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• 10th Mountain Division [r]: A division headquarters of the United States Army, made up of light brigade combat teams that can be deployed with a minimum of long-range transport resources [e]
• 1993 World Trade Center bombing [r]: A 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center in New York, by a loose grouping of terrorists with both jihadist and specific anti-American and Israeli goals, killing 6 and injuring over 1000 people [e]
• 1996 Khobar Towers bombing [r]: A truck bombing of a U.S. Air Force barracks in Saudi Arabia, killing and wounding personnel involved in enforcing the no-fly zone over southern Iraq; primary responsibility is generally assigned to Saudi Hizbollah with support from Iran [e]
• 1998 bombings of U.S. Embassies in Africa [r]: Vehicle-borne suicide bomb attacks, conducted by al-Qaeda approximately nine minutes apart, on U.S. Embassies and civilian buildings in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania and Nairobi, Kenya on August 7, 1998 [e]
• 9-11 Attack [r]: The largest terrorist attack on the continental United States, occurring on September 11, 2001, using hijacked airliners as suicide weapons against major buildings [e]
• 9-11 conspiracy theory [r]: Theories about the attacks on September 11, 2001 that presume foreknowledge or participation of the U.S. Government. [e]
• Abd Abdullah [r]: Literally "father of Abdullah", a name used by Osama bin Laden, whose eldest son is named Abdullah [e]
• Abdel Bari Atwan [r]: Analyst of Islamic politics and Editor of an independent U.K. based Arabic language based newspaper, Al-Quds Al-Arabi; has had access to Osama bin Laden but is also a frequent analyst in Western and Muslim media and academic publications [e]
• Abdullah Azzam [r]: A Salafist legal scholar and jihadist, who formed the Services Office supporting the Afghanistan War (1978-92) with Osama bin Laden, one of the organizations that formed al-Qaeda [e]
• Abu Ayoub al-Iraqi [r]: Reported as one of the founders of al-Qaeda, he appeared to drop from the leadership, and drowned in a ferry accident in Kenya in 1996 [e]
• Abu Jandal [r]: Bodyguard to Osama bin Laden, captured in 2002 and who has provided information on al-Qaeda [e]
• Abu Muhammad al-Maqdisi [r]: A Salafist theologian with much influence on Jihad, currently in Jordan; some affiliation with al-Qaeda but not necessarily in full agreement with their approach [e]
• Abu Musab al-Zarqawi [r]: Killed in an airstrike in 2006, the head of al-Qaeda in Iraq, who had previously run a separate organization [e]
• Abu Qatada al-Filistini [r]: A Salafist cleric, named by the United Nations Security Council as a financial supporter of al-Qaeda and the Algerian jihadi groups, under house arrest in London [e]
• Abu Sulaiman al-Makki [r]: Also known as Khaled al-Harbi, a cleric affiliated with al-Qaeda, of uncertain importance, who surrendered to Saudi security in 2004; he lost the use of his legs as a result of combat injuries in Bosnia while fighting with al-Qaeda [e]
• Afghan Arab [r]: Fighters against the Soviets, and then participants in jihad operating from Afghanistan and Pakistan, who are not of Afghan ethnicity but fought in the region, trained there or were supported by organizations based in the areas [e]
• Afghanistan Civil War (1989-1994) [r]: The conflict in Afghanistan between the departure of Soviet forces in 1989 and the taking of control by the Taliban in 1992, with conflict among mudjahadeen factions [e]
• Afghanistan War (1978-92) [r]: A civil war in Afghanistan that matched the Soviet Union and its Afghan allies against a coalition of anti-Communist groups called the mujahideen, supported from the outside by the United States, Pakistan, and Saudi Arabia. [e]
• Afghanistan War (2001-), major combat phase [r]: During the Afghanistan War (2001-), the period of combat by Afghan ground forces, with U.S. and British air & special operations support, which drove the Taliban and al-Qaeda from their bases, in October through December 2001 [e]
• Afghanistan War (2001-) [r]: Beginning on October 7, 2001, in response to the 9-11 attacks, military operations against the Taliban and al-Qaeda by United States and NATO forces [e]
• Al-Khifa [r]: A branch of the Services Office operating in the U.S., supporting the anti-Soviet forces in the Afghanistan War (1978-1992); directed by Abdullah Azzam and at least affiliated with al-Qaeda personnel [e]
• Al-Qaeda [r]: International islamist terrorist network. Responsible for the 9-11 attack and other terrorist attacks. [e]
• America at the Crossroads: Democracy, Power, and the Neoconservative Legacy [r]: A 2006 book by Francis Fukuyama, examining the role of neoconservatism in American foreign policy, its execution by the George W. Bush Administration, and a proposed evolved political philosophy to replace it [e]
