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Nasir al-Wahishi proclaimed himself as the leader of al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) in January 2009. The press release in which al-Wahishi announced AQAP’s re-emergence also noted that the group’s Saudi militants had pledged allegiance to al-Wahishi as their new leader. Since then, al-Wahishi has provided significant support for AQAP terrorist operations and (Full Text »)
Ibrahim Hassan Tali al-Asiri is an al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) operative and serves as the terrorist organization’s primary bomb maker. Before joining AQAP, al-Asiri was part of an al-Qaida affiliated terrorist cell in Saudi Arabia and was involved in planned bombings of oil facilities in the Kingdom. (Full Text »)
Sirajuddin Haqqani currently leads the day-to-day activities of the Haqqani Network. During an interview with an American news organization, Sirajuddin admitted planning the January 14, 2008 attack against the Serena Hotel in Kabul that killed six people, including American citizen Thor David Hesla. Sirajuddin also admitted to having planned the April (Full Text »)
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Ramzi Ahmed Yousef was the terrorist mastermind responsible for the February 1993 World Trade Center bombing in New York City that killed six and wounded over a thousand. Yousef and his assistants drove a van full of explosives into the basement of the World Trade Center. Within hours of the bombing, Yousef escaped on a plane to Pakistan.
Yousef resurfaced in the Philippines where he was engaged in developing a complex terrorist plot. Yousef planned to assassinate Pope John Paul II on January 14, 1995 while he was touring the Philippines... (Full Text »)