Who were the Kuwaiti brothers who were the messengers of Osama?

It has been exactly six days since the Abbottabad operation. May 8, 2011 is a normal night. The office of Taseer, a daily published in Kohat in Islamabad’s Sector I Ten, has been closed as the paper goes to press at eight o’clock in the evening.

24-year-old Abdul Salam lives in the office with two other friends. Late at night there is a knock at the door. Abdulsalam’s companion gets up as soon as the door opens, several armed men dressed in civilian clothes push the door and enter.

Catch Salam and get lost in the darkness of the night. Salam has been working in this newspaper for three years as circulation manager.

This incident is recorded on page 30 of the book ‘The Secrets of Pakistan’s War on Al-Qaeda’ by renowned journalist Aizaz Syed, published by Narratives Publications in Islamabad in 2015. The book contains many amazing incidents which are not mentioned in the books published on Osama from other countries.

One of the reasons for this is that the access that Aizaz had as a field and investigative reporter in Pakistan was not available to other famous journalists, including Peter Bergen, who were writing in America.

Who was Abdul Salam, and why was he picked? The answer to this question has been given by Aizaz Syed as saying that Salam was the elder brother of Musa, another brother of the Kuwaiti brothers, who had a honey shop in Kuwait. Musa was married in 2003 in Kohat, attended by Kuwaiti brothers.

Salam was picked up by a phone call from one of his cousins, Mohammad, who told him that the bodies being shown on TV were those of two of his close relatives. These two relatives were Kuwaiti brothers who were killed along with Osama bin Laden in the May 2 operation.

Javed Malik, who is also a journalist himself, was the editor of the daily Taseer at the time Abdus Salam was picked up.

He told Independent Urdu that before me, Kamal Azfar was the editor of this newspaper who was also related to Kohat and it was he who appointed Abdus Salam to the bureau office of daily Taseer who was later appointed as circulation manager in Islamabad. was done

Kamal Azfar is said to have belonged to the media wing of a banned party. Later, he was associated with Hamid Mir’s newspaper Ausaf, which was not only famous for supporting the Taliban, but Hamid Mir himself had interviewed Osama bin Laden twice.

Kamal Azfar also belonged to Kohat and had access to the inner circle of the Taliban. Surprisingly, this same Kamal Azfar, whose fame was in the jihadi media before the mainstream media, also became the president of the Rawalpindi wing of the Islamabad Union of Journalists, which calls itself the representative of the left wing.

Where is this Kamal Azfar now? No one knows. He has been missing for the past four years and his family has registered an FIR against him.

Javed Malik says that it was surprising to us that Abdul Salam belonged to the family of the Kuwaiti brothers but he was not aware of the activities of the Kuwaiti brothers, that was the reason why he was quickly released by the agencies after which he Kuwait was gone.

The mastermind behind the September 11 attacks on America, Khalid Sheikh Muhammad, was arrested on March 1, 2003, in Rawalpindi. He told investigators that his last contact with Osama was when he was in Kannada province.

From Tora Bora, two people named Ahmad Al-Kuwaiti and Aminul Haq took Osama away. All the key al-Qaeda arrests since then show that Osama bin Laden’s circle is very limited, with only two men close to him who act as messengers for him.

So in the following years, the CIA concentrated all its efforts on who these messengers were, and until they were identified, Osama bin Laden could not be reached.

In the book ‘Manhunt’ published in 2012 by the well-known American journalist Peter Bergen, it is written that Muhammad al-Khatani, who was sent to the United States by al-Qaeda as the twentieth hijacker, was deported from the Orlando airport.

When he was later arrested in Tora Bora, he was the first to speak out about Osama’s messenger, saying that in July 2001 he had met al-Quwaiti in Karachi, who had given him secret al-Qaeda messages. Was informed about the ways of

But the CIA still couldn’t conclude whether al-Quwaiti was a high-profile figure or similar to the hundreds of al-Qaeda operatives languishing in CIA detention facilities in Guantanamo Bay, Eastern Europe and Afghanistan.

But when the CIA arrested Hambali, an al-Qaida leader in Thailand, he said that after fleeing Afghanistan, he had been staying at an al-Qaida safe house in Karachi managed by al-Quwaiti.

