Shakil Afridi – or Shakeel Afridi – is a Pakistani physician who helped the CIA run a fake hepatitis vaccine program in Abbottabad, Pakistan, to confirm who's presence in the city, by obtaining DNA samples, Details of his activities emerged during the Pakistani investigation of the deadly raid on who's residence, who;s the founder and head of the Islamist group Al-Qaeda, was killed in Pakistan on May 2, 2011, by United States Navy SEALs of the U.S. Naval Special Warfare Development Group?
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Shakil Afridi Shakil Afridi (Urdu: ‎ ) – or Shakeel Afridi – is a Pakistani physician who helped the CIA run a fake hepatitis vaccine program in Abbottabad, Pakistan, to confirm Osama bin Laden's presence in the city by obtaining DNA samples. Details of his activities emerged during the Pakistani investigation of the deadly raid on bin Laden's residence.
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Death of Osama bin Laden Osama bin Laden, the founder and head of the Islamist group Al-Qaeda, was killed in Pakistan on May 2, 2011, shortly after 1:00 am PKT (20:00 UTC, May 1) by United States Navy SEALs of the U.S. Naval Special Warfare Development Group (also known as DEVGRU or SEAL Team Six). The operation, code-named Operation Neptune Spear, was carried out in a CIA-led operation, with Joint Special Operations Command, commonly known as JSOC, coordinating the Special Mission Units involved in the raid. In addition to SEAL Team Six, participating units under JSOC included the 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment (Airborne), aka "Night Stalkers," and operators from the CIA's Special Activities Division, which recruits heavily from former JSOC Special Mission Units. The operation ended a nearly 10-year search for bin Laden, following his role in the September 11, 2001 attacks on the US.
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Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri (Arabic: عبد الرحيم النشيري‎ ‎ ;    ; born January 5, 1965) is a Saudi Arabian citizen alleged to be the mastermind of the bombing of the USS "Cole" and other maritime terrorist attacks. He is alleged to have headed al-Qaeda operations in the Persian Gulf and the Gulf states prior to his capture in November 2002 by the CIA's Special Activities Division.
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Abu Zubair al-Masri Abu Zubair al-Masri was a top Al-Qaeda operative originally from Egypt. He was an explosives expert. He was killed in a Drone attack on November 22, 2008 in village of Ali Khel in North Waziristan. He was holding an operational meeting with 4 others including Rashid Rauf who also were killed. The information about the location of al-Masri was provided to the Americans by Pakistani authorities
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Islamic State of Iraq The Islamic State of Iraq (ISI; Arabic: دولة العراق الإسلامية‎ ‎ "Dawlat al-ʿIrāq al-ʾIslāmiyyah ") (commonly referred to as al-Qaeda in Iraq) was a militant Islamist group that aimed to establish an Islamic state in Sunni, Arab-majority areas of Iraq during the Iraq War.
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Abdullah Said al Libi Abdullah Said al-Libi is described as being an al Qaeda operational leader in Pakistan. He led an al-Qaeda paramilitary force. Said al-Libi was killed in a drone strike on 17 December 2009 in North Waziristan.
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Abu Yusuf Al-Turki Ümit Yaşar Toprak also known by his nom de guerre Abu Yusuf Al-Turki (the "Turk") was a renowned sniper within the al-Nusra Front who trained fighters on how to become snipers. He was also a member of the "Wolf Unit", which was described as a unit of al-Nusra Front fighters (according to documents found by members of the Dubai-based Al Aan TV station). The Wolf Unit is reportedly another name for the Khorasan Group, though there are indications that the Khorasan Group may not exist as a separate entity from Jabhat al-Nusra. Of Turkish descent, Al-Turki lived in the Turkish province of Bursa, leaving behind five children so that he could fight for the al-Nusra Front. On 23 September 2014, Al-Turki was killed during a series of a U.S.-led anti-Khorasan Group coalition airstrikes over Syria.
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Ali Abdullah Naji al-Harithi Ali Abdullah Naji al-Harithi was a veteran Al-Qaeda terrorist, who fought for Al-Qaeda in Iraq and later, for Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula. Hi killed in June 2011 by a US drone strike during the Battle of Zinjibar.
