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According to Bin Laden specialist Saad Al-Faghi (->), "Al-Quaeda" (or al-quaida) was only a list if visitors of Bin Laden's "living room". The CIA and Pentagon claimed during 2001-2002, that "al-Quaeda" was responsible for almost every terrorist attack worldwide, including crimes in the United Staetes with their "sleeping cells".
The US government still blame the Septemnber 11th attack on Bin Laden and his organisation, but didn't provide any logistic evidence. At the end of 2002, the Pentagon started to promote a "second generation" of Al-Quaeda. The official "members" of Al-Quaeda (a name chosen by the CIA out of one some messages of Bin laden, he himself never mentioned any name of an "organisation", but spoke always on "jihad or "holy war"), due to the US Government, have been:
Osama Bin Laden (->) Since September 11th, 2001 missing. Ayman al-Zawahri and Mohammed Atef are believed to have known about the September 11th attacks in advance, "by virtue of their rank in Al Qaeda". Al-Zawahri's family was killed by a U.S. airstrike in Afghanistan. It is not known where al-Zawahiri is.
Mohammed Atef Atef, one of a few brother-in-laws of Osama bin Laden. U.S. officials have said that Atef was believed to have died in a CIA airstrike in November 2001 and had principal responsibility for supervising the training of al-Qaida members. Atef was indicted in connection with the 1998 bombings of U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania. Atef had a "martyrdom video" of one of the so-called 20th hijackers - the ones who never made it on a plane - at his house: Ramzi Bin alshibh . Binalshibh was unable to enter the United States in 2001. On this proganda video, the Pentagon identified Abd Al-Rahim, Muhammad Sa'id Ali Hasan, Khalid Ibn Muhammad Al-Juhani and Ramzi Binalshibh. The fifth man was unidentified. It was reported, that Binalshibh was captured in September 2002, a few days after the final release of this video on Al-Jazeera.
Mullah Mohammed Omar Supreme leader of the Taliban militant government in Afghanistan from 1996-2001. Ibn Al-Shaykh al-Libi Captured in late Dec 2001 by Northern Alliance. Turned over to US in early Jan 2002. Mustafa Ahmed al-Hawsawi Many investigators believed he is al Qaeda's finance chief and primary source of funding to the September 11th hijackers. Some US officials believe he may be the same man as Mustafa Muhammad Ahmad, alias Shaykh Saiid, who is a top bin Laden financial lieutenant included on the list of alleged terrorists whose assets have been frozen by the United States. ( Sheik Saaed) Source: unansweredquestions.org/timeline/AAsaeed.html
Tawfiq
Attash Khallad Another "bin Laden lieutenant", who is
suspected of playing a planning role. As reported, he met with
future hijackers
Khalid
Almihdhar (->) and Nawaf Alhazmi
(->)
in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, in January 2000, just before Almihdhar
and Alhazmi entered the United States, then already monitored by
the CIA.
Other Al-Quaeda members, as reported, got killed: Abu Hafs the Mauritanian (->), who gave an interview in late November 2001 on Al-Jazeera) "Provided some of the scholarly justification for Al Qaeda's terrorist attacks". Abu Salah al-Yemeni "Identified" as senior logistics coordinator. Tariq Anwar al-Sayyid Ahmad and Muhammad Salah Two Egyptians involved in executing terrorist attacks. Mohammad Omar Abdel-Rahman There have been unconfirmed reports that Abdel-Rahman, son of a blind Egyptian sheik convicted of leading a bombing conspiracy in New York in the mid-1990s, was killed, but U.S. authorities believe he remains at large. As reported, he once was captured by anti-Taliban forces. He is considered a midlevel Al Qaeda official and a liaison to his father's Egypt-based terrorist organization, al-Gamaa al-Islamiya. Rahmans status is therefore still unclear. Yassir Al-Jazeeri In March 2003, Pakistan Authorities arrested "suspected al-Qaida operative", Yassir Al-Jazeeri and claimed, he was one of the most important leaders. Captured Members (until end of 2002): Ibn Al-Shaykh al-Libi and Abd al-Hadi al-Iraqi, who commanded some of bin Laden's Afghan training camps, as reported by some media.
Mamdouh Mahmud Salim Officially co-founder of al Qaeda. He is charged with attempted murder in the stabbing of a jail guard November 1, 2000, while awaiting trial with four other defendants for the 1998 bombings of U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania that killed 224 people and injured more than 4,000 others. Salim was born in Sudan and grew up in Iraq. According to prosecutors, he was in charge of al Qaeda's financial affairs when the group was based in Sudan in the early 1990s. He is accused of managing Wadi Aqiq, bin Laden's umbrella company that procured communications equipment and conventional weapons for the organization. Salim was known among al Qaeda members as "Abu Hajer al Iraqi" and was considered a religious scholar. According to the embassy bombings indictment, Salim taught followers that U.N. forces deployed in Somalia in 1993 represented a U.S. plan to attack Muslims.
