Al-Qaida: Dead or captured

A timeline of the Al-Qaida members who are dead or are in the custody.

--July 2, 1993

Sheik Omar Abdel-Rahman, one of bin Laden’s mentors, is arrested at a Brooklyn mosque on charges that he was part of the plot to blow up New York monuments and the first bombing of the World Trade Center.

--Feb. 7, 1995

Ramzi Yousef is captured by officers of the FBI, DEA and that State Department’s Diplomatic Security Service in Room 16 of the Su Casa Guesthouse in Islamabad, Pakistan. The arrest is the result of a tip from a religious studies student Yousef was trying to recruit. He told the student of  a plan to place bombs in cargo to be carried on board United and American Airlines jets flying out of Bangkok. Hours before the arrest, U.S. officials watch as Yousef and a friend tour the city. The friend, it is later learned, is Khalid Sheik Mohammed, his uncle and the man who later becomes the mastermind of Sept. 11. On hearing of the arrest, Mohammed quickly leaves the city.

--November 1995

Around the time of the attack on the Saudi National Guard Communications Center in central Riyadh, four Yemeni mercenaries, apparently in the employ of Saudi intelligence, attempts to assassinate bin Laden.  The mercenaries alight from a Toyota Hi-Lux pickup truck a few feet from bin Laden’s home in Khartoum and engage in a firefight with security guards. Three of the attackers and two of the guards are killed, but bin Laden emerges unscathed. Working with Sudanese intelligence, al-Qaida security chief Ali Mohammed increases security at the compound.

--May 21, 1996

Al-Qaida's military commander, Abu Ubaidah al-Banshiri,  is one of 1,000 people who drown in a ferry accident on Africa's Lake Victoria, which lies between Kenya and Tanzania.  Al-Banshiri is replaced by Ali Muhammed.

--Aug. 8-15, 1998

In roundups around the world, those believed responsible for the embassy bombing trials are rounded up and brought to New York for eventual trial.

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