Zwiazki medzy Bin Leden a Palestynczykami...

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Ties and Links between Supporters of Bin Laden and Palestinians
By Dr. Reuven Erlich and Col. (res.) Shalom Harrari
The Nabil Abu Aucal case: General Characteristics
" Nabil Madris Muhamad Abu Aucal is a Palestinian resident of Jabaliya in the
Gaza Strip, born in 1973. He was drafted into the "Hamas" in 1990. During his
first years he was an activist in the "Daawa" aparatus - a religious and social
apparatus that is the civilian infrastructure of the organization. The "Daawa"
apparatus includes nursery schools, schools, universities, and medical centers.
It is also used to recruit those who will become fighters or suicide bombers in
the military wing of the "Hamas." And, indeed, three years after Abu Auchal was
also drafted into to the military wing of the "Hamas." (The main Islamic
Terrorist Organization in the Palestinian Authority. The meaning of "Hamas" is -
The movement of Palestinian Islamic Resistance).

" In 1997 Abu Aucal traveled, within the framework of his activities in
the "Daawa", to Pakistan were he was recruited into an Islamic extremist
organization (al-Ansar). He underwent training, was sent to Afghanistan, and
was recruited into Bin Laden's organization (al-Qaeda). In Afghanistan Abu
Aucal underwent sabotage training and was sent back to the Gaza Strip in order
to found a terror infrastructure that would receive its instructions from Bin
Laden's organization. After his return to the Gaza Strip he contacted
senior "Hamas" members including Sheikh Yassin (the spiritual leader of
the "Hamas" in the Gaza Strip).

" Abu Aucal was arrested on 1 June 2000 on his way to another visit to
Afghanistan, at the end of a period of organization and preparation for
terrorist attacks, for the purpose of advanced training and acceptance of
additional instructions. He is currently on trial. (Nov. 2001)

" It is still not completely clear whether in this case the "Hamas"
organization received only "training services" from Bin Laden's organization as
a subcontractor or if this is an example of direct operation of "Hamas" members
by Bin Laden. An analysis of the nature of the ties between Abu Aucal and
international terrorist factors as transpires in the indictment sheet against
him, clearly points to the second possibility. Either way, the Abu Aucal,
affair as well as other affairs involving other Palestinians who trained in
Afghanistan, open up a window to the understanding of the modus-operandi of Bin
Laden and his organizations in activating fellow Islamic extremist terror
movements around the world, including the "Hamas."

" The following analysis is based on the indictments served against three
Palestinians who trained in Afghanistan. The importance of the Abu Aucal case
derives from the fact that it is the first one, because prior to the year 2000,
no such activity by Bin Laden is known to us.


Stages of the Recruitment and Activation of Abu Aucal

" Following are the stages of the recruitment and activation of Nabil Abu Aucal
by Bin Laden's organization according to the indictment sheet served against
him:

" Stage 1: Recruitment during "Daawa" Studies in Pakistan (October 1997 -
February 1998)

Abu Aucal was a member of a group of five activists of a "Hamas" "Daawa"
apparatus that traveled to Karachi, Pakistan, for "Daawa" studies. A student
from the West Bank in Pakistan recruited him to military training (February
1998) while he was studying at the "Daawa" center in Karachi.

" Stage 2: Primary Military Training in Pakistan (February 1998)

Abu Aucal underwent a month long basic military training (small arms, hand-to-
hand combat) in a military base of the "al-Ansar" movement - a fundamentalist
Islamic Pakistani movement, connected to the Bin Laden organization ("al-Ansar"
is also a byname for people from the city of al-Medina who joined the army of
Muhamed in the conquest of the cities of the Arabian peninsula). The training
took place in a mountainous area in Kashmir. It seems that in this case the
movement was used as a "subcontractor" for Bin Laden's organization. After the
training, Abu Ucal was transferred into the hands of Shiekh "Abu Iyad" Azzam, a
former Palestinian resident of the Jenin area, in the northern West Bank, in
order to transfer him to Afghanistan.

" Stage 3: Sabotage Training in Afghanistan with Osama Bin Laden's Organization
(March 1998)

At the end of his training in Pakistan, Abu Aucal was transferred to
Afghanistan and met with an activist known as "Abu Hamza" who introduced
himself as one of Bin Laden's assistants. Abu Aucal underwent a month long
sabotage training in a Jalalabad training camp near the Afghanistan - Pakistan
border. The training including bomb making, different methods of bomb
detonation, and weapons training.

" Stage 4: Briefing, Accordance of Terror Missions and Dispatch to the Gaza
Strip (April 1998)

Upon the completion of his training, Abu Aucal returned to the home of
Sheikh "Abu Iyad" Azzam in Pakistan. There he received a briefing before his
return to the Gaza Strip which included: Communications (telephone and
internet, including the telephone number of a terrorist from the Azzam family
living in the United States); Recruitment of a terrorist cell to carry out
attacks; definition of the targets of the attacks: Israeli citizens within the
1967 "Green Line", Israeli settlers, Israel Defense Forces soldiers,;
Recruitment of Israeli Arabs, members of the "Islamic movement."


