Terror Suspects Still at Large

* Walid bin Attash, better known as Khallad, was an alleged Al Qaeda operative accused of serving as a bodyguard for Osama bin Laden and as a mastermind of the U.S. destroyer Cole bombing. But he also played an important role after Sept. 11, helping prepare Al Qaeda's defenses around Tora Bora. After that, he fled to Pakistan and served as a communications link between Al Qaeda's senior leadership and its network in Saudi Arabia. He also assisted in the movement of operatives between South and Southeast Asia and the Arabian Peninsula.

* Abd al Rahim al Nashiri was known as a suspected mastermind of the Cole bombing. But he was also said to be getting funding together for other Al Qaeda attacks. Among them: a plot to crash a small plane into the bridge of a Western navy vessel in Port Rashid, United Arab Emirates; a car bomb attack against a Saudi military installation aimed at killing U.S. personnel; attacks on oil tankers in the Strait of Gibraltar and Western warships passing through the Port of Dubai; and other attacks on land-based targets in Morocco and Qatar.

* Gouled Hassan Dourad allegedly headed a Mogadishu-based network for Al Qaeda fighters in Somalia. He allegedly cased a U.S. military base in Djibouti for possible attack and helped create a haven for Al Qaeda in Somalia, including locating safehouses and procuring weapons. He also was privy to many previously undisclosed Al Qaeda plots in Africa, including shooting down an Ethiopian jetliner landing at a Somalia airport in 2003 and kidnapping Western workers as a way of raising money.

* Mohd Farik Bin Amin, a Malaysian best known as Zubair, was one of two Jemaah Islamiah members chosen to be suicide operatives in an Al Qaeda attack on a Los Angeles skyscraper. The other was a Malaysian known as Mohammed Nazir bin Lep. The thwarted attack has been reported, but no names had been attached to it.

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josh.meyer@latimes.com

\o7Times staff writer Greg Miller contributed to this report.

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Facing trial

Among the high-value terrorism suspects transferred from CIA custody to Guantanamo Bay naval base in Cuba are these 11 men:

Ali Abdul Aziz Ali

Age 29, born in Baluchistan and raised in Kuwait. Pakistan-based, Al Qaeda-affiliated nephew of presumed Sept. 11 mastermind Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, for whom he allegedly served as a key lieutenant in the plot. Cousin of Ramzi Ahmed Yousef, his chief mentor, who is in prison for his role in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing.