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Known Activities of Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri

Major Events
EventTimeAssociated
USS Cole bombing1122 local, Oct. 12, 2000Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri (Operational Commander), Tawfiq bin Attash (Facilitator), Ibrahim al-Thawar (Suicide Bomber), Hassan al Khamri (Suicide Bomber), Jamal al Badawi (Facilitator), Fahd al Quso (Facilitator), Mushin Musa Matwalli Atwah (Facilitator), Osama bin Laden (Organizer), Saif al-Adel (Facilitator), Qaed Salim Sinan al-Harethi (Facilitator), Mohammed Hamdi al-Ahdal (Facilitator)
Limburg oil tanker attackedOct. 6, 2002Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri (Organizer), Osama bin Laden (Organizer), Fawaz al-Rabihi (Facilitator), Mohammed Hamdi al-Ahdal (Facilitator), Qaed Salim Sinan al-Harethi (Facilitator)
Al-Nashiri capturedEarly November 2002Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri
All Events
EventTimeAssociated
Al-Nashiri becomes trainer at Khalden1992Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri
Al-Nashiri in Tajikistan1994Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri
Al-Nashiri and Attash meet bin Laden1994Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri, Tawfiq bin Attash, Osama bin Laden
Al-Nashiri goes to Tajikistan1996Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri
Nashiri meets bin Laden in JalalabadLate 1996Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri, Osama bin Laden
Nashiri visits Saudi ArabiaLate 1996Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri
Al-Nashiri goes home to YemenLate 1996-
1997
Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri
Al-Nashiri fights with Taliban in Kabul1997Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri
Al-Nashiri fights with Taliban in Jalalabad1997Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri
Nashiri and Azzam plot to smuggle missiles into Saudi ArabiaEarly 1998Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri, Azzam
Osama bin Laden tasks al-Nashiri to attack shipLate 1998Osama bin Laden, Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri
Nashiri enlists Badawi in Cole plotSpring 1999Tawfiq bin Attash (Communicant 1), Jamal al Badawi (Communicant 2), Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri
Nashiri rents Aden residenceSummer 1999Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri (Leader), Jamal al Badawi (Facilitator)
Nashiri buys boatSummer 1999Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri (Leader), Jamal al Badawi (Facilitator)
Nashiri transports explosives to AdenFall 1999Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri (Leader)
Failed USS The Sullivans bombingJan. 3, 2000Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri (Operational Commander), Jamal al Badawi (Facilitator), Fahd al Quso (Facilitator), Hassan al Khamri, Ibrahim al-Thawar
Nashiri salvages The Sullivans bomb boatJan. 4, 2000Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri
Nashiri and Attash meet with bin Laden on Cole plotSpring 2000-
Summer 2000
Osama bin Laden, Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri, Tawfiq bin Attash
Nashiri and Atwah test explosivesSummer 2000-
Fall 2000
Mushin Musa Matwalli Atwah, Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri
Nashiri refits bomb boatSummer 2000-
Fall 2000
Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri
Nashiri in Afghanistan during Cole attackOct. 12, 2000Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri
USS Cole bombing1122 local, Oct. 12, 2000Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri (Operational Commander), Tawfiq bin Attash (Facilitator), Ibrahim al-Thawar (Suicide Bomber), Hassan al Khamri (Suicide Bomber), Jamal al Badawi (Facilitator), Fahd al Quso (Facilitator), Mushin Musa Matwalli Atwah (Facilitator), Osama bin Laden (Organizer), Saif al-Adel (Facilitator), Qaed Salim Sinan al-Harethi (Facilitator), Mohammed Hamdi al-Ahdal (Facilitator)
Limburg oil tanker attackedOct. 6, 2002Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri (Organizer), Osama bin Laden (Organizer), Fawaz al-Rabihi (Facilitator), Mohammed Hamdi al-Ahdal (Facilitator), Qaed Salim Sinan al-Harethi (Facilitator)
Al-Nashiri capturedEarly November 2002Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri
Fourteen senior prisoners to GuantanamoSept. 4, 2006Ali Abdulaziz Ali, Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani, Hambali, Mustafa Ahmed al-Hawsawi, Lillie, Majid Khan, Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri, Abu Faraj al-Libbi, Abu Zubaydah, Ramzi Binalshibh, Zubair, Tawfiq bin Attash, Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, Gouled Hassan Dourad

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