Yazid Sufaat
Yazid Sufaat (born 20 January 1964), also known as Yazud bin Sufaat or Yazid Shufaat, is a
Biography
Early life
Sufaat was born in Johor Lama, Malaysia in 1964. In 1987, he graduated from California State University, Sacramento with a degree in biochemistry.[2] He then served in the Malaysian army as a medical technician, rising to the rank of captain.[1]
Terrorist career
Sufaat is now believed to be one of
From the 9/11 Commission report:[7]
The al-Qaeda-JI partnership yielded a number of proposals that would marry al-Qaeda's financial and technical strengths with JI's access to materials and local operatives. Here,
Kandahar airport.
Sufaat, through his company Green Laboratory Medicine, acquired four tonnes of ammonium nitrate for JI/MILF bomb-maker Fathur Rahman al-Ghozi.[8] The intended bombing spree in Singapore (see Singapore embassies attack plot) was averted by the arrests in Singapore on 9 December 2001 and the capture of al-Ghozi in the Philippines the following month.
At the time of the 9/11 attacks, Sufaat was still in Afghanistan whence he fled via Pakistan to Malaysia[5] where he was soon apprehended. He is still wanted by the United States in connection with 9/11.[5]
His assets, under the name of Yazud bin Sufaat, were frozen on 5 September 2003 by the
In December 2017, he was re-arrested under the Prevention of Terrorism Act 2015 (POTA) after the Malaysian authorities found that he had been recruiting fellow inmates for al-Qaeda while he was in prison.[13] As the allowed for the detention of a suspect without trial for two years, he was then released from the Simpang Renggam detention Centre on 19 November 2019. His release was decided by the Prevention of Terrorism Board and he was required to wear an electronic monitoring device and placed under house arrest.[13]
Yazid was also required to be within the Bandar Ampang area in Hulu Langat and he was required to report at the Ampang police station twice a week, and he could only leave the designated area with a written permission from the Selangor police chief.[13]
References
- ^ a b c d "Sufaat, Yazid". MIPT Terrorism Knowledge Base. Archived from the original on 30 September 2007.
- ^ a b Reports: Al-Qaeda operative sought anthrax, CNN, 10 October 2003
- ^ Yazid Sufaat, GlobalSecurity.org
- ^ Yazid Sufaat works on anthrax for al-Qaeda, GlobalSecurity.org
- ^ a b c Is Al-Qaeda Making Anthrax?, CBS News, 9 October 2003
- ^ The Kuala Lumpur meeting, at GlobalSecurity.org
- ^ a b c The 9/11 Commission Report; about the summit, see page 159
- ^ Untangling The Web, Time, 28 January 2002
- ^ US Treasury announcement of 20 names added to the Specially Designated Global Terrorist list, 5 September 2003
- ^ UN list of affiliates of al-Qaeda and the Taliban
- ^ "Al Qaeda's anthrax scientist". Thomas Joscelyn. 12 December 2008. Archived from the original on 17 December 2008. Retrieved 27 December 2008.
{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link) - ^ New Straits Times. "Detention of trio under Security Offences Act has global impact" Retrieved 11 February 2013"
- ^ a b c d "'Unrepentant terrorist' Yazid Sufaat freed from prison". The Star. Retrieved 11 September 2021.
- Collection of news articles Archived 4 February 2012 at the Wayback Machine