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MILITANTS' MONEY MAN SAID TO BAIL OUT OF AFGHANISTAN, BACK TO
SUDAN
BY CHARLES J. HANLEY=
AP SPECIAL CORRESPONDENTS
NEW YORK (AP) THE MULTIMILLIONAIRE OSAMA BIN LADEN, JETSETTING
BANKROLLER OF AN TsLAMIC MILITANT NETWORK, HAS DECAMPED FROM HIS
REFUGE IN AFGHANISTAN AND FLOWN BACK TO THE NORTH AFRICAN NATION OF
SUDAN, SAYS A WELL-PLACED U.S. SOURCE.
BIN LADEN IS DESCRIBED BY THE STATE DEPARTMENT AS "ONE OF THE
MOST SIGNIFICANT SPONSORS OF ISLAMIC EXTREMIST ACTIVITIES IN THE
WORLD TODAY."
THE REPORT THAT HE HAS RETURNED TO SUDAN COMES JUST FOUR MONTHS
AFTER THE SUDANESE GOVERNMENT, UNDER THREAT OF U.N. SANCTIONS FOR
ALLEGEDLY HARBORING TERRORISTS, FORCED HIM TO LEAVE THE COUNTRY.
IT ALSO COMES BARELY A MONTH AFTER BIN LADEN ISSUED A CALL FOR
"HOLY WAR" AGAINST THE U.S. MILITARY IN HIS NATIVE SAUDI ARABIA,
JUST ACROSS THE RED SEA FROM SUDAN. HE HAS DENIED ANY CONNECTION,
HOWEVER, WITH THE TWO BOMBINGS THAT KILLED 24 U.S. SERVICEMEN IN
SAUDI ARABIA IN THE PAST YEAR.
SUDAN'S U.N. AMBASSADOR SAID HE HAD NO KNOWLEDGE OF BIN LADEN'S
RETURN. "THIS IS COMPLETELY NOT TRUE AS FAR AS I KNOW," ELFATIH
ERWA SAID.
THE U.S. GOVERNMENT OFFICIAL, WHO SPOKE ON CONDITION OF
ANONYMITY, WOULD NOT DISCLOSE THE SOURCE OF HIS INFORMATION. HE
SAID FRESH PROTESTS WERE LODGED WITH THE SUDANESE, BUT THEY HAD NOT
RESPONDED.
RECENT ARAB NEWS REPORTS SAID THE MILITANT LEADER HAD LEFT
AFGHANISTAN FOR AN UNKNOWN DESTINATION.
HIS REPORTED TRAVELS MAY BE LINKED TO THE UPHEAVALS IN THAT
CENTRAL ASIAN NATION, WHERE ONE FACTION IS HEARING VICTORY IN A
CIVIL WAR, OR TO THE BELIEF _ REPORTED BY HIS FOLLOWERS TO LONDON'S
INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER IN JULY _ THAT FOREIGN SECRET SERVICES ARE
TRYING TO KILL HIM.
THE TALL, BEARDED BIN LADEN, THE 40ISH SON OF A SAUDI
CONSTRUCTION MAGNATE, TRAVELS IN A PRIVATE JET, IS GUARDED BY
LONGTIME COMRADES-IN-ARMS, AND IS BELIEVED ACCOMPANIED BY HIS THREE
WIVES AND HIS CHILDREN.
"WE'RE TRYING TO TRACK HIM," A U.S. ANT I-TERROR ISM SPECIALIST
SAID. "WE'VE BEEN GETTING VARYING REPORTS OF VARYING
RELIABILITY."
THE FIRST SOURCE DESCRIBED THE REPORT BIN LADEN WAS BACK IN
SUDAN AS RELIABLE, AND SAID HE MAY HAVE RETURNED AS LONG AS TWO
MONTHS AGO. HE PROBABLY IS STAYING AT HIS FARM OUTSIDE KHARTOUM,
THE SUDANESE CAPITAL, HE SAID.
"IT'S HIS FAVORITE LOCATION," THE OFFICIAL SAID. "HE HAS
SECURITY THERE. HIS MEN ARE THERE."
DURING THE 1980S, BIN LADEN _ BELIEVED TO BE WORTH SEVERAL
HUNDRED MILLION DOLLARS WAS A LEADER AND FINANCIAL SPONSOR OF
HUNDREDS OF YOUNG SAUDIS7 EGYPTIANS AND OTHER ARABS WHO FOUGHT
BESIDE LOCAL ISLAMIC GUERRILLAS AGAINST THE SOVIET ARMY IN
AFGHANISTAN. SOME OF THESE "ARAB AFGHANS" HAVE SINCE BEEN LINKED
TO INTERNATIONAL TERRORIST ATTACKS AGAINST WESTERN TARGETS AND
PRO-WESTERN ARAB GOVERNMENTS.
AFTER THE SOVIET DEFEAT IN AFGHANISTAN, BIN LADEN ESTABLISHED
BUSINESSES IN SUDAN, WHERE ISLAMIC FUNDAMENTALISTS HAVE GOVERNED
SINCE THE MID-1980S. SOME ARAB COMRADES FOLLOWED HIM TO SUDAN FROM
AFGHANISTAN TO WORK, HE SAID, IN HIS CONSTRUCTION FIRM AND OTHER
ENTERPRISES."
BUT THE STATE DEPARTMENT CONTENDS BIN LADEN ESTABLISHED THREE
"TERRORIST TRAINING CAMPS" IN NORTHERN SUDAN. IT SAYS ARAB AND
OTHER INVESTIGATIONS HAVE FOUND THAT BIN LADEN, IN THE 1990S, HAS
GIVEN FINANCIAL SUPPORT TO EGYPTIAN EXTREMISTS AND TO TERRORIST
BOMBERS IN YEMEN, AMONG OTHERS.
"I ASSUME IT'S PRETTY HARD TO CONTINUE HIS BUSINESS FROM
AFGHANISTAN THE TERRORISM BUSINESS AND, I GUESS, HIS OTHER
BUSINESSES AS WELL," THE U.S. OFFICIAL SAID. "AFGHANISTAN IS
PRETTY REMOTE."
IN MEDIA INTERVIEWS, BIN LADEN HAS DENIED ANY TIES TO TERRORISM,
AND NO CONCLUSIVE EVIDENCE LINKING HIM TO PARTICULAR ACTS HAS
EMERGED AS YET. BUT HIS RHETORIC IS CLEARLY INCENDIARY.
IN AUGUST, HE WAS QUOTED BY THE ARAB PRESS AS DECLARING THAT
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Labeled "one of the most significant financial
