Khalid Abdulrahman al-Fawwaz ( ar, خالد الفواز; kunya: Abu Omar al-Sebai ())

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Worldwide trail of bloodshed that leads to suburban London
September 19, 2001 is a Saudi who was under indictment in the United States from 1998,Copy of indictment
USA v. Usama bin Laden et al., Center for Nonproliferation Studies,

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accused of helping to prepare the

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. He was extradited to the United States and arraigned in October 2012. Al-Fawwaz appeared on the UN 1267 Committee's list of individuals belonging to or associated with

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,UN 1267 Committee banned entity list
and was embargoed as a

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by the US Treasury's

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.US Treasury banned entity list
/ref> According to the Treasury statement, al-Fawwaz was born on August 24 or 25, 1962. He moved to

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in 1994. He was appointed by

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as the first head of the media organ called the Advice and Reform Committee in London, where he met Adel Abdel Bari and

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, amongst others. In 1995, while bin Laden was in Sudan, al-Fawwaz was said to be attempting to pave the way for bin Laden to move to Britain. He was arrested under the

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, as part of Operation Challenge, which resulted in the arrest of seven UK-resident men, who were accused of links to al-Jihad.Hoge, Warren. ''

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'', "Britain arrests 7 suspected of links to Bin Laden", September 24, 1998 One of the men was charged with possession of a weapon. Six months after the arrests, British Muslims staged a demonstration in front of

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to protest against the continued incarceration of the seven men.

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, testifying for the United States, claimed that al-Fawwaz had been the leader of an "

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", which he contradictingly placed in

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, Pakistan, or

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, Afghanistan.O'Neill, Sean.

The terrorist trained to fly bin Laden's plane
September 21, 2001 His trial, along with his co-defendant Abu Anas al Libi, also known as "Nazih al Raghie" or "Anas al Sebai", was scheduled to begin on 3 November 2014, before Judge

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. At the same time, his co-conspirator, Abdel Bari, pleaded guilty.nypost.com: "Dad of 'John the Beatle' suspect admits Osama terror plot"
19 Sep 2014 He was sentenced to life imprisonment on 15 May 2015.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Fawwaz, Khalid Al- 1962 births Living people Saudi Arabian Sunni Muslims Saudi Arabian al-Qaeda members People designated by the Al-Qaida and Taliban Sanctions Committee Saudi Arabian people imprisoned abroad People extradited from the United Kingdom to the United States Saudi Arabian emigrants to the United Kingdom People imprisoned on charges of terrorism Prisoners sentenced to life imprisonment by the United States federal government Inmates of ADX Florence