The Egyptian government, whose insistence for many years that Islamic terrorism had become global fell on deaf ears, informed Western intelligence services several years ago that al-Zawahiri travelled with French and Swiss passports in the name of Amin Othman. He is also understood to have a Dutch passport in the name of Sami Mahmoud el-Hifnawi in the early 1990s when he apparently travelled extensively in Western Europe, living at various times in Switzerland and Denmark. Al- Jihad members testified during the 1999 trial in Egypt that he had entered the USA in 1995 using the alias Dr Abdel Moez and while there raised funds used to finance the attack on the Egyptian embassy in Islamabad. According to London’s Guardian newspaper, the US House of Representatives judiciary subcommittee on immigration was told by a counterterrorism expert in January 2000 that al-Zawahiri was one of several Islamic militants who had been granted green card status by the US Immigration Service. Al-Zawahiri seems to have had vastly more experience in clandestine operations than Bin Laden
This good enough??
Fine. Zawahiri came to America. That doesn't prove a meeting between these guys. And Janes' overall value has gone in an inverse direction from its price.
DEBKA has made stuff up one time too many for my taste.
"In the early 1900's al-Zawahiri made two visits to the United States, and he came to United States (sic) to help raise funds for the Egyptian Islamic Jihad."
Cited in "American Jihad" by Steven Emerson.
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It is never good enough for them. They irrationally hate Debka.
They go beyond a reasonable skepicism.