TRIPLE CROSS: BIN LADEN SPYS IN AMERICA 4 OF 5

NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC - TRIPLE CROSS: BIN LADEN SPYS IN AMERICA PART 4 OF 5

Ali Mohamed's terrorist activities spanned nearly 15 years, each event alarming in its own right, but together creating a terrifying and treacherous picture. During part of this time, Mohamed was an informant for the FBI, providing just enough information to keep them interested in him
as a source, but not so much that they would suspect him of being a terrorist. Ali Mohamed's trail of terror includes:

-Scouting terrorist targets in East Africa for bin Laden, including the U.S. embassy in Nairobi, Kenya which was struck by an al Qaeda truck bomb in 1998.

-Training members of the jihadist terror cell that executed the first attack on the World Trade Center in 1993.

-Helping to establish some of the first al Qaeda terror cells in the United States, including one on the West Coast.

-Training al Qaeda operatives on how to hijack passenger planes,including how to smuggle weapons through airport security.

-Using training manuals taken from Fort Bragg to train terrorists in the United States, Afghanistan and later in Sudan.

-Compiling a 180-page al Qaeda terrorist training manual, based in part on the stolen Fort Bragg documents.

-Making arrangements for a face-to-face meeting between Hezbollah leaders and Osama bin Laden.

-Coordinating bin Laden's relocation from Afghanistan to Sudan.

-Training al Qaeda terrorists who operated in Somalia prior to the "Blackhawk Down" incident.