Safaa Mohammed Ali (1982-November 9, 2005) was an Iraqi

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who carried out the

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. He has been also referred to as one of the

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members who planned the 9/11 bombing on The Pentagon and the Twin Towers. He is also associated with a planned attack on the White House. He was captured in November 2004 by

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during the battle of Fallujah and he was released two weeks later because his captors failed to identify him as a combatant. Nearly a year later he detonated a suicide vest as one of the perpetrators of the

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Iraqi al-Qaeda members 1982 births 2005 deaths {{paramilitary-bio-stub