Al-Kandari grew up in
Salwa,
Kuwait.
Stewart Bell, author ''
The Martyr's Oath'', reports that his father invested in the Souk al-Manakh, which Bell described as "Kuwait's unofficial stock exchange". Anas al-Kandari's father made millions, until the stock bubble burst and he went bankrupt. Al-Kandari is reported to have spent 18 months in
Afghanistan. He is reported to have returned to Kuwait a few days before
al-Qaeda's attacks on the U.S. on
September 11 attacks. Al-Kandari is reported to have fasted before the attack—which was triggered by recent broadcasts of the dead and wounded in a town in the
Gaza Strip that had been bombarded by
Israel. Bell reports that
Mohammed Mansour Jabarah, an important source on al-Qaeda's operation, stopped cooperating with his interrogators when he learned that his best friend Anas al-Kandari had been killed. Bell reports that Jabarah had traveled to Afghanistan with Anas al-Kandari in 2000. ==References==