Had Qataris handed the mastermind of 9/11, Khalid Sheikh Mohammad over to the US gov as requested in 1996, would the world be a different place?
“The Qataris had a history of terrorist sympathies & one cabinet member in particular, a member of the royal family, seemed to have ties to groups like al-Qaeda and appeared to have sponsored KSM,” wrote Clarke about the US gov. reservations in asking Doha to hand him over.
Although not mentioned by name by Clarke, the member of the Qatari royal family in question was former Qatari Minister of Religious Affairs and Interior Minister Abdullah bin Khalid al-Thani, ABC News reported. He is the uncle of Qatari Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al- Thani.
With their options limited, US officials contacted the Qatari leadership directly regarding the matter. Clarke said that “within hours of the US ambassador’s meeting with the emir, KSM had gone to ground. In tiny Doha, no one was able to find him.
Later, the Qataris told us that they believe he had left the country. They never told us how.”
KSM allegedly was the mastermind behind the 9/11 attacks in 2001, the Bali bombings in 2002 and the killing of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl.
KSM allegedly was the mastermind behind the 9/11 attacks in 2001, the Bali bombings in 2002 and the killing of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl.
He was captured in a raid in Pakistan in 2003 and has been a prisoner at Guantanamo Bay since 2006.
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