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www.albawaba.com
January 13, 2002

 Report: Bin Laden Names His Successor; Interpol: Bin Laden - Hit Man of German 
Secret Service Couple

 Osama Bin Laden has found himself a successor, in case he is captured or killed 
in the US war in Afghanistan.

 Documents found in Afghanistan reveal the name of the man that is to succeed Osama 
Bin Laden, in case of his capture or death. The successor, who was apparently hand-picked 
by Bin Laden himself, is Zain Al-Abidin Abu Zubeida, a Palestinian in his thirties.

 The New York Post reports that Abu Zubeida is a resident of Gaza and is considered 
to be the “One-Eyed Field General”. He apparently lost his eye when fighting against 
the Russian Army during the Russian-Afghanistan war.

 According to former Head of the War against terror department in the CIA, Zubeida 
knows exactly where Al Qaeda’s money is, and therefore he is the right man who can 
re-activate all Al-Qaeda cells worldwide, after the current leader, Osama Bin Laden 
is caught or killed.

 Abu Zubeida

 U.S. Authorities have been pursuing the theory that Abu Zubeida, whose real name 
is Zain Al Abidin Mohammed Hussein, is the "operational link" connecting Bin Laden 
and others who conceived the Sept. 11 attacks with the hijackers who carried them 
out, indicated a recent report by the LA Times.

 Unlike Bin Laden and his Egypt-born deputy Ayman Zawahiri, whose movements are 
limited by their high profiles, Abu Zubeida may have slipped out of Afghanistan and 
into Pakistan or almost anywhere else to activate new plots and try to reorganize 
Al Qaeda cells, U.S. authorities fear.

 Abu Zubeida's role makes him a higher priority than even Zawahiri, who experts 
say is more of a theoretician. Since the reported death in November of Mohammed Atef, 
Abu Zubeida is believed to have taken on the added role of Al Qaeda's chief military 
strategist, according to U.S. officials and counterterrorism experts.

 According to the LA Times article, Abu Zubeida has profound personal ties to many 
of Al Qaeda cell chiefs and fighters in far-flung locations, whom he cultivated as 
the group's longtime liaison to terrorists worldwide and as supervisor of training 
camps in Afghanistan. Those Al Qaeda supporters, officials said, could provide Abu 
Zubeida with harbor, financial and logistical backing and manpower needed to keep 
Al Qaeda operating, even if Bin Laden is killed or caught.

 "Zubeida is the director of external affairs for Al Qaeda," said one Bush administration 
official who confirmed the intensive manhunt for Abu Zubeida. "As part of that, he 
ran the camp infrastructure, he brought [terrorists] in, trained them and got them 
back to their country of origin or the country Al Qaeda wanted to place them in.

 "He is a very important cog in the machinery and certainly . . . after Bin Laden 
is gone, would be someone who would take over," said the official, who spoke on condition 
of anonymity. "He is someone we are extremely interested in."

 Abu Zubeida has used at least 37 aliases and accompanying fake passports and identification 
documents from Turkey, Egypt, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Sudan and perhaps Morocco, according 
to a confidential U.S. investigative document obtained by The British Times.

 Surprisingly, Abu Zubeida was not listed by U.S. President Bush in October 2001 
as one of the 22 most-wanted terrorists. Some authorities attributed that omission 
to Abu Zubeida's ability to fly below the radar. And now, as coalition forces seek 
Bin Laden and Zawahiri, that low profile may ultimately work to Abu Zubeida's advantage.

 Murder of German Expert During 1994

 Meanwhile, in a separate matter, Osama bin Laden was reportedly a hit man involved 
in the murder of a husband-and-wife team investigating the Lockerbie air disaster, 
according to the New York Post. He and three others were reported to be behind the 
slayings.

 An Interpol arrest warrant says that the Saudi millionaire, along with the other 
three, gunned down German terrorism expert Silvan Becker and his wife, Vera, in 1994, 
according to London's News of the World.

 Silvan and Vera Becker, who both worked for the German secret service, headed 
the investigation of the air tragedy that killed 270 people aboard Pan Am Flight 
103 over the Scottish town of Lockerbie.

 Just three weeks before their death, Silvan Becker had helped organize a raid 
on a group of Palestinians in Frankfurt, Germany, which were preparing to carry out 
future hijackings.

 The couple flew to Cairo in 1994 to collect documents from Egyptian investigators, 
but stopped off in Libya for a brief vacation. According to Interpol documents, the 
couple was murdered in Tripoli on March 10, 1994, because they were getting “too 
close” to blowing the lid off who had placed the bomb on the Pan Am jet. (Albawaba.com)

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