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Abu Humam al-Shami Samir Hijazi, known as Abu Humam al-Shami, was the military chief of al-Qaeda's Syrian affiliate al-Nusra Front.
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Midhat Mursi Midhat Mursi al-Sayid Umar, also known as Abu Khabab al-Masri (29 April 1953, Egypt – 28 July 2008, Pakistan) was a chemist and alleged top bomb maker for al-Qaeda and part of Osama bin Laden's inner circle. The United States had a $5 million bounty on his head. Although reportedly killed in a U.S. attack in January 2006, he survived and intelligence officials believe he went on to attempt to resurrect al-Qaeda's program to develop or obtain weapons of mass destruction. On 28 July 2008, Mursi was killed in an American drone attack in South Waziristan.
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Abu Reyan Al Zarkazi Abu Reyan Al Zarkazi, also known as Abu Musa, is suspected of being an al-Qaeda operative by the Pakistani government. On February 18, 2010 Pakistan announced it had captured Zarkazi and two other al-Qaeda suspects in Karachi. The Pakistani newspaper "Dawn" describes Zarkazi as a "known associate of Osama Bin Laden."
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Haitham al-Yemeni Haitham al-Yemeni (Arabic: هيثم أليمنى ‎ ‎ ) (?? – May 2005) was an al Qaeda explosives expert from Yemen. He was killed in North Waziristan, northwest Pakistan, near the Afghanistan border, in early May 2005 in a drone attack by an unmanned CIA-operated RQ-1 Predator aircraft. The CIA never released a statement about his death, such a report may be sensitive due to the killing having taken place in Pakistani territory. The killing was ordered by the CIA due to fears that he was about to go into hiding.
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Abu Omar al-Turkistani Abu Omar al-Turkistani (died 1 January 2017) was a high-ranking commander for several al-Qaeda-affiliated groups, such as the Islamic Jihad Union (IJU), the Al-Nusra Front, and the Turkistan Islamic Party in Syria (TIP). Active as a militant since at least 2001, al-Turkistani fought in both the War in Afghanistan and the Syrian Civil War. By late 2016, he was considered to be "one of top ten leading 'jihadists' in Syria", and one of the "four most prominent leaders" of TIP. Shortly before his death, al-Turkistani helped to facilitate the merger of many Islamist rebel groups into Tahrir al-Sham. He was eventually killed by an American drone strike on 1 January 2017.
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Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula ( or تنظيم قاعدة الجهاد في جزيرة العرب‎ , "Tanẓīm Qā‘idat al-Jihād fī Jazīrat al-‘Arab", "Organization of Jihad's Base in the Arabian Peninsula"), or AQAP, also known as Ansar al-Sharia in Yemen (Arabic: جماعة أنصار الشريعة‎ ‎ , "Jamā‘at Anṣār ash-Sharī‘ah", "Group of the Helpers of the Sharia"), is a militant Islamist organization, primarily active in Yemen and Saudi Arabia. It was named for al-Qaeda, and states it is subordinate to that group and its now-deceased leader Osama bin Laden, a Saudi citizen of Yemeni heritage. It is considered the most active of al-Qaeda's branches, or "franchises," that emerged due to weakening central leadership. The U.S government believes AQAP to be the most dangerous al-Qaeda branch. The group established an Emirate during the 2011 Yemeni Revolution.
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Haji Bashar Haji Bashir Noorzai is a convicted former Afghan drug lord. He was an early supporter of the Taliban movement, and later worked as an undercover agent on behalf of the U.S. government. Despite being among America's most wanted drug traffickers, he agreed to come to New York City for a debriefing after being promised by his handlers that he would not be arrested. He was arrested ten days after his arrival.
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Jama'at al-Tawhid wal-Jihad Jama'at al-Tawhid wal-Jihad (English: Organization of Monotheism and Jihad ), which may be abbreviated as JTJ or Jama'at, was a militant Jihadist group that was led by the Jordanian national Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, who formed the group in Jordan in 1999, until his death in June 2006. Shortly after al-Zarqawi's death, al-Qaeda in Iraq named a new leader, Abu-Hamzah al-Muhajir, thought to be a pseudonym, which the US military named as Abu Ayyub al-Masri, an Egyptian militant based in Baghdad. He and ISI leader Abu Omar al-Baghdadi were killed during a military operation on his safehouse on 18 April 2010. On May 14, 2010, al-Masri was replaced as leader by al-Nasser Lideen Illah Abu Suleiman, who was in turn killed some time in 2011. Following Suleiman's death, the position of "War Minister" was replaced by a military council composed of former regime military officers under the leadership of Haji Bakr.
