Mohammed Mansour Jabarah

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subject_name = Mohammed Mansour Jabarah

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Mohammed Mansour Jabarah (b. ~1981) was an al-Qaeda operative. He is currently serving a life sentence in the U.S. supermax prison in Florence, Colorado. [cite web
url=http://www.thestar.com/News/article/295515
title=Canadian gets life in terror plot: St. Catharines man met with top Al Qaeda officials in devising plan to bomb U.S. embassies
first=Michelle
last=Shephard
publisher=The Star
date=2008-01-19]

Born in KuwaitNickerson, Colin. Boston Globe "Canadian militant eyed in Saudi blasts", May 15, 2003] , Jabarah moved to Canada with his family at the age of 12 and attended a Catholic high school in St. Catherines, Ontario. [Brown, Stephen. Front Page Magazine, "Maple Leaf Terror", February 26, 2004] He intended to become an ophthalmologist.

A childhood friend, Anas al-Kandari, introduced him to al-Qaeda and Osama bin Laden during summers in Kuwait.cite web
url=http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/01/18/AR2008011803766_pf.html
title=Terror Informant for FBI Allegedly Targeted Agents: Once-Trusted Jabarah Sentenced to Prison
first=Josh
last=White
coauthors=Keith B. Richburg
publisher=Washington Post
date=2008-01-19]

Jabarah trained in Afghanistan and vowed allegiance to bin Laden in May 2001. He admitted working with Khalid Sheik Mohammed and an Indonesian operative known as Hambali on separate missions, traveling to Singapore and the Philippines to engage in financing attacks on U.S. interests and planning potential bombings. After the plots fell through, Jabarah fled to Oman, where Mohammed ordered him to set up an al Qaeda safe house.

Arrest

Jabarah met with his brother Abdul Rahman Jabarah in Dubai in January 2002, when both were already considered wanted al-Qaeda suspects. Jabarah was arrested by Oman authorities (sometimes mistakenly referred to as Amman authoritiesRice, Condoleezza, [http://fpc.state.gov/fpc/20558.htm Briefing by the National Security Advisor] , May 14 2003] )in February 2002 and was deported to his home country of Canada, where he cooperated with Canadian intelligence officials. His brother phoned their father Mansour and was warned that Canadian authorities were looking for him also.McKenna, Terrence. CBC, " [http://www.cbc.ca/news/background/jabarah/singapore.html Singapore in the cross-hairs] ", October 11 2004]

In May Jabarah agreed to cooperate with U.S. authorities and was turned over to them. He lived in a series of safe houses, working as a double agent for the Americans, and helped them track both Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and Osama bin Laden as part of what he was told was a plea bargain. However, he was re-arrested in the autumn, after an FBI search of his house found a list of American agents and prosecutors, a knife and rope in his luggage and bomb-making instructions. He was subsequently sentenced to life imprisonment by judge Barbara S. Jones.Caruso, David B. Associated Press, "Terrorist gets life in embassy plot", January 19 2003]

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