lived in
Britain for ten years, was taken to Heathrow airport by Scotland Yard
detectives, who escorted him on the flight.
Copyright 2002 Times Newspapers Ltd
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