Al Qaeda’s Al-Zawahiri Received Terrorist Training in Russia
MosNews
7/18/05
EXCERPT:
Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB), formerly known as the KGB, gave terrorist training to Ayman-al-Zawahiri, the second most wanted member of al-Qaeda after Osama bin Laden, Asian News International reported Sunday.
The Pakistani newspaper The Dawn quoted a report in the Polish newspaper “Rzeczpospolita” that before deciding to join Osama, Zawahiri received terrorist training in 1998 at an FSB camp in Dagestan.
Thereafter, he shifted his base to Afghanistan to become Osama bin Laden’s deputy, the paper quoted a former FSB agent as saying.
The agent also claimed that Zawahiri was not the only link between the FSB and al-Qaeda.
Zawahiri has been indicted for his alleged role in the Aug. 7, 1998, bombings of U.S. Embassies in Dar-es-Salaam, Tanzania, and Nairobi, Kenya.