Return-Path: <sentto-279987-4294-1010944894-fc=all.net@returns.groups.yahoo.com> Delivered-To: fc@all.net Received: from 204.181.12.215 [204.181.12.215] by localhost with POP3 (fetchmail-5.7.4) for fc@localhost (single-drop); Sun, 13 Jan 2002 10:05:09 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 13209 invoked by uid 510); 13 Jan 2002 18:01:54 -0000 Received: from n16.groups.yahoo.com (216.115.96.66) by all.net with SMTP; 13 Jan 2002 18:01:54 -0000 X-eGroups-Return: sentto-279987-4294-1010944894-fc=all.net@returns.groups.yahoo.com Received: from [216.115.97.164] by n16.groups.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 13 Jan 2002 18:00:48 -0000 X-Sender: fc@red.all.net X-Apparently-To: iwar@onelist.com Received: (EGP: mail-8_0_1_3); 13 Jan 2002 18:01:34 -0000 Received: (qmail 72130 invoked from network); 13 Jan 2002 18:01:34 -0000 Received: from unknown (216.115.97.167) by m10.grp.snv.yahoo.com with QMQP; 13 Jan 2002 18:01:34 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO red.all.net) (12.232.72.98) by mta1.grp.snv.yahoo.com with SMTP; 13 Jan 2002 18:01:36 -0000 Received: (from fc@localhost) by red.all.net (8.11.2/8.11.2) id g0DI2Yu22302 for iwar@onelist.com; Sun, 13 Jan 2002 10:02:34 -0800 Message-Id: <200201131802.g0DI2Yu22302@red.all.net> To: iwar@onelist.com (Information Warfare Mailing List) Organization: I'm not allowed to say X-Mailer: don't even ask X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL3] From: Fred Cohen <fc@all.net> X-Yahoo-Profile: fcallnet Mailing-List: list iwar@yahoogroups.com; contact iwar-owner@yahoogroups.com Delivered-To: mailing list iwar@yahoogroups.com Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:iwar-unsubscribe@yahoogroups.com> Date: Sun, 13 Jan 2002 10:02:33 -0800 (PST) Subject: [iwar] [fc:Bin.Laden.Names.His.Successor] Reply-To: iwar@yahoogroups.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit <a href="http://www.albawaba.com/news/printArticle.php3?sid=197190&lang=e">http://www.albawaba.com/news/printArticle.php3?sid=197190&lang=e> 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. 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