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b6 SECKET : b7C making its selection, e.g., U.S. embassies, World Trade Center, military barracks, USS Cole, etc. (GU) The U.S. State Department currently links AL-QAEDA to Many recent terrorist attacks, among them the World Trade Center bombing (February 1993); the attacks in Riyadh (November 1995) and Dhahran (June 19936), Saudi Arabia; the assassination attempt on Egyptian President Mubarak in Ethiopia (June 1995); the near-simultaneous bombings of the U.S. embassies in Nairobi, Kenya, and Dar-es-Salaam, Tanzania (August 1998); and the bombing ef the USS Cole in Yemen (November 2000). (U) AL-QAEDA may have several hundred to several thousand members. AL-QAEDA serves as a focal point or umbrella organization for a worldwide network that includes, among others, many Sunni Islamic extremist groups such as Egyptian Islamic Jihad, some members of AL-GAMA'AT AL-ISLAMIYYA, the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan, and the HARAKAT UL-MUJAHIDIN. AL-QAEDA has a worldwide reach, has cells in a number of countries, and is reinforced by its ties to Sunni extremist networks. USAMA BIN LADEN and his key lieutenants reside in Afghanistan, and the group maintains terrorist: training camps there. INVESTIGATION TO DATE RAYED MOHAMMED ABDULLAH during his third interview with the FBI, b names stated that the name is his true full name. He ‘Cd oT e shortened his name tc — when he came i claime at y used the name on Official and non- official documentation since arriving in the United States. fact that the FBI knows that _he also uses @ name Investigation determined that uses this name on a compact disc he is featured on singi Ve S from the Koran.[_Jdid not volunteer this name to the FBI during any of his interviews. super 3 REQ 3-1q | 000000080