WHO IS ABU- AHMED AL-KUWAIT?
What amazed the CIA the most was that they knew all the top Al Qaeda leaders and lieutenants but this name was new to them. They never heard of Abu Ahmed al-Kuwait.
While Still in shock, Kurdish militants from Iraq contacted the US government to inform them that they had arrested Hasaan Ghul, one of Iraq's most trusted Al Qaeda agents. The CIA loaded Hassan Ghul on a plane and sent him to secret prisons in Romania.
After 'interviewing' him for several days, Hassan Ghul told them that he had received all the instructions about the attack and other plans from senior leader Osama Bin Laden through an acquaintance by the name of Abu Ahmed al-Kuwait.
CIA's surprise turned into a mystery. Who is this Abu Ahmed al-Kuwait and how can they find him?
CIA Director General ordered the identification and arrest of Abu Ahmed al-Kuwait to be the first priority.
After a long process finally in 2007 the CIA managed to identify Abu Ahmed al-Kuwait! They managed to get his real name (Ibrahim Saeed Ahmed) and that he was initially a KSM student before he became Bin Laden's spy.
After getting to know him somehow, the CIA set up an investigation to find out more about him. So that they could easily find him, the CIA conducted a special exercise to identify his various relatives who were living in different Arab countries.
After identifying the brothers of Al-Kuwait, the CIA worked to crack down on their brothers' telecommunications and one of the things they discovered was that they were in the habit of contacting different phone numbers but all of them from Pakistani.
This led the CIA to feel that these numbers belonged to al-Kuwait but he was changing them frequently to avoid detection.
So what the CIA did was wait for the day when any al-Kuwait brother made any call to Pakistan then they would track the number to find out who was talking to him.
As in 2010 a brother phoned to go to Pakistan in the town of Pashwar. Using Palestinians working for the CIA tracked down the phone in Pashwar and confirmed that the caller was Abu Ahmed al-Kuwait.
After al-Kuwait finished talking on the phone he got into the car and left and the detectives searched him carefully to find out where is he going.
Without knowing that he was being tracked down, al-Kuwait drove to Abbottabad. And when he arrived in Abbottabad he entered one of the mansions. The palace had a suspicious appearance and protection. And this led the CIA to believe that inside the palace was not the only al-Kuwait resident but it is possible that someone of higher status was living inside. Probably Al Qaeda's top leader, Osama bin Laden, was probably staying there.
After the CIA discovered the house and suspected it might be protecting Al Qaeda's most prominent leader, or it may have been Osama bin Laden himself, so they recruited spies from Abbottabad who bought a house in the city like any other citizen.
After they successfully settled in Abbottabad, they began collecting information about the palace and its residents.