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Top al Qaeda Figure Mohammad Rahim In Custody - Assisted bin Laden in 2001 Escape: ’
Authorities have captured a high-level Al Qaeda figure who helped Usama bin Laden escape from Afghanistan in 2001, the Pentagon announced Friday.
Defense Department spokesman Bryan Whitman declined to say when or where Mohammad Rahim was captured or by whom announcing only that he was handed over by the CIA to the Pentagon earlier this week and is being held at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
In a memo, CIA Director Michael Hayden told agency employees that Rahim was detained in the summer of 2007.
‘Rahim is a tough, seasoned jihadist,’ Hayden said. ‘His combat experience, which dates back to the 1980s, includes plots against US and Afghan targets.’
Rahim is a close associate of bin Laden and has ties to Al Qaeda organizations throughout the Middle East, Whitman said.
He said Rahim helped prepare the Al Qaeda hideout at Tora Bora — a mountain area full of warrens used by bin Laden during the 2001 U.S. invasion of Afghanistan. He assisted Al Qaeda’s escape from the area during the U.S. operation to try to catch the Al Qaeda leader, officials said.
‘Rahim’s detention in the summer of 2007 was a blow to more than one terrorist network,’ Hayden said. ‘He gave aid to Al Qaeda, the Taliban, and other anti-Coalition militants.
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