aka Ali Abul Saoud Mustafa, aka Ali Aboualacoud, aka Abu Omar, aka
Haydara, aka Ahmed Bahaa Adam, aka Abu Moham med ali Amriki, aka Ali
Nasser Mohamed Taymour, aka Abu Osama, aka Bakhbola, aka Bili Bili.
In the years leading to the 9/11 attacks, no single agent of al Qaeda was
former Egyptian army captain turned CIA operative, Special Forces advisor, and
FBI informant named Ali Mohamed. Spying first for the Central Intelligence
Agency and later the FBI, Mohamed even succeeded in penetrating the John F.
photographed the U.S. embassy in Kenya taking the surveillance pictures bin
Laden himself used to target the suicide truck bomb that killed 224 and injured
thousands in 1998.
Mohamed accomplished all that fully nine years after the FBI first
range on Long Island. He lived the quiet life of a Silicon Valley computer
executive while slipping off to Afghanistan and the Sudan to train some
tradecraft. He was so trusted by bin Laden that Ali was given the job of
moving the Saudi “Emir” from Afghanistan to Khartoum in 1991 and then
an FBI informant who worked his Bureau control agent like a mole.
Dr. Ayman al-Zawahiri, who traveled to the U.S. in the 1990s to raise
money for the Jihad. He used his Army vacation to hunt down elite
deep black world between the hunters and the hunted with as much
Next to Ramzi Yousef, the bomb maker who plotted both attacks on
The Twin Towers, Mohamed remains the greatest enigma in the war on
terror. Brazenly slipping past watch lists, he moved in and out of the U.S.
Valley defense contractor and working for the FBI while servicing the top
echelons of al Qaeda.
The story of Ali Mohamed holds the key to the full truth about how
bin Laden planned, financed, and executed the 9/11 attacks. He’s also
a living witness to how the best and the brightest in the U.S. intelligence
community were repeatedly outflanked for two decades, from the death
as that story seemed, the investigation took on even stranger twists and turns
when Ali Mohamed came into focus. For example, almost from the moment the
Bureau “opened” him as an informant back in 1992, Ali’s main control agent on
the West Coast became embroiled in a grisly triple murder case that distracted
secrets for the jihad. Patrick Fitzgerald himself called Ali “the most dangerous
man I ever met,” and soon, as I began to fill in the blanks on him, I encountered