Al-Qaeda (75 page)

al-Moulla al-Bilal, Ahmed
262

Moussaoui, Zacarias
229
,
252
,
253

Mubarak, Hosni
114
,
115
,
154
,
240

Muhamed, K. K.
7
–8,
96

Mujahed, Abu
276
–80

Mujahed, Fazl Haq
160

mujahideen
xxi
–xxii,
59
,
60
–61,
68
,
75
,
79
; bases
77
–8; and bin Laden
5
,
79
–80,
136
; splits within
81
–2,
165

mullahs, in Afghanistan
63
,
123

Mursi, Midhat (Abu Khabab)
208

Mushayt, Khamis
247

Muslim Brotherhood (Egypt)
47
,
48
–9,
53
,
75
,
151
,
153
,
241
; in Afghanistan
66
; Iraq branch
222
; Sudan branch
144
;
see also
Gamaa-al-Islamiyya

Muslim Sisterhood (Egypt)
134

Muslim World League (
Rabitat al-Alam al-Islami
)
57
,
60

Muttawakil, Wakil Ahmed
211
–12

Nairobi, Kenya, embassy bombing
158
–60,
177
–8,
199

Najibullah, Mohammed
80
,
89
,
129
,
130

Namangani, Juma
190
,
191
–2

al-Nami, Ahmed
247

al-Nashiri, Abd al-Rahim
214
,
231

Nasser, Gamal Abdel
36
,
53
,
55
,
151

Netherlands, the
282
–3

‘network of networks’
10
–13,
14
,
139
,
171
,
231
,
261
–2

New York, USA: MAK branch in
75
,
84
,
101
;
see also
11 September attacks; World Trade Center

Northern Alliance
xxiii
,
192

Nouar, Nizar
263

Odeh, Mohammed Sadeeq
106
,
148
,
177

oil
138
,
310
; Algerian oil revenues
200
–201; embargo (1973)
46

Omar, Mullah Mohammed
xxiii
,
123
,
124
,
135
,
193
,
194
,
296
; and bin Laden
183
,
185
–7,
194

al-Omari, Abdulaziz
247
,
253

Operation ‘Infinite Reach’ (1998)
180
–81,
186
,
188
,
292

Operation ‘Mountain Lion’ (2001–2)
254
–6

Operation ‘Restore hope’
141
–2

opium
293
; ban
193
; drugs trade
16
,
126
,
127

Ottoman Empire
43
,
280

al-Owhali, Mohammed Rashid Daoud
158
–60,
169
–70,
174
,
177
–8

Pabbi, Pakistan, complex at
78
,
103
,
107
–8,
114

Pahlavi, Muhammad Reza, Shah of Iran
56
,
132

Pahlwan, Said Mohammed
70
,
80

Pakistan
52
,
82
,
90
–1,
98
; and Afghanistan
67
–8,
68
–9,
80
–81,
82
,
98
–9; bin Laden and
175
; Deobandism in
92
–5,
109
–10,
304
; and Kashmir
16
,
96
–8,
99
–100,
189
; militants in
89
–90,
103
–5,
108
–9,
114
–15,
296
; political Islam in
91
–2,
98
; Sidique Khan’s visits
286
,
288
,
289
,
290
–91,
296
; and the Taliban
124
–8,
187
–90; tries to reverse policy
262
;
see also
ISI; Peshawar

Palestine
280
,
281
,
296
–7

Palestinian groups
12
,
84
;
see also
Hamas

Pashtun tribes
64
,
122
,
123
,
259
; cultural code
134
; Pakistan and
67
,
69
,
124
,
126
; and the Taliban
123
–4,
125

Pashtun, Yusef
257

PDPA (People’s Democratic Party of Afghanistan)
62
,
66
,
67

Pearl, Daniel
87
,
100
,
296

Peshawar, Pakistan
41
,
114
; Afghan Colony
41
–2; Arab volunteers in
61
,
72
,
73
,
150
; bin Laden in
3
,
57
–8,
58
,
105
; guesthouses
75
,
103
–4,
105

Peshmerga fighters (KDP)
222
,
227

Philippines: Abu Sayyaf group
15
–16,
107
,
230
,
262
; ‘Bojinka plot’
110
,
114
,
228

PLO (Palestine Liberation Organization)
84

political Islam:
see
Islam, political

polytheism (
shirk
)
27
,
42

Powell, Colin, US Secretary of State
274

propaganda
288
–9,
311
; bin Laden and
19
–20,
89
,
174
–5,
281
–2,
288
,
311
; intelligence services and
16
–18; and the Madrid bombings
269
–70

PUK (Patriotic Union of Kurdistan)
223
,
225
,
298

al-Qaeda
xxv
,
1
,
308
; and bin Laden
xxv
,
1
,
85
,
140
,
297
; ideology
13
–14; links with London bombings
289
–90,
291
; links with al-Zarqawi
274
,
275
; no connection to the Madrid bombing
268
; origins and use of name
1
–8,
14
–15,
38
–9,
85
–6,
173
; in Somalia
148
,
149
; state repression of Islamic radicalism
15
; structure and organization
8
–13,
14
,
231
–3,
291
; in Sudan
143
; three phases of
311
–12;as vanguard
2
,
19
,
37
,
166
,
297
,
311
–12; ‘War on Terror’ and
259
–61