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• 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]
• 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]
• Abdullah Anas [r]: Son-in-law of Abdullah Azzam; had been on Algerian Islamic Salvation Front until 1966; believed to be living in London ^[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 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]
• 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]
• 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]
• Gulbuddin Hekmatyar [r]: Afghan radical jihadist leader, not affiliated with the Taliban, at large in Afghanistan or Pakistan ^[e]
• Omar Abdel-Rahman [r]: Serving a life sentence (without the possibility of parole) for the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center, he is a radical Islamist cleric of Egyptian origin, who was affiliated with some of the ideological guides and founders of al-Qaeda ^[e]
• Osama bin Laden [r]: Radical jihadist who, with Ayman al-Zawahiri, founded a group known as al-Qaeda, which is credited with a series of terrorist attacks. ^[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]
• U.S. Intelligence and terrorism in the 1980s [r]: Tracking and actions against terrorism by the United States intelligence community in the 1980s ^[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]