" Stage 5: Establishment of a Military Infrastructure and Planning of Attacks
(1998-2000)

Following his return from Afghanistan, Abu Aucal began intensive activity to
build a terror infrastructure in accordance with the instructions he received,
in cooperation with the "Hamas". These activities included:
Establishment of ties with Sheikh Yassin (Summer 1998). Abu Aucal reported to
Yassin on the training he underwent in Pakistan and the establishment of ties
with Bin Laden's organization. Following this, he received money from Sheikh
Yassin to finance terrorist activity.

Recruitment of additional "Hamas" members for military training in Pakistan and
Afghanistan.

Maintaining ties with the "al-Ansar" movement in Pakistan (through the
Internet) and with a Palestinian terror activist (from the "Hamas"?) in England
(in order to bring him to this region to carry out attacks).

Recruitment of Israeli-Arabs to assist in carrying out attacks in Israel and
sending them to military training in Pakistan (already during his activity in
the "Daawa" in 1990 Abu Aucal visited mosques in Israel). In practice there
were talks about recruiting two Israeli Arab residents of Um el-Fachem (an Arab
town in Israel that is run by the Israeli "Islamic Movement"), who were members
of the "Islamic Movement."

Planning of terror attacks (staring at the end of 1998) that included:
" Kidnapping of IDF soldiers using anesthesia for the purpose of "bargaining"
the release of Palestinians imprisoned in Israeli prisons on terror attack
charges.

" Detonation of explosive charges in densely populated areas within Israel
(markets, residential neighborhoods, military installations) using a cellular
phone code. This as part of the "bargaining attacks" aimed at releasing
Palestinians imprisoned in Israel on terror attack charges.

" Detonation of explosive charges in military installations.

" Firing missiles at Israeli settlements in the Gaza Strip.

" Planting a bomb on the Netzarim (an Israeli settlement in the Gaza Strip)
access road.

Preparation of explosive devices activated by cellular phones, conducting
experiments to detonate devices.

Establishment of a laboratory to manufacture explosives in order to prepare
improvised bombs and grenades.

Stage 6: Additional Trip to Afghanistan, via Pakistan, to renew

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Stage 6: Additional Trip to Afghanistan, via Pakistan, to renew ties with Bin
Laden's people and advanced military training (May - June 2000)

Nabil Abu Aucal, together with a terrorist he recruited, planned to travel to
Pakistan and then to Afghanistan, in order to renew his ties with Bin Laden's
organization and to take part in advanced military training (detonation of
bombs using cellular phones). To finance their trip they received a pre-trip
sum of $5000 from Sheikh Yassin and prepared a cover story (medical treatment
in Jordan). On 1 July, 2000, before he managed to leave Abu Aucal was arrested
after a gunfight in Rafah in the Gaza Strip between Israeli security forces and
Palestinian Policemen who attempted to prevent the arrest. Following this
arrest, his plans were thwarted.


The Link between the Case of Abu Aucal and Bin's Laden's Network of Terrorist
Organizations

" During Abu Aucal's investigation it was revealed more than once that there
are clear indications of operational ties between the terrorist cell he headed
and terrorists around the world connected to Bin Laden and his organization.
The "national variance" of factors involved in the assistance and activation of
Abu Aucal were revealed.

" Within this framework, we can mention Abu Aucal's connections with the "al-
Ansar" organization in Pakistan; an activist named Abu Hutzifa residing in
Britain was supposed to assist in carrying out of attacks and the name of his
contact man in the US known as Abu Raazi Azzam was given to Abu Aucal through
Sheikh "Abu Iyad" Azzam. In the case of Abu Aucal (and in other cases that
involved Palestinians training in Afghanistan for terror missions) instructors
and trainees from Algeria, Morocco, Egypt - a kind of extremist Islamic
federation, connected to Bin Laden and his organization "al - Qaeda" were
mentioned.

" Special interest can be found in the ties between Abu Aucal and the Azzam
family. This is a Palestinian family from the Jenin area, that holds a
distinguished position in the history of Muslim warfare in Afghanistan against
the former Soviet Union, in the history of Bin Laden's organization, and in the
history of the establishment of the Islamic terror infrastructure in the U.S..

" Dr. Abdallah Azzam, born in Silat al-Hartiya, near Jenin, and a doctor in
Islamic law in the el-Azhar University in Egypt was one of the first
Palestinians to join the fighters in Afghanistan in the early 1980s. He served
as "spiritual teacher" of Osama Bin Laden (whom he received in Afghanistan)
until he was killed in 1989 by a mysterious explosion with two of his sons. Due
to his activity in Afghanistan, Dr. Andallah Azzam was revered by "Hamas"
members and at the beginning of the first Intifada of 1987-1993 (the
Palestinian Uprising) some of the fugitive terrorist cells from the "Hamas" in
the Jenin - Nablus area were named "battalions of Abdallah Azzam."