sponsors of Islamic extremist activities in the world" by
the U.S. State Department, Bin Ladin has been linked to
many major terrorist attacks and initiatives in recent
years—including the World Trade Center bombing, plots
to kill President Clinton and the pope, and attacks on
U.S. troops in Saudi Arabia and Somalia.
He also has used his millions to bankroll terrorist
training camps in the Sudan, the Philippines and
Afghanistan, sending holy warriors to foment revolution
and fight with fundamentalist Muslim forces across
North Africa, in Chechnya and Tajikistan, even Bosnia.
Born in 1958, Bin Ladin is the seventeenth of 52 sons
of Saudi Arabia's wealthiest construction magnate. Saudi
sources remember him as an ordinary young man whose
intense religiosity began to emerge when he grew
fascinated with the ancient, holy mosques of Mecca and
Medina that his family's company was involved in
rebuilding.
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Washington Post Staff Writers Sers in Mogadishu in 1993, and ^prosecutors' efforts to link al Qaida a high price in American lives and would
' carried out the embassy bombings i to the Alkifah Refugee Center, the j probably fail
v/Osama bin Laden/the radical in Nairobi and Dar es Salaam. now-defunct Brooklyn mosque '•• The Soviet Union lost a perfectly good
Islamic multimillionaire who hasi The new indictment superseded dominated by Rahman and his army in those same hiDs," Bearden said,
become the public face of anti- a sealed conspiracy indictment followers during the early 1990s. It ."Sending in [Americans] would make Moga-
American terrorism, was formally filed against bin Laden two months described Alkifah as an "office" of dishu took like a training accident I've been
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embassies in Kenva and Tanzania smpped w&iV°™ and explosives relationship and did not mention Afghan*, with the Pakistanis involved in
embassies m^Kenya and Tanzama^^ Sudan to ^ faAm.vaaar |the World Trade Center case. bS?out in the process-then we can go
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world. ^ • A K- TU m r*" iUCP t0 hint ^ b^ Lad f n had a Some analysts suggest that the Taliban,
^ ^ A • • x , L^b±TS,fSr roe m attacks against Amencan ^ch ^ts better relations with the United
A federal grand jury m New mdjctment, wluch was made pub- soldiers in Yemen and Saudi Ara- may ultimately be willing to hand bin
York returned a massive indict-l hc yesterday, alleged that al Qaida bia, but does not make the allega-
ment against bin Laden and his top "reached
" an understanding"" with tion directly. It simply points out '
military commander, Muhammed President Saddam Hussein's gov- that
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announced a $5 milKon reward for>cooperate w to develop hms to kfll Amencans in those A__J::™^_i-, , wJjlV«j» P-o-Ul.
countries It also alle e s a t h e Andean officials snare World Trade Center
information leading to their arrest! mast«™nd . ****'*' wefl as Mir
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beheved to be hiding m the rugged most hem^acts of violence ever ! cruited Americans to work for him, outede the agency's I^ey headquarter^
mountains^Afghanistan with the committed Xist American dip- ^ money and guns aroundlhe C Lavy, a skesman for the
approval of the Taliban, the Mus- lomatic postsT^aid Mary Jo world and established several front
lira miUtia that controls that coun- white, u.S. attorne>for the South- companies to procure explosives
try. ern District of Newark. "M, and weapons for al Qaida. '
Although the capture of bin Lad- those responsible for these^rutal Some terrorism experts believe
en does not seem imminent, terror- and cowardly acts will be brought that bin Laden's network is much to triaL Leavy cafled ^ "d1011116111 m
