Saif al-Adel

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Saif al-Adel

Saif al-Adel ( Arabic سيف العدل, DMG Saif al-ʿAdl ; in German sword of justice ; * 11. April 1960 or in 1963 in Egypt ) is one of the most influential Egyptian Qaeda -Leader, he is in the Shura and the military council of al-Qaeda sitting. According to media reports, he is said to have succeeded Osama bin Laden, who was killed in early May 2011 .

Life

Al-Adel was said to have had connections to Al-Jihad and Hizballah Al-Hijaz as early as the 1980s . Presumably he was involved in the assassination attempt on Anwar al-Sadat .

Among other things, he is charged with participating in the 1998 bomb attacks on two US embassies in Africa . The USA also accuses him of having trained the Somalis who sparked the 1993 Battle of Mogadishu .

From 2001 onwards he stayed in Shiite Iran for several years . What nature this stay and that of Saad bin Laden and Sulaiman Abu Ghaith was (officially imprisonment ) and how it was ended is a mystery. According to media reports, he has been in the Pakistani province of Northern Waziristan since autumn 2010 and is serving as al-Qaeda's military chief.

According to the Egyptian government, a man initially believed to be al-Adel was arrested on February 29, 2012 at Cairo International Airport . This turned out to be a mix-up.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ FBI fact sheet
  2. ↑ a b US vs. Osama bin Laden, et al. ( Memento from June 9, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 251 kB)
  3. ↑ El Adel is supposed to lead the Al-Qaeda terror network for the time being , derstandard.at of May 18, 2011. Accessed May 19, 2011
  4. ^ Al-Qaeda's new military chief , BBC News, December 19, 2001. Accessed May 19, 2011
  5. ^ Who's who in al-Qaeda , BBC News, December 19, 2003. Accessed May 19, 2011
  6. ↑ NPR
  7. ↑ Top terrorist returns to Al-Qaida headquarters , spiegel.de
  8. ^ Al Qaeda leader arrested. In: Frankfurter Rundschau . February 29, 2012. Retrieved February 29, 2012 .
  9. ↑ Confusion about arrested Islamists. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung . February 29, 2012. Retrieved February 29, 2012 .
personal data
SURNAME al-Adel, Saif
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Muhamad Ibrahim Makkawi; Soap Al Adel; Ibrahim Al-Madani
BRIEF DESCRIPTION islamic extremist
DATE OF BIRTH April 11, 1960 or 1963
PLACE OF BIRTH Egypt