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http://www.google.com/search?q=%22Al-Fadl%22&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&filter=0 TERRORISM CENTRAL - Snippet: "TITLE:
Trial of Defendants in 1998 Bombing of U.S. Embassies
An Attempt to Purchase Uranium: Testimony of Prosecution Witness
AUTHOR:
Jamal Ahmed Al-Fadl
SOURCE:
Excerpt for the trial transcript, U.S. v. Usama Bin Laden et al, February 7, 2001.
Published in Super Terrorism: Biological, Chemical, and Nuclear, by Yonah Alexander and Milton Hoenig, Editors. Transnational Publishers, Inc., 2001
TEXT:
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
v.
USAMA BIN LADEN, et al.,
Defendants.
New York, N.Y.
February 7, 2001
10:00 a.m.
Before:
HON. LEONARD B. SAND,
District Judge
MARY JO WHITE
United States Attorney for the
Southern District of New York
BY: PATRICK FITZGERALD
JAMAL AHMED AL-FADL,
DIRECT EXAMINATION
BY MR. FITZGERALD:
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Q. During the time you were involved with al Qaeda, did there come a time when you became involved in an attempt to purchase uranium?
A. Yes.
Q. Can you tell us when that was?
A. That’s area of ’94 or end of ’93.
Q. Can you tell us how you came to be involved in the purchase of uranium?
A. I remember Abu Fadhl al Makkee, he call me and he told me we hear somebody in Khartoum, he got uranium, and we need you to go and study that, is that true or not.
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Q. What did you do after he told you this?
A. He told me go to Abu Abdullah al Yemeni and he talk more about that with you.
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Q. Did you go see Abdullah al Yemeni?
A. Yes.
Q. What happened when you saw him?
A. He told me somebody’s name, Moqadem Salah Abdel al Mobruk. He is a minister during Numeiri time.
Q. Is he a former president of the Sudan?
A. Yes, ’69 to ’83.
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Q Did you go to see this officer named Mobruk?
A. I went to one of my cousins, his name Faisal, and I ask him if he know Moqadam Salah Abdel al Mobruk.
Q. What happened then?
A. He told me, I know him but I don’t have relationship with him, but I tell you I know somebody, he know him better than me. And he told me go to al Fadl al Shahideen.
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Q. Did you have, did you actually have a meeting with Salah Abdel al Mobruk?
A. Yes.
Q. Tell us what happened at the meeting.
A. I went, and this is first time I meet him, and he told me this guy, his name Basheer, he going to help you, and go with him and discuss everything with him.
Q. Had you ever met this person named Basheer before?
A. No.
Q. Did you go with Basheer?
A. Yes.
Q. Tell the jury what you did.
A. We went to another office in Jambouria Street in Khartoum City.
Q. What happened when you went to that street in Khartoum?
A. Basheer, he told me, are you serious? You want uranium? I tell him yes. I know people, they very serious, and they want to buy it. And he told me did the money ready, and I say what they need. They need the information about uranium, they want to know which quality, which the country make it, and after that we going to talk with you about the price. He say I going to give you this information in a paper, and we need $1,500,000, andeverything go well we need it outside. We need the money outside of Sudan.
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Q. What happened then?
A. After that he tell me how you going to check it? I tell him I don’t know, I have to go to those people and I tell them what you tell me and I give you answer for that.
Q. What happened that?
A. After that I went to Abdallah al Yemeni and I told him what I got. He told me go to Abu Fadhl al Makkee and told him about what you got, what you have information, and I went to Abu Fadhl al Makkee and I told him, and he say you have to go to Abu Rida al Suri and sit down with him and told him, and he going to go with you after that. I went to Ikhlak company in Baraka building in Khartoum City, and I told him about the wholeinformation, and he say tell him we have our machine, electric machine, we going to check the uranium but first we want to see and we want information. We want to see the cylinder and we want to need information about the quality and which country it make. And he tell me, he give me a little paper and he tell me give him this paper and this information we need. I took the information and I go back to Fadhl Shaheedin and I told him I need meeting with Basheer.
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Q. Did you go to the meeting?
A. Yes.
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Q. You went with Fadl al Shaheedin and Abu Rida al Suri in a jeep to Khartoum north to a town called Bait al Mal, with Basheer?
A. And we went over there and we, they took us inside house in Bait al Mal, and after few minutes they bring a big bag and they open it, and it cylinder, like this tall.
Q. For the record, the witness is indicating approximately two to three feet.
A. It’s like this tall, I believe. And they give us a paper before that, and Abu Rida al Suri, I remember he took the paper and it’s a lot written in the cylinder. It’s like ?
Q Tell the word that you are saying to the interpreter.
A. (Through the interpreter) The information was like engraved. (Continuing in English) Abu Rida al Suri looked to his paper and he looked to the cylinder, and after that he say OK, that is good. And he got conversation with Basheer, and we left the house, and few days later he told me ?
THE COURT: Who told you?
A. Abu Rida al Suri, he told me go to Fadl al Shaheedin and tell him we want to see Basheer again.
Q. So Abu Rida al Suri told you to go to Fadl al Shaheedin and tell him that who wanted to meet?
A. He told me go to Basheer and tell him we need another meeting, and in the same time he give me the paper we got from Basheer about the information, and he told me I needed to take this paper to Abu Hajer and give him this paper, and whatever he tell you, or if he don’t say anything, that’s fine.
Q. So he told you to take the paper to Abu Hajer. What did you do?
A. I went to Abu Hajer in his house and I give him the paper and he need it and he say OK.
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Q. What was on the paper?
A. It’s information, I remember it say South Africa and serial number and quality something. It’s all in English. So I don’t remember all the what in the paper. "
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