Mehdat Abdul Salam Shabana

Mehdat Abdul Salam Shabana (born in Afghanistan) was a member of the board of directors, during the mid 1990s, of the now defunct Konsojaya Trading Company, a terrorist front organization based in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Konsojaya was a shell company cofounded by Riduan Isamuddin, better known as "Hambali", in June 1994. As of January 2002, Shabana's whereabouts were still unknown.

Hambali, now in U.S. custody since 2003, was the leader of the southeast Asia terrorist group Jemaah Islamiyah, which later became associated with al-Qaeda, along with Abu Sayyaf in the Philippines. Hambali was also a close friend of the later al-Qaeda 9/11 mastermind, Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, also now in U.S. custody since 2003. Mohammed in turn had become one of the original 22 FBI Most Wanted Terrorists, indicted for his role in the planning of the 1995 terrorist plot named Operation Bojinka, to bomb eleven U.S. airliners. It was accidentally discovered and foiled in Manila, Philippines.

The Bojinka bombs were in the process of being constructed by Mohammed's nephew, Ramzi Yousef, who was, by then, already wanted by the United States Department of Justice as one of the FBI's Ten Most Wanted Fugitives for his own earlier role in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing.

Another Afghan named Wali Khan Amin Shah was also one of the board of directors of the Konsojaya company. He owned the...
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