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b6 b7C making its selection, e.g., U.s. embassies, World Trade Center, military barracks, uss Cole, etc. (U) 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 1996), 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 of the uss. Cole in Yemen (November 20o0). (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 RAYEd mohAmMEd AbDULLaH despite the act that he was due to the fact that his riled a student visa application in October, 1997, to attend a university in the United. Investigation has identified two aliases utilized during his third interview with the FBI. when asked he used any other names stated that the name. is his true full name. He is known I lane in the Middle East. He shortened. his name to. when he came to the United States. claimed that he las ony used the name. on official and non-. Official documentation since arriving in the United States. is unaware of the fact that the FBI knows that he also yses. the name Investigation determined that uses this name on a compac disc he is featured on singing from the Koran: did not volunteer this name to the FBI during any of his interviews. REQ 3-lq 000000080