Abdullah Bin Khalid Al-Thani

Sheikh Abdullah Bin Khalid Al-Thani is the Minister of the Interior of Qatar. He is a member of the House of Al-Thani, the Qatari royal family, and is thus related to the emir, Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al-Thani, and the prime minister, Hamad ibn Jaber Al Thani.

Controversy

Al-Thani was Qatar’s Minister of Religious Affairs in 1996. During that time he sheltered Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, and helped him to evade capture by the U.S. FBI in 1996 when the FBI closed in on him in connection with the 1993 World Trade Center bombing and the Bojinka Plot. Khalid Sheikh Mohammed later became more closely associated with the al-Qaeda organization and went on to mastermind the September 11, 2001 attacks. ["Context of 'January-May 1996: US Fails to Capture KSM Living Openly in Qatar'" "Cooperative Research History Commons" http://www.cooperativeresearch.org/context.jsp?item=a96qatar] Wayne Barrett, November 27, 2007 http://www.villagevoice.com/news/0748,barrett,78478,6.html] [http://www.propeller.com/viewstory/2007/11/29/olbermann-giulianis-direct-connections-to-terrorists/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fca.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3D8wCTXcsB7zU&frame=true Home | Propeller ] ] [http://www.motherjones.com/mojoblog/archives/2007/11/6339_rudy_is_a_terro.html MotherJones Blog: "Village Voice": Giuliani Did Business With Terrorism Supporter ] ] [Marcus Baram, ABC News November 29, 2007 "Giuliani's Ties to Qatar Raise Questions for Mr. 9/ll" http://blogs.abcnews.com/theblotter/2007/11/giulianis-ties.html]

News media have reported that a subsidiary of Giuliani Partners has worked for either Qatar's interior ministry or for the Qatar government-owned company it oversees, Qatar Petroleum. He has issues : 16 sons

1- Khalid bin Abdullah Bin Khalid Al-Thani

2- Jassim bin Abdullah Bin Khalid Al-Thani

3- Hamad bin Abdullah Bin Khalid Al-Thani

4- Muhammed bin Abdullah Bin Khalid Al-Thani

5- Ali bin Abdullah Bin Khalid Al-Thani

6- Hassan bin Abdullah Bin Khalid Al-Thani

7- Abdulrahman bin Abdullah Bin Khalid Al-Thani

8- Saud bin Abdullah Bin Khalid Al-Thani

9- Suhaim bin Abdullah Bin Khalid Al-Thani

10- Abdelaziz bin Abdullah Bin Khalid Al-Thani

11- Thani bin Abdullah Bin Khalid Al-Thani

12- Thamir bin Abdullah Bin Khalid Al-Thani

13- Ahmed bin Abdullah Bin Khalid Al-Thani

14- Nasir bin Abdullah Bin Khalid Al-Thani

15- Faisal bin Abdullah Bin Khalid Al-Thani

16- Khalifa bin Abdullah Bin Khalid Al-Thani

See also

*Politics of Qatar
*Qatar

Notes

External links

* [http://www.moi.gov.qa/english/about_moi/the_minister.html English version of official biography page at Ministry's website]
* [http://www.propeller.com/viewstory/2007/11/29/olbermann-giulianis-direct-connections-to-terrorists/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fca.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3D8wCTXcsB7zU&frame=true Keith Olberman MSNBC story on Khalid Al-Thani's reputed links to Khalid Sheikh Muhammad]
* [http://www.cooperativeresearch.org/entity.jsp?entity=abdallah_bin_khalid_al-thani Composite of news reports back to 1990s, at cooperativereasearch.org]