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To: IQBAL LATIF who wrote (43415)10/30/2002 2:33:20 AM
From: IQBAL LATIF  Respond to of 50167
 
The Daily Times reporting..Of the six new al Qaeda leaders, the United States believes to be now in active command of the organisation, one is said to be living in Pakistan and two in the “Pakistan-Afghanistan border region.”

The three men are: Saif al-Adel alias Makkawi, Egyptian by nationality believed to be connected with the bombings of the USS Cole and the US embassy in Somalia. The second man is Abdullah Ahmed Abdullah alias Abu Mohammed al Masri or Saleh, al Qaeda’s financial officer, Egyptian by nationality, who is said to be connected with the bombing of the US embassy in Somalia.

The third man is Tawfiq bin Atash alias Khallad or Walid bin Attash or Saeed Muhammed bin Yousaf, al Qaeda’s senior operational planner, by nationality either Saudi or Yemeni and connected with the bombings of the USS Cole, 9/11 and the “Gibraltar plot.” While the first two are believed to be in the Pakistan-Afghanistan border region, the last is said to be in Pakistan.

The other three al Qaeda leaders, according to a Washington Post report, are Riduan Isamuddin, an Indonesian, Rahim al-Nashri, a Yemeni and Abu Musab Zarqawi, a Jordanian.