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At the end of 2003, El-Masri travelled from his home in Ulm to go on a short vacation in Skopje.He was detained by Macedonian border officials on 31 December 2003, because his name was identical (except for variations in Roman transliteration) to that of Khalid al-Masri, who was being sought as an alleged mentor to the al-Qaeda Hamburg cell, and because of suspicion that El-Masri's German ...
Realising that her father, responsible for the death of Khalid's brother, is about to be assassinated by Khalid, she runs to the town square and confronts Khalid. He hesitates, and is killed by the attack’s organizers; he releases the dead man's switch , and Fatima is killed in the explosion at the beginning of the film.
[7] [8]: 282–3 [14] El-Masri's name was a different transliteration of Khalid al-Masri, the name of a person who had supposedly met Ramzi bin al-Shibh and Marwan al-Shehhi on a train in Germany. [ 7 ] [ 22 ] Even after El-Masri's passport was checked and his identity as a different person was confirmed in March, Bikowsky still wanted him held ...
Abu Zubair al-Masri (died 2008), Egyptian al-Qaeda operative; Khalid al-Masri, suspected al-Qaeda member; Khalid El-Masri (born 1963), German and Lebanese torture victim formerly detained by the United States after extraordinary rendition; Mohammad Hasan Khalil al-Hakim (died 2008), known as Abu Jihad al-Masri, propaganda chief for al-Qaeda
Khalid ibn Ahmad Al Khalifah (born 1960), current Foreign Minister of Bahrain; Khaled Mashal (born 1956), Palestinian politician, former head of Hamas; Khalid El-Masri (born 1963), German citizen detained and interrogated by the CIA; Khalid al-Mihdhar (1975–2001), Saudi hijacker in the September 11 attacks; Khaled Mosharraf (1937–1975 ...
Khalid al-Masri (Arabic: خالد المصري; other transcriptions: Ḫālid al-Miṣrī, al-Maṣrī, Khālid, Khaled, El-Masri IPA: [ˈxæːled elˈmɑsˤɾi]) is the name of a person alleged to have approached two 9/11 hijackers on a train in Germany and suggested that they contact an alleged al Qaeda operative in Duisburg.
An individual named Khalid al Masri (or Khalid al-Masri) approached bin al-Shibh and Shehhi (because they were Arabs with beards, bin al-Shibh thinks) and struck up a conversation about jihad in Chechnya. When they later called Masri and expressed interest in going to Chechnya, he told them to contact Abu Musab in Duisburg, Germany.
But, on June 1, 2006, the BND (German intelligence agency) declared that it had known of El-Masri's seizure 16 months before Germany was officially informed of his arrest. [ 3 ] In a 2007 report, Human Rights Watch related the claims of an alleged ghost detainee, Marwan Jabour , a Palestinian who was arrested in Lahore, Pakistan , in May 2004 ...