9/11 Terrorist Khalid Sheikh Mohammed's Financiers
by Anthony C Heaford --- @mancunianquiet on twitter --- Work-in-Progress... 8 June 2025
One of the most surreal aspects of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed's decade long terrorist spree is that most people know who his principle financiers were but they’ve suffered no consequences. There have been no repercussions for their funding International Terrorism, in fact the opposite happened. KSM’s financiers have gained significantly more Western support since the 9/11 attacks, as detailed below.
Abdul Rasul Sayyaf: KSM's Employer, Trainer & Mentor from 1987 to 1992
It wouldn't (or shouldn't) have been any surprise to the Intelligence agencies that the Saudi funded Afghan Wahhabi professor Abdul Rasul Sayyaf was 9/11 terrorist KSM's boss. They effectively predicted it at the height of the CIA's clandestine support to the Soviet Union's enemies in Afghanistan. In 1985 the CIA wrote an assessment about Sayyaf (pictured right) stating:
“Sayyaf has used his role as principal conduit of Arab money to the jihad (holy war) to build his own insurgent organization, in competition with and at the expense of other resistance leaders. They, in turn, accuse him of corruption and misuse of funds, resent his position as the Arabs’ “fair-haired” boy, and have increasingly refused to cooperate with him... we believe that his foreign backing will ensure prominence on the Peshawar scene for the foreseeable future. His Arab benefactors show no signs of abandoning their favorite Afghan.”
Although KSM’s two older brothers were already serving with Sayyaf in 1985 Afghanistan, KSM wasn’t – he was in Greensboro, USA studying mechanical engineering at North Carolina’s Agriculture and Technical State University. The evidence of KSM’s relationship with Sayyaf comes from the 2004 9/11 Commission report (Pages 146 & 147) that states:
"Visiting Pakistan for the first time in early 1987, he traveled to Peshawar, where his brother Zahid introduced him to the famous Afghan mujahid Abdul Rasul Sayyaf, head of the Hizbul Ittihad El-Islami (Islamic Union Party). Sayyaf became KSM’s mentor and provided KSM with military training at Sayyaf’s Sada camp… Between 1988 and 1992, KSM helped run a nongovernmental organization (NGO) in Peshawar and Jalalabad; sponsored by Sayyaf, it was designed to aid young Afghan mujahideen."
Therefore, given these two top level US reports, it is indisputable that Abdul Rasul Sayyaf used Arab donations in the 1980s and 90s to employ train and mentor Khalid Sheikh Mohammed. Other very credible sources (detailed here) say 1993 World Trade Center bomber Ramzi Yousef (KSM’s nephew who studied engineering in 1980s Britain) first learnt and then taught bomb making in Sayyaf’s Sada camp. Other alumni of Sayyaf’s camps in Afghanistan and Pakistan were the Filipino founder of the Abu Sayyaf Group and Indonesian Bali bomber Hambali – making my assertion that Sayyaf is an International Terrorist Mastermind irrefutable.
And so, given the evidence and sources quoted above, what repercussions did Sayyaf face after his protégé KSM helped murder 2,977-people in America on 9/11? In October 2001 the first post 9/11 CIA team operating in Afghanistan, led by Gary Schroen, visited Sayyaf in his mountain top base near Kabul. But instead of arresting him Schroen put Sayyaf on the CIA payroll, literally tossing a retainer of $100,000 across the room to him. Over the next twenty years Sayyaf became a strongly supported NATO ally and even ran for the Afghan presidency in 2014 (which was when I first became aware of him). Sayyaf fled Afghanistan with the last of NATO’s forces in August 2021 and was given sanctuary by NATO member Turkey.
Work-in-Progress...
Qatar: KSM's Employer, Facilitator & Protector from 1993 to 1996
The evidence that the government of Qatar both employed KSM and facilitated his global terrorist spree again comes from the highest US sources. A US Department of Defense assessment of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed (page 3, published by wikileaks) states:
“In 1993 detainee [KSM] moved his family to Qatar at the suggestion of the former Minister for Islamic affairs of Qatar, Shaykh Abdullah Bin Khalid Bin Hamad al-Thani, where he took a position as Project Engineer with the Qatari Ministry of Electricity and Water. Detainee [KSM] engaged in extensive international travel during his tenure at the Qatari ministry until early 1996”
Qatar's Government employed KSM as a Project Engineer in its Ministry of Electricity and Water from 1993 and members of its ruling family helped him escape US capture in 1996. KSM's principle Qatari facilitator was Abdullah bin Khalid Bin Hamad al-Thani, a member of Qatar's still ruling monarchal dynasty.
The HSA Group: KSM's Hosts, Financiers & 9/11 Co-Conspirators in September 1997 Yemen (near Al Qaidah town)
The Hayel Saeed Anam Group isn’t named in any official documents relating to KSM or 9/11, but I can prove KSM’s terrorist cell was funded by and hosted in HSA’s secure hilltop headquarters near Al Qaidah town Yemen. My evidence is first hand – I was the technician sent by my family’s British Queen’s Award winning engineering export company (JM Heaford Ltd) to furnish KSM’s front company with printing machinery in September 1997. There’s very strong evidence HSA was supporting KSM from at least August 1996 too, when HSA sourced industrial quantities of TNT component chemicals via the US embassy in Yemen and the US State Department in Washington. I believe those chemicals were used to make the TNT used in the US embassy bombings in August 1998 Kenya and Tanzania, as detailed here. I can even name the principle facilitator of that activity, Dirhem Abdo Saeed, a HSA director who’s intimately tied to the British Establishment via the British-Yemeni Society.
April 1997 Chicago: Longulf Trading of London purchased $3-million of printing machinery to furnish KSM’s front company in Yemen, including a flexographic printing plate mounting & proofing machine from my employer JM Heaford Ltd. Dirhem Abdo Saeed is Longulf Trading’s managing director.
September 1997 Yemen: I was the technician sent to Yemen to install the machine purchased by Longulf Trading. That is where I was introduced to ‘the Engineer’ (Khalid Sheikh Mohammed), inside the headquarters compound of the Hayel Saeed Anam Group at PO Box 5302, Taiz. Dirhem Abdo Saeed is a vice-chairman of the Hayel Saeed Anam Group.