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Adam Yahiye Gadahn (Arabic: آدم يحيى غدن‎, Ādam Yaḥyā Ghadan; born Adam Pearlman; September 1, 1978 – January 19, 2015)[3] was an American senior operative, cultural interpreter, spokesman[2] and media advisor[4] for the Islamist group al-Qaeda. Since 2004, he had appeared in a number of videos produced by al-Qaeda as "Azzam the American" ('Azzām al-Amrīki, عزام الأمريكي, sometimes transcribed as Ezzam Al-Amerikee). Gadahn, who converted to Islam
Islam from Christianity in 1995 at a California mosque, was described as "homegrown," meaning that he had converted to a religion he believed in so firmly that he was willing to harm his country of origin.[2] American intelligence officials allege that he inspired the 2007 Osama bin Laden
Osama bin Laden video.[4] In 2004, he was added to the FBI Seeking Information – War on Terrorism list.[5] On October 11, 2006 he was removed from that list, and placed on the Bureau of Diplomatic Security
Bureau of Diplomatic Security Rewards for Justice Program list of wanted criminals.[6] On the same day, Gadahn was indicted based on the testimony of the FBI case agent E. J. Hilbert II, in the Southern Division of the United States
United States District Court for the Central District of California by a federal grand jury for the capital crime of treason for aiding an enemy of the United States, i.e., al-Qaeda. On January 19, 2015, Gadahn was killed in one of a series of unmanned aircraft strikes in Waziristan, Pakistan.[7] Al-Qaeda
Al-Qaeda confirmed Gadahn's death on June 25, 2015.[8]

Contents

1 Background and childhood 2 Conversion to Islam 3 Al-Qaeda
Al-Qaeda affiliation 4 Appearances in al-Qaeda videos

4.1 2004–2006 4.2 2007–2008 4.3 2009–2013 4.4 Reports of capture 4.5 Reports of death 4.6 Death