ism experts said the indictment on tojustice." ^Nopser than prosecutors have im- important step" in the process, but only a
murder and conspiracy charges However, the 238-count indict- pH&Iand that his link to terrorists skP- T6 ^ve a mu}ti-PronSed strategy to
was a precursor to any effort to ment also leaves many questions aroumHhe world is more financial deal w^ terrorists: judicial, diplomatic, fi-
extract bin Laden from Afghani- unanswered. Still unclear is wheth- than operational Officials empha- nancial and military, if necessary," he said.
stan, either as the result of a deal CT prosecutors have evidence that sized that tha investigation into
with the Taliban or a nskymflitary^in Laden directly ordered the t . T , . N,, . * «.
operation. JEast Africa bombings. The indict- 'bm ^^ 1S confinuing and that prosecu-
In the three months since theUenfs timeline mostly chronicles tors never reveal alHheir evidence in an
embassy bombings, the U.S. gov-|his pronouncements Ailing On indictment. "Our investigators have made
eminent has pursued bin Laden on iMuslims to kfll Americans and significant progress, but rhvch remains to
several tracks, using military details the alleged bombers' van- be done'" ^d Lewis D- ScMiro, the
strikes and secret diplomacy as ous links to al Qaida. It also notes assistant FBI director in charge okthe New ^^i
well as the most extensive over- that one of the alleged bombers York office.
seas law enforcement investigation asked bin Laden for a "mission" in Of the nine al Qaida members
in American history. Cruise missile 1996 and then appeared with bin in the United States, four are in custody
attacks on sites in Afghanistan and Laden and Atef at a news confer- New York, one is awaiting extradition
Sudan on Aug. 20 fafled to roust ence in Afghanistan last May. from Germany, one is awaiting extradition
bin Laden, and Taliban officials The indictment also does little from Britain, and three are fugitives.
have reportedly refused to expel to clarify bin Laden's broader role Few experts expect bin Laden to stand
him without seeing evidence of his i as an alleged sponsor of global trial in New York anytime soon. Since his
crimes. terrorism. At times, the indictment expulsion from Sudan in 1996, he has been
Prosecutors have now charged portrays al Qaida as a kind of moving around the same isolated terrain
five suspects with murder and con- institutional overseer for militant he occupied as a leader of so-called "Arab
spiracy in the embassy bombings, Islam, with well-known extremist Afghans" during Afghanistan's decade-
which killed 224 people and in- groups operating "under its um- long war against the Soviet army. Presi-
jured more than 5,500, and they brella." It names as unindicted dent Clinton personally authorized covert
have brought conspiracy charges co-conspirators several notorious actions against bin Laden after the embas-
against four other alleged mem- Muslim extremists—including the Sy bombings, but a military strike against
bers of bin Laden's far-flung orga- former head of the Islamic Group, him in Afghanistan could be a nightmare,
nization, al Qaida. Yesterday's in-'Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman, the the experts said.
dictment mostly repeats earlier spiritual leader of the group that Milton Bearden, a former CIA official
allegations that al Qaida forged;bombed the World Trade Center Wh0 ran the agency's covert operation to
alliances with Iran and Sudan,' and plotted to blow up a series of ass;st Afghan rebels against the Soviet
supported extremists in more than Bother New York City landmarks—army f rom 1935 to 1989, said yesterday
20 nations, tried to procure chemi- but does not spell out their links to
cal and nuclear weapons, trained,al Qaida.
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JAMAL)
SUBJECT: REQUEST FOR EVALUATION OF SECURITY INFORMATION

