Zuher al-Tbaiti explained

Zuher al-Tbaiti
Nationality:	Saudi Arabian
Known For:	2002 Strait of Gibraltar terror plot

Zuher al-Tbaiti (Arabic: زهير التبايتي) is a Saudi Arabian who was arrested in Morocco in May 2002 as the suspected ringleader of the al-Qaeda plot to bomb American and British vessels transiting the Strait of Gibraltar. He was sentenced to ten years in prison along with two other Saudis, Abdullah al-Ghamdi and Hilal al-Assiri.^[1]

Al-Tbaiti served as a military commander in Afghanistan before joining the Bosnian mujahideen as an artillery expert during the Bosnian War in the 1990s.^[2] Along with al-Ghamdi and al-Assiri, he escaped Afghanistan in 2001 during the Battle of Tora Bora, and arrived in Morocco.^[3]

External links

• Inside an al-Qaeda Bust
• THE REACH OF WAR; U.S. Said to Overstate Value Of Guantánamo Detainees

Notes and References

1. Book: Richardson, Michael. 2004. A Time Bomb for Global Trade: Maritime-related Terrorism in an Age of Weapons of Mass Destruction. registration. Institute of Southeast Asian Studies. 19–20. 9789812302465.
2. Web site: Anneli. Botha. Terrorism in the Maghreb: The Transnationalisation of Domestic Terrorism: Chapter 3: Terrorism in Morocco. Institute for Security Studies. June 2008.
3. News: Douglas. Frantz. U.S. Enlists Morocco's Help To Counter Terrorist Plots. The New York Times. 24 June 2002.