Al Qa’idah, the HSA Group & me

by Anthony C Heaford  —   3 April 2023

Al Qaeda tried to recruit me in 1997, one mile from Al Qa'idah town in Yemen. 
That happened after I'd spent six days in the Hayel Saeed Anam Group headquarters compound,
working in Khalid Sheikh Mohammed's terror cell's front company. This is my story and it’s not rocket science: 



Chapters

 0:02 Al Ka'idah / Al Qaida / Al Qaeda / Al Qa'idah - childish spy craft
— —  Al Ka’idah 30 May 1993: Historycommons.org / web.archive.org
— —  Al Qaida 14 Aug 1996: UPI.com archive
— —  Al Qaeda 7 June 1999: irp.fas.org

 0:55 USS Cole, 9/11, 1998 US Embassy bombings - ALL preventable 

 1:31 Al Qa'idah town, Ibb governorate Yemen 
— —  Google maps: Al Qa'idah town 

 2:00 The journey to Al Qa’idah  
— —  Google maps: Directions from HSA Group HQ to Al Qa’idah 
— —  TQM 9/11 Timeline: 26 Sept 1997

 2:47 Meeting Al Qaeda at The Base by Al Qa'idah town   
— —  Google maps: Al Qa'idah Al Askariya
— —  TQM 9/11 Timeline: 26 Sept 1997

 3:33 Leaving Al Qa'idah on Friday
— —  TQM 9/11 Timeline: 26 Sept 1997

 4:07 Thursday, dinner with (and vetted by) Yousef 
— —  TQM 9/11 Timeline: 25 Sept 1997

 4:37 Meeting Khalid Sheikh Mohammed
— —  Google maps: HSA Group former HQ
— —  TQM 9/11 Timeline: 26 Sept 1997

 5:14 US embassy sourcing explosive chemicals for KSM's front company 
— —  TQM report: 1998 US Embassy bombing
— —  TQM .pdf file: Export Opportunities 6 August 1996
— —  TQM .pdf file: Export Opportunities 14 August 1996

 6:20 Terrorist financiers via Switzerland, the Cayman Islands and more 
— —  Fox News 17 Sept 2004: Possible Saddam-Al Qaeda Link Seen in U.N. Oil-for-Food Program
— —  Fox News 18 Oct 2004: [HSA] Group Responds to FOX Oil-for-Food Story
— —  LA Times 28 Nov 2007: When is a terrorism figure no longer one?
— —  TQM report: Khalid Sheikh Mohammed’s Financiers

 8:08 The Hayel Saeed Anam Group and the British Establishment 
— —   British-Yemeni Society: Officers & Executive Committee, Vice-President Dirhem Abdo Saeed
— —   Google maps: HSA’s London office, Longulf Trading

10:13 A new terrorist nexus in 1990s Yemen and NO ALARM BELLS RANG 
— —   Google maps: 
YemPak factory  

11:34 Who should have known? The CIA were training Al Qaeda in 1990s Yemen
— —   PBS, Barbara Bodine: How Al Qaeda Grew in Yemen
— —   CIA Contractor Billy Waugh: “I worked right there [Yemen] with these Al Qaeda operatives" 
— —   Youtube, CIA Director George Tenet: Asking Yemen President Saleh to release Al Qaeda suspect

14:31 Coming Next: Al Qa'idah and Osama bin Laden


Truly, for some of us nothing is written, unless we write it 
© Anthony C Heaford - The Quiet Mancunian