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Al-Zawahiri was one of the planners of the September 11 attacks against the United States. He succeeded Osama bin Laden as leader of al-Qaeda after bin Laden was killed by U.S. forces in Pakistan on 2 May 2011. He was located and tracked by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) months before his death.
Speculation has grown that the U.S. used a secret Hellfire missile nicknamed the 'knife bomb' to kill Al Qaeda leader Ayman Zawahiri.
Mahir al-Zubaydi (died October 3, 2008 in Adhamiya, Baghdad, Iraq), also known as Abu Assad or Abu Rami, was a military commander in Al-Qaeda in Iraq.Zubaydi is believed to have headed the group that were behind bombings which killed at least 16 people in Baghdad in October 2008.
In Arabic, al-Qaeda has four syllables (/alˈqaː.ʕi.da/). However, since two of the Arabic consonants in the name are not phones found in the English language, the common naturalized English pronunciations include / æ l ˈ k aɪ d ə /, / æ l ˈ k eɪ d ə / and / ˌ æ l k ɑː ˈ iː d ə /. Al-Qaeda's name can also be transliterated as ...
Afghanistan said Sunday it has killed a member of Al-Qaeda on the FBI's Most Wanted list. Husam Abd al-Rauf was killed during an operation in East Afghanistan, according to officials. The FBI said ...
Al-Qaeda in Yemen (AQY), [a] also known as al-Qaeda in the Land of Yemen (AQLY) [b] and al-Qaeda in the Southern Arabian Peninsula (AQSAP) [c] in its later iteration, was a Sunni Islamist militant organization which existed between 1998 to 2003, and 2006 to 2009.
On 9 September 2001, Ahmad Shah Massoud was assassinated by two al-Qaeda operatives posing as journalists in Khwaja Bahauddin District, Takhar Province, Afghanistan. Massoud, a pivotal guerilla fighter nicknamed The Lion of Panjshir, had led insurgent forces against the governments of Daoud Khan, communist government under the People Democratic Party of Afghanistan (PDPA), invading Soviet ...
Midhat Mursi al-Sayid Umar (Arabic: مدحت مرسي السيد عمر), also known as Abu Khabab al-Masri (Arabic: أبو خباب المصري; 29 April 1953 in Egypt – 28 July 2008 in Pakistan) was a chemist and alleged top bomb maker for al-Qaeda and part of Osama bin Laden's inner circle. The United States had a $5 million bounty on his ...