Darkanzali,Mamoun

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Mamoun Darkazanli, a Syrian-born executive in Germany who German authorities suspect may be a link between the hijackers and Islamic extremists in Germany. Darkazanli has been included on a list of 27 individuals and organizations whose assets were frozen by the United States on suspicion that they provided money to bin Laden's group, al Qaeda. Mamoun Darkanzali visited with Mohamed Atta, Al-Shehhi,Marwan and Jarrah,Siad, the same Hamburg mosque, Al Quds and knew all tenants of Atta's home address, 54 Marienstr., one of them Ramzi Binalshibh (->). Darkanzali was on a watch list of the CIA since at least 1999 and, due to a Chicago Tribune report, they tried to hire him as an informant: "Early two years before the Sept. 11 hijackings, the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency began persistent efforts to recruit as an informer a Syrian-born Hamburg businessman with links to Al Qaeda and the key hijackers, the Tribune has learned. The CIA's attempts to enlist Mamoun Darkazanli were initiated in late 1999... Darkazanli, 44, has acknowledged knowing the three pilots, Mohamed Atta, Al-Shehhi,Marwan and Jarrah,Siad, with whom he attended the same radical Hamburg mosque, Al Quds, and shared several friends in this city's sizable but insular Muslim community. ...the disclosure that the CIA was seeking to turn Darkazanli into a spy during the time the initial hijacking plans were being laid represents the earliest and deepest set of U.S. intelligence footprints outside the hijackers' window. http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-0211170296nov17,0,6628254.story?coll=chi%2Dnews%2Dhed One possible reason for the observation of Darkanzali, which included Atta,Mohammad, was that Darkanzali had been in contact with two bin Ladin's associates in Sudan, Wadih El-Hage (Manbaa Al Anhar Trading, Dubai) and Mamdouh Mahmud Salim, who is imprisoned on terrorism conspiracy charges for the 1998 bombings of U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, already arrested since September 1998. http://www.cnn.com/2002/LAW/01/28/salim.trial/ In Sudan, Salim once ran Wadi Aqiq, bin Laden's umbrella company. Wadih El-Hage was bin Laden's personal secretary when his organization was based in Sudan and later became a key facilitator of his East Africa cell, living in Nairobi from 1994 to 1997. One el Hage business card, for his "Anhar Trading Co.," listed two addresses -- his former home address in Arlington, Texas, and a second address in Hamburg, Germany, which matches the home address of Marmoun Darkazanli, who has lived in Germany since 1985. Anhar Trading is specialised in Building & Construction Material Trading http://www.ecemirates.com/yp/details.asp?companyid=37082 http://www.cnn.com/2001/US/10/16/inv.embassy.bombings.connections/ Darkanzali's Import-Export company had ties in Spain. As reported, in January 2000, Atta and Shehhi flew to Madrid, Spain where they met Imad Eddin Barakat Yarbas, otherwise known as 'Abu Dahdah', a Palestinian with Spanish citizenship and connections with Bin Laden associates. Spanish intelligence had tapped Yarbas' telephone since 1997. In November 2001, Yarbas and seven other suspects had been arrested in Spain. It is said, they had ties to three other suspects of an european cell, already arrested in September 2001 and June 2002. One of them, Mohamed Bensakhria aka Meliani, an alleged aide to bin Laden, was arrested in Spain. http://www.cnn.com/2001/WORLD/europe/11/18/inv.spain.suspects/?related http://www.papillonsartpalace.com/alqaedas.htm Bensakhria used to live in Frankfurt, germany, where he was in contact with some asociates of the milan base of the algerian based Salafist Group for Call and Combat (GSPC). http://www.cdi.org/terrorism/gspc.cfm The GSPC was on a watchlist since years. Haydar Abu Doha, a London-based Algerian known as "the Doctor", was one of the leaders, helping recruiting members. One of their plans was to blow up markets at the G-8 summit in Genoa in 2001, but US officials had been able to save the city. Abu Doha was connected to Ahmed Ressam, the Algerian convicted for trying to attack Los Angeles International Airport during the millennium changeover. (See Informants) (-> Spanish connection) (See TrackingAllHijackers)