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Al-Qaeda is a way of working ... but this has the hallmark of that approach ... Al-Qaeda clearly has the ability to provide training ... to provide expertise ... and I think that is what has occurred here." [160] On August 13, 2005, The Independent newspaper, reported that the July 7 bombers had acted independently of an al-Qaeda mastermind. [161]
Nasir al-Wuhayshi: Leader of al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula: Killed in 2015. [10] Abdelmalek Droukdel: Leader of al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb: Killed in 2020. [11] Asim Umar: Leader of al-Qaeda in the Indian Subcontinent: Killed in 2019. [12] Fazul Abdullah Mohammed: Leader of al-Qaeda in East Africa: Killed in 2011. [13] Hamza bin Laden ...
BEIRUT (Reuters) -As the commander of al Qaeda's franchise in the Syrian civil war, Abu Mohammed al-Golani was a shadowy figure who kept out of the public eye, even when his group became the most ...
The Vanguard for the Protection of Muslims in Black Africa (Arabic: جماعة أنصار المسلمين في بلاد السودان Jamāʿatu Anṣāril Muslimīna fī Bilādis Sūdān), [13] better known as Ansaru and less commonly called al-Qaeda in the Lands Beyond the Sahel, [9] is an Islamic fundamentalist Jihadist militant organisation originally based in the northeast of Nigeria.
Nearly 3,000 people were killed when al Qaeda hijackers crashed four jetliners into the twin towers, the Pentagon and a field in southwest Pennsylvania. ... "Today is a day of solemn remembrance ...
DUBAI (Reuters) -Seif al-Adel, a former Egyptian special forces officer who is a high-ranking member of al Qaeda with a $10 million U.S. bounty on his head, is now the "uncontested" leader of the ...
Experts debate the notion that the al-Qaeda attacks were an indirect consequence of the American CIA's Operation Cyclone program to help the Afghan mujahideen. Robin Cook, British Foreign Secretary from 1997 to 2001, wrote in 2005 that al-Qaeda and bin Laden were "a product of a monumental miscalculation by western security agencies", and claimed that "Al-Qaida, literally 'the database', was ...
For four years, he had led Al Qaeda’s affiliate in Syria, the Al-Nusra Front but he eventually split from it, declared war on its rival ISIS, and orchestrated the killing of its leader.