Mysuru: Officials of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) of the US are collecting details of the friends’ circle of Abu Zobaida, an accused in the September 11 terrorist attack in the United States, said to be a member of Al-Qaeda.
Zobaida had studied in a city college from 1989 to 1991. The Central Intelligence Agency arrested him in Pakistan in 2002.
According to sources, the CIA officials have collected details from Sarada Vilas College, where he studied and also visited Udayagiri area.
He had studied Computer Science, Physics, Mathematics, Arabic and English at the college.
The CIA officials searched for a woman who was a close aide of Zobaida.
US-based media organisation, aljazeera.com (http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2013/11/5/notebook-one-thesecretdiariesofabuzubaydah.html), has released Zobaida’s diary, in which he has mentioned about his stay in Mysuru.
The authors of ‘The Exile,’ the book about the life of Osama Bin Laden and also part of the team researching Zobaida’s life, Abbottabad Adrian Levy and Cathy Scott-Clark, had visited the city a few days ago, sources said.
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