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Khalid
Shaikh Mohammed
is
picturedshortly
after
his
capture Saturday during
a
raid in Pakistan.
Officials:
Alleged
al
Qaeda paymaster
in
custody
U.S. hunts
al
Qaeda operatives
in
U.S.
Tuesday, March
4,2003
Posted:
9:33
AM EST (1433
GMT)
WASHINGTON
(CNN)
-
U.S.
officials
confirmed on Tuesdaythat another significant alQaeda figure was captured inthe weekend raid in Pakistanthat nabbed suspectedSeptember
11
mastermindKhalid Sheikh Mohammed.
Mustapha
Ahmed al-Hawsawi, a manwho officials say sent cash to lead
9/11
hijacker Mohammed Atta through bankaccountsinDubaiand theUnited ArabEmirates,
was captured
along with
a
Pakistani man
said
to be of littleimportance during the raid that nettedMohammed
, al
Qaeda's operationschief.
An
official toldCNNthat Al-Hawsawiis
"not
a huge fish, but he is notinsignificant and he may know things."The identity of the new
U.S.
prisoner
wasfirst
reported
by The New
YorkTimes.Al-Hawsawi, also known as MustafaAhmed, has been named as a co-conspirator in the indictment ofZacarias Moussaoui,
who is
accused
of
engaging in the "same preparation for
murder" as the
19
hijackers
who
commandeered four
U.S.
ets andcrashed them into the World TradeCenter, Pentagon and Pennsylvania.AI-Hawsawi's phone numberwasalso
found
on a Federal Express packagesent by Atta in early September
2001
from
Floridato theU.A.E.Thenumberwas also used as a point of contact fora wire transfer to Ramzi
Binalshibh,
who
was arrested in Pakistan inSeptember 2002,and hasadmittedarole in planning the attacks.
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