Mohammed Mansour Jabarah was born on December 21,1981 and is a Kuwaiti convicted of terrorism-related offences.
15 Facts About Mohammed Jabarah
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Mohammed Jabarah agreed to cooperate with authorities, but is currently serving a life sentence in ADX Florence after he violated his release conditions.
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Mohammed Jabarah was born in Al Sabah Hospital in Kuwait City, and traveled to Egypt and Saudi Arabia with his parents as a child.
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Mohammed Jabarah moved to Canada with his family on August 16,1994 at the age of 12 and attended Holy Cross Catholic Secondary School in St Catharines, Ontario.
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Mohammed Jabarah returned to Canada and began fundraising, raising C$3,500 which he gave to Ghaith for the First Chechen War.
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In July 2000, Abdul Rahman left for an Afghan training camp, and the following month Mohammed Jabarah flew to Kuwait where he met with Ghaith who paid his fare to Karachi, from whence he traveled to Peshawar and hiked on foot into Torkham where the two brothers met up, waiting for their promised camp to finish construction and hanging around the Sheik Shaheed Abu Yahya Training Camp near Kabul instead.
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Mohammed Jabarah vowed allegiance to bin Laden in May or July 2001 in Kandahar.
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On September 10,2001 - at the urging of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Jabarah left Pakistan and flew to Hong Kong where he stayed in a hotel.
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However the group was under surveillance, and arrested members confessed to meeting "Sammy", although Mohammed Jabarah had fled the country.
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Mohammed Jabarah was arrested by Oman authorities in February or March 2002.
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Mohammed Jabarah's brother phoned their father Mansour, and was warned that Canadian authorities were looking for him as well.
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Mohammed Jabarah lived in a series of safe houses, working as a double agent for the Americans, and helped them track both Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and Osama bin Laden as part of what he was told was a plea bargain.
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Four months later, Mohammed Jabarah stated that Mohamed's lieutenant Abu Abdelrahman had told him that Reid and Jdey had both been enlisted by the al-Qaeda chief to carry out identical plots as part of a second wave of attacks against the United States, and that Jdey had blown up the flight.
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Mohammed Jabarah was re-arrested in the autumn, after a Federal Bureau of Investigation search of his house found a list of American agents and prosecutors, a knife and rope in his luggage and bomb-making instructions.
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Mohammed Jabarah was held in the Manhattan Detention Center until he was sentenced to life imprisonment by judge Barbara S Jones.