In mid-January 2004, a Pakistani, Hasan Gul, was arrested in Iraq with a letter from Osama to Al-Qaeda in Iraq. In this letter, it was written that they should wage an open war against the Shia population of Iraq.

He said that the letter was given to him by Osama’s messenger al-Kuwaiti, who meets with Osama, and that al-Kuwaiti is Khalid Sheikh Mohammed’s man and is now close to Faraj Alibi, the new Al Qaeda operations commander who replaced Khalid Sheikh Mohammed. . It was Faraj’s alibi that carried out two assassination attempts on the then President Musharraf in December 2003.

He was arrested on May 2, 2005 from Mardan. He stated that al-Kuwaiti was not a key leader of al-Qaeda, but was actually Maulvi Abdul Akhleq Jan who delivered a letter to him on Osama’s behalf appointing him as al-Qaeda’s third-in-command, replacing Khaled Sheikh Muhammad.

Libby received this letter when he was living in Abbottabad. Later, counter-terrorism experts concluded that this was actually another alias of Al-Quwaiti, who was also known by aliases Muhammad Khan, Sheikh Abu Ahmad and Arshad Khan. However, the dilemma for the investigators was: Who is the Kuwaiti?

However, a Mauritanian prisoner told the CIA that a Kuwaiti had been killed in front of him at the Battle of Tora Bora, a statement that caused further confusion. However, now all the eyes of the investigators were on Al-Quwaiti because they believed that without reaching Al-Quwaiti they could not reach Osama.

2010 was the year when the CIA, with the help of a third country, was able to learn that Lakwiti’s real name was Ibrahim Saeed Ahmed. The phone he was using was sometimes on and when it was, his geo-location was Peshawar, Rawalpindi and GT Road. After making a call, not only the phone was turned off, but the battery was also removed.

It was a summer day in 2010 when the Kuwaiti turned on the phone and on the other end was an old friend speaking from a Gulf country whose phone was already on observation. He said:

‘We miss you so much.’

Al-Quwaiti answered roundly, ‘I am with the same people who used to be with me before.’

A deep silence followed, then the Gulf friend replied, ‘May God be your supporter and supporter.’

After this call, the investigators were convinced that al-Kuwaiti was Osama’s messenger and if they could track down the Kuwaiti, Osama could be reached. In August 2010, CIA Director Leon Panetta was informed that Osama’s messenger had been located in a fortified house in Abbottabad. However, it was not under any illusion that the Messenger and Osama lived in the same house.

Aizaz Syed writes on page 38 of his book that the Kuwaiti brothers had a cousin Muhammad who lived in Kohat who was in contact with them and he had met them several times in Peshawar, in each meeting he handed over some things to him. She used to know him. Muhammad himself was a jihadist who had been associated with Lashkar-e-Taiba and had met Osama bin Laden in Afghanistan through his uncles.

The original names of the Kuwaiti brothers were Abrar and Ibrahim. Abrar was living with Osama bin Laden along with his wife and children in Abbottabad under the assumed name of Arshad and Ibrahim Tariq.

The local people knew as much that they belonged to the tribal areas, hence their house was called Waziristani Haveli. In fact, both these brothers belonged to the village of Salman Talab in Kohat. This is the same village where Ajab Khan Afridi abducted the Commissioner’s daughter Alice while rebelling during the British era.

The Kuwaiti brothers belonged to the Ahl al-Hadith school of thought and their father Ahmad Saeed graduated from Akora Khattak, where the emir of the Taliban, Mullah Omar, had also studied. Ahmad Saeed married Hamid Habibi and then moved to Kuwait. where he had eight sons and five daughters.

His six children, including Abrar and Ibrahim, were born in Kuwait. Both brothers had moved from Kuwait to Pakistan shortly before the September 11 attacks. In the same year, Ibrahim got married to Saeed’s nephew’s 14-year-old daughter Maryam, while elder brother Abrar got married to Bushra in 2002 in Swat.

Bushra belonged to Shangla. Two brothers of the Kuwaiti brothers were killed in Afghanistan, one in 1980 and the other in 2001.

His brother, who was killed in 2001, is believed to have been the one guarding Osama in Tora Bora. This was the reason that Osama trusted the Kuwaiti brothers and some people also say that one of Osama’s daughters was also related to the Kuwaiti family.

