An Iraqi doctor, Mubarak al-Duri (مبارك الدوري) (also ''Mubarak Douri'', ''Mubarak el Doory'') ran an agricultural project owned by

Osama bin Laden Osama bin Mohammed bin Awad bin Laden (10 March 1957 – 2 May 2011) was a Saudi-born extremist militant who founded al-Qaeda and served as its leader from 1988 until Killing of Osama bin Laden, his death in 2011. Ideologically a Pan-Islamism ...

from 1992–94, and is alleged to have procured weapons and equipment overseas.The 9/11 Commission Report
page 521, footnote 58

Life in the United States

In the 1980s, he was living in Tucson, Arizona where he was in contact with Wadi al-Hage, who also lived in the city.The 9/11 Commission Report
pp. 57-58 The pair were likely associated with the city's fledgling Maktab al-Khidamat.

Life in Sudan

While living in Khartoum in 1991, al-Duri shared an office with Al-Jihad member Abu Hassan el Masry.

Jamal al-Fadl Jamal Ahmed al-FadlJamal al-Fadl testimony, United States vs. Osama bin Laden et al., trial transcript, Day 2, Feb. 6, 2001. ( ar, جمال أحمد محمّد الفضل, ''Jamāl Aḥmad Muḥammad al-Faḍl'') (born 1963-) is a Sudanese milit ...

testimony, United States vs. Osama bin Laden et al, trial transcript, Day 2, Feb. 6, 2001. He was a personal friend of Syrian-American honey producer

Mohammed Loay Bayazid Born in Syria, Mohammed Loay Bayazid is an American citizen alleged to have been a founding member of al-Qaeda, although he has cooperated with American authorities and claims his role in the group has been over-stated. He was alleged to have been ...

, who is believed to have recruited him.

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Interview of anonymous source
May 15, 1998 al-Duri worked for the agricultural firm named Al-Thimar al-Mubaraka (''Blessed Fruits'') which exported corn and sunflower seeds, and employed 10,000 workers,"The Osama bin Laden I Know", ''supra'' note 11, at page 126. and was in charge of their

Al-Damazin Farms The Al-Damazin Farms, about south-east of Khartoum, Sudan, was an "enormous" farm owned and run by Osama bin Laden. Bin Laden received the land on which the farms were based in payment by the Sudanese government for construction work he had perf ...

project,CSIS, Summary of the Security Intelligence Report concerning Mohammad Zeki Mahjoub, February 2008 which included 4,000 seasonal workers tending nearly a million acres (4,000 km²). An agricultural engineer named Mohammad Zeki Mahjoub met with al-Duri, at the request of Bin Laden and became the farms' Deputy General Manager. Bell, Stewart,

National Post The ''National Post'' is a Canadian English-language broadsheet newspaper available in several cities in central and western Canada. The paper is the flagship publication of Postmedia Network and is published Mondays through Saturdays, with M ...

Bin Laden WMD chief once lived in B.C.
, 26 November 2005Mahjoub, Mohammad. Affidavit filed September 6, 2000 in the case ''Minister of Citizenship and Immigration and Mohamed Zeki Mahjoub'' On October 17, 1993, al-Duri wrote Mahjoub a reference letter vouching for his work with the farms in al-Damazin from February 1992 until May 1993.

Life in Canada

He is reported to have lived in Richmond, British Columbia, probably in the late 1990s. He was also in contact with Mohammad Zeki Mahjoub. In 2005, Canadian judge

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released a ruling that suggested that al-Duri likely maintained contact with

Essam Marzouk An Egyptian resident of British Columbia, Essam Hafez Mohammed Marzouk (عصام حافظ محمد مرزوق) arrived in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada in 1993 as a refugee fleeing persecution in Pakistan. He was one of 14 people subjected ...

while living in British Columbia.

Return to Sudan

In November 2001, al-Duri was contacted by

Sudanese intelligence The General Intelligence Service or Directorate of General Intelligence Service is the intelligence service of the federal government of Sudan, created in July 2019 from the former ''National Intelligence and Security Service'' ( ar, جهاز ا ...

services who informed him that the FBI had sent Jack Cloonan and several other agents, to speak with himself and Mohamed Loay Bayazid. al-Duri and another Iraqi colleague agreed to meet with Cloonan in a safe house overseen by the intelligence service. They were asked whether there was any possible connection between Saddam Hussein and

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, and laughed stating that Bin Laden hated the dictator who he believed was a "Scotch-drinking, woman-chasing apostate.”Silverstein, Ken. Los Angeles Times,
Official Pariah Sudan Valuable to America's War on Terrorism
, April 29, 2005 In 2002, the CIA sent Rolf Mowatt-Larssen to again interview al-Duri and Bayazid, to see if they couldn't be made to defect, although both refused. Tenet, George, " At the Centre of the Storm", 2007. pp 270-271 Now lives in hiding between the Gulf states and Iraq

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Duri, Mubarak Living people Year of birth missing (living people) Iraqi expatriates in the United States Iraqi Sunni Muslims 20th-century Iraqi physicians Iraqi expatriates in Canada Iraqi expatriates in Sudan