Al-Qaeda (70 page)

Abu Gaith, Suleiman
33

Abu Ghraib prison, Iraq
276

Abu Hajer, Abu Rahman
106

Abu Hoshar, Khadar
109
–10,
211

Abu Khabab (Midhat Mursi)
208

Abu Mohammed
218

Abu Qutada
184
–5,
220
,
226
,
252
,
283

Abu Sayyaf group (Philippines)
15
–16,
107
,
230
,
262

Abu Yasir Rifa’IAhmad Taha
176

Abu Ziad
171

Abu Zubaydah
105
,
167
,
206
–7;

capture
260
; and Millennium Plots
208
,
209
,
210
,
211
;

organization of attacks
221
,
248

al-Adel, Saif
115
,
148
,
248
,
260

Aden, Yemen: bombings (1992)
141
,
147

Afghan veterans
80
,
82
; in Algeria
202
; Azzam and
72
,
73
–4; ideology
83
; in Pakistan
90
,
103
; in Saudi Arabia
139
,
140
,
155
; in Somalia
148
; in Sudan
143
,
145
;
see also
volunteers

Afghanistan
xxiv
,
63
–6,
273
,
292
–3,
297
; bin Laden in
xxiii
,
5
–6,
78
–9,
160
–1,
182
; Islam in
62
–3; militant groups in
6
,
8
–10,
102
,
195
; mujahideen in
xxi
–xxii,
xxiii
,
5
,
59
,
60
–1,
75
,
79
,
81
–2; Northern Alliance
xxiii
,
192
; Operation ‘Mountain Lion’ (2001–2)
254
–6; opium
126
–7,
193
; Pakistan and
67
–8,
68
–9,
80
–1,
82
,
98
–9,
125
–6; political Islam in
61
–2,
64
,
66
–9,
120
,
122
,
168
; post-Taliban
256
,
257
,
258
–9; Soviet invasion
2
,
56
,
59
,
64
,
80
; the Taliban
116
–18,
120
–4,
127
–35,
196
,
257
–8,
292
–3; volunteers in
1
–2,
3
,
13
,
61
,
72
,
75
,
75
–7,
80
,
84
,
85
; ‘War on Terror’
254
–6; Western failure in
291
–2;
see also
Taliban: training camps

Ahmed, Hussein
67

Ahmed, Najmuddin Feraj
223
,
224
–5,
226
,
227

Aideed, Farah
148
,
149

AIS (Armée Islamique de Salvation)
205
,
217

Ajaj, Ahmed Mohammed
3
,
108

Akhund, Mullah Hassan
179

Akora Khattak: religious complex
95

Algeria
84
,
120
,
133
,
200
–3,
262
,
296
,
304
;
see also
AIS; GIA; GSPC

al-Ali, Abdallah
236

Ali, Ayaan Hirsi
282
–3

Alwan, Emad Abdelwahid Ahmed
218

Andalusia
73

Ansar ul Islam (Kurdish northern Iraq)
11
,
17
,
18
,
225
–7,
261
,
271
,
272
,
274
,
275
,
299

arms dealing
147
,
196
–7;
see also
weapons

Arnaout, Enaam
250
–51

‘Aso, Mullah’
225

Assuna Annabawiyah mosque, Montreal
203

Ataturk, Kemal
43
,
132

Atef, Mohammed
76
,
213
; al-Qaeda planning by
196
,
199
,
209
,
248
; and bin Laden
167
,
176
; and Somalia
148
,
149
; death
259

Atta, Mohammed
17
; background
153
,
238
–42,
243
–5; motivation
24
,
253
,
309
; 11 September pilot
34
,
234
,
237
,
251
,
253

Atwan, Abdul Bari
166

al-Auda, Salman
139
,
247

Ayub, Arif
195

Azhar, Maulana Massoud
96
,
190

al-Azhar University, Cairo
66

Aziz, Mullah Uthman Ali
223

Azzam, Nairobi embassy bomber
158
–9,
174
,
177
,
214

Azzam, Abdallah
2
,
47
,
72
–3,
223
,
273
; ideology
73
–5,
76
,
83
,
162
; view of al-Qaeda as vanguard
2
,
37
; death
82
;
see also
MAK

Ba’asir, Abu Bakr
228
,
228
–9

Ba’ath Party, Iraq
275
,
279

Babar, General Naseerullah
68
,
125
,
125
–6

al-Badr: battle (624 CE)
30
; camp complex
168

Baghdad: fall to Mongols (1258)
29
,
311

Bagram, Afghanistan
255
–6

Bali: bombing (2002)
264
–5,
309

Bamiyan, Buddhas of: destruction
196

Bangladesh
24
,
91
,
96

al-Banna, Hassan
47
–9,
166

al-Banshiri, Abu Ubaidah
106
,
149
,
177

Barot, Dhiren
285

al-Bashir, Omar Hassan
145

Baudrillard, Jean
38

bayat (oath-taking)
85

Beghal, Djamal
220
–21

Belgium: GSPC activists
219

Benevolence International Foundation (BIF)
250
–51

Bhutto, Benazir
98
,
115
,
125
,
126
,
168
; assassination attempt
108
,
113
–14

Bhutto, Zulfikar Ali
67
,
91
,
125