Brother of Qaeda suspect arrested in Saudi Arabia
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=story_23-8-2004_pg7_52
MANAMA: The brother of a man detained in Bahrain on suspicion of links with Al Qaeda has been arrested in Saudi Arabia, the family’s lawyer told AFP on Sunday.
“Mohamad Khan was arrested by Saudi authorities at about 10:00 pm (0700 GMT) on Saturday after crossing the King Fahd bridge” linking Bahrain with Saudi Arabia, said Abdullah Hashim. He was returning from Bahrain to Saudi Arabia, where he lives and works for a private company in the eastern part of the kingdom, he said.
Khan is the brother of Mohiedin Mahmud Khan, one of six suspects detained in Bahrain last month for alleged links to the Al Qaeda terror network and for allegedly plotting terrorist attacks in Bahrain.
Hashim said that after his arrest Khan “was taken to his home which was searched by police who confiscated his personal computer, CDs and documents”.
“He was then taken to the city of al-Khobar,” said Hashim. “The family has not been informed on the exact place of his detention,” he added. There was no official confirmation of Khan’s arrest in Saudi Arabia but a policeman on King Fahd bridge told AFP: “We did not detain anyone.”
9/11 Report: Al-Qaeda in the U.S.
http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/08/23/al.quaeda.tm/
...excerpt... ***more on Shukrijumah***
As it shut down formal operations on Saturday, the September 11 Commission released a pair of staff monograph reports that reveal tantalizing and important new nuggets about the 9/11 plot ? including the possibility that 9/11 ringleader Mohammed Atta and another hijacker visited an INS office in Miami together in May 2001 with Adnan Shukrijumah, a trained pilot who today remains one of the most wanted al-Qaeda terrorists with a $5 million U.S. bounty on his head.
The commission also revealed new but ambiguous evidence of a financial connection between one of the hijackers and a Saudi national in San Diego, and declares that this is the only known instance of a hijacker potentially receiving a noteworthy sum of money from someone inside the U.S.
Atta visited the INS in May 2001 looking for a visa extension for one of his companions, but ended up with the INS discovering Atta himself had improperly received an eight-month visa, until Sept. 8, 2001, that was then rolled back to July 9. INS personnel who dealt with the Atta group then could not identify one of the men with him.
But the "Terrorist Travel" staff monograph released yesterday said that, based on other evidence, the commission believes that fellow hijacker Ziad Jarrah "may have been" with Atta.
More significant is that an INS officer who dealt with the group said she was "75 percent sure" that one of Atta's companions ? "a great looking kid," as she described him ? was Shukrijumah, based on the photos released along with his "wanted" notice after September 11.
The APB for Shukrijumah has been renewed this year, with Attorney General John Ashcroft calling attention to him in a press conference in May and officials sounding the alarm again in connection with the recent "Orange Alert" for sites in New york, New Jersey and Washington, D.C.
There is a particular alert for Shukrijumah along the U.S.'s southwest border, and officials in Mexico and Central America are on the lookout for him ? especially after he was reportedly sighted earlier this year in a Tegucigalpa, Honduras, Internet café.