Zuher al-Tbaiti

Zuher al-Tbaiti
Zuher al-Tbaiti
Nationality	Saudi Arabian
Known for	2002 Strait of Gibraltar terror plot

Zuher al-Tbaiti (Arabic: زهير التبايتي) is a Saudi Arabian who was arrested in Morocco in May 2002 as the suspected ringleader of the al-Qaeda plot to bomb American and British vessels transiting the Strait of Gibraltar. He was sentenced to ten years in prison along with two other Saudis, Abdullah al-Ghamdi and Hilal al-Assiri.^[1]

Al-Tbaiti served as a military commander in Afghanistan before joining the Bosnian mujahideen as an artillery expert during the Bosnian War in the 1990s.^[2] Along with al-Ghamdi and al-Assiri, he escaped Afghanistan in 2001 during the Battle of Tora Bora, and arrived in Morocco.^[3]

References[edit]

^ Richardson, Michael (2004). A Time Bomb for Global Trade: Maritime-related Terrorism in an Age of Weapons of Mass Destruction. Institute of Southeast Asian Studies. pp. 19–20. ISBN 9789812302465.
^ Botha, Anneli (June 2008). "Terrorism in the Maghreb: The Transnationalisation of Domestic Terrorism: Chapter 3: Terrorism in Morocco". Institute for Security Studies.
^ Frantz, Douglas (24 June 2002). "U.S. Enlists Morocco's Help To Counter Terrorist Plots". The New York Times.

External links[edit]

[Richardson-1] Richardson, Michael (2004). A Time Bomb for Global Trade: Maritime-related Terrorism in an Age of Weapons of Mass Destruction. Institute of Southeast Asian Studies. pp. 19–20. ISBN 9789812302465.

[ISS-2] Botha, Anneli (June 2008). "Terrorism in the Maghreb: The Transnationalisation of Domestic Terrorism: Chapter 3: Terrorism in Morocco". Institute for Security Studies.

[NYT-3] Frantz, Douglas (24 June 2002). "U.S. Enlists Morocco's Help To Counter Terrorist Plots". The New York Times.

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