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In response to message posted by JenL_2:

Jen, your link to the photo in that prior article refreshed my memory:

Abu Qatada --------------------------------------- disappeared in Britain as of January 29, 2002; was targeted in a new antiterrorism law in December 2001; bank accounts were frozen in Britain in October 2001; arrested for four days in Britain in February 2001; al Qaeda ties in London; Britain refused to extradite him to Jordan; sentenced to death and convicted in absentia in Jordan in 2000 with murder in Jordan for a series of explosions in 1998; was granted political asylum in Britain in 2000
Born in 1960, age 41, Palestinian-born or Jordanian-born militant cleric at Four Feathers Youth Club in London, a hulking man with a long black beard, Abu Quatadah, also uses the names Omar Mohammed Othman and Omar Abu Omar, dubbed "bin Laden's ambassador to Europe" by British intelligence sources.

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Here are some more notorious Palestinians from around the world:

3 Mohammed Salameh--------------------------- PRISONER in US, rented the van used in the 1993 WTC bombing; lived with Ramzi Yousef in the apartment where the bomb was built; left an early trail of phone calls to Iraq; early accomplice in June 1992 Nosair pipe bomb plot
1993 WTC bombing associate. Born in 1966, a Palestinian fundamentalist with relatives in Iraq.

4 A maternal uncle of Mohammed Salameh ---------------------------- at large in Iraq as of 1996, key Iraqi connection to the 1993 WTC plot, received 46 phone calls in June 1992 from original pipe bomb plotter Salameh; living in Baghdad in 1992; #2 man in "Western Sector", a PLO terrorist unit under Iraqi influence; served eighteen years in an Israeli prison before he was released and deported in 1986
1993 WTC bombing associate. The first Iraqi connection to the 1993 WTC plot. Palestinian PLO terrorist in Iraq, maternal uncle of 1993 WTC bombing conspirator Mohammed Salameh.

7 Nidal Ayyad------------------- PRISONER in US, Palestinian fundamentalist convicted in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing
1993 WTC bombing associate. Palestinian fundamentalist.

9 Eyyad Ismail --------------------------------- PRISONER in US, convicted November 12, 1997 as the van driver in the WTC bombing on February 26, 1993, along with Ramzi Yousef
1993 WTC bombing associate. aka Eyad Ismoil, Born in 1971, Palestinian from Jordan charged with having driven the van.

1 Abu Zubaydah --------------------------------- US PRISONER at Guatanamo; was wounded and captured at Faisalbad and Lahore raids March 28-29, 2002; at large, tracked in south Lebanon before January 29, 2002; reached Lebanon aboard an Iranian arms ship in January 2002; spent several days on the Iranian island of Kish near the Straits of Hormuz in early January 2002; was given safe passage through Iran before January 3, 2002; was possibly with bin Laden in Peshawar, Pakistan, December 17, 2001; disappeared from Tora Bora probably December 11, 2001; sentenced to death in absentia in Jordan in 2000 for a foiled Millenium bomb plot; oversaw 1998 US Embassy bombings
1998 US Embassy bombing associate. His full name is believed to be Zayn al-Abidin Muhammad Husayn Abu Zubaydah. Born in the late 1960's, a thirtysomething Saudi or Algerian, but also thought to be a Palestinian from the Gaza Strip, and a top al Qaeda deputy and senior planner, in the top 10 of al Qaeda, director of external affairs for al-Qaeda and operational coordinator, he oversaw Khalden terrorist training camp, he is suspected of being one of the key planners of the Sept. 11 attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, along with Mr. Zawahiri and Mr. Atef. Although he is believed to have been born in the Palestinian-controlled Gaza Strip, there are suggestions that he may be a native of Saudi Arabia or Algeria.

Mohammad Sabri Selamah --------------------- Philippine PRISONER at Camp Creme, Manila, arrested at Simuay Crossing, Mindanao November 23, 2001 for immigration violations; ex-roommate of Ramzi Yousef; al Qaeda recruiter; went to Philippines in 1992
Palestinian. In the Philippines there are increasing signs of a very real terrorist threat and much fresher links to Osama bin Laden's organization.

Ahmed Abed Uthman Masrie --------------------- Philippine PRISONER at Camp Creme, Manila, arrested in Manila November 23, 2001 for immigration violations
Born in Lebanon in 1969, a 32-year-old Palestinian.

Fawaz Damra
Cleveland Islamic leader, helped found and lead a New York-based militant group of Palestinian factions at the al-Farooq mosque later tied to al Qaeda. In early November 2001, a decade-old videotape was broadcast on Cleveland's WJW Channel 8 showing Damra raising money for a radical Palestinian group that has since been named a terrorist organization by federal authorities.

Jassar Samaro
trained by Hezbollah, architect of bombs with toxins. The London Times reported on January 2, 2002 that it is the conviction of Israeli intelligence that Palestinian bomb-makers have begun mixing toxic substances in the explosives used in their suicide attacks. The suicide bomber who blew himself up last month near the Jerusalem David Citadel hotel where two cabinet ministers were holding meetings carried a bomb laced with lethal pesticides. The architects of this new generation of bombs are believed to be Jassar Samaro and Naseen Abu Rus, who were trained by the Lebanese terror group, the Hezbollah, and work out of a secret laboratory at the al Najah University of Nablus. The same two Palestinian bomb manufacturers are also thought to have made the shoe bomb used by Richard Reid to try and blow up an American Airlines plane bound from Paris to Miami just before Christmas.

Raed Hijazi ------------------------ Jordan PRISONER sentenced to death February 11, 2002; retried in Jordan May 2001, after extradited from Syria; arrested in Syria after September 2000; sentenced to death in asbentia September 2000; conspired in 2000 millenial attacks in Jordan
Born in 1969, of Palestinian origin, Jordanian-American. Hijazi was sentenced to death in absentia in a Sept 2000 trial of 28 suspects accused of planning bomb attacks on Christian, Jewish and US tourist targets in Jordan. Hijazi was among six people sentenced to death in the Sept 2000 trial, six others were acquitted of any wrongdoing while the rest were given jail sentences ranging from life to seven-and-a-half years. Subsequently arrested in Syria and extradited to Jordan, Hijazi was retried on the same charges according to Jordanian law.

-- posted by Steven_Russell