" After the death of Abdallah Azzam, his cousin, Faaiz Azzam, continued to
operate in the U.S. and also, apparently, in Afghanistan in the infrastructure
service of the "Afghanistan volunteers". It is possible that the man referred
to as "Abu Iyad" Azzam, the mentor of Abu Aucal, is an alias for Faiz Azzam.
Another option is that another family member of Abdallah Azzam is referred to
as "Abu Iyad." It is also possible that the contact man in the U.S. "Abu Raazi"
Azzam is in fact the same Faiz Azzam.

" In any case it is no coincidence that "Abu Iyad" Azzam gave Abu Aucal the
name of the contact man of the Azzam family in the U.S. During 1988-1989 Dr.
Abdallah Azzam and Faiz Azzam operated throughout the U.S. in
preaching "Daawa". A film made by the American journalist Steve Emerson about
the extremist Islamic infrastructure in the U.S. ("Jihad (Islamic Holy War) in
America" 1994) shows the U.S. Azzam family members Abdallah and Faiz preaching
in mosques about Islamic holy war ("Jihad") wearing traditional Afghani dress.
Their sermons included blatant anti-American incitement, calls for assistance
in the fighting in Afghanistan, and encouragement of the armed struggle against
Israel.


" The recruitment of Nabil Abu Ucal in Pakistan by Bin Laden's organization was
not the only case. In the past two years there have been other cases of
Palestinian students from the territories who studied in Pakistan and were
recruited and trained in Afghanistan by Bin Laden's organization and then sent
to the territories with the goal of activating them in the future to carry out
terrorist attacks.

Recruitment and Training of Palestinians Studying in Pakistan

The Case of Sa'ad Hindawi (1988)

" Sa'ad Sita'an Mahmud Hindawi from Halhul, was born in 1974, and studied in
1998 in the "Sind" University in Pakistan. He heard from a Palestinian friend
about the possibility of taking part in military training in Afghanistan.
Around June 1998 he and his friend left, escorted by an additional student to
the Jalalabad region for training (the same area where Abu Aucal trained).

" Through use of their contact man in Afghanistan (Abu Shalha) the two arrived
at the "Durunta" training base in the Jalalabad region. Like Abu Aucal, Hindawi
and his friends underwent two courses, basic and advanced:

" The Basic Course (June 1998) that took place in the "Open Wing" of
the "Durunta" base lasted two weeks. Some 12 other people from various places
participated in the course. The course included theoretical and practical
lessons on explosive and chemical materials, including assembly and detonation
of bombs. Likewise, the course included a short exercise in the use of small
arms.

" The Advanced Course (around November-December 1998) that took place in the
Moroccan wing in the "Durunta" camp lasted around two months. The course
included theoretical and practical training in different weapons (small arms),
on the assembly of electrical circuits, and for the detonation of explosive
devices.

" When he returned to the territories Hindawi planned with two Palestinian
friends who trained with him to carry out attacks against Israeli targets. They
intended to blow up a car bomb or to shoot at IDF vehicles. The cell was
uncovered by the Israeli security service (GSS) before they were able to carry
out the attacks.

The Case of Bassel Daka (1999)

" Bassel Rashad Muhamad Daka from Tul Karem (Palestinian city in the northern
West Bank), born in 1975, is the son of a senior police officer (Brigadier
General) in the Palestinian Authority. He studied pharmacy at 1999 in the
Karachi University in Pakistan.

" While studying in Karachi, Daka joined a fundamentalist Islamic organization
named "Salafyun." This organization aspires to return the Islamic way of life
to its fundamentals, as was practiced in the days of the Prophet Mohammed. Its
believers, who can also be found among the Palestinian population in the West
Bank and Gaza Strip, do not hesitate to take violent steps against any
expression of modernity and progress among the local population.

" During his activities in "Salafyun," Daka watched videos displaying the war
in Bosnia and the problems with Islam there, emphasizing Muslim solidarity
throughout the world. During his studies Daka heard from friends about the
option to train in Afghanistan.

" In July 1999 Daka joined a group of Arabs from different Arab countries, and
like those before him arrived in the Jalalabad area to the "Darunta" training
base. Daka and his friends also underwent two stages of training:

I. Basic Training - three weeks long, was given by a man of Algerian descent
(Abu Muhjen). The training included theoretical and practical lessons in the
use of small arms.

II. Advanced Training - two weeks long, was given by a man of Egyptian descent
(Abu al-Habab). The training includ

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I. Basic Training - three weeks long, was given by a man of Algerian descent
(Abu Muhjen). The training included theoretical and practical lessons in the
use of small arms.

II. Advanced Training - two weeks long, was given by a man of Egyptian descent
(Abu al-Habab). The training included theoretical and practical lessons in the
assembly of bombs from explosives and chemical materials and detonation. (Daka
wrote and drew in his notebook what he learned and brought the notebook to the
territories in order to use it to carry out attacks when required).

" Daka returned to the territories and was arrested before he operated. He was
tried and convicted. He was sentenced to 6 years in prison, three active and
three on probation.