5 See also 6 References 7 External links

7.1 Videos

Background and childhood[edit] Gadahn was born Adam Pearlman in 1978, in Oregon, United States.[9] Gadahn's paternal grandfather, Carl Pearlman, was a prominent Jewish activist, urologist and on the Board of Directors of the Anti-Defamation League. Gadahn's paternal grandmother, Agnes Branch, a Christian, was an editor for The Christian Family Chronicles (a genealogical publication for people with the surname "Christian").[10] Gadahn's father is Philip, a musician who grew up in Orange County, California. Philip and his wife Jennifer legally changed their last name to Gadahn in the mid-1970s, after the Biblical warrior Gideon.[2] Philip Gadahn was involved in the counterculture movement at the University of California at Irvine, and before Adam's birth became a Christian. Gadahn described his father as having been "raised agnostic or atheist, but he became a believer in One God when he picked up a Bible left on the beach."[2] His father's religious perspective was flexible and based upon his own spiritual needs and as a new convert to Islam, Gadahn portrayed his father in a manner sympathetic to his religion of conversion.[2] Gadahn was raised a Protestant Christian, and homeschooled through high school by his parents on an isolated farm in western Riverside County, California.[2] He played Little League baseball and participated in Christian homeschool support groups. As an adolescent he became very involved in the death metal community, making contact with fans and musicians through alternative magazines.[2] During the summer of 1993, he formed his own one-man band called Aphasia.[2] Gadahn contributed music reviews and artwork to a zine called Xenocide.[2] In 1995, at age 16, Gadahn moved in with his grandparents in the West Floral Park neighborhood of Santa Ana, California.[2] Not long after, he converted to Islam
Islam and lamented the estrangement his musical interest caused between him and his family writing, "My relationship with my parents became strained, although only intermittently so. I am sorry even as I write this."[2] Conversion to Islam[edit] While living with his grandparents in West Floral Park, Santa Ana, Gadahn described himself as having a "yawning emptiness", and he sought ways "to fill that void". He explored Christianity on the Internet, radio, and locally, but later said that he found evangelical Christianity's "apocalyptic ramblings" to be "paranoid" and hollow.[11] In 1995, at age 17, Gadahn began studying Islam
Islam at the Islamic Society of Orange County. Members of Gadahn's study group were young fundamentalists who "targeted the mosque's chairman, Haitham Bundakji", for his practice of "wearing Western clothes and being friendly with Jews".[12] Gadahn converted to Islam
Islam later that year, and shortly thereafter posted an essay to the University of Southern California
University of Southern California Web site describing his conversion, titled "Becoming a Muslim".[11] According to his parents, Adam was "arrested and convicted of assaulting his former mentor Haitham Bundakji in May 1997." He served two days in jail, but his failure to perform 40 hours of community service left a warrant for his arrest active.[2] Gadahn reportedly moved to Pakistan
Pakistan in 1998, where he married an Afghan refugee and maintained intermittent contact with his family until March 2001, when all contact with his family stopped.[13] He told his parents he had been working as a journalist while in Pakistan — spending time in both Karachi
Karachi and Peshawar — presumably a euphemism for his media propaganda efforts for al-Qaeda.[2][14] He began supporting jihadi causes in the late 1990s.[2] Al-Qaeda
Al-Qaeda affiliation[edit] In a short period of time, Gadahn became a senior advisor to bin Laden and was assumed to be playing the role of "translator, video producer, and cultural interpreter."[2] Gadahn declared his animosity towards the United States
United States by declaring it "enemy soil" and praising the individuals responsible for the September 11 attacks.[2] The first production of al-Qaeda's media division, As-Sahab, was believed to have been in 2001 with the involvement of Gadahn.[14] United States and British intelligence officials believe it to have been run by Gadahn,[15] although it was reported that the media production of these messages had a notable decrease in quality, possibly due to Gadahn's involvement in other tasks for Al Qaeda.[16][17] The Federal Bureau of Investigation
Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) announced that it wanted Gadahn for questioning in 2004,[2] and on May 26, 2004, United States Attorney General John Ashcroft
John Ashcroft and FBI Director Robert Mueller announced that reports indicated that Gadahn was one of seven al-Qaeda members who were planning terrorist actions for the summer or fall of 2004. Gadahn's name was the only new name released by Mueller in this warning. Two of the other alleged terrorists named on that date were Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani and Fazul Abdullah Mohammed. Those two had been listed as FBI Most Wanted Terrorists
FBI Most Wanted Terrorists since 2001, indicted for their roles in the 1998 U.S. embassy bombings. The others, Amer el-Maati, Aafia Siddiqui, Abderraouf Jdey, and Adnan Gulshair el Shukrijumah had all been on FBI wanted lists for some time. Jdey had been on the FBI's "Seeking Information" wanted list since January 17, 2002, to which Gadahn was added with the other three as well.[18] In a 2005 video, Gadahn threatened to attack Los Angeles, for which the United States Department of Justice
