Al Jazeera
In 1996, he joined the newly formed Al Jazeera, and is the bureau chief for the Arabic arm of the news agency. In April 2002, Fouda interviewed Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, who admitted his involvement, along with Ramzi bin al-Shibh, in the September 11 attacks. It has been suggested that Fouda gave away the hideaway location of bin al‑Shibh to Al Jazeera's chairman Hamad bin Thamer Al Thani, a cousin of the Emir of Qatar, and that CIA director George Tenet received the location tip-off from the Emir, resulting in bin al‑Shibh's capture.
In the Arab World Fouda gained fame with his program called Top Secret (Arabic: سري للغاية, Sirrī lil-Ġāyah) on Al Jazeera.
Fouda later took on a side job teaching at Cairo University.
In 2006, Fouda, in charge of Jazeera's London bureau, broke the story on the "martyrdom video" by "9/11 hijackers" Mohamed Atta and Ziad Jarrah. in 2009 Fouda resigned from aljazeera, later on he has a talk show called The Last Words (اخر كلام) on ONTV a private Egyptian channel.
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