Al-Qaida leaders, associates

Mustafa Ahmed Hassan Hamza

Citizenship: Egyptian

Aliases: Abu Hazem, Mohamed Gamal El-Sayed, Mohamed Gamal El-Sayed Ali Khalil.

Personal: Commander of the military branch of the Islamic Group. He was sentenced to death in absentia by an Egyptian court in the Returnees from Afghanistan case. It is believed he took part in the 1981 assassination of Egyptian President Anwar Sadat, the attempted assassination of President Mubarak in 1995, and the Luxor massacre, which killed more than 60 German and Japanese tourists as well as Egyptian guides, in 1997.  Believed to be in Iranian control.

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Fazul Abdullah Mohammed

Citizenship: Comoro Islands

Aliases: Abdallah Fazul, Abdalla Fazul, Abdallah Mohammed Fazul, Fazul Abdilahi Mohammed, Fazul Adballah, Fazul Abdalla, Fazul Mohammed, Haroon, Harun, Haroon Fazul, Harun Fazul, Fadil Abdallah Muhamad, Fadhil Haroun, Abu Seif Al Sudani, Abu Aisha, Abu Luqman, Fadel Abdallah Mohammed Ali, Fouad Mohammed

Citizenship: Comoro Islands

Personal: Director Al-Qaida operations in East Africa. who is leading suspect in both the November 28, 2002 terrorist attack on beachfront hotel in Kenya and has been indicted by FBI in connection with Aug. 6, 1998 bombing of U.S. Embassy in Nairobi and U.S. Embassy in Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania.

Speaks fluent English, French, Arabic and Swahili.  After the November 2002 attack he fled to Mogadishu but is believed to be back in Kenya. Reported to have trained with bin Laden in Afghanistan. The U.S. has established a reward of $5 million for information leading to his capture.

Citizenship: Saudi

Aliases: Mullah Bilal

Personal: One of the oldest operatives in al-Qaida, Marwan is described as a senior lieutenant to bin Laden. A Saudi accused of helping plan the attack on the USS Cole in October 2000, he was also behind a plan to attack U.S. and British naval ships in the Strait of Gibraltar in 2002 and another to attack U.S naval ships in Bahrain this year, according to Moroccan and U.S. officials. He has become critical to the group's current functioning and is also working out of Pakistan, where he worked with Khalid Sheik Mohammed.

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Ahmad Mohammad ali al-Hada

Citizenship: Yemeni

Aliases: N/A

Personal: Described by U.S. officials as “a prominent al-Qaida member” whose family served as a “supercell” for the terrorist group. Al-Hada, who fought with Bin Laden in Afghanistan, is the patriarch of a family whose members played key roles in both the bombing of the Cole and the Sept. 11 attacks. His son, Sameer al-Hada, a Yemeni student and suspected al-Qaida courier, blew himself up with a hand grenade in February 2002 outside the Yemeni capital of Sana’a, rather than cooperate with security forces who wanted to talk with him regarding the Cole bombing. A son-in-law, Khalid al-Midhar, was the ringleader of the al-Qaida cell that flew American Airlines Flight 77 into the Pentagon.  Another, Mustafa Abdulkader, is among 16 men listed as wanted by the FBI in a terror alert issued the same week Sameer was killed.   Moreover, al-Hada operated al-Qaida’s so-called “Yemeni Switchboard” Used by Bin Laden and others to pass messages during the run-ups to both the Cole bombing and the Sept. 11 attacks.

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Abdul Rahim Ayub

Citizenship: Indonesia

Aliases: N/A

Personal: Alleged senior player in radical Islamic group Jemaah Islamiyah Former chief of Australian JI; swore in two of the Bali bombers during mid-1990s.  Left Australia days after Bali bombing. Believed to be in Indonesia.

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