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EX-ARMY OFFICER IN RAP LINKED TO BIN LADEN PLOT New York Daily News; New York; May 20, 1999; GREG B. SMITH;
Copyright Daily News, L.P. May 20, 1999
A decorated ex-Army sergeant trained in explosives was charged yesterday with aiding fugitive terrorist Osama Bin Laden in a plot to kill Americans around the world.
Ali Mohamed, a sergeant at a Green Beret training camp in Fort Bragg, N.C., during the 1980s, was in the Army reserves when he provided Bin Laden's followers with "military and intelligence training," prosecutors alleged.
Manhattan U.S. Attorney Mary Jo White added Mohamed to a group of 12 already charged in the conspiracy, including Bin Laden, the fugitive Saudi millionaire.
Born in Egypt, Mohamed, 46, graduated from the military academy in Cairo in 1973 and got a degree in psychology at the University of Alexandria in 1980. He came to the U.S. and entered the Army in 1986.
Because of his background, he was training Special Forces at Fort Bragg in Mideast politics within a year. He became a weapons and explosives expert and earned a coveted Army Achievement medal and other commendations, Pentagon records show.
But he led a double life, visiting a refugee center on Brooklyn's Atlantic Ave., where Muslims raised money and recruited volunteers to fight the Soviets in Afghanistan.
In Afghanistan, Mohamed allegedly trained followers of Sheik Omar Abdel-Rahman and others who later would blow up the twin towers in 1993.
Prosecutors allege that Bin Laden recruited Mohamed to his cause in 1989, the same year he left active duty and entered the reserves.
He helped Bin Laden travel to the Sudan in 1991 and discussed blowing up the U.S. Embassy and British, French and Israeli targets in Nairobi, Kenya, as far back as 1993.
His attorney, James Roth, did not return calls.
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