Enaam Arnaout Director of the Illinois-based charity Benevolence International Foundation (BIF), who was arrested on 30-Apr-2002 and charged with lying about links to Osama bin Laden and international terrorism. The organization itself was charged with perjury. The Treasury Department froze the BIF's assets in December 2001 because the government claimed the group had ties to al Qaeda, bin Laden's international terrorist organization. In a 35-page criminal complaint, the government says the BIF supported terrorist groups and individuals and had "direct dealings" with Chechen guerrillas and Hezb e Islami -- identified by the government as a military group operating in Afghanistan and Azerbaijan.
Khalid Shaikh Mohammed,, a Kuwaiti lieutenant of Usama bin Laden, was described as "the likely mastermind of the September 11 terrorist attacks", a senior U.S. counterterrorism official said in August 2002. His aliases include Ashraf Refaat Nabith Henin, Khalid Abdul Wadood, Salem Ali and Fahd Bin Abdallah Bin Khalid. Mohammed is accused of working with Ramzi Yousef in the first bombing of the World Trade Center in 1993. Yousef, serving a life sentence in the United States, is believed to have planned to crash a plane into CIA headquarters. Abu Zubaydah Another "high rank" Al Qaeda leader in U.S. custody, as stated by US officiala. Officially captured in Pakistan in March 2002, is said to have told U.S. interrogators that the hijacked plane that crashed in Pennsylvania was destined for the White House, suggesting he knew of the planning. Some of the hijackers trained at Abu Zubaydah's Khalden camp in Afghanistan, one counterterrorism official claimed.
Hashim bin Abas Arrested Dec 2001 as prime suspect in plot to attack American targets in Singapore
John Walker (->) 20-year old American citizen from California, found fighting for the Taliban / Al-Queda in the city of Konduz. David Hicks Young Australian national found fighting for Al-Queda in Afghanistan. Mokhtar Haouari An Algerian living in Canada was convicted by U.S. Civil Court for participation in the failed Millienium bombing plot targeting the Los Angeles International Airport and sentenced (16-JAN-02) to 24 years in prison, the maximum penalty possible.
Wadih El-Hage Now serving a life sentence in a maximum-security prison for conspiracy to commit terrorism in the August 1998 bombings of two American Embassies in East Africa. Within Al Qaeda, El-Hage was nicknamed "the Manager," according to federal prosecutors. For several years during the 1990s, the U.S. government alleges, El-Hage performed nefarious chores for his terrorist boss, like purchasing a jet plane in order to deliver Stinger missiles (El-Hage personally handed the keys to bin Laden at a dinner party).
Jose Padilla Jose Padilla, also known as Abdullah Al Muhajir, is in the custody of the U.S. military and being treated as an enemy combatant (-> Dirty Bomber). Padilla was officially arrested May 8, 2002 as he flew into Chicago's O'Hare International Airport from Pakistan, but John Ashcroft announced his arrestment a couple of weeks later in Moscow. This announcement happened on the same weekend, when Unansweredquestions.Org organised their press conference with the 911-victims in Washington and judicialwatch (->) announced their lawsuit against the US Government regarding prior knowledge of the anthrax attack. After Ashcrofts announcement, C|Span decided to cancel the live broadcast of the UQ-conference.
Benjamin Ahmed Mohammed, had been taken into custody in Pakistan and was implicated in a bomb plot.
Mullah Abdul Salam Zaeef Former Taliban ambassador to Pakistan Mullah Ubai Dullah Former Taliban Minister of Defense Surrendered to Alliance forces on Jan 8, 2002. Subsequently release under a general amnestry. Mullah Turabi Former Taliban Minister of Justice Surrendered to Alliance forces on Jan 8, 2002. Subsequently release under a general amnestry. Mullah Saadudin Former Taliban Minister of Mines and Industry Surrendered to Alliance forces on Jan 8, 2002. Subsequently release under a general amnestry. Mullah Haqani Former Taliban Ambassador to Pakistan Surrendered to Alliance forces on Jan 8, 2002.
Abdul Hayee Motmain Former Head of the Taliban Information Department and senior spokesman. Surrendered to Alliance forces on Jan 8, 2002. maintour.com/bcof/bcofw041.htm
Other Al-Quaeda-"connections" (as stated in 2001-2002):
Abdel Karim al-Nasser * Al-Qaida operative AbuIljaf , Mamoun Darkazanli Import-Export-Company Ahmed Khfaklan Ghailani * Al-Qaida operative Anwar Saleh, known as Sheik Salah (Soldiers of Allah , Peshawar Connection) Ben Khemais Ghaleb Kimmat , Al Taqwa Management Organisation in Lugano Luis José Galán González (spanish connection) Mazen al Najjar (helped raise money for the anti-Israel and anti-U.S. groups) Mehdi Kammoun Mustafa Mohamed Fadhil, * Al-Qaida operative. Implicated in 1998 Embassy bombings Sami Ben Khemais, a 33-year-old Tunisian Sheikh Ahmed Salim * Al-Qaida operative Zakariya Essabar (See Mounir El Motassadeq )
In Summer 2002 the FBI claimed, that the so called "Buffalo-New York- Terror cell" belonged to Al-Quaeda. (-> Missing detainees)
