KSM's Financiers

Khalid Sheikh Mohammed's decade long terrorist spree had four very powerful financiers, all known but never held to account.
Those financiers were a Saudi funded Wahhabi professor, Qatar's government, and a multi-billion dollar global conglomerate.
The fourth group of financiers are best described as Saudi Wahhabi supporters who I'll address last.

KSM was introduced to Abdul Rasul Sayyaf upon arriving in Pakistan in 1987, introduced by one of his brothers. Two years earlier a CIA report on Sayyaf stated his power came from his being the principle conduit for Arab donations to the Afghan Mujahideen Jihad cause. The same report said:

“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.”

KSM was possibly Sayyaf’s most significant recruit. After five years tutelage he was managing terrorist operations around the world - from Manhattan in 1993 back to Manhattan on 9/11. Sayyaf was the true leader of the terrorist entity known as Al Qaeda, not Osama bin Laden. The 2004 9/11 Commission report ( Pages 146 & 147) clearly states:

“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."

Sayyaf employed, trained and mentored KSM in Pakistan and Afghanistan from 1987-92, all funded by the Arab donations he was redirecting to his own insurgent organization. Sayyaf’s other recruits included KSM’s nephew Ramzi Yousef (1993 WTC bomber), Abu Sayyaf Group’s Filipino founder, and the 2002 Bali bombers. The fact Sayyaf was put on the CIA payroll in October 2001 is surreal, as was his running for president in 2014 and being a ‘strongly supported’ NATO ally. Please read Sayyaf's biography linked here for the full story.

Evidence that the government of Qatar employed and protected KSM comes from KSM’s US Department of Defense detainee assessment ( page 3, wikileaks). It states:

“In 1993 detainee 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 engaged in extensive international travel during his tenure at the Qatari ministry until early 1996”

In 1996 members of Qatar's ruling family helped KSM avoid US capture, assisting his escape after he was indicted for his role in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing (wiring $660 from Qatar to the bombers in New York on 3 November 1992). KSM's principle Qatari facilitator was Abdullah bin Khalid Bin Hamad al-Thani, a member of Qatar's still ruling monarchal dynasty. Newsweek's 'The Qatari Connection'.

Note: The first specific warning of KSM’s plan to hijack airplanes and use them as weapons came from a dissident Qatari prince and former police chief in 1998. He told CIA veteran Robert Baer who told three people – his shadow boss in Washington, an old CIA friend and a New York Times journalist. Baer’s Qatari source was kidnapped by the Qatari government soon after and jailed for ten years, to make sure he didn’t try to warn anyone else I guess.

The Hayel Saeed Anam Group’s terrorism funding links date back to 1984 and a Swiss shell company described as a ‘terrorist chamber of commerce’ by the US Treasury after 9/11. One of HSA’s directors was a founding member of that shell company although when asked in 2004 he said he’d forgot he’d given his power of attorney to a notorious Eritrean terrorism financier, the other founder. That information is known, reported in detail by Fox News in 2004, but there were never any consequences as reported by the LA Times in 2007. HSA’s links to Khalid Sheikh Mohammed could not be stronger but have only been documented by myself, a witness to HSA hosting KSM’s terrorist cell in their headquarters in 1997 Yemen, 17-miles south of Al Qaidah town. HSA hosted, funded and helped KSM plan and prepare his terrorist attacks – very specifically the 1998 US embassy bombings and 9/11.

April 1997 Chicago: A HSA subsiduary, Longulf Trading of London, purchased $3-million of printing machinery in Chicago to furnish KSM’s front company in Yemen. That included a flexographic printing plate mounting & proofing machine from my employer JM Heaford Ltd. Dirhem Abdo Saeed is Longulf Trading’s managing director and HSA's vice chairman.

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. I was then taken to a clandestine meeting by Al Qaidah town. The 9/11 plot began during my visit to KSM's front company, as detailed here.

I barely know where to begin, what to include, what to leave out... 1962 maybe good. That marked the beginning of the Saudi backed Wahhabi Muslim World League. Perhaps the precursor in 1957 is better, when Britain and France endured their Suez crisis. Backing religious extremists against nationalists like Nasser or the Socialists in Yemen could have seemed acceptable to the oil company bosses and Intelligence agencies. Or we could start at the Battle of Sabilla in 1929 Arabia. That's when the Sauds used British armour, machineguns & planes to decimate the Ikhwan, a murderous band of religious extremists. To make lasting peace the Sauds allowed the Ikhwan who survived to form the new Saudi National Guard. The grandson of a survivor of the battle served in the National Guard before reviving Al Ikhwan in opposition to corruption in the kingdom. He led the Grand Mosque Seizure in 1979, where two of Osama bin Laden’s brothers were said to be present, but not Osama. Or just focus on Sayyaf and KSM? I'm going to sleep on it; it's tiring doing everyone elses job - I am a witness, not police, investigator or journalist. I'm a dyslexic mechanic. Thanks to anyone still reading this far.