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SUBJ: IIR SWIFT KNIGHT USAM BEN LADEN'S CURRENT-

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TERRORrST ACTIVITI!S OF SHETKH USAM BEN MUHJ'IMMAD BEN AVA§ BEN LADEN.

TE:X'l': (U) 1. THE FOLLOWING IS INFORMATION ABOUT l'E:RROIHST ocrrvrTIES

OF SH£I.KH USAM BEN MOllllMMAD BEN AVP.D l(SEN LADEN)), DE:RIV£0 FROM i\ HANDWRITTEN DOCUMENT DETAILING BEN LAD N'S HISTORICALLYACTIVITIES,ANO CORRENTL'!. THE DOCUMENT WAS WRITTEN (b)(2) APPROXIMATELY DURING THE FIRST TWO WEEKS OF OCTOBER 1998; DOI IS UNCERTAIN, BUT BELIEVED TO BE CURRENT AS OF 1990. THE INFORMATION IS APPROXIMATELY THE SAME SEQUENCE AS THE DOCUMENT.PRESENTED IN SP£LLINGS ANO REFERENCES B LOW ARE TAKEN VERBATIM FROM THE DOCUMENT, AND MAY DIFFER FROM SPELLINGS COMMONL ECOGNIZED. FOR

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EXAM?LE, THE DOCUMENT RF.:FE.RS TO "USA.'! 2EN LA DEN" VICE "USl\M. BIN

2. USAM BEN LADEN WAS BORN IN D.JIODA IN 1!157, IN 1994, HE'.

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WAS BARRED FROM SAUDI CITI ZENS H IP FOR "AN'l"I-STATE ACTIVITY... m;: HAS RELATIVES IN SAUDI ARABIA ANO YEMEN. HE OWNS TRADING HOLDINGS IN ARAB COUNTRIES (UNSPECIFED), GERMANY, AND ENGLAND, A.. D HAS A FORTUNE WORTH 150 MILLION 0.3. DCLLA S IOSD); 35 ILLION IS INVESTED IN SUPAN. 3. BE ! LADEN TOOK AN ACTIVE PART IN THE AFGHAN WAR AGAINST THE SOVIETS. HE LIVED IN ISLAMABAD, PAKISTAN, ANO FROM THERE SUrPLIEO MODZAKHEOS (THE SINGULAR FORM OF MUDJAHEDDINl, AS wgLL AS RECRUI?ED AND S LECTEO A.RAB MlLlTANTS. WITHIN SOVI£T ANO RUSSIAN INTELLIGENCE ORGANIZATIONS, THESS RECRUITS WERE CALLED "AFGHAN ARABS" (ALSO REFERRED TO IN THI!: OOCUMEN'l' AS "ARAB AFGHANS").

UP l1NTl L MAY 1996, BEN LADEN STAYED IN KHARTOUM, WHERE 700 AFGHAN ARABS W&RE CONCENTRATED. FROM THIS GROUP, HE CREATED THE NUCLEUS OF THE 7ERRO!UST FUNDAMENTALIST POLITICAL ORGANIZATION "AL-f<AIOA". Ar'.ONG

THE MB.."4BERS lfJ>.$ HIS P£RSONAL FRIEND, AMIR ((KHATTAB)), A JORDANIAN CHECHEN WHOSE RZPOTATION WAS DISTINGUISHED EVEN IN THB!R OWN CIRCLE FOR UNMOTIVATEO BRUTALITY. IN 1995, KHATTAB A??EARED IN CHECHNYA TO CARRY OUT A SPECIAL MISSION ASSIGNED TC HIM BY USAM B N LADSN TO ORGANIZE TRAINING CAMPS FOR INTERNATIONAL TERRORISTS. HE MARRIED NADIR KllACHILAEV'S SISTER (A DAGESTANIAN lil'OMAN FROM THE "LAK TUK.HUM", AN l::lnt:NDED CLANJ. HE WAS COMMANDER, ANO WAS WOUNDED IN THE 1'RAHHNG CAMPS IN THE: VEDENO AND