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Faqir Mohammed Maulvi Faqir Mohammed (Pashto/Urdu: ; 1970) is a member of the Mamund tribe in Bajaur Agency and, until March 2012, a deputy leader of the Pakistani Taliban umbrella group Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan. He was reported as killed on 5 March 2010 during a helicopter gunship attack on militants by the Pakistani military although he denied the reports as false. In July 2011, he resurfaced on the air broadcasting radio shows out of Afghanistan.
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Hajib Shakarbar Hazrat Hajib Shakarbar was born as the younger of the two sons of Hazrat Shams Tabrizi and Hazrat Shams Sabzwari in 1213 AC. His grand parents named him Alauddin Muhammad, but when his father returned from Tabriz to see his newborn baby, he changed the name from Alauddin Muhammad to Syed Ahmad because he had a dream to this effect in Tabriz. The new baby showed the signs of a born Hafiz and so came to be known as Zinda Pir from his very infancy. He got the title of Shakarbar in Sabzwar and of Hajib in Makkah, and became so famous with the sweet combination of Hajib Shakarbar that his original names went into total oblivion. He joined his father in Multan, Pakistan, with his elder brother Hazrat Naseeruddin, and a large armed escort of Turkish, Iraqi and Kabul fighters in 1289 AC.
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Mohammad Salman Hamdani Mohammad Salman Hamdani (Urdu: ‎ ) (December 28, 1977 – September 11, 2001) was a Pakistani American scientist, New York City Police Department cadet and Emergency Medical Technician who was killed in the aftermath of the 9/11 terrorism attacks on the World Trade Center, where he had gone to try to help. In the weeks following 9/11, reports surfaced that the missing Hamdani was being investigated for possible involvement with the perpetrators, but this suspicion proved to be false and he was subsequently hailed as a hero by the New York City mayor and police commissioner.
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Kunduz airlift The Kunduz airlift refers to the evacuation of thousands of top commanders and members of the Taliban and Al-Qaeda, their Pakistani advisers including Pakistani Inter-Services Intelligence agents and army personnel, and other Jihadi volunteers and sympathizers, from the city of Kunduz, Afghanistan, in November 2001 just before its capture by U.S. and United Front of Afghanistan (Northern Alliance) forces during the War in Afghanistan. As described in several reports, the Taliban and Al-Qaeda combatants were safely evacuated from Kunduz and airlifted by Pakistan Air Force cargo aircraft to Pakistan Air Force bases in Chitral and Gilgit in Pakistan-administered Kashmir's Northern Areas.
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Jamal al-Fadl Jamal Ahmed Mohamed al-Fadl (Arabic: جمال أحمد محمّد الفضل‎ ‎ , "Jamāl Aḥmad Muḥammad al-Faḍl") (born 1963-) is a Sudanese militant and former associate of Osama bin Laden in the early 1990s. Al-Fadl was recruited for the Afghan war through the Farouq mosque in Brooklyn. In 1988, he joined al Qaeda and took an oath of fealty to Bin Laden. After a dispute with Bin Laden, al-Fadl defected and became an informant to the United States government on al Qaeda activities.
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Anwar ul Haq Mujahid Anwar ul Haq Mujahid (born 1967, Nangarhar Province) is the eldest son of deceased Afghan militant leader Mohammed Yunis Khalis, founder of the Hezb-e Islami Khalis. When Khalis died in 2006 his son took over the organization, but later transitioned to the Tora Bora Military Front. He was thought to have been arrested by the ISI during a raid in Peshawar in June 2009 and was released from internment later in 2012. On 22 August 2016 one of Taliban's spokesman, Zabiullah Mujahid, announced that Anwar ul Haq had pledgde allegiance to the new Taliban emir, Hibatullah Akhundzada.