• Arab [r]: A person whose native language is Arabic, whether born in the Arabian Peninsula (Arabia) or in Africa. [e]
• Armed Islamic Group [r]: An apparently dormant Algerian jihadist movement, formed in 1992 when the secular government outlawed the Islamist party that won the legislative elections; members now may be affiliated with Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb [e]
• Ayman al-Zawahiri [r]: Generally considered the #2 leader of al-Qaeda, an Egyptian physician who was mentored, in a faction of the Muslim Brotherhood, by Sayyid Qutb [e]
• Battle of Tora Bora [r]: A battle of the Afghanistan War (2001-), in which allied special operations forces, principally using Afghan troops, attempted to kill or capture an escaping Osama bin Laden [e]
• Beard [r]: Human facial hair covering part of the lower face, particularly the chin, throat and lower cheeks. [e]
• CIA activities in Asia-Pacific [r]: This is a regional-level subpage dealing with CIA intelligence and operations pertaining to the Asia-Pacific area. Large topics may be in subordinate pages. [e]
• CIA activities in the Middle East and South Asia [r]: Add brief definition or description
• CNN [r]: A 24/day news television network founded by Ted Turner in 1980. [e]
• Dell Dailey [r]: Currently Counterterrorism Coordinator for the U.S. Department of State, a retired U.S. Army lieutenant general whose career was spent in special operations [e]
• Delta Force [r]: A generally covert U.S. Army unit in Joint Special Operations Command, specializing in hostage rescue and combat search and rescue, direct action, special reconnaissance, and counterterrorism. [e]
• Direct action (military) [r]: Military attacks, usually by special operations forces on land, against specific, well-defined targets, often behind enemy lines. [e]
• Egyptian Islamic Jihad [r]: A jihadist organization formed in the 1970s, dormant by the 1990s, with the more extreme members probably in al-Qaeda along with the leader of the time, Ayman al-Zawahiri [e]
• Extraordinary rendition, U.S., Bill Clinton Administration [r]: Extraordinary rendition of suspects of counterterrorism programs in the Clinton Administration, with brief U.S. interrogation but primary coercive interrogation in third countries [e]
• Federal Bureau of Investigation [r]: The principal U.S. Federal police agency, part of the U.S. Department of Justice and the United States intelligence community, who has arrest authority, and is the primary authority for a variety of domestic crimes, civilian counterespionage within the United States, and organized crime [e]
• Federally Administered Tribal Area (Pakistan) [r]: A region of Pakistan that is outside the regular system of Pakistani provincial government, involving a combination of tribal leaders and "agents" of the national government; the subdivisions are called "agencies", not "provinces"; from an international standpoint, it is fairly lawless [e]
• Foundation for Defense of Democracies [r]: An American think tank focusing on threats from terrorism and militant Islamists, from which Democratic advisers resigned and many of the leadership are identified as Republican or conservative [e]
• General Intelligence Department (Saudi Arabia) [r]: The national intelligence service of Saudi Arabia [e]
• George Tenet [r]: Director of Central Intelligence from July 1997 to July 2004, heading the United States intelligence community and the Central Intelligence Agency [e]
• George W. Bush [r]: (1946–) 43rd U.S. President (Republican), elected in 2000 and re-elected in 2004. [e]
• Hassan al-Turabi [r]: A Sudanese political and Islamist leader, whose status has ranged from national leader to political prisoner, and has been affiliated with Islamist movements worldwide, often changing affiliation [e]
• Huzaifa Parhat [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Ibn Sheikh al-Libi [r]: A Libyan member of al-Qaeda whose interrogation results, later recanted, were a large part of the U.S. justfication for starting the Iraq War because Iraq had weapons of mass destruction; he was in various CIA programs of extraordinary rendition and interrogation [e]
• Imagery intelligence [r]: the practice of taking and interpreting visible and infrared light photographs and video, radar imagery, and other ways to form pictures of subjects of interest [e]
• Intelligence analysis [r]: Techniques, independent of the subject matter, for correlating multiple kinds of information, hypothesizing meaning from the set of data available, and, with incomplete information, validating the hypotheses [e]
• Intelligence interrogation, U.S., George W. Bush Administration [r]: The policies and practices authorized for interrogation of suspected terrorists by the United States Department of Defense and the United States intelligence community during the George W. Bush Administration [e]
• Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan [r]: A Central Asian jihadist movement, centered on the Ferghana Valley, where the borders of Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzistan, and Tajikistan meet; affiliated with the Taliban and al-Qaeda and may be based in Afghanistan [e]
• Jalaluddin Haqqani [r]: Commander of Taliban armed forces but also a Pashtun Ghilzai with independent affiliations with Pakistan, both Inter-Service Intelligence and tribal, as well as his home area of Afghanistan [e]
• Jamaat al-Islamiyya [r]: An Egyptian jihadist organization, derived from the Muslim Brotherhood, which conducted terror operations primarily in Egypt in the 1990s; it has renounced violence but members have affiliated with al-Qaeda and other groups [e]
• Jamal al-Fadl [r]: An early (1988) associate of Osama bin Laden, who walked into a U.S. Embassy in 1996, offered his services, and testified at a 2001 trial for the 1998 bombings of U.S. Embassies in Africa [e]
• James Pavitt [r]: Principal, Scowcroft Group; Deputy Director of Operations of the Central Intelligence Agency under George Tenet, before the 9-11 attack and during the early Afghanistan War (2001-) [e]
• Joint Special Operations Command [r]: A major subordinate unit of the United States Special Operations Command, which takes on the most sensitive covert military operations, usually working unacknowledged within the geographic area of a Unified Combatant Command [e]
• Kenya [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Khaled al Fawwaz [r]: Accused al-Qaeda member who ran its public information service in London, is under indictment in the 1998 bombings of U.S. Embassies in Africa, and is contesting extradition from the U.K. [e]
• Khalid Sheikh Mohammed [r]: Described by the U.S. and by his own proud statement, the operational planner, for al-Qaeda, of the 9-11 attack; a U.S. High Value Detainee with no announced plan for trial [e]
• Khallad [r]: A Yemeni from a family associated with al-Qaeda, currently a High Value Detainee at Guantanamo Bay detention camp, associated with the USS Cole bombing, the 9-11 attack, and assisting Khalid Sheikh Mohammed in planning future operations [e]
• Khartoum [r]: National capital of Sudan and of the northern Sudanese part of the federation; with its twin city Omdurman, the largest metropolitan area [e]
• L'Houssaine Kherchtou [r]: Former pilot for Osama bin Laden, who left al-Qaeda, gave significant information to the U.S., and is in the U.S. Witness Protection Program [e]
• Michael Scheuer [r]: Former head of the Osama bin Laden/al-Qaeda unit in the Counterterrorism Center of the Central Intelligence Agency; critical of U.S. policies but with insightful analysis on what he sees as a complex enemy [e]
• Military Commissions Act of 2006 [r]: U.S. law authorizing the President or Secretary of Defense to create tribunals for determining the prisoner of war status of persons captured as non-national combatants, and to try them, outside the regular judicial system, for war crimes [e]
• Mohammed al-Qahtani [r]: An al-Qaeda member captured in Pakistan and prisoner at Guantanamo Bay detention camp; first Military Commission hearing rejected by convening authority Susan Crawford due to his having been tortured but held pending the presentation of new charges [e]
• Muhammad Omar [r]: Salafist cleric and leader of the Taliban [e]
• Nangarhar Province [r]: A province on the east of Afghanistan, on the Pakistani frontier, which forms its south and eastern sides; its major internal boundaries are with Kabul Province on its west, Langhman and Kunar Provinces to the north; the capital is Jalalabad, nearest town to the Battle of Tora Bora [e]
• Omar Khadr [r]: A Canadian citizen, captured in Afghanistan at the age of 15, who was charged with attacking U.S. forces and has been held in Guantanamo Bay detention camp; the Supreme Court of Canada has scheduled a hearing on his repatriation on November 13, 2009 [e]
• Pashtun people [r]: An Eastern Iranian ethnic group primarily located in Southern Afghanistan in the Northwest Frontier Province, Federally Administered Tribal Area and Balochistan Province of western Pakistan; language is Pashto [e]
• Peter Bergen [r]: Senior Research Fellow, American Strategy Program and Co-Director, Counterterrorism Strategy Initiative, New America Foundation; CNN's national security analyst and fellow at Center on Law & Security, New York University; adjunct professor, School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University [e]
• Quetta shura [r]: The core Afghan Taliban leadership group believed to be in Quetta, Pakistan, after being driven out of Afghanistan, and still led by Mullah Omar; leadership over native Pakistani Taliban is not clear [e]
• Ramzi Yousef [r]: A participant in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, now serving life without parole in a U.S. prison; the nephew of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and involved in what, at the time, was an informal worldwide network of jihadists [e]
