Zahid Al-Sheikh

Zahid Al-Sheikh is the brother to alleged 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammad. He volunteered to travel to Afghanistan to help fight to resist the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan.Following the ouster of the Soviet forces Zahid is reported to have played a role in planning terrorist projects.cite news
url=http://www.gpoaccess.gov/911/pdf/sec5.pdf
title=Al Qaeda aims at the American Homeland
publisher=9-11 Commission
page=
author=
date=
accessdate=2007-10-10] cite news
url=http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/para/ksm.htm
title=Khalid Sheikh Mohammed
publisher=Global Security
accessdate=2007-10-23] cite news
url=http://search.ft.com/nonFtArticle?id=030214007025
title=The CEO of al-Qaeda: Khalid Sheikh Mohammed
publisher=Financial Times
date=February 14, 2003
accessdate=2007-10-23] cite news
url=http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2003/03/02/walq102.xml
title= Dedicated hater of the West with a taste for high living
publisher=The Daily Telegraph
date=January 3 2003
accessdate=2007-10-23] He is also reported to have shifted careers to the direction of non-governmental organizations that provided aid to refugees. [http://www.defenselink.mil/pubs/foi/detainees/csrt/ARB_Transcript_Set_9_21017-21351..pdf Summarized transcript (.pdf)] , from Adel Hassan Hamad's "Administrative Review Board hearing" - page 248] [http://www.defenselink.mil/pubs/foi/detainees/csrt/ARB_Transcript_Set_9_21017-21351..pdf Summarized transcript (.pdf)] , from Adel Hassan Hamad's "Administrative Review Board hearing" - page 255]

Zahid and two of his brothers traveled to Afghanistan in the mid-1980s. His two brothers are believed to have been killed in combat. His youngest brother, Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, who was later to play a senior role in al Qaeda's leadership arrived in 1987.Zahid is reported to have introduced his younger brother to leading anti-Soviet fightger.cite news
url=http://www.gpoaccess.gov/911/pdf/sec5.pdf
title=Al Qaeda aims at the American Homeland
publisher=9-11 Commission
page=
author=
date=
accessdate=2007-10-10] cite news
url=http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/para/ksm.htm
title=Khalid Sheikh Mohammed
publisher=Global Security
accessdate=2007-10-23] According to the 9-11 Commission: quotation|Visiting Pakistan for the first time in early 1987,he traveled to Peshawar,where his brother Zahid introduced him to the famous Afghan mujahid Abdul Rasul Sayyaf, head of the Hizbul-Ittihad El-Islami (Islamic Union Party).

The USA sought Zahid for questioning about whether he played a role in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing.cite news
url=http://search.ft.com/nonFtArticle?id=030214007025
title=The CEO of al-Qaeda: Khalid Sheikh Mohammed
publisher=Financial Times
date=February 14, 2003
accessdate=2007-10-23] cite news
url=http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2003/03/02/walq102.xml
title= Dedicated hater of the West with a taste for high living
publisher=The Daily Telegraph
date=January 3 2003
accessdate=2007-10-23]

Zahid is reported to have collaborated with Khalid Sheikh Mohammed in planning Operation Bojinka, a 1995 pland ot hijack 12 airplanes over the Pacific.cite news
url=http://www.weeklystandard.com/Utilities/printer_preview.asp?idArticle=3296&R=EE029E3
title=Osama's Best Friend: The further connections between al Qaeda and Saddam.
author=Stephen F. Hayes
volume=9
issue=8
publisher=The Weekly Standard
page=
author=
date=November 3 2003
accessdate=2007-10-23]

American intelligence analysts alleged, during Adel Hassan Hamad's Combatant Status Review Tribunal and Administrative Review Board hearing that Zahid was tied to terrorism and that Hamad's acquaintanceship with him was one of the factors in favor of his continued detention. [http://www.defenselink.mil/pubs/foi/detainees/csrt/ARB_Transcript_Set_9_21017-21351..pdf Summarized transcript (.pdf)] , from Adel Hassan Hamad's "Administrative Review Board hearing" - page 248] American intelligence analysts alleged that Zahid was the director of the Jelazee Refugee Camp in Pakistan, and the director of Lajnat Al-Da'wa al Islamia (LDI) in Pakistan.Hamad confirmed that Zahid had been a director of LDI when he first worked as a teacher for the Hira Islamic Institute in the Jelazee Refugee Center, which was supported by LDI, but he told his hearing that Zahid was never the director of the camp. [http://www.defenselink.mil/pubs/foi/detainees/csrt/ARB_Transcript_Set_9_21017-21351..pdf Summarized transcript (.pdf)] , from Adel Hassan Hamad's "Administrative Review Board hearing" - page 255]

American intelligence analysts told Hamad's hearing that "other sources" identified Zahid as holding extremist views.Hamad replied that his relationship with Zahid was a purely administrative one, but he did not believe Zahid was an extremist. [http://www.defenselink.mil/pubs/foi/detainees/csrt/ARB_Transcript_Set_9_21017-21351..pdf Summarized transcript (.pdf)] , from Adel Hassan Hamad's "Administrative Review Board hearing" - page 248]

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