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Al-Qaeda (/ æ l ˈ k aɪ (ə) d ə / ⓘ; Arabic: القاعدة, romanized: al-Qāʿidah, lit. 'the Base', IPA: [alˈqaː.ʕi.da]) is a pan-Islamist militant organization led by Sunni jihadists who self-identify as a vanguard spearheading a global Islamist revolution to unite the Muslim world under a supra-national Islamic caliphate.
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 ...
Osama bin Laden [a] (10 March 1957 – 2 May 2011) was a Saudi Arabian–born Islamist dissident and militant leader who was the founder and first general emir of al-Qaeda. Ideologically a pan-Islamist, Bin Laden participated in the Afghan mujahideen against the Soviet Union, and supported the Bosnian mujahideen during the Yugoslav Wars.
Mamdouh Mahmud Salim (Arabic: ممدوح محمود سالم, Mamdūḥ Maḥmūd Sālim; b. 1958 in Sudan) is a Kurdish co-founder of the Islamist terrorist network al-Qaeda. He was arrested on 16 September 1998 near Munich . [ 3 ]
The National Security Agency is revealing aspects it never disclosed before about its role in helping the U.S. government track down Osama bin Laden, the al Qaeda founder and terrorist who ...
Al-Qaeda was released from prisons in exchange for the release of Paul Johnson, but the offer was rejected by the Saudi government. [75] Al-Qaeda members beheaded the hostage 72 hours after his kidnapping was announced online. [76] Security forces found Johnson's body in the Al-Munsiyah neighborhood, east of Riyadh.
Wa'el Hamza Julaidan (Arabic: وائل حمزة جليدان, kunya: Abu al-Hasan; [1] born 22 February 1958 in Medina, Saudi Arabia [2]) is one of the original founders of al-Qaeda in August 1988. [3] He had previously (1984) established "the Service Office" or Maktab al-Khidamat in Afghanistan, along with bin Laden and Abdullah Yusuf Azzam.
The Abdullah Azzam Brigades (Arabic: كتائب عبد الله عزام), or al-Qaeda in Lebanon, was a Sunni Islamist militant group, and al-Qaeda's branch in Lebanon. [8] [9] The group, which began operating in 2009, was founded by Saudi Saleh Al-Qaraawi and has networks in various countries, [10] mainly in Egypt, Iraq, Syria, Jordan, the Gaza Strip and Lebanon.