REF: (W 94 STATE 242^29, (B) 94 AMMAN 8556

1. VISAS VIPER
2. KKALIFAH, MUHAMMAD JAMAL, AKA JAMAL KHALIFAH, AKA
ASI BARA
NATIONALITY : SAUDI
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•3. SUBJECT WAS SENTENCED IN ABSENTIA ON 21 DECEMBER
1994 TO DEATH BY HANGING FOR HIS ROLE IN THE 01 FEBRUARY
1994 BOMBING OF THE SALWA CINEMA IN ZARQA, JORDAN;
SUBJECT IS DESCRIBED BY THE COURT AS A "FUGITIVE".
SUBJECT WAS INDICTED BY THE PUBLIC PROSECUTOR OF THE
STATE SECURITY COURT OF JORDAN AS A DEFENDANT IN THIS
CASE, CHARGED WITH BELONGING TO AN ILLEGAL SOCIETY,
PARTICIPATING IN A CONSPIRACY WITH THE INTENTION OF
COMMITTING TERRORIST ACTS, AND POSSESSING EXPLOSIVE
MATERIALS .
4. SUBJECT IS BELIEVED TO HAVE FINANCED THE TERRORIST
OPERATION THAT CONDUCTED THE CINEMA BOMBING. IN 1993,
SUBJECT LED THE IMAM AL-SHAFI CENTER IN THE PHILIPPINES,
Hfc MfeiT DEFENDANT ABDALLAH _AL-HA5HAYIKAH. IN EARLY
SUBJECT IS BELIEVED TO JCCV'E'MET DE"FBNDANiT'ZAKARlYA
QASIM IN YEMEN TO DISCUSS TH&.ORGANIZATION j SUBJECT IS
TTKELATIVE OF DEFENDANT USAMAfi^BIN-LADIN .

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SUBJECT: REQUEST FOR EVALUATION OF SECURITY INFORMATION

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BIN-LADIN

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INVOLVEMENT IN THE 01 FEBRUARY 1994 BOMBING OF THE SALWA
CINEMA IN ZARQA, JORDAN- SUBJECT WAS NOT, HOWEVER,
CHARGED BY THE STATE SECURITY COURT AS A DEFENDANT IN
THIS CASE. SUBJECT IS DESCRIBED AS A SAUDI OF YEMENI
ORIGIN LIVING IN SUDAN AND AS A RELATIVE OF MUHAMMAD
JAMAL KHALIFAH, WHO WAS SENTENCED IN ABSENTIA TO DEATH
BY HANGING FOR HIS INVOLVEMENT IN THE BOMBINGS.
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MUHAMMAD