• Richard Clarke [r]: Career U.S. defense official who served in policy posts in the Ronald Reagan,George H. W. Bush, Bill Clinton and George W. Bush Administrations, specializing in counterterrorism in the latter two [e]
• Richard Dawkins [r]: (1941–) British ethologist, evolutionary biologist, science writer and outspoken atheist. [e]
• Saad al-Faqih [r]: A U.K.-based surgeon and Saudi dissident, who has been designated a terrorist supporter of al-Qaeda by the United States; he describes himself as a Saudi reformer [e]
• Salafism [r]: A strict branch of Sunni Islam, dedicated to the restoration of the Caliphate, often by means of armed jihad [e]
• Salah Gosh [r]: Long-term director, until August 2009, of Sudan's intelligence and security services [e]
• Saudi Arabia [r]: A country in the Middle East, governed by a monarchy under Islamic law, which contains the holiest sites in Islam, and also dominates the world's oil economy [e]
• Sayyid Qutb [r]: Born in 1906, radicalized in 1951, and executed in 1966, an influential theorist of Salafist revolutionary Islam; considered one of the two spiritual fathers of al-Qaeda and the mentor of Ayman al-Zawahiri [e]
• Secret Intelligence Service [r]: Britain's national-level civilian organization for intelligence and covert action [e]
• Services Office [r]: An Arab organization, principally based in Pakistan with a U.S. branch called al-Khifa, which supported Afghans against the Soviets in the Afghanistan War (1978-92), but also was an ancestor of radical jihadist movements [e]
• Shadi Adalla [r]: An al-Qaeda bodyguard of Osama bin Laden [e]
• Sharia [r]: The Muslim system of law and rule of conduct inspired by the Qu'ran, the Sunna, traditional law systems, and the Hadiths. [e]
• Takfir wal-Hijra [r]: An extreme Salafist organization of Egyptian origin, whose executed leader wanted to withdraw from modern society, build strength, and then excommunicate and kill those they considered apostates, such as Osama bin Laden [e]
• Taliban [r]: Salafist Islamic militia, governing Afghanistan 1996–2001; still fighting in Pakistan and Afghanistan. [e]
• Terrorism [r]: Any act, nearly always violent, unpredictable, and chaotic in nature, often targetting civilians, intended to create an atmosphere of fear in order to obtain a political objective. [e]
• Turki al-Faisal [r]: Senior prince of Saudi Arabia, who has headed their General Intelligence Department and been Ambassador both to the U.K. and U.S.; board, International Crisis Group [e]
• U.S. Intelligence and terrorism in the 1980s [r]: Tracking and actions against terrorism by the United States intelligence community in the 1980s [e]
• U.S. Intelligence and terrorism in the 1990s [r]: Tracking and actions against terrorism by the United States intelligence community in the 1990s [e]
• U.S. intelligence activities in Africa [r]: Activities of the United States intelligence community in Africa [e]
• United States Army Special Forces [r]: United States Army organization originally created to train and lead guerillas, highly qualified to work with other cultures; acquired additional missions including foreign internal defense, direct action (military), special reconnaissance, counterterrorism, etc. [e]
• Uranium [r]: A silvery-white metallic chemical element in the actinide series of the periodic table that has the symbol U and atomic number 92. [e]
• Wadi al Aqiq [r]: A holding company, owned by Osama bin Laden, in Sudan [e]
• Wakil Muttawakil [r]: Former Taliban foreign minister and aide to Mullah Omar before the 9-11 attacks; now in Afghanistan in house arrest and considered a possible moderate Taliban for negotiations [e]
• War on terror [r]: A major policy of the George W. Bush Administration, defining global terrorism, as opposed to nation-states as in the Cold War, as the focal point of national security policy [e]
• Washington Post [r]: A daily newspaper in Washington DC -- first publisher of the details of the Watergate scandal. [e]
• Weapons of mass destruction [r]: Weapons that cause death or injury not primarily through kinetic energy of projectiles or the detonation of conventional explosives, but rather produce large-scale effects greater than possible with the same weight of explosives weapons; by means heat, blast and radiation from nuclear weapon; poisoning by chemical weapon; infectious disease by biological weapons; or acute or chronic radiation syndromes from radiological weapons. [e]
• World Trade Center [r]: The New York office complex, centered around twin skyscrapers 110 stories high, which was destroyed by a terrorist attack on September 11, 2001 [e]
• Yunis Khalis [r]: An early leader of the mudjahedin (1919-2006), whose stronghold was Jalalabad in Nangarhar Province [e]