Ibrahim Saeed Ahmed
Events (22)
- January 22, 2004-2005: Trusted Courier Ahmed Moves to Abbottabad, Pakistan, Buys Land and Builds Hideout for Bin Laden 2004-01-22
- Shortly After January 23, 2004: CIA Interrogation of Al-Qaeda Leader Ghul Helps Search for Bin Laden’s Trusted Courier Ahmed 2004-01-23
- Shortly After May 2, 2005: Al-Qaeda Leader Al-Libbi Lies about Bin Laden’s Trusted Courier 2005-05-02
- August 1, 2010: US Intelligence Learns Exact Location of Bin Laden’s Hideout, in Abbottabad, Pakistan 2010-08-01
- April 24, 2011: WikiLeaks Release Possibly Affects US Plans to Get Bin Laden 2011-04-24
- May 2-5, 2011: Pakistani Police Detain up to 200 Neighbors of Bin Laden’s Compound in Attempt to Find His Accomplices 2011-05-02
- Shoftly After May 2, 2011: Bin Laden’s Death Reignites Debate over Usefulness of US Torture Techniques 2011-05-02
- June 23, 2011: Cell Phone Data Suggests Militant Group with ISI Ties Might Have Helped with Bin Laden’s Abbottabad Hideout 2011-06-23
- July 2003-Mid-2004: Al-Qaeda Leader Al-Libbi Lives in Abbottabad, Pakistan; Works with Key Courier Ahmed
- July-August 2010: US Intelligence Monitors Bodyguard’s Satellite Phone within Bin Laden’s Abbottabad Hideout
- July 2010: Bin Laden’s Courier Ahemd Makes Mistake that Allows US Intelligence to Start Tracking Him
- August-September 2010: US Intelligence Increasingly Convinced Bin Laden Is at Abbottabad Compound in Pakistan
- October-November 2004: Bin Laden Sends Letter to Al-Qaeda Leader Al-Libbi; US Intelligence Learns of This in 2005
- 2002: CIA Decides Ibrahim Saeed Ahmed Fits Profile of Ideal Courier for Bin Laden
- Late 2002: Tortured ‘20th Hijacker’ Provides Clues about Bin Laden’s Trusted Courier Ibrahim Saeed Ahmed
- (2006): US Intelligence Somehow Learns Last Name of Bin Laden Courier Ahmed; Full Name Still Needed
- 2007: US Intelligence Learns Real, Full Name of Key Al-Qaeda Courier Ahmed Through His Family in Kuwait
- (Mid-2007): Pakistan Releases Al-Qaeda Leader Ghul; He Rejoins Al-Qaeda
- Autumn 2003: KSM Lies, Possibly While under Torture, to Protect Identity of Bin Laden’s Trusted Courier Ahmed
- Early 2002: CIA First Learns Alias of Trusted Bin Laden Courier Ahmed
- Late 2005: Conflicting Prisoner Accounts Point to Importance of Al-Qaeda Courier Ahmed
- Summer 2009: US Intelligence Finally Determines General Location of Bin Laden’s Trusted Courier in Northwest Pakistan