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CLASS HITS: QASIM, ZAKARIYAH MUHAMMAD DAWUD
XXX/JORD/NONE 21306
00-DPT-MAY 1994

AL KASIM, MUHAMMAD
XXX/JORD/PHARMACIST IN KUWAIT
OQ-DPT-MAR 1987

QASIM, MUHAMMAD
XXX/XXX/VICTARS 138096
00-DPT-MAY 1994

3. SUBJECT WAS SENTENCED ON 21 DECEMBER 1994 TO DEATH

BY HANGING FOR HIS ROLE IN THE 01 FEBRUARY 1994 BOMBING
OF THE SALWA CINEMA IN ZARQA, JORDAN. SUBJECT WAS
INDICTED BY THE PUBLIC PROSECUTOR OF THE STATE SECURITY
COURT OF JORDAN AS A DEFENDANT IN THIS CASE, CHARGED
WITH BELONGING TO AN ILLEGAL SOCIETY, PARTICIPATING IN A
CONSPIRACY WITH THE INTENTION OF COMMITTING TERRORIST __
ACTS, AND POSSESSING EXPLOSIVE MATERIALS.

/ FROM 1990 TO 1992, SUBJECT AND DEFENDANTS ABDALLAH

Au-HASHAYIKAH, ISMAIL AL-AMAYIRAH, AND JIHAD AL-TANJIR
MET WHILE IN MILITARY SERVICE WITH THE PALESTINIAN
LIBERATION ORGANIZATION. IN EARLY 1994, SUBJECT IS
BELIEVED TO HAVE TRAVELED TO YEMEN TO MEET THE FINANCIER
OF THE TERRORIST GROUP, MUHAMMAD JAMAL KHALIFAH.

! 5. SOURCES: "AL-DUSTUR1 NEWSPAPER, AMMAN, JORDAN, 06

JULY 1994; "JORDAN TIMES' NEWSPAPER, AMMAN, JORDAN, 21
DECEMBER 1994
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ADS-00 DSCC-00 /008W
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FM AMEMBASSY AMMAN
TO SECSTATE WASHDC PRIORITY 8573
USINS WASHDC
FBI WASHDC//INTO/CTS//
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UNCLAS AMMAN 000573

APARTMENT FOR CA/VO/L/C AND INR/TNA

E.O. 12356: N/A

TAGS: CVIS, PTER, PINR, ASEC, XX (AL-HASHAYIKAH,
ABDALLAH)

SUBJECT: REQUEST FOR EVALUATION OF SECURITY INFORMATION

REF: 94 STATE 242729

1. VISAS VIPER

2. AL-HASHAYIKAH, ABDALLAH KAMIL ABDALLAH; AKA

AL-HASHAYIKAH, ABDULLAH KAMIL AL-SHURAYDAH

NATIONALITY: JORDANIAN
POSSIBLE DATE OF BIRTH: 1970
UNCLASSIFIED

Current Class: UNCLASSIFIED Page: 1323

UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF STATE
REVIEW AUTHORITY: FRANK E- SCHMELZER
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CLASS HITS: NONE

