Abdullah Bin Khalid Al-Thani
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Sheikh Abdullah Bin Khalid Al-Thani is the Minister of the Interior of Qatar. He is a member of the House of Al-Thani, the Qatari royal family, and is thus related to the emir, Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al-Thani, and the prime minister, Hamad ibn Jaber Al Thani.
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[edit] Controversy
Al-Thani was Qatar’s Minister of Religious Affairs in 1996. During that time he sheltered Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, and helped him to evade capture by the U.S. FBI in 1996 when the FBI closed in on him in connection with the 1993 World Trade Center bombing and the Bojinka Plot. Khalid Sheikh Mohammed later became more closely associated with the al-Qaeda organization and went on to mastermind the September 11, 2001 attacks. [1][2][3][4][5]
News media have reported that a subsidiary of Giuliani Partners has worked for either Qatar's interior ministry or for the Qatar government-owned company it oversees, Qatar Petroleum. [6][7][8]
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- ^ "Context of 'January-May 1996: US Fails to Capture KSM Living Openly in Qatar'" "Cooperative Research History Commons" http://www.cooperativeresearch.org/context.jsp?item=a96qatar
- ^ Wayne Barrett, November 27, 2007 http://www.villagevoice.com/news/0748,barrett,78478,6.html
- ^ http://www.propeller.com/viewstory/2007/11/29/olbermann-giulianis-direct-connections-to-terrorists/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fca.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3D8wCTXcsB7zU&frame=true
- ^ MotherJones Blog: Village Voice: Giuliani Did Business With Terrorism Supporter
- ^ Marcus Baram, ABC News November 29, 2007 "Giuliani's Ties to Qatar Raise Questions for Mr. 9/ll" http://blogs.abcnews.com/theblotter/2007/11/giulianis-ties.html
- ^ Wayne Barrett, November 27, 2007 http://www.villagevoice.com/news/0748,barrett,78478,6.html
- ^ http://www.propeller.com/viewstory/2007/11/29/olbermann-giulianis-direct-connections-to-terrorists/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fca.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3D8wCTXcsB7zU&frame=true
- ^ MotherJones Blog: Village Voice: Giuliani Did Business With Terrorism Supporter
[edit] External links
- English version of official biography page at Ministry's website
- Keith Olberman MSNBC story on Khalid Al-Thani's reputed links to Khalid Sheikh Muhammad
- Composite of news reports back to 1990s, at cooperativereasearch.org
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