Via Fox News:
The former Islamist warlord who was named in the 9/11 commission report as being the “mentor” of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed — the mastermind of the attacks — has announced his candidacy for the presidency of Afghanistan.
Abdul Rab Rasoul Sayyaf, 67, drove through Kabul on Thursday in a motorcade flanked by heavily-armed ex-fighters to register for the April 2014 election, The Telegraph reports.
“We will move to unite Afghanistan. If the nation is together and has the same voice, problems can be solved,” Sayyaf said, according to the Associated Press.
Sayyef had to resign his position as an Afghan lawmaker before he registered for the presidential race, but decades ago he battled the Soviet’s occupation of the country and ran militant training camps.
He met former Al Qaeda leader Usama bin Laden at one of the camps and is believed to have invited him to stay in Afghanistan when bin Laden was expelled from Sudan in 1996, The Telegraph reports