3 . SUBJECT WAS SENTENCED ON 21 DECEMBER 1994 TO DEATH

BY HANGING FOR HIS ROLE IN THE 01 FEBRUARY 1994 BOMBING
OP THE SALWA CINEMA IN 2ARQA, JORDAN. SUBJECT WAS
INDICTED BY THE PUBLIC PROSECUTOR OF THE STATE SECURITY
COURT OF JORDAN AS A DEFENDANT IN THIS CASE, CHARGED
WITH BELONGING TO AN ILLEGAL SOCIETY, PARTICIPATING IN A
CONSPIRACY WITH THE INTENTION OF COMMITTING TERRORIST
ACTS, AND POSSESSING EXPLOSIVE MATERIALS.
4. FROM 1990 TO 1992, SUBJECT AND DEFENDANTS .ISMAIL
AL-AMAYIRAH, ZAKARIYA QASIM, AND JIHAD AL-TANJIR MET
WHILE IN MILITARY SERVICE WITH THE PALESTINIAN
LIBERATION ORGANIZATION. SUBJECT IS BELIEVED TO HAVE
STARTED THE TERRORIST ORGANIZATION RESPONSIBLE FOR THE
CINEMA BOMBING. IN JULY 1993, SUBJECT WAS EMPLOYED BY
DEFENDANT ABD-AL-MAJID ABU-DAYYAH IN ABU-DAYYAH'S SHOP
IN SUWAYLIH, JORDAN (BOTH WERE MEMBERS OF THE MUSLIM
BROTHERHnnp ^r.^^r^^r^' 5 SUWAYLIH RP^T^) FROM
MID-1993 UNTIL LATE-1993, SUBJECT WORKED IN THE
•I.ILIPPINES, WHERE HE FREQUENTED THE IMAM AL-SHAFI
LED BY DEPENDENT MUHAMMAD JAMAL KHALIFAH.

5. SOURCES: "AL-DUSTUR" NEWSPAPER, AMMAN, JORDAN, 08

JULY 1994; "JORDAN TIMES" NEWSPAPER, AMMAN, JORDAN, 21
DECEMBER 1994
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SUBJECT: ARRXST IN U9 07 TERRORIST FINANCIER

HOBAWAD KBAM/AB HOW UNDER INDICTMENT IN JORDAN.

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DAYS BE WOULD BE CONSIDERED A FOOITIVE AND HIS
ASSETS NQDU) BE SEIZED BY TflE GOJ.
6 . EMBASSY AMMAN WOOID tIKS TO, CUX. ASTSHTION TO
TB£ FOLLOHIHG CABLES WHICH NAME KHALIFAS IN THE
INDICTMENTS I 94 AMiAN OBSS« AND 94 AMKAN 03107.
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ORIGIN AF-01
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DRAFTED BY: AF/E:JLPISHBEIN:JLF

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TAGS; ANGT
SUBJECT: OFFICIAL-INFORMAL

REP: STATE 334954

1. SECRET - ENTIRE TEXT.

2. REFTEL IS BEING REPEATED TO YOU.

3. FYI, OSAMA BIN LADEN'S BROTHER-IN-LAW, MUHAMMAD JAMAL

KHALIPAH, V/AS ARRESTED IN CALIFORNIA ON 12/16. REFTEL
SECRET

UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF STATE

REVIEW AUTHORITY: SHARON K. AHMAD
DATE/CASE ID: 28 FEB 2000 199604526
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REFERS TO KHALIFA AS A 'KNOWN FINANCIER OP TERRORIST
OPERATIONS" AND AN OFFICER OF AN ISLAMIC NGO IN THE
PHILIPPINES THAT IS A KNOWN HAMAS FRONT. HE IS UNDER
INDICTMENT IN JORDAN IN CONNECTION WITH A SERIES OF CINEMA
BOMBINGS EARLIER THIS YEAR. HE/ B3
J WAS
ARRBSTED IN CALIFORNIA BY THE INS FOR VIOLATING THE STATUS
j THE
U£G IS SEEKING TO DEPORT KHALIFAH, POSSIBLY TO JORDAN. BUT
THIS ISSUE IS COMPLICATED AND REMAINS TO BE WORKED OUT.
4. NO ACTION IS REQUIRED BY POST, BUT DEPARTMENT THOUGHT

YOU SHOULD BE AWARE OF THE ABOVE GIVEN KHALIFAH'S FAMILY

TIES TO BIN LADEN. REFTEL INDICATED THAT HE WAS
•REPORTEDLY- BIN LADEN'S BROTHER-IN-LAW, BUT SUBSEQUENT
REPORTING HAS CONFIRMED THE RELATIONSHIP.

