Tawfiq bin Attash

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Tawfiq bin Attash (Arabic: توفيق بن عطّاش‎), also referred to as 'Khallad' (Arabic: خلاد‎), was an Al Qaeda member first suspected of being a member of the network in August 1998, when investigators learned he had assigned Mohamed Rashed Daoud Al-Owhali to bomb the U.S. Embassy in Nairobi, Kenya.

In January 2000,Tawfiq bin Attash attended the 2000 Al Qaeda Summit, wherein he met with two of the September 11, 2001 hijackers. Bin Attash claimed to be in Malaysia to take delivery of a prosthesis (his leg had been amputated below the knee following an injury in the Afghan-Soviet War).

In October 2000 bin Attash was identified as the mastermind behind the USS Cole bombing which took place in Aden, Yemen. bin Attash confessed to organising the attack during a military hearing at Guantanamo Bay, the Pentagon announced on March 19, 2007.

Bin Attash was captured by U.S. forces in May 2003 in Karachi, Pakistan^[1].

[edit] Referances

1. ^ Meyer, Josh. Detainee confesses in Cole bombing. Las Angeles Times. Retrieved on April 8, 2007.

Reported September 11th Hijackers

Flight 11: Mohamed Atta, Satam al-Suqami, Waleed al-Shehri, Wail al-Shehri, Abdulaziz al-Omari Flight 175: Marwan al-Shehhi, Fayez Banihammad, Mohand al-Shehri, Hamza al-Ghamdi, Ahmed al-Ghamdi Flight 77: Hani Hanjour, Khalid al-Mihdhar, Majed Moqed, Nawaf al-Hazmi, Salem al-Hazmi Flight 93: Ziad Jarrah, Ahmed al-Nami, Saeed al-Ghamdi, Ahmed al-Haznawi Suspected 20th Hijackers: Ramzi Binalshibh, Mohamed al-Kahtani, Zacarias Moussaoui, Mushabib al-Hamlan, Zakariya Essabar, Ali Abdul Aziz Ali, Tawfiq bin Attash , Khalid al Zahrani Wrongly Accused: Lotfi Raissi, Amer Kamfar, Ameer Bukhari, Adnan Bukhari, Abdul al-Omari