To: Angelus Errare
Ack, better clean that up a little.
SHURA MAJLIS
These are the first-tier guys and the actual members of al-Qaeda's board of directors. Any one of them is a possible successor to Osama bin Laden.
Name: Osama bin Laden
Function: Emir-General
Status: Unknown, possibly killed at Tora Bora in December 2001, now believed to be at large
Name: Ayman al-Zawahiri
Function: Second-in-Command/Gamaa al-Islamiyyah Emir-General
Status: At Large
Name: Mohammed Atef
Function: Supreme Military Commander
Status: Dead
Name: Abu Zubaydah
Function: Global Operations Chief
Status: Apprehended
Name: Rifa Ahmed Taha
Function: Egyptian Islamic Jihad Secretary-General
Status: At Large
Name: Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri
Function: Middle East Operations Chief
Status: Apprehended
Name: Abu Musab Zarqawi
Function: Former Southeast Asian Operations Chief, currently Global Operations Chief
Status: At Large
Name: Abu Zubair al-Haili
Function: North African Operations Chief
Status: Apprehended
Name: Tawfiq Attash Khallad
Function: South Asian Operations Chief
Status: At Large
Name: Abu Mohammed al-Masri
Function: East African Operations Chief
Status: At Large
Name: Zaid Khayr
Function: Unknown
Status: At Large
Name: Mohammed Salah
Function: Senior Explosive Expert, Central African Operations Chief
Status: Dead
Name: Tariq Anwar al-Sayyid Ahmad
Function: Balkans Operations Chief
Status: Dead
Name: Saif al-Adel
Function: Former second-in-command of al-Qaeda's military, currently Supreme Military Commander
Status: At Large
Name: Amin al-Haq
Function: Shura Majlis Security Chief
Status: At Large
Name: Abu Hafs the Mauritanian (aka "Mr. Mauritania")
Function: Theologian
Status: Formerly believed dead, now believed to be at large
TERRORIST TRAINING CAMP COMMANDERS
These are the guys who supervise the training, indoctrination, and assignment of al-Qaeda operatives worldwide. They also seperate all recruits into four categories: mujahideen (foot soldiers), shahideen (suicide bombers), takfiri (sleepers), and ansar (support personnel). Each category has its own version of the "Afghan Guide to Jihad," al-Qaeda's training manual (all four versions combined are roughly 3,000 pages in length) that provides instruction to recruits for just about any situation imaginable.
Name: Sheikh Ibn al-Liby
Function: Terrorist Training Camp Commander
Status: Apprehended
Name: Abd al-Hadi al-Iraqi
Function: Terrorist Training Camp Commander
Status: Apprehended
THE FINANCIAL COMMITTEE
This is the committee that oversees al-Qaeda's legitimate and illegitimate businesses, charities, drug smuggling, ect.
Name: Sheikh Saeed (Mustafa Ahmed al-Hisawi?)
Function: Head of the Financial Committee
Status: At Large
Name: Mohammed Jamal Khalifa
Function: Financier and envoy to the Saudi Bin Laden Group
Status: At Large
Name: Abu Jafar al-Jaziri
Function: Financier
Status: Dead
Name: Abu Salah al-Yemeni
Function: Financier
Status: Dead
Name: Abdul Rahim Riyadh
Function: Financier
Status: Apprehended
Name: Ahmed Saeed al-Kadr
Function: Financier
Status: At Large
Name: Hamza al-Qatari
Function: Financier
Status: Dead
MEDIA COMMITTEE
This the group that manages and updates the websites, oversees the E-Jihad, and is responsible for all statements by the al-Qaeda leadership. Not a lot of declassified info on this one.
Name: Suleiman Abu Ghaith
Function: Spokesman
Status: At Large
Name: Sheikh Abu Hamza al-Masri
Function: Spokesman/Recruiter
Status: At Large
Name: Sheikh Omar al-Bakri
Function: Spokesman
Status: At Large
Name: Sheikh Abu Qatada al-Philisteeni
Function: Spokesman
Status: Apprehended
WMD COMMITTEE
Al-Qaeda employs a number of Muslim scientists of various nationalities to assist it in procuring as well as manufacturing the necessary materials to create chemical, biological, radiological, or nuclear weapons.
Name: Midhat Mursi
Function: Top scientist for nuclear weapons research
Status: At Large
Name: Abu Khabab
Function: Biological and chemical weapons expert
Status: At Large
Name: Assadalah Abdul Rahman
Function: Weapons of Mass Destruction Chief
Status: At Large
Name: Abu Bashir al-Yemeni
Function: Unknown
Status: At Large
MILITARY COMMITTEE
These are the definite guys to watch out for. Most have a great deal of combat experience either from serving in Arab militaries or else from fighting in Sudan, Bosnia, Kosovo, Chechnya, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Azerbaijan, Indonesia, or the Philippines.
Name: Khalid Sheikh Mohammed
Function: Martyrdom Battalion Commander-in-Chief
Status: At Large
Name: Abd al-Aziz al-Jamal
Function: Unknown
Status: At Large
Name: Bilal bin Marwan
Function: Arabian Sea Commander-in-Chief
Status: At Large
Name: Saqar al-Jadawi
Function: Unknown
Status: At Large
Name: Mohammed Omar Abdel Rahman
Function: Military Commander
Status: At Large
Name: Ahmed Omar Abdel Rahman
Function: Military Commander
Status: Apprehended
Name: Abu Walid
Function: Military Commander
Status: At Large
Name: Abdel Hari al-Iraqi
Function: Afghanistan Commander-in-Chief
Status: At Large
Name: Abu Leith al-Lybi
Function: Algeria/Libya Commander-in-Chief
Status: At Large
Name: Shamil Basayev
Function: Chechnya Commander-in-Chief
Status: At Large
Name: Amir ibn al-Khattab
Function: Dagestan Commander-in-Chief
Status: Dead
Name: Hanbali
Function: Indonesia Commander-in-Chief
Status: At Large
I should add that (especially in the case of the geographical commanders) there are probably a lot more of these guys whose identities aren't known to the general public.
To: Angelus Errare
Fantastic List!
To: Angelus Errare
You may or may not want to add the following names to your list.
Thirwat Salah Shirhata
al-Zawahiri's top aide
at large?
Tawfiq bin Atash
Top Leiutenant
at large?
Muhammad Sa'id Ali Hasan
Top Leiutenant
at large?
Riduan Isamuddin
Top Leiutenant-Southeast Asia
at large?
The following operatives were involved with the terrorist acts and are at large (I think):
Khobar Towers Bombings
Hussein Mohamed Al-Nasser
Ahmad Ibrahim Al-Mughassil
Ali Saed Bin Ali El-Hoorie
Ibrahim Salih Mohammed Al-Yacoub
African Embassy Bombings
Abdullah Ahmed Abdullah
Ali Atwa
Anas al-Liby
Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani
Ahmed Mohammed Hamed Ali
Fazul Abdullah Mohammed
Mustafa Mohamed Fadhil
Sheikh Ahmed Salim Swedan
Fahid Mohammed Ally Msalam
1985 Airliner Hijacking
Hasan Izz-Al-Din
Imad Fayez Mugniyah
1993 World Trade Center Bombing
Abdul Rahman Yasin
To: Angelus Errare
Thank you very much for the scorecard. If it's OK with you, I'll take the info and put it into an HTML table so it's easier to keep a running tally.
21 posted on
11/21/2002 5:27:44 PM PST by
Wolfstar
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