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Al-Zawahiri was one of the planners of the September 11 attacks against the United States. He succeeded Osama bin Laden as leader of al-Qaeda after bin Laden was killed by U.S. forces in Pakistan on 2 May 2011. He was located and tracked by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) months before his death.
Nasir al-Wuhayshi: Leader of al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula: Killed in 2015. [10] Abdelmalek Droukdel: Leader of al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb: Killed in 2020. [11] Asim Umar: Leader of al-Qaeda in the Indian Subcontinent: Killed in 2019. [12] Fazul Abdullah Mohammed: Leader of al-Qaeda in East Africa: Killed in 2011. [13] Hamza bin Laden ...
Al-Qaeda planned to attack USS The Sullivans on January 3, 2000, but the effort failed due to too much weight being put on the small boat meant to bomb the ship. Despite the setback with USS The Sullivans, al-Qaeda succeeded in bombing a U.S. Navy warship in October 2000 with the USS Cole bombing, killing 17 sailors.
Speculation has grown that the U.S. used a secret Hellfire missile nicknamed the 'knife bomb' to kill Al Qaeda leader Ayman Zawahiri.
Explosives expert for Al-Qaeda. 2005-05-08 North Waziristan Pakistan Yemen: Drone strike. Abu Hamza Rabia: Third highest Al-Qaeda leader. 2005-12-01 North Waziristan Pakistan Egypt: Drone strike. [6] Abu Musab al-Zarqawi: Leader of Al Qaeda in Iraq. 2006-06-07 Baqubah, Diyala Governorate: Iraq Jordan: Air strike. JSOC air strike. [7] Abu Laith ...
Al-Qaeda defector al-Fadl, who was a former member of Qatar Charity, testified in court that Abdullah Mohammed Yusef, who served as Qatar Charity's director, was affiliated to al-Qaeda and simultaneously to the National Islamic Front, a political group that gave al-Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden harbor in Sudan in the early 1990s. [85]
The Istanbul bombings in Turkey by al-Qaeda killed 57 and injured around 700 people. December 13 Operation Red Dawn takes place: Saddam Hussein is found and captured by U.S. forces in Ad-Dawr, Iraq. [35] Unknown Noordin Mohammad Top, a senior terrorist in JI, is said to have split from the group and formed al-Qaeda in the Malay Archipelago. [36]
Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, Iran’s chief nuclear scientist, was one of the highest-profile officials to be killed, in 2020. In 2021, Iran reported a blackout at the Natanz nuclear facility where uranium ...