- Abdul Hakim Murad (militant)
:"This article is about the Pakistani militant Abdul-Hakim Murad, not to be confused with the former
Timothy Winter , aLecturer inIslamic studies at theUniversity of Cambridge ."Abdul Hakim Ali Hashim Murad ( _ar. عبد الحكيم علي هشام مراد) born
January 4 ,1968 ) was an alleged conspirator in theBojinka plot planned mujahid attacks.He was found to have many aliases. A
Pakistan i passport found had "Abdul Hakim, student, age 26, Pakistani passport No. C665334, issued inKuwait ." He used the alias Ahmed Saeed whenManila police apprehended him. He was mentioned onRamzi Yousef 'slaptop personal computer as Obaid.He is the
Pakistan i-born son of a crane operator working for a petroleum company inKuwait . He graduated from a high school in Al-Jery|Al-Jery, Kuwait.Ramzi Yousef , a friend of Murad's who attended terrorist camps inAfghanistan , taught Murad how to make bombs inLahore ,Pakistan . During one of the practice sessions, abomb exploded in Yousef's face, impairing vision in one eye. While they were inMetro Manila in thePhilippines , Murad and Yousef often went to twokaraoke bars, the XO on Adriatico Street, and the Firehouse on Roxas Boulevard in Pasay City. According to Murad, they never went to themosque .Operation Bojinka
He attended a series of flight schools, including Emirates Flying School in
Dubai , United Arab Emirates, the Alpha Tango Flying Service in San Antonio,Texas , and flight schools in Schenectady,New York , New Bern,North Carolina ,Louisiana , andPasay City ,Philippines . OnJune 8 ,1992 , he received a Commercial Pilot certificate while atCoastal Aviation Incorporated , after completing 275 hours of required flight time.As part of the Bojinka plot, Murad was slated to bomb two
United Airlines aircraft, and was also slated to be the suicide pilot that would pilot a small plane filled with explosives into theCIA headquarters inLangley, Virginia .He was arrested shortly after police arrived at the Doña Josefa Apartments in
Manila, Philippines inJanuary 6 ,1995 , soon after a fire occurred when Murad was mixing chemicals. He left after the fire, but came back after the fire was put out to remove the laptop computer in the apartment, which contained the plans for the attack. He called himself Ahmed Saeed as he was being arrested. He offered 110,740Philippine peso s ($2,000 U.S. dollars) to the Manila police if they let him go. Although they did not make that much money in a year,Aida Fariscal , the watch commander, refused to let him go. Police grew suspicious after "Saeed" mumbled that, "two Satans that must be destroyed: the Pope and America." This led a further search of room 603, where they found a bomb factory and a computer with data relating to the plot.Abdul Hakim Murad was sent to the
United States onApril 12 ,1995 and would later help convict Yousef based on Murad's testimony. Murad got alife sentence to prison onMay 16 ,1998 . He is currently serving his time inADX Florence , the Federal ADXSupermax prison inFlorence, Colorado .External links
* [http://www.cnn.com/US/9609/05/terror.plot/index.html CNN Article on Murad's conviction] - Has a picture of Murad
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