MOUNTAIN ON£. GRADUATION IS HELO AT MONTES_ THEY ARE VERY WELL EQUIPPED, AND CAPABILITY TO CREATE: MODELS OF

CLASSES F'OR S P?£RS ANO SNIPERS. BEN LADEN AND KHATTAB ARE

WlTH THE FOLLOWING LEADERS OF CONSIDERED "FOUNDERS ANO PRINCIPAL

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SLAMIC TERRORISM•--- M. AL- ( (MASARY) I - TARK AL-((FAOLY)), A FORMSR FIELD - KHASAN AT-({TURABY)), SUDAN - RASHID AL-((GANNUSH¥Jl, TUNISIA - ABDALLA C!AZAH)), PALESTIN& - OMAR ADAL (CIVl.KHMAN)), EGYPT - LEADERS O THE SOUTHERN PUSHTUN - KARY {('KADYR>l, LEADZR OF THE OZILA.LABAD :'>. THE GOALS OF THE GROUP WE:RE, FAKHD rN SAUDI ARAB.::A, 'AND ro BUILD ANO A'l' MAXI UM, TO Z:STABLISH A WORLDWIDE DIREc:T Y CHALLENGING THE U.S., CHINA,

JODEO-CHRISTIAN AND CONFUCIAN DOMINATION. T:IE MEANS BY WHICH THE

VIA TE OR, ETHNIC CLEANSING, "LATENT CONTROL OVElt NUCLEAR AND BIOLOGICAL ,WEAPONS RADICAL IS!.J\MIC {PREDOMINANTL SUNNI)

AND S0PPORTED EVERYWff£RE POSSIBLE,

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A COLONEL, E'OUGHT AS I\ FIELD

HAND. Kf!ATTAB ORGANIZED T RS NOJAI-URT AREAS OF THE FORESTED

THE TH EE CAMPS EVERY TWO WITH rIRING RANGE FACILITIES

"SITES OF DIVBRS.!ON", AS WELL AS

STATED AS HAVING CONN'&CTIONS INTERNATIONAL I SLAMIC TERRORISTS, ALL

IDEOLOGISTS OF INTERNATIONAL

COMMANDER IN AFGHANISTAN, YEMEN

TRIBES COUNCIL OF MOOZAKHEDS IN

AT H'.INIMUH, TD OVERTHROW A " JUST ISLAMIC STAZE" THERE,

ISLAMIC STATE: CAPABU. or RUSSIA, AND WSAT IT VIEWS AS

ABOVE GOALS ARE TO BE MET ARE. PENETRATI ON " {NFl), AND

( JIKHAD) • FURTHER, REGIMES ARE TO BE ESTABLISHED

INCLUOT.NG BOSNIA, ALBANIA,

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CHECHNYA, DAG&STAN, THE ENTIRE NORTHERN CAUCASUS "FROM SEP. TO SEA",

CENTRAL ASIAN REPUBLICS, TATARSTAN, BASHKORTOSTAN, ALL OF RUSSJA, Af'GHANISTAN, PAKISTAN, TURKEY, INDONESIA, MALAYStA, ALGERIA, MOXOCC.O, EGYPT, T UNIS IA, SUDAN, AND THE STATES OF THE PERSIAN GULF. TERRORIST ACTIVITIES ARE TO BE CONDUCTED AGAINST AMERICANS AND WESTERNERS, ISRAELIS, RUSSIANS iPREOOMINANTLY COSSSACKS), SER3S, CHINESE, ARMENIAN S , AND DISLOl'l\L MUSLIMS. COORDINATION AND

