Mohammed Atef

By William Lee Adams, Eben Harrell and Tara Kelly

Mohammed Atef was a senior al-Qaeda military chief and top deputy to Osama bin Laden. According to The 9/11 Commission Report, bin Laden decided to give the green light to the Sept. 11 plot at Atef's urging. Atef was killed in a U.S. air strike on his home near Kabul in November 2001.

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