"Al-Marabh said he aided Raed Hijazi's flight from authorities and sent him money.
Hijazi was a Boston cab driver convicted in Jordan for plotting to blow up a hotel in Amman in 1999, according to FBI and Justice documents. Al-Marabh and Hijazi were roommates at Afghan training camps and later in the United States.
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“Jordan rearrests millennium bombings plotter”
By THOMAS JOSCELYN
December 11, 2013
SNIPPET: “Hijazi was born in California, but lived in the Middle East for much of his childhood. After returning to California, according to the 9/11 Commission, Hijazi became an extremist and “then made his way to Abu Zubaydah’s Khaldan camp in Afghanistan, where he learned the fundamentals of guerrilla warfare.””
SNIPPET: “Sometime in the early to mid-1990s, Hijazi and his younger brother were recruited by Abu Hoshar “into a loosely knit plot to attack Jewish and American targets in Jordan.” But Abu Hoshar was arrested in Jordan in 1996, so Hijazi decided to move back to the US, becoming a cabdriver in Boston. The 9/11 Commission found that he sent some of the money he earned to his fellow plotters.
After Abu Hoshar’s release from prison, Hijazi “shuttled between Boston and Jordan gathering money and supplies.” The pair then worked to recruit jihadists in Jordan, Syria, and Turkey and “with Abu Zubaydah’s assistance, Abu Hoshar sent these recruits to Afghanistan for training.”
By late 1998, Abu Hoshar and Hijazi had settled on a plan to attack multiple sites frequented by Western tourists. “Hijazi and Abu Hoshar cased the intended targets and sent reports to Abu Zubaydah, who approved their plan,” according to the 9/11 Commission. Hijazi stockpiled the ingredients necessary to make the bombs their plan required.
Hijazi and Abu Hoshar contacted another alleged al Qaeda operative, Khalid Deek, in early 1999. They acquired a copy of the Encyclopedia of Jihad, a terrorist manual authored by Deek.
The 9/11 Commission reported what happened next. In June 1999, “with help from Deek, Abu Hoshar arranged with Abu Zubaydah for Hijazi and three others to go to Afghanistan for added training in explosives.”
Then, in late November 1999, “Hijazi reportedly swore before Abu Zubaydah the bayat to Bin Laden, committing himself to do anything Bin Laden ordered.”
SNIPPET: “The cell led by Abu Hoshar and Hijazi allegedly had ties to a current Guantanamo detainee named Haji Wali Mohammed.”