Ali Mohamed

aka Ali Abul Saoud Mustafa, aka Ali Aboualacoud, aka Abu Omar, aka
Haydara, aka Ahmed Bahaa Adam, aka Abu Moham med ali Amriki, aka Ali
Nasser Mohamed Taymour, aka Abu Osama, aka Bakhbola, aka Bili Bili.

The Spy of Many Names

By Peter Lance

In the years leading to the 9/11 attacks, no single agent of al Qaeda was

more successful in compromising the U.S. intelligence community than a

former Egyptian army captain turned CIA operative, Special Forces advisor, and

FBI informant named Ali Mohamed. Spying first for the Central Intelligence

Agency and later the FBI, Mohamed even succeeded in penetrating the John F.

Kennedy Special Warfare Center at Fort Bragg—while simultaneously training

the cell that blew up the World Trade Center in 1993.

 He went on to train Osama bin Laden’s personal bodyguard, and

photographed the U.S. embassy in Kenya taking the surveillance pictures bin

Laden himself used to target the suicide truck bomb that killed 224 and injured

thousands in 1998.

Mohamed accomplished all that fully nine years after the FBI first

photographed the cell he trained using automatic weapons at a firing

range on Long Island. He lived the quiet life of a Silicon Valley computer

executive while slipping off to Afghanistan and the Sudan to train some

of al Qaeda’s most lethal terrorists in bomb-making and assassination

tradecraft. He was so trusted by bin Laden that Ali was given the job of

moving the Saudi “Emir” from Afghanistan to Khartoum in 1991 and then

back to Jalalabad in 1996—much of that time maintaining his status as

an FBI informant who worked his Bureau control agent like a mole.

Mohamed twice played host to al Qaeda’s second-in-command,

Dr. Ayman al-Zawahiri, who traveled to the U.S. in the 1990s to raise

money for the Jihad. He used his Army vacation to hunt down elite

Soviet Spetsnaz commandos in Afghanistan, and later toyed with

gullible special agents in New York and San Francisco while he

learned the inner workings of the FBI’s al Qaeda playbook.

 In the annals of espionage, few men have moved in an out of the

deep black world between the hunters and the hunted with as much

audacity as Ali Mohamed—known to his al Qaeda brothers as Ali

Amiriki, or “Ali the American.” A deep-penetration al Qaeda sleeper,

he succeeded as a triple agent, gaining access to the most sensitive

intelligence in the U.S. counter-terrorism arsenal.

Next to Ramzi Yousef, the bomb maker who plotted both attacks on

The Twin Towers, Mohamed remains the greatest enigma in the war on

terror. Brazenly slipping past watch lists, he moved in and out of the U.S.

with impunity for years, marrying an American woman, becoming a

naturalized citizen, seeking top secret security clearance from a Silicon

Valley defense contractor and working for the FBI while servicing the top

echelons of al Qaeda.

The story of Ali Mohamed holds the key to the full truth about how

bin Laden planned, financed, and executed the 9/11 attacks. He’s also

a living witness to how the best and the brightest in the U.S. intelligence

community were repeatedly outflanked for two decades, from the death

of Egyptian president Anwar Sadat in 1981 through the attacks of

September 11, 2001.

 My conclusion in Cover Up was that the FBI had buried key al Qaeda

intelligence to avoid a scandal over tainted Mafia evidence. But as unbelievable

as that story seemed, the investigation took on even stranger twists and turns

when Ali Mohamed came into focus. For example, almost from the moment the

Bureau “opened” him as an informant back in 1992, Ali’s main control agent on

the West Coast became embroiled in a grisly triple murder case that distracted

him from fully appreciating Mohamed’s lethal dedication to stealing America’s

secrets for the jihad. Patrick Fitzgerald himself called Ali “the most dangerous

man I ever met,” and soon, as I began to fill in the blanks on him, I encountered

evidence more astonishing than any fiction I had ever written.

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