5. MINIMIZE CONSIDERED. CHRISTOPHER

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E.O. 12356: DECL: OADR
TAGS: AMGT
SUBJECT: OFFICIAL-INFORMAL
REF: STATE 334954

1. SECRET - ENTIRE TEXT.

2. REPTEL IS BEING REPEATED TO YOU.

3. FYI, OSAMA BIN LADEN'S BROTHER-IN-LAW, MUHAMMAD JAMAL

KHALIFAH, WAS ARRESTED IN CALIFORNIA ON 12/16. REFTEL
SECRET

UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF STATE

REVIEW AUTHORITY: SHARON E. AHMAD
DATE/CASE ID: 28 FEB 2000 199(04526
SECRET
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REFERS TO KHALIFA AS A "KNOWN FINANCIER OF TERRORIST
OPERATIONS" AND AN OFFICER OF AN ISLAMIC NGO IN THE
PHILIPPINES THAT IS A KNOWN HAMAS FRONT. HE IS UNDER
INDICTMENT IN JORDAN IN CONNECTION WITH A SERIES OF CINEMA
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ARRESTED IN CALIFORNIA BY THE INS FOR VIOLATING THE STATUS
X I THE
USG IS SEEKING TO DEPORT KHALIPAH, POSSIBLY TO JORDAN. BUT
THIS ISSUE IS COMPLICATED AND REMAINS TO BE WORKED OUT.
4. NO ACTION IS REQUIRED BY POST, BUT DEPARTMENT THOUGHT
YOU SHOULD BE AWARE OP THE ABOVE GIVEN KHALIFAH'S FAMILY
TIBS TO BIN LADEN. REFTEL INDICATED THAT HE WAS
•REPORTEDLY" BIN LADEN'S BROTHER-IN-LAW, BUT SUBSEQUENT
REPORTING HAS CONFIRMED THE RELATIONSHIP.

5. MINIMIZE CONSIDERED. CHRISTOPHER

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B3,INA United Stales Department of State
Washington, D,C. 20520
December 16, 1994

'Dear Immigration Judge:

I am the Coordinator for Counterterrorism for the
United States Department of State, a post that I have held
since August 1994. One of the responsibilities of
the Office of the Coordinator for Counterterrorism is to
assist the Department of State and the other agencies of the
United States Government in assessing whether a foreign :
individual has engaged in "terrorist activity," for various
purposes including deportation under U.S. law. I make the
following statements based upon information available to me
in the performance of my official duties.
Muhammad Jamal Khalifah (aka Abdallah Khalifahm Abu.Sara,
Abdul Barashid and Abu Salah) is a Saudi Arabian national.
B3i
entered the united states in early December.
Muhammad Jamal Khalifan has been indicted by the
Government of Jordan for his role in a series of bombing
attacks earlier this year on cinemas and other related
targets. At least seven civilians were injured during these
acts of violence.
Subsequent investigation by the security authorities of
Jordan identified Khalifah as the financier of these bombings
in Jordan. The indictment against him includes the following
charges:
.• Participating in a conspiracy with th'e intention of
committing terrorist acts;
• . Possessing explosive materials (acetone peroxide -and
dynamite) without a legal .license,; and
• .Membership in an illegal society.
All of these offenses involve"multiple violations of the
Jordanian criminal code.

Executive Office for Immigration Review

Immigration and Naturalization Service,
Federal Building,
San franCisco, CA. UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF STATE
REVIEW AUTHORITY: SHARON E. AHMAD
DATE/CASE ID: 29 FEB 2000 199604526

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Furthermore, the United States Government has evidence

that Muhammad Jamal Khalifah, who has lived in the •
Philippines for a number of years, has provided financial
support to the Philippine terrorist group Abu Sayyaf. We
also have information that while in the Philippines he has
been involved in organizations closely linked to HAMAS, whose
militant elements have recently undertaken a number of
terrorist attacks in Israel and the Occupied Territories
which caused numerous civilian fatalities.
This information clearly demonstrates that
Muhammad Jamal Khalifah has a continuing involvement in
international terrorism. The Department of State believes
that he represents a, continuing threat to U.S. national
security, and urges that he be held without bond, pending the
outcome of deportation proceedings.
Sincerely

Philip C. Wilcox// Ji
Coordinator for Counterterrorism

UNCLASSIFIED
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Subject: State Department cables dated 1994-1995

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