FINANCIAL SUPPORT /\RE TO BE GIVEN TO THE FOLLO\"IING GROUPS--- AI. JAMA' AT - Z:GYPT - AL ISLAMY' i!:Gi'.'PT- ·

- AL JIKHAD - EGYPT - JlKHAD AL-ISLAMY - KHA..'11\S - PALESTINE

PALF.STINE

- ALGERIA SAUDI ARABIA

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- ARMgD ISLAM GROUP

-DISSIDENTS IN NATlONAL FRONT OF SUDAN ARAB TERl'ORIST GE:.OCPS MlD TAAlNlNG CA.MPS IN AFGHANISTAN

- TALIBAN MOVEMENT Al'D ITS CAMPS, AL BAOR AND AL BADRZ !N THE KliOST AREA - KLA AND BOSNIAN ISLAMIC GROUPS AND CONSPIRATORIAL ELEMENTS - ISLAMIC WAY ANO WAKHABITES lN CHECHNYA, DAGESTAN, KABARDA,

KARACHAt, BALKIU\I1'., AND CRIMEA. - CELLS ARE TO BE CRt:ATED IN AZERBAIJAN, TATARSTAN, BASHKOR OSTAN, CENTRAL ASIAN RF.PUBLICS, ANO AMONG MOSCOW AND ST. PETERSBURG

MUSLIM-Cf.ECHSNS. - TRAINING CAMPS ARE TO BE STABLISHED IN CHECHNYA, INGUSHETIA, BALK.A.RIA, KARACfiAI , AOYGEYA, TAJIKISTAN. - J .A'AT-UO-DARA-VA-SUNNA ANO ITS TRAINING CAMPS FOR THE MILITANTS OF' At-DZIKHAD INTERNATIONAL M<D "MUSLIM BROTHERS". THE PURPOSE OF ALL TRAINING CA.MPS lS TO PREPARE nMINERS" (THE DOCOMEKT MOST LIKELY INTENDS THE MEANING AS SAPPERS) , SPIES, COMMONICATORS, IDEOLOGISTS, AND i?ROPAGANOISTS, ALL SPECIALISTS IN

SPREAOING FALSE RUMORS, DEFAMATION, AND PANIC TO BECOME PART OF THE TADJI K OPPOSITION-7 _ THE DOCUMENT STATES THAT SPECIFIC ATTENTION SHOULD BE

NORTHERN CAUCASUS, AND ESPECIALLY caECHNYA SINCE T .EY ARg AS AREAS UNREACHABLE BY STRIKES FROM THE WEST. THE

ro CREATE A NEWLY DEVELOPED BASE FOR TRAINING TERRO ISTS. AMIR AND NINE OTHER MILITANTS OF OSAM BEN LADEN WERE SENT

PASSPORTS OF ARAS COuNTRIES {NFI). THEY WORK AS INSTRUCTORS IN KHATTAB'S THREE SCHOOLS; THEY ALSO WORK AS

I THS ARMY OF CHECHNYA. TWO MORE SCHOOLS ARE BEING

I INGUSHETIA ANO DAGESTAN.

8. SEVERAL '.!'!MES IN 1997 lN AFGHANIS'l'AN, BEN LJ\DEN MET

WITH REPRESENTATIVES OE' MOVLADY UOAGOV'S PARTY, "IST.AMIC WAY", AND REPRESENTATIVES OF CHECHEN AND DAGESTAN WAKHABITES FROM GODERNICS, GROZNY AND KARAMAKHY. THEY SETTLED THE QUESTION OF COOPERATION--AG EEING TO EXCHANGE "FINANCIAL SUPPLIES" TO CHEC»eN MILITANTS. HEY STRESSED TH& NECESSITY OF TRAINI G TERRORISTS DRAWN FROM AMONG ''CONVERTED" &UROPE'ANS, RUSSIANS, Ol<AAINIANS, COSSACKS, AND OSSETIANS IN KHATTAB'S TRAINING CAMPS TO CONOtJCT KIDNAPPINGS AND FRENCH, ISRAELI, U.S., AND ENGL SH CITIZENS. THE DOCUMENT NOTES THAT THE KIDNAPPING Or' V!NCE:NT COCHETEL, A UNHCR OFFICIAL IN VLADIKARKAZ (b)(2) EARlISa THIS YEAR WAS PERFORMED BY THESE GRADUATES OF KHATTAB'S

