Majid Khan, the terrorist who gave the CIA information that broke up the West Coast plot, is charged at Guantanamo

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The Enterprise Blog:

Marc Thiessen

February 15, 2012

 

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Khan is no ordinary terrorist. It was Khan who provided the CIA with the critical intelligence that helped them break up a network of Southeast Asian terrorists that Khalid Sheikh Mohammed (KSM) had recruited to carry out the “second wave” of attacks in the United States—a plot to hijack an airplane and fly it into the tallest building on the West Coast, the Library Tower in Los Angeles. Here is how he did so:

 

After Khan was captured and taken into CIA custody, KSM told his CIA de-briefers that he had assigned Khan to deliver $50,000 to an individual working for a senior JI terrorist. CIA officials went to Khan’s cell and confronted him with this information from KSM. Khan confirmed KSM’s account and provided additional information—telling them that he had delivered the money to a JI operative named Zubair. Khan then provided both a physical description and a contact number for Zubair. This was a vital breakthrough. The contact number not only gave officials the ability to track down and capture Zubair—it also gave the National Security Agency the opportunity to begin using signals intelligence to track the entire JI network behind the plot.

 

Thanks to the information Majid Khan provided, Zubair was captured in June 2003 and taken into CIA custody. Under questioning, Zubair revealed that he worked directly for Hambali—KSM’s partner in the West Coast Plot—and provided information that was used to track down and capture Hambali in August 2003. Hambali was taken into custody along with another key player in the West Coast Plot—a terrorist named Bashir bin Lap (a.k.a. “Lillie”) who, according to the office of the director of national intelligence, “was slated to be a suicide operative for an al Qaeda ‘second wave’ attack targeting Los Angeles.”

 

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