1990 --: (AZ A HOTBED OF ISLAMOFASCISM --- see AL QAEDA, MURAK AL DURI, WMD, WADIH EL HAGE, 1998 US AFRICA EMBASSY BOMBINGS) By 1990, Arizona became one of the main centers in the US for radical Muslims, and it remains so through 9/11. For instance, a terrorism expert will later call the principal mosque in Tuscon, Arizona, the focal point of “basically, the first cell of al Qaeda in the United States; that is where it all started.” A number of future al-Qaeda leaders live in Arizona in the early 1990s, including Mubarak al Duri, al-Qaeda’s chief agent attempting to purchase weapons of mass destruction, and Wadih El-Hage, bin Laden’s personal secretary who will later be convicted for a role in the 1998 US embassy bombings (see August 7, 1998). The founder of the mosque, Wael Hamza Jelaidan, is later considered one of the founders of al-Qaeda and its logistics chief. ------- "Profile: Mubarak al Duri," source unknown
1990s early to 1995? : (BIN LADEN HIRES MOHAMED MAHJOUB TO RUN HIS IRRIGATION PROJECT IN SUDAN UNDER THE SUPERVISION OF IRAQI MUBARAK AL DURI - See TORONTO CELL, TUCSON CELL, SUDAN CELL) In the early 1990s, bin Laden hired Mr. Mahjoub to run Al Thimar Al-Mubaraka, a 400,000-hectare irrigation project that the United States contends was used to finance al-Qaeda. Mr. Mahjoub's immediate supervisor at the time was Al Duri. Mr. Mahjoub said he only ran the farm and had no involvement in terrorism, but the judge found his account "implausible."----- "Bin Laden WMD chief once lived in B.C. : Judge upholds detention of Egyptian associate," Stewart Bell, National Post [Canada], Published: Saturday, November 26, 2005
1995 : (MOHAMED MAHJOUB ARRIVES IN CANADA AND CLAIMS REFUGEE STATUS) --- "Bin Laden WMD chief once lived in B.C. : Judge upholds detention of Egyptian associate," Stewart Bell, National Post [Canada], Published: Saturday, November 26, 2005
DECEMBER 2005 : (IRAQI MUBARAK AL DURI ASSOCIATES WITH MOHAMED MAHJOUB -- See TORONTO CELL) ...But she [Judge Dawson] said [Iraqi Mubarak] Al Duri had associated with Toronto-based terror suspect Mohamed Mahjoub after December, 1995, and may have also associated with terrorist Essam Marzouk, who lived in B.C. until 1998.The disclosure was contained in a court decision concerning Mr. [Mohammed] Mahjoub, a suspected high-level member of Egyptian terrorist faction Vanguards of Conquest who was arrested in Toronto in June, 2000.----- "Bin Laden WMD chief once lived in B.C. : Judge upholds detention of Egyptian associate," Stewart Bell, National Post [Canada], Published: Saturday, November 26, 2005
2000 : (CANADA : MOHAMED MAHJOUB IS ARRESTED ON TERORISM CHARGES) Five years after flying to Canada and making a refugee claim, Mr. [Mohamed] Mahjoub was arrested for terrorism in 2000. He told Canadian authorities he had not been in contact with [Iraqi Mubarak ] Al Duri since leaving Sudan, but a search of his home turned up a paper with Al Duri's home and cellphone numbers.The Canadian Security Intelligence Service says Mr. Mahjoub is wanted by Egypt for terrorism and since coming to Canada he has maintained contact with "individuals associated with the international Islamic terrorist milieu.""The service also believes that the degree of Mahjoub's dedication to the cause, and Mahjoub's support for the Al Jihad/Vanguards of Conquest terrorist agenda, is such that he would resort to violence and would direct others to resort to violence if he was ordered to do so by leaders such as Osama bin Laden."----- "Bin Laden WMD chief once lived in B.C. : Judge upholds detention of Egyptian associate," Stewart Bell, National Post [Canada], Published: Saturday, November 26, 2005
NOVEMBER 25, 2005 : (IRAQI MUBARAK AL DURI - See TUCSON CELL, TORONTO CELL, VANCOUVER CELL, WMD) Osama bin Laden's chief ...[WMD] broker is a former resident of a Vancouver suburb, a Federal Court judge disclosed yesterday in ruling on a related case. In a 105-page decision handed down in Ottawa, Judge Eleanor Dawson said Canadian intelligence investigators had determined that Mubarak Al Duri, an Iraqi, had once lived in Richmond, B.C.----- "Bin Laden WMD chief once lived in B.C. : Judge upholds detention of Egyptian associate," Stewart Bell, National Post [Canada], Published: Saturday, November 26, 2005