United States Department of Justice "indicted him under seal for providing material support to Al Qaeda".[2] As an introduction to the "An Invitation to Islam" video in 2006, Zawahiri encouraged westerners to heed Gadahn's message and praised Gadahn as "a perceptive person who wants to lead his people out of darkness into the light"; "Al Qaeda had never before given one of its members, let alone an American, an endorsement so intimate and direct."[2] As a result of the contents of the "Invitation" video, he was charged with treason because "[h]e chose to join our enemy and to provide it with aid and comfort by acting as a propagandist for Al Qaeda," as Deputy Attorney General Paul McNulty explained.[2] He was also placed on the FBI's most wanted list and a million dollar reward was offered for his capture.[2] McNulty explained the severity of Gadahn's crimes: "Terrorists create fear and intimidation through extreme violence. They want Americans to live and walk in fear. They want to demoralize us. That’s why propaganda is so important to them, and why facilitating that propaganda is such an egregious crime."[2] On propaganda and terrorism, Gadahn criticized specific "jihadi" groups, such as Tehrik-i-Taliban, al-Shabaab, and the Islamic State, for the killing of Muslim non-combatant civilians, which he believed undermined Al-Qaeda's media strategy and objectives.[19] Appearances in al-Qaeda videos[edit] 2004–2006[edit] In late October 2004, ABC News
ABC News broadcast a 75-minute videotape of a man who identified himself as "Azzam the American" threatening the United States
United States with terrorist attacks.[20] After the network played excerpts of the video, someone from one of Gadahn's mosques told law enforcement officials that he believed the man in the video was Gadahn.[21] In 2005, on the fourth anniversary of the September 11, 2001, attacks, an eleven-minute videotape message purportedly from al-Qaeda was broadcast on the ABC News
ABC News program Good Morning America. The American English-accented speaker, a man whose face was partially concealed, was identified by U.S. intelligence officials as Gadahn. The speaker praised the "echo of explosions and the slitting of the throats of the infidels"[22] and attacked U.S. foreign policy and military activity, particularly in Iraq and Afghanistan. He predicted that there would be future attacks in Los Angeles and Melbourne: "Yesterday, London and Madrid. Tomorrow, Los Angeles and Melbourne, God willing. At this time, don't count on us demonstrating restraint or compassion."[20] Around the same time, he appeared in an al-Qaeda-produced American documentary film "Knowledge is for Acting Upon — The Manhattan Raid,"[23] a film which traces the organization from its genesis among the anti-Soviet Mujahideen
Mujahideen in Afghanistan through its establishment of training camps around the world to its defining moment, the September 11, 2001, attacks on New York and Washington. Gadahn provides Western viewers with an expository look at the group's ideals, philosophy and goals as well as a retrospective look at their perspective on the geopolitical situations which led to their decision to execute the attack. The film culminates with Gadahn's description of the events' aftermath, pre-attack martyrdom videos filmed by the hijackers, and finally a montage of videos portraying the attacks themselves. The high production-value film, completely captioned for both English and Arabic-speaking audiences, is widely regarded as a tool intended to motivate and attract other Western-born Muslims.[citation needed] On July 7, 2006, Gadahn appeared unmasked on an al-Qaeda tape made public on the Internet.[24] On the tape he denounced the United States military presence in Iraq as well as rapes and murders committed by American soldiers. Gadahn's family, who had previously said that they could not tell whether or not it was Gadahn who appeared in the al-Qaeda videos, did not respond to the new tape. On September 2, 2006 a video called "An Invitation to Islam", features a lecture by Adam Gadahn for approximately 44 minutes of its 48 minutes with a lesser part given to al-Qaeda theorist Ayman al-Zawahiri. In the video, Gadahn stated "If the Zionist crusader missionaries of hate and counter- Islam
Islam consultants like Daniel Pipes, Robert Spencer, Michael Scheuer, Steven Emerson, and yes, even the crusader-in-chief George W. Bush
George W. Bush were to abandon their unbelief and repent and enter into the light of Islam
Islam and turn their swords against the enemies of God, it would be accepted of them and they would be our brothers in Islam." Both Pipes and Spencer have publicly declined to accept Gadahn's invitation to convert to Islam.[25][26] Gadahn praised British politician George Galloway
George Galloway and journalist Robert Fisk
Robert Fisk for expressing their "respect and admiration for Islam" and for "acknowledging that it is the truth" and for "demonstrating their sympathy for Muslims their causes", but added "I say to them, isn't it time you stopped sitting on the fence and came over to the side of truth?" Gadahn urged American soldiers to "surrender to the truth", "escape from the unbelieving Army", and "join the winning side."[27] 2007–2008[edit] On May 29, 2007 Gadahn again made headlines when another video "al-Qaeda Video Warning to US by American Adam Gadahn"[28] was released on the Internet. In this video Adam Gadahn listed five actions that Bush and America must take in order to prevent future terrorist attacks.

