- Osama bin Laden
Osama bin Muhammad bin 'Awad bin Laden, most often mentioned as Osama bin Laden or Usama bin Laden, is a Saudi militant Islamist and is reported to be the founder of the organization called al-Qaeda. He is a member of the wealthy bin Laden family. In conjunction with several other Islamic militant leaders, …
- Zacarias Moussaoui
Zacarias Moussaoui is a French citizen of Moroccan descent who was convicted of conspiring to kill Americans as part of the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. As a result of his conviction, he is serving a life sentence at the Federal ADX Supermax prison in Florence, Colorado.
- Ayman Al-Zawahiri
Ayman Muhammad Rabaie al-Zawahiri or closer to the original Arabic pronunciation al-Zawahri (born June 19, 1951) is a prominent member of al-Qaeda, and was the second and last "emir" of Egyptian Islamic Jihad, having succeeded 'Abbud al-Zummar in the latter role when al-Zummar was jailed for life in Egypt. Al-Zawahiri is a qualified surgeon, and is an author of works including numerous al-Qaeda statements. He speaks Arabic, French, and English.
- Abu Musab Al-Zarqawi
Abu Musab al-Zarqawi ) (October 20, 1966 – June 7, 2006) was a Jordanian who ran a militant training camp in Afghanistan alongside Osama bin Laden. He became known after being blamed by United States (U.S.) and Jordanian officials for a series of bombings and attacks. He formed the organization Jama'at al-Tawhid wal-Jihad while he was in Europe, and then eventually went to Afghanistan. He was believed to have led al-Tawhid wal-Jihad, …
- Khalid Sheikh Mohammed
Khalid Sheikh Mohammed is a prisoner in U.S. custody for acts of terrorism, including mass murder. In March 2007, after four years in captivity, including six months of detention at Guantanamo Bay, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed — as it was claimed by a Combatant Status Review Tribunal Hearing in Guantanamo Bay — confessed to masterminding the September 11th attacks, the Richard Reid shoe bombing attempt to blow up an airliner over the Atlantic Ocean, …
- Mohamed Atta
Mohamed Atta ("') (September 1, 1968 - September 11, 2001) was named by the FBI as the head suicide pilot of American Airlines Flight 11, the first plane to crash into the World Trade Center during the September 11, 2001 attacks. Atta is suspected of using numerous aliases during his lifetime, including Mehan Atta, Mohammed Atta, Mohammad El Amir, Mohamed El Sayed, …
- Abu Zubaydah
Abu Zubaydah was, according to American authorities, a high-ranking member of al-Qaida and close associate of Osama bin Laden, though there are doubts of his power and connections due to the fact that most information came from interrogations where Zubaydah may have exaggerated his and al-Qaida's role in international terror. He is currently in U.S. custody in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Zubaydah's name is often transliterated as Abu Zubaidah, …
- Ramzi Yousef
Ramzi Ahmed Yousef or Ramzi Mohammed Yousef, birth name possibly Abdul Basit Mahmoud Abdul Karim and also known by dozens of aliases, is a Kuwaiti of Pakistani descent who was one of the planners of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing. He was arrested at an al-Qaeda safe house in Islamabad, Pakistan in 1995 and was extradited to the United States.
- Ramzi Binalshibh
Ramzi Binalshibh, is a citizen of Yemen and according to the United States, Germany, and several other countries, a key al-Qaeda member who helped in planning the September 11, 2001