Posted by
Team Turk on Saturday, September 09, 2006 12:40:34 PM
Kansas City Star reports
homegrown terrorist.
Did a Kansas City college student help Osama bin Laden start al-Qaida?
Federal law enforcement officials think he did. So do private-sector experts on international terrorism.
Now, a new book that chronicles the history of al-Qaida portrays former Kansas City resident Mohammed Loay Baizid as a confidant of bin Laden in the early years of the terrorist organization.
“He was one of the guys there when it all got started,” said John Lumpkin, a senior fellow at GlobalSecurity.org, an Alexandria, Va.-based defense-policy research firm and clearinghouse of military information. “He definitely was a major figure.”