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• ▲ supports During the 1998 African embassy attacks, Kenyan authorities reported that an individual using the alias Abdulrahman A.A. Al‑Ghamdi, which the CIA had…

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• There was an existing link between Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and the al‑Ghamdi alias.

  There was also an existing link between KSM and the al-Ghamdi alias.

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• CIA had multiple clues linking 9/11 mastermind to terror plot before attack but failed to act: Report | World News cited evidence

Who and what it involves

• ◈Khalid Sheikh Mohammed

Origin: extracted from CIA had multiple clues linking 9/11 mastermind to terror plot before attack but failed to act: Report | World News · 2026-08-31 06:13