"Pull every last one of your soldiers, spies, security advisors, trainers, attachés, … out of every Muslim land from Afghanistan to Zanzibar ..." End "all support and aid, military, political, economic, or otherwise, to the 56-plus apostate regimes of the Muslim world, and abandon them to their well-deserved fate ..." "End all support, moral, military, economic, political, or otherwise, to the bastard state of Israel, and ban your citizens, Zionist Jews, Zionist Christians, and the rest from traveling to occupied Palestine or settling there. Even one penny of aid will be considered sufficient justification to continue the fight." "... impose a blanket ban on all broadcasts to our region ..." "Free all Muslim captives from your prisons, detention facilities, and concentration camps, regardless of whether they have been recipients of what you call a fair trial or not."

Gadahn then warned that "your failure to heed our demands and the demands of reason means that you and your people will — Allah willing — experience things which will make you forget all about the horrors of September 11th, Afghanistan and Iraq".[29] American intelligence officials allege that Gadahn inspired bin Laden's September 2007 video, in which bin Laden, among other things, made reference to the subprime mortgage crisis.[30] M.J. Gohel, chief executive of the Asia-Pacific Foundation, a London-based security-studies organization, found bin Laden's video "very reminiscent of [Gadahn's] messages in terms of style and content."[4] Officials told reporters that the "high quality" of the English subtitles and the "references to Malcolm X" in al-Qaeda's 2008 post-presidential election video "reflect the influence" of Gadahn.[31] In that video, Barack Obama
Barack Obama is attacked as a "House Negro".[31] On October 4, 2008 a video featuring Gadahn was posted on Laura Mansfield's Web site. The 32-minute video primarily focused on Pakistan, but referenced economic woes in the United States: "The enemies of Islam
Islam are facing a crushing defeat, which is beginning to manifest itself in the extending crisis their economy is experiencing. The crisis, whose primary cause, in addition to the abortive and unsustainable crusades they are waging in Afghanistan, Pakistan
Pakistan and Iraq, is they are turning their backs on Allah's revealed laws, which forbid interest-bearing transactions, exploitation, greed and injustice in all its forms and demand the worship of Allah alone to the exclusion of all false gods, including money and power."[32] 2009–2013[edit] In May 2009, Gadahn appeared in a new al-Qaeda video.[33] On December 12, 2009, Gadahn, in another English-language video titled "The Mujahideen
Mujahideen Don't Target Muslims", claimed that the organization was being framed by the United States
United States and Pakistan
Pakistan and blamed the media for helping implicate al-Qaeda in a recent deadly string of attacks in Pakistan
Pakistan that killed hundreds of civilians.[34][35][36] In a video released on March 7, 2010, Adam Gadahn called on Muslims in the West to follow in the footsteps of Nidal Malik Hasan, the Fort Hood shooter. In the video, titled "A Call to Arms," Gadahn encouraged Americans and other Muslims in the West to "prepare to play his due role in responding to and repelling the aggression of the enemies of Islam." [37] Gadahn also provided advice on choosing high-value targets for potential terrorist attacks in America and the West, such as military installations and mass transportation systems, as well as symbols of capitalism whose ruin could cripple the Western economy. Gadahn urged his followers to take action as soon as possible and explained that "now" is the "golden, once in a lifetime opportunity to reap the rewards of jihad and martyrdom…so unsheath your sharpened sword and rush to take your rightful place among defiant champions of Islam." [38] On June 21, 2010, a video press release was made in which Gadahn delivered guidelines for al-Qaeda/American peace. Some of the demands contained within the 24 minute message included withdrawal of troops from Muslim lands and removal of support for Israel.[39] This video also includes clips of Matthew Hoh and several other U.S. military veteran antiwar activists. On September 29, 2010, in another video tape Gadahn urged Muslims in Pakistan
Pakistan to join Islamist militants fighting their nation's rulers, saying that Islamabad's "sluggish and halfhearted" response to the recent floods underscored the government's indifference for its constituents. Gadahn's remarks in the video echoed those of al-Qaida's second-in-command, Ayman al-Zawahri, in a similar posting on militant websites earlier that month, suggesting the terror organization had decided on a single, simple message to promote following the floods that affected as many as 20 million people in Pakistan.[40] On October 23, 2010, in a 48-minute video posted on militant Web sites, Adam Gadahn directed his appeal to Muslim immigrants in what he called the "miserable suburbs" of Paris, London and Detroit, as well as those traveling to the West to study or work.[41] On June 4, 2011, Gadahn called on American Muslims to buy weapons from gun shows and carry out random, lone-wolf attacks. The video, called 'Do Not Rely on Others, Take the Task Upon Yourself', was produced by al Qaeda's as Sahab media team and showed 32-year-old Gadahn speaking alongside old clips of Ayman al-Zawahiri
