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April 29, 2011       Share:    

Source: http://www.haaretz.com/weekend/week-s-end/wikileaks-the-israel-file-bin-laden-s-helpers-1.358779

WikiLeaks: Bin Laden's Palestinian Helpers

(Ha'aretz) Yossi Melman - WikiLeaks is publishing classified files of Guantanamo detainees: Muslims, many of them Arabs, who were suspected Al-Qaeda members. Mohammed Tahamatan, born in the West Bank village of Burka in 1979, became an Al-Qaeda explosives expert. Maher Rafat Al-Quwari, born in Gaza in 1965, was responsible for logistics in one of the caves in the Tora Bora Mountains, where bin Laden fought a rearguard battle in the Afghanistan war. Abu Zubaydah was born in 1971 in Riyadh to a family of Palestinian descent. "Detainee is a senior member of Al-Qaeda with direct ties to multiple high-ranking terrorists such as Osama bin Laden. Detainee has a vast amount of information regarding Al-Qaeda personnel and operations and is an admitted operational planner, financier and facilitator of international terrorists and their activities," his personal file states.

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