Khaled Abu al-Dahab

An Egyptian medical student, Khaled Abu al-Dahab (Abul-Dahab) was arrested and convicted of terrorism. He is alleged to have been a right-hand man to Ali Mohamed, who had been an American Special Forces soldier.

Ali Mohamed travelled north from California with al-Dahab, who later told Egyptian interrogators he had withdrawn US$3,000 from a Californian bank account on orders of Osama bin Laden himself,[1] to offer as bail money to lawyer Phil Rankin.[1] The pair hoped to have Essam Marzouk released and possibly smuggle him into the United States.[2]

In 2002, Abul-Dahab confessed to Egyptian interrogators that he had funded the 1995 attack on the Egyptian Embassy in Pakistan on orders from bin Laden, and had transferred money from a Californian bank account to Pakistan to finance the attack.[1]

References

1. Bell, Stewart. National Post, "Report says bin Laden paid bail in Canada"
2. Lance, Peter. "Triple Cross", 2008

External links

• Susan Sachs and John Kifnera A Nation Challenged: Bin Laden's Lieutenant; Egyptian Raised Terror Funds in U.S. in 1990's, New York Times, October 23, 2001.
• Lance Williams. Bin Laden's Bay Area recruiter Khalid Abu-al-Dahab signed up American Muslims to be terrorists, San Francisco Chronicle, November 21, 2001.