In addition to his involvement in the Berlin nightclub bombing of 1986 and the explosion of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, in 1988, he supported a bizarre collection of terrorist groups and hunted individual dissidents.
The Pentagon says that "the largest collection of terrorist material ever" also reveals what US counter-terrorism officials have been trying to establish for years - the role that Osama Bin Laden played in the operations of regional affiliates of his organisation, such as the Yemen-based al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula.
"There is no organised collection of these terrorists in any district in Punjab," says Zulfiqar Khosa, an adviser to Punjab's chief minister.But the police say the "Punjabi Taliban" were behind the assault on the Ahmadis.
She also wrote screenplays, including The Shining (1980; with Stanley Kubrick); a collection of essays, Terrorists and Novelists (1982); and Into a Paris Quartier (2005), about Paris's Saint-Germain-des-Prés neighbourhood.
The videos, which were made public without sound to avoid disseminating terrorist messages, were the first materials to be released from what an American intelligence official described as the "single largest collection of senior terrorist materials ever".
Since its early days as a loose collection of underground terrorist cells, it has evolved into a hybrid organization woven into the structure of Lebanese society by providing social services and actively participating in politics while also engaging in international terrorist attacks and regional military operations.
The material found at the compound - which is reported to include digitial, audio and video files, as well as printed material, computer equipment, recording devices and hand-written documents - has been described by officials as "the single largest collection of senior terrorist materials ever".
"The activities of this group included fund collection for terrorist groups, active surveillance of establishments in Singapore targeted for terrorist bombing, as well as attempts to procure materials for bomb construction, including large quantities of ammonium nitrate," the statement said.
The enemy, rather, is "a collection of loosely affiliated terrorist organizations".
The evidence we have gathered all points to a collection of loosely affiliated terrorist organizations known as Al Qaeda.
The evidence we have gathered all points to a collection of loosely affiliated terrorist organizations known as al Qaeda.