Former MNA from Kohat, Javed Ibrahim Paracha, told Independent Urdu that the Al-Kuwaiti family used to work for Osama bin Laden’s projects in Kuwait. Religious harmony later turned into intimacy.

It was these Kuwaiti brothers who took Osama alive from Tora Bora and brought him to his village of Salman Talab, where Osama lived with his family for a long time. The Kuwaiti family has a huge house, a bedroom and a football field where Osama’s children used to play football.

Javed Ibrahim Paracha says that Osama’s two sons were also married to the nieces of Ibrahim and Abrar here in Salman Talab.

The mastermind behind the 9/11 attacks was Khalid Sheikh Mohammed who introduced the Kuwaiti brothers to Osama. The contacts of these three were made in Kuwait. Maryam, who is the wife of the elder Kuwaiti brother Ibrahim, moved to Karachi with her husband after marriage.

This is believed to be the house where Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl was kidnapped by Ahmad Omar Saeed Sheikh and killed by Khalid Sheikh Mohammad.

Three months later, Maryam came to visit her parents. When she returned, Ibrahim had moved to another house. Ibrahim was absent from home for some time and returned to tell his wife that he had gone to Kuwait. It was in Karachi that Maryam was introduced to Osama’s wife Amal, who was introduced by Ibrahim as his friend’s wife.

Then Maryam started learning Arabic from Amal. After some time, Ibrahim, his wife Maryam, Amal and their children came to Swat from Karachi.

On the way they were put in a coach with a policeman and a clean-shaven man wearing a hat. They all reached a house by the river in Swat where Abrar was already present.

Later, when Amal and the clean-shaven man share the same room, Maryam finds out that he is Amal’s husband. Swat did not have visitors like Karachi, but in 2003, a man came with his seven wives and children, whose name was Hafiz.

Hafiz’s wife was the one in whose Karachi house Ibrahim’s celebration took place. These people stayed for a few days and then left. One day, the TV was on and the news was playing that the leader of Al-Qaeda, Khalid Sheikh Muhammad, had been arrested.

Maryam then found out that Hafiz was actually Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and that the clean shaven man who lives with him is Osama bin Laden.

When Maryam came to know all this, Ibrahim was very worried and then he confided in Maryam that these are great mujahids and we have got an opportunity to serve these mujahids.

After the arrest of Khalid Sheikh Muhammad, they vacated that house, Amal, Bushra, Maryam and the children were put in a coach and sent to Peshawar while the men went to another destination, while Osama’s wife Amal went to Pakistan. According to the statement given to the authorities, they had come to Shangla instead of Peshawar. This was the place where Abrar’s wife Bushra had a house.

Then after some time all these people gathered together in Naseem town of Haripur. But now Osama’s second wife Sharif al-Shaham and his son Khalid bin Laden and bin Laden’s daughters Maryam and Samira were also here. During their two-year stay in Haripur, no visitors came except for the mother of the Kuwaiti brothers, who came to visit them from Kuwait.

Amal became pregnant twice during her stay in Haripur. Abrar and his wife took him to the hospital and told the doctor that he was deaf and dumb.

In 2005, the three families shifted to a new house in Abbottabad built under their supervision by the Kuwaiti brothers. Osama lived on the third floor, his other two wives lived on the first and second floors with their children.

While living in Abbottabad, Bushra used to visit her parents in Shangla and Maryam used to visit her parents in Kohat. Osama had apprehensions about his going out. Coming to Abbottabad, Osama had grown his beard again.

According to Peter Bergen’s book, Osama used to give the Kuwaiti brothers the equivalent of $100 a month for past-time expenses. The monthly expenses of the Abbottabad compound were 1500 dollars i.e. around 300,000 rupees today, which was met by selling gold bangles.

Two goats were slaughtered every week in the compound. The compound had its own garden where vegetables were grown while hundreds of egg-laying hens were kept and milk cows were also kept.

Two Kuwaiti brothers were killed in the May 2011 operation. Abrar’s wife Bushra also got hit by Navy SEALs while saving her husband. While Ibrahim’s wife Maryam is living in Kohat with her and Abrar’s eight children.