Ayman al-Zawahiri and Osama Bin laden. In a calm voice, California-native Gadahn told Muslims it is easy to get weapons from gun shows and carry out random attacks. He said: 'America is absolutely awash with easily obtainable firearms. In one section of the video the logos of Exxon, Merrill Lynch and Bank of America are shown as possible targets.[42] On September 11, 2012, Gadahn appeared in a video marking the 11th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks.[43] On December 1, 2013, Gadahn denounced the capture of al-Qaeda operative Abu Anas al-Libi in an audio recording.[44] Reports of capture[edit] On March 7, 2010, it was reported that Gadahn had been captured in Karachi, Pakistan
Pakistan in late February 2010[45][46] shortly after another video came out in which he called on Muslims serving in the U.S. armed forces to emulate the actions of Nidal Malik Hasan
Nidal Malik Hasan in the Fort Hood shooting.[47] His arrest was not immediately confirmed by United States officials.[48] Gadahn was said to have been arrested in Karachi by Pakistani intelligence officers[48] during the course of a raid on a house located by the Super Highway.[45] Pakistan's DawnNews reported on March 7 that this likely occurred in Sohrab Goth, a major Pashtun area in northern Karachi.[49] Senior American officials informed The New York Times
The New York Times that the individual arrested was not Gadahn.[50][51] Subsequent reports indicated the individual arrested was Abu Yahya Mujahdeen Al-Adam, who was born in Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania and may have been confused with Gadahn.[52] The confusion was apparently caused by an alias of Gadahn's that is similar to the name of the arrested individual.[50] An unnamed Pakistani intelligence officer explained, "The resemblance of the name initially caused confusion but now they have concluded he is not Gadahn."[50] Al-Adam, the arrested individual, was described by an American official as "fair-skinned" and able to speak both English and Pashto and is believed to be connected to the operations division of al-Qaeda.[52] While a Pakistani security official said "he was apparently an American al Qaeda operative",[47] it is unknown whether al-Adam is an American citizen.[48][52] The Pakistani intelligence officer described the arrested individual as "proud to be a member of al-Qaida."[50] The BBC reported an additional identification of the arrested as Egyptian-American Abu Yahya Azam.[53] Reports of death[edit] In February 2008, Pakistani news sources reported rumors that Gadahn was killed by a missile fired by a General Atomics MQ-1 Predator
General Atomics MQ-1 Predator drone in the strike that killed al-Qaeda leader Abu Laith al-Libi.[54][55][56][57][58] On March 2, an al-Qaeda spokesperson claimed that Gadahn was alive,[59][60] but the rumor was fueled by a considerable drop in quality of recent al-Qaeda videos from As-Sahab.[16][17][61] On May 18, 2008, Counterterrorism Blog surmised that Adam Gadahn was dead based on the latest al-Qaeda missive.[61] Mansfield wrote: "Normally important messages from Zawahiri contain linguistic indications that they were translated by Adam Gadahn. Gadahn’s translation style is noticeably absent from this video, giving more credence to open source reports from Pakistan
Pakistan regarding the possible death of Gadahn in an American air strike. (There are other plausible explanations for Gadahn's absence from the scene—including his quip in his January video tape that ripping up his passport would not hinder his ability to travel.)"[62] On September 7, 2008, the Sunday Telegraph reported that Gadahn may have been killed by a Predator attack in January 2008 in Waziristan.[63] This was reported by The Orange County Register,[64] KABC TV in Los Angeles,[65] and other news agencies. On October 4, 2008, a video appeared on the Internet by the As-Sahab Foundation for Media Production by Gadahn[66] titled The Believer isn't Stung from the Same Hole Twice.[67] Mansfield posted a video of Gadahn speaking about current affairs including the economic crisis in the United States
United States and the resignation of the President of Pakistan Pervez Musharraf. In 2009, As-Sahab released a video titled, Gaza, Not Again and, in the same year, another video where Gadahn is speaking Arabic in an As-Sahab release titled Let's continue our Jihad and Sacrifice.[68] This is his first video speaking only in Arabic. Death[edit] On April 23, 2015, White House Press Secretary
White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest
Josh Earnest released a statement announcing that Gadahn had been killed, alongside fellow American combatant Ahmed Farouq, in a CIA drone strike in Pakistan
Pakistan on January 19, 2015.[7] President Barack Obama
Barack Obama announced that in the same series of drone strikes, hostage aid workers Giovanni Lo Porto and Warren Weinstein were killed as collateral damage.[69] See also[edit]

