A man named Yazid Sufaat lent his condominium, the Kuala Lumpur Hotel, to Islamic veterans of the Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan. Several people working on the attack came, including Hambali, Ramzi Binalshibh, Nawaf al-Hazmi, Khalid al-Mihdhar, and Tawfiq bin Attash. The United States had intercepted a telephone call to Yemen in which al-Mihdhar made arrangements for the trip. Osama bin Laden had called that telephone number dozens of times. The CIA asked Malaysian authorities to monitor the meeting, which they did. Much of the meeting was videotaped, although no sound recordings were made.
The men were also photographed when they came out of the meeting. U.S. investigators did not identify these men until much later. The meeting lasted from January 5 to January 8, 2000. The summit's purpose was allegedly to plan future terrorist attacks, which apparently included the October 2000 bombing of the USS Cole and the 9/11 plot.
U.S. investigators figured out that Binalshibh attended by looking at credit card records. Sufaat was later arrested. He denied that he knew the men that Hambali asked him to keep in his condominium.
The meeting was held in the hotel room of Yazid Sufaat, a former army captain and businessman, in a hotel in Kuala Lumpur.
The summit's purpose was allegedly to plan future terrorist attacks, which apparently included the October 2000 bombing of the USS Cole and the 9/11 plot.
AlQaeda has been blamed for many lethal attacks, including the attack on the World Trade Center, and the Pentagon, on September 11, 2001, which resulted in 3,031 deaths, and damage estimated to be in the billions of dollars.
AlQaeda's military infrastructure in Afghanistan was destroyed but U.S. officials believe the terrorist network has reconstituted itself in Pakistan, with more than 3,500 AlQaeda fighters believed to be hiding through-out Pakistan's cities and border areas.
AlQaeda was in contact with the kurdish islamist group Ansar al-islam from it's inception in 1999.
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