Al-Qaida leaders, associates

Citizenship: Indonesia

Aliases: N/A

Personal: Twin brother of Abdul Rahman Ayub.  Former Australian chief of Jemaah Islamiyah.

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Abu Ubeid al-Qurashi

Citizenship: N/A

Aliases: N/A

Personal:  Aide to bin Laden who sees himself as an al-Qaida intellectual, propagandist and writer.  Little is known of him other although it is possible his name is actually a pseudonym for another al-Qaida leader.  Wrote for a now defunct al-Qaida website, Al-Ansar, al-Quarashi compared the September 11 attacks with the Palestinians’ attacks at the Munich Olympics, finding both of them propaganda victories.  In the February 2002 article, he wrote: "While the Munich operation failed to accomplish its goals, the New York raid was very well planned, and accomplished its planners' goals in full. It painfully challenged America, and was an unprecedented slap that had, and will still have, ramifications for the entire world. Unlike the Munich operation, which was limited and had limited national demands, the New York raid had broad goals and aspirations; it rang the bells of restoring Arab and Islamic glory…”

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Midhat Mursi

Citizenship: Egyptian

Aliases: Abu Khabab

Personal: Al-Qaida’s main WMD researcher and general weapons expert.  He ran the Abu Khabab training camp in Afghanistan prior to the U.S. invasion.  That camp was known as the weapons research and development camp interested in chemical and biological weapons, particularly toxins. The camp trained not only al-Qaida members, but members of other Islamic terrorist groups as well including Abu Hadi al Iraq, Abu Laith and Hamza Rabia. 

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Saad bin Laden

Citizenship: Saudi citizenship revoked in 2003

Aliases: None Known

Personal: Osama bin Laden’s third oldest son and fourth oldest child.  He is the oldest son known to be loyal to his father, his brothers Abdullah and Abdel Rahman being more loyal to their mother, who bin Laden divorced a few years ago to marry a 17 year old Yemeni girl.  Believed to be in Iranian custody.  Saudi Arabia has, unsuccessfully so far, asked Iran to extradite him. 

Believed to have been an integral player in the May 2003 Riyadh bombings and responsible for planning the March 2001 bombing of the Djerba synagogue in Tunisia along with Khalid Sheik Mohamed.  Believed to be in Iranian control.

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Mohammed bin Laden

Citizenship: revoked by Saudi Arabia in 2003

Aliases: N/A

Personal: Bin Laden’s fourth oldest son, fifth oldest child, married to the daughter of Mohammed Atef, the late al-Qaida operations chief.  Believed to travel with his father as a bodyguard.  One of three sons believed to fight with al-Qaida.

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