Khalid Sheikh Mohammed: profiles of accused September 11 plotters

A Pakistani raised in Kuwait who is Khalid Sheikh Mohammed’s nephew and a
cousin of jailed 1993 World Trade Center bomber Ramzi Youssef. Also known as
Ammar al-Baluchi, he is believed to have played an important role in helping
facilitate 9/11 logistics by transferring funds to US-based operatives and
helping hijackers travel from Pakistan to the United States. He was captured
in April 2003 in Pakistan.

Walid bin Attash, around 31

Born and raised in Saudi Arabia to Yemeni parents, he is accused of being the
mastermind of the 2000 attack on the USS Cole destroyer in Yemen, which
killed 17 US soldiers. Also known as Khallad, he lost his right leg during a
1997 battle in Afghanistan and supervised training at an al-Qaeda camp there
where he trained two of the September 11 hijackers along with other
operatives. Allegedly chosen by al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden at the
outset to become a 9/11 hijacker himself, he was captured along with Ali Abd
al-Aziz Ali in Pakistan in April 2003.

Mustapha Ahmed al-Hawsawi, 43

A Saudi associate of bin Laden accused of holding the group’s purse strings in
its first years of existence, and of having arranged funding for the
September 11 plot. Both Al-Hawsawi and Ramzi Binalshibh are said to have
served as a communications link between Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and the 9/11
hijackers. He was captured in Pakistan in March 2003, when special forces
stormed the villa in which he was hiding along with Mohammed.

Source: AFP

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