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SCHOOL IN VETENO.) THESE MILITANTS WILL BE OSED !N THE 7NTER£ST OF THE ''ARMED ISLAMIC GROUP" AND "MtlSLIM BROTHERS", JU D FOR SPREADING

TERROR IN THE CENTRAL ASIAN REeUBLICS, CRIMEA, ANO RUSSIA.

"VOLUNTEERS" FROM WHA'l' THE DOC!JMENl' ,REFERRED TO AS BEN LADEN'S

"CHARITY SOCIETIES" !ROM PAKISTAN AND AFGHANISTAN HAVE GONE TO CHECHNYA AND TO THE NORTHERN CAUCASUS FOR TH& NEW ROUND OF JIKHAD

AGAINST COSSACKS AND RUSSIA. fINANCIA CRISIS IS TO BE USED ?OR CREATING DISORDER, AND NEW STRIKBS AND KIDN PPING CONDocrgo FOR THE PURPOSE OF PROVOK!NG A UNIFIED UPRISING AGAINST ROSSIA, AND CREATING AN ISLAMIC S TATE OF NOaTHERN C QCASUS. 9. A DIRECT ROUTE HAS BEEN ESTABLISHED TO CHECHNYA FROM PAKIS7AN AND AFGHANISTAN THROUGH TURKEY AND AZERBAIJAN. ABU

( (SAYAF)) (ALSO NOTED JN Q:.JOTES IN THE DOCUMENT AS "SAFA'f") COORD!NATES THIS TRAFFIC OF "VOLUNTE:=:RS", AS WELL AS DRUG

TRAFFICKING, WORKlNG AS A REPRESENTATIVE OF BEN LADEN IN THE CHECHEN FOREIGN MrNISTRY U DER THE PROT CTION OF MOVLADY UDUGOV.

10, TEIU:K COSSACK INTELLIGENCE REPORTS 'rHAT IN JUNE 1990, ':HE FIRST PARTY Of 25 "AFGHAN ARABS" APPEARED IN THE TRAINING CAMPS OF VEDENO AND NOJAI-URT. ALONG WITH TRADITIONAL PREPARATION, TREY ARE LEARNING THE RUSSIAN LANGUAGF., WITH THE INTENT OF EV&NTOALL SE tLING IN RUSSIA, SUPPOSEDLY IN TATARSTAN. AFTER AN ADAPTATION PERIOD, T EY WOULD GO TO TnE CSNTl\AL ASIA REPUBLICS nFOR

DIVERSION" AND TO CREATE ffA HABITES AND TALIBAN CELLS, SPR DING

TERROR AGAINST U.S., RUSSIAN, AND OTHER WESTERN OFFICIALS AND

AMONG THE INSTRUCTORS l\RE MILITANTS ROM AFGHANISTAN, PAKISTAN, SAUDI ARABIA, TURKEr, IRAN, AND AZERBAIJAN. THE NEW PROGRA. INCLUDES Toercs IN--- "DIVERSIONS" WITH THE HELP OF MEANS OF MASS DESTRUCTION,

IMCLUDING FOISONOUS, BACTERIOLOGICAL, AND INCENDIARY MIXTURES - PREP MATION OF FALSE DOCUMENTS

- BEHAVIOR DORING INTERROGATION

- PARKING BOMB VEKICLES ON BRIDGES AND BY BUILDINGS

ALL INSTRUCTORS AND AGENTS USE NICKN.AM&S ANO PSEDONYMS; REAL NAM S O AGENT ARE KNOWN ONLt TO AMIR KHATTAB AND ABU SAYAF.

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