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Americans in Pakistan D.C. Five — Detention of five Americans in Pakistan
Pakistan (Dec. 2009) Michael Finton, American convert to Islam, attempted September 2009 bombing of U.S. target with FBI agent he thought was al-Qaeda member Sharif Mobley, American suspected al-Qaeda member, arrested in Yemen in 2010 and suspected of killing guard in escape attempt Aafia Siddiqui, alleged al-Qaeda member, former U.S. resident, convicted in 2010 of attempting to kill U.S. personnel Bryant Neal Vinas, American convert to Islam, convicted in 2009 of participating in/supporting al-Qaeda plots in Afghanistan and the U.S. Najibullah Zazi, al-Qaeda member, U.S. resident, pleaded guilty in 2010 of planning suicide bombings on New York City subway system Naser Jason Abdo, allegedly attempted to bomb a Fort Hood restaurant in 2011. Anwar al-Awlaki, American born Islamist cleric. Hasan K. Akbar, American Muslim convert convicted of the double-murder of two U.S. Army officers. Nidal Malik Hasan, American Fort Hood Major, turned shooter; 2009, with 13 U.S. service personnel killed in his attack, and dozens injured.

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Alleged militants in the War on Terror
War on Terror who have lived in United States

People listed in italics have died.

September 11 attacks

Khalid Sheikh Mohammed1 Mohamed Atta Satam al-Suqami Waleed al-Shehri Wail al-Shehri Abdulaziz al-Omari Marwan al-Shehhi Fayez Banihammad Mohand al-Shehri Hamza al-Ghamdi Ahmed al-Ghamdi Hani Hanjour Khalid al-Mihdhar Majed Moqed Nawaf al-Hazmi Salem al-Hazmi Ziad Jarrah Ahmed al-Nami Saeed al-Ghamdi Ahmed al-Haznawi

Buffalo Six

Sahim Alwan2 Mukhtar al-Bakri2 Kamal Derwish Jaber A. Elbaneh Faysal Galab2 Yahya Goba2 Shafal Mosed2 Yaseinn Taher2

al-Qaeda/al-Jihad

Sami Al-Arian2 Anwar al-Awlaki Adam Yahiye Gadahn Wadih el-Hage1 Ziyad Khaleel Khaled Abu el-Dahab Ali Mohamed1 Zacarias Moussaoui1 Aafia Siddiqui1 Bryant Neal Vinas1 Najibullah Zazi1

Boston
Boston cab drivers

Mohamad Elzahabi2 Nabil al-Marabh2 Raed Hijazi1 Bassam Kanj

Portland Seven

Jeffrey Battle1 Ahmed Bilal2 Muhammad Ibrahim Bilal2 Patrice Lumumba Ford1 Mike Hawash2 October Lewis2 Habis Abdulla al Saoub

Arrested in 2005 and convicted

Abdulrahman Farhane1 Mahmud al-Mutazzim1 Rafiq Abdus Sabir1 Tarik Shah1

Liberty City Seven

Patrick Abraham1 Burson Augustin1 Rotschild Augustine1 Narseal Batiste1 Stanley Phanor1

2007 Fort Dix plot

Agron Abdullahu2 Dritan Duka1 Eljvir Duka1 Shain Duka1 Mohamad Ibrahim Shnewer1 Serdar Tatar1

D.C. Five

Umer Farooq1 Waqar Khan1 Ahmed Abdullah Minni1 Aman Hassan Yasir1 Ramy Zamzam1

Held at Guantanamo Bay

Majid Khan Khalid Sheikh Mohammed

Others

Shirwa Ahmed Mohamed Mahmood Alessa / Carlos Eduardo Almonte1 Daniel Patrick Boyd1 / Raleigh jihad group1 Sayed Malike1 Adnan Gulshair el Shukrijumah

Currently imprisoned

Nuradin Abdi Ahmed Omar Abu Ali Farooque Ahmed Iyman Faris Rezwan Ferdaus Michael Finton Joshua Ryne Goldberg Nidal Hasan David Headley John Walker Lindh Daniel Maldonado José Padilla Tahawwur Hussain Rana Michael Curtis Reynolds Faisal Shahzad Hosam Maher Husein Smadi Ali al-Tamimi

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Detroit Sleeper Cell Virginia jihad network 2005 Los Angeles bomb plot 2009 Little Rock recruiting office shooting 2010 Portland car bomb plot 2011 Manhattan plot

1 Currently imprisoned.   2 Released after serving sentence.

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al-Qaeda

Leadership

Ayman al-Zawahiri Saif al-Adel Abdullah Ahmed Abdullah Hamza bin Laden Abdelmalek Droukdel Mokhtar Belmokhtar Qasim al-Raymi Abu Mohammad al-Julani Ahmad Umar Asim Umar Ezedin Abdel Aziz Khalil

Former leadership

Osama bin Laden
Osama bin Laden (killed) Abu Yahya al-Libi (killed) Khalid Sheikh Mohammed
Khalid Sheikh Mohammed (captured) Mamdouh Mahmud Salim
Mamdouh Mahmud Salim (captured) Anwar al-Awlaki
Anwar al-Awlaki (killed) Samir Khan (killed) Younis al-Mauritani (captured) Mohammed Atef
Mohammed Atef (killed) Fazul Abdullah Mohammed (killed) Abu Faraj al-Libbi (captured) Atiyah Abd al-Rahman (killed) Abu Laith al-Libi
Abu Laith al-Libi (killed) Fahd al-Quso (killed) Ilyas Kashmiri
Ilyas Kashmiri (killed) Abu Hamza Rabia (killed) Haitham al-Yemeni (killed) Abdullah Said al Libi (killed) Abu Sulayman Al-Jazairi (killed) Saleh al-Somali (killed) Abu Ubaidah al-Masri (died) Saad bin Laden (killed) Fahid Mohammed Ally Msalam (killed) Sheikh Ahmed Salim Swedan (killed) Ahmed Mohammed Hamed Ali (killed) Mohammad Hasan Khalil al-Hakim (killed) Mushin Musa Matwalli Atwah (killed) Midhat Mursi (killed) Saeed al-Masri (killed) Hassan Ghul (killed) Abu Ubaidah al-Banshiri (died) Walid bin Attash
Walid bin Attash (captured) Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri
Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri (captured) Mustafa Setmariam Nasar (captured) Qaed Salim Sinan al-Harethi (killed) Khalid Habib (killed) Abdul Hadi al Iraqi (captured) Mustafa Mohamed Fadhil
Mustafa Mohamed Fadhil (killed) Mohamed Abul-Khair (killed) Mahfouz Ould al-Walid (left) Sulaiman Abu Ghaith (captured) Abu Anas al-Libi (captured and died) Abu Musab al-Zarqawi
Abu Musab al-Zarqawi (killed) Abu Ayyub al-Masri (killed) Abu Omar al-Baghdadi (killed) Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi
Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi (expelled) Abu-Zaid al Kuwaiti
Abu-Zaid al Kuwaiti (killed) Omar al-Faruq (killed) Said Ali al-Shihri
Said Ali al-Shihri (killed) Ahmed Abdi Godane (killed) Adnan Gulshair el Shukrijumah (killed) Adam Yahiye Gadahn (killed) Harith bin Ghazi al-Nadhari
Harith bin Ghazi al-Nadhari (killed) Ibrahim Sulayman Muhammad Arbaysh
Ibrahim Sulayman Muhammad Arbaysh (killed) Nasser bin Ali al-Ansi
Nasser bin Ali al-Ansi (killed) Nasir al-Wuhayshi
Nasir al-Wuhayshi (killed) Muhsin al-Fadhli
Muhsin al-Fadhli (killed) Abu Khalil al-Madani (killed) Abu Khayr al-Masri (killed)

Timeline of attacks

1998 United States
United States embassy bombings 2000 USS Cole bombing 2001 September 11 attacks 2002 Bali bombings 2007 Algiers bombings 2008 Islamabad Danish embassy bombing 2008 Islamabad Marriott Hotel bombing 2012 Benghazi attack 2013 In Amenas hostage crisis 2013 Westgate shopping mall attack 2015 Charlie Hebdo shooting 2015 Garissa University College attack 2015 Bamako hotel attack 2016 Ouagadougou attacks 2016 Grand-Bassam shootings 2016 Bamako attack

Wars

Soviet–Afghan War Afghan Civil War (1989–92) Afghan Civil War (1992–96) Bosnian War

Bosnian Al-Qaeda

First Chechen War Afghan Civil War (1996–2001) Second Chechen War War in Afghanistan (2001–2014) Iraq War Somali Civil War War in North-West Pakistan
Pakistan (Drone strikes) Insurgency in the Maghreb (2002–present) War in Afghanistan (2015–present) Syrian Civil War Yemeni Civil War

al-Qaeda insurgency in Yemen Houthi insurgency in Yemen

Affiliates

al-Shabaab (Somalia) al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (Yemen) al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (North Africa) Egyptian Islamic Jihad (Egypt) al-Qaeda in the Indian Subcontinent (Indian Subcontinent) Tahrir al-Sham
Tahrir al-Sham (Syria)

Charity organizations

Benevolence International Foundation al-Haramain Foundation

Media

Al Qaeda Handbook Al Neda As-Sahab Fatawā of Osama bin Laden Inspire Al-Khansaa Kuala Lumpur al-Qaeda Summit Management of Savagery Voice of Jihad Qaedat al-Jihad Global Islamic Media Front

Video and audio

Videos and audio recordings of Osama bin Laden Videos and audio recordings of Ayman al-Zawahir