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From Germ Warfare to Restaurateur: The Life of Malaysia’s Yazid Sufaat

Publication: Volume: 1 Issue: 9
September 29, 2010 08:10 PM Age: 3 yrs
Category: Militant Leadership Monitor, Home Page, Terrorism, Southeast Asia

By: Peter Chalk

Yazid Sufaat

IntroductionYazid Sufaat, a former captain in the Malaysian Army, was arrested under Kuala Lumpur’s Internal Security Act (ISA) in December 2001. He was directly tied to two of the hijackers involved in the 9/11 attacks against the World Trade Center and Pentagon; is known to have provided Zacarias Moussaoui with both money and false employment papers; is thought to have assisted in planning attacks against an array of Western targets in Singapore; and is still believed to have been integral to al-Qaeda’s early attempts to manufacture biological weapons. In December 2008, it was announced that Sufaat had been released from prison and is thought to still be in Malaysia....