| Importance | Medium |
 | Affiliation | Hamburg Cell |
| Role | Recruiter |
| Affiliation | Al-Qaeda |
| Nationality | Mauritanian1 |
| Alias(es) | Abu Musab1 |
| Gender | Male |
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| Reliable | Recruited the Hamburg cell members in 1999 to go to Afghanistan for training to fight in Chechnya.
He was known to U.S. and German intelligence agencies in 1999, but was not known to be in Germany in the later part of that year.1 |
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| 1 The 9-11 Commission Final Report, July 22, 2004, Chapter 5.3. |
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