Abou Faraj Al-Libbi , or Abou Faradj Al-Liby, alias Dr. Tawfiq, is an islamist terrorist, chief of the actions Terroriste S of Al-Qaïda to the Pakistan, and person in charge since April 2004 of the “Department of external operations”, which means that he is the first person in charge of the operations carried out in Occident.

Biography

It is originating in Libya and it would be implied in two attempted murders against the Pakistani president Pervez Musharraf in December 2003. He is a close relation of Usama Bin Laden and can be regarded as number 3 in the hierarchy of the organization and had accounts to return only to Bin Laden and Al-Zawahiri.

It is in April 2004, at a secret meeting which was held with Quetta, that it was elected emir of the “Department of external operations” of the organization. New brain of the Djihad, it succeeds Khalid Sheik Mohammed, principal coordinator of the attack of September 11th, called the brain by Ben Laden.

It makes London its target priority, projecting at least two attacks, as of the month of May 2004, according to documents seized during the arrest of a group of activists. The first aimed at the center of electronic listenings British, mainstay of the world network Echelon of American NSA, and the second envisaged the assassination of the Prime Minister Tony Blair, by using scissors contaminated with the Ricine. This choice of London is based above all on the strong establishment on all the Great Britain of many islamist combatants integrated into the population, originating in Pakistan and the Maghreb (Morrocans, Algerian, Tunisian and Libyans).

Its arrest

Naim Noor Khan, engineer pakistano-British, one of his close relations lieutenants, is stopped in June 2004, with Lahore, the Pakistan, in company of Khalfan Gailani, is sought since the attacks of 1998 in Africa. On the hard drives of their computers, two plans of attack:

• one against the seats of the the IMF and the the World Bank to Washington;
• the other against the subway of London, whose precision of the locations carried out and information collected, had led the British antiterrorist services to carry out a large wave of arrests in the islamist mediums Pakistani of the “Londonistan”.

Abou Faraj Al-Libbi is finally stopped Monday May 2nd, 2005 thanks to information of the American secret services. Its arrest with 5 other militants took place at the conclusion of a violent one exchange of shots at the exit of Mardan, to 50 km in the north of Peshawar chief town of the province of the Border of North, known to be particularly preserving. Its capture was put at price by American for 5 million US dollars although it is not reproduced on the official list of the terrorists most sought by FBI. Pakistan had also announced a premium of 20 million rupees (285 000 euro) for its capture.

He is actively questioned by the secret services Pakistani to obtain information on Bin Laden. Documents seized during its arrest would have revealed the existence of a commando infiltrated with the the United States in order to prepare an operation described like a “ September 11th (a) ”.

Investigations

After the arrest of Abou Faraj Al-Libbi, the persons in charge of the secret services had believed whereas an attack against the subway of London was not any more to fear for an immediate future, which was contradicted as of the July 7th. From now on, that means for the antiterrorist services, that the setting in a position to harm of the persons in charge of a network does not prevent the network from continuing its plan of attack, and that it is thus necessary to quickly carry out the survey to neutralize the executants.

Following the new investigations, it thus appears that:

• the plans of the subway of London and the locations made, were used by other terrorists belonging to cells independent, without direct link with the persons in charge of the network, enough tight to escape the investigators and to continue their mission;
• the networks Pakistani, on the British ground, integrate many djihadists of Maghrebian origin - the investigation goes back to Mohammed Al-Guerbouzi, terrorist sought for the attacks of Rabat - and others coming from the European networks affiliated into the Iraqi organization of the terrorist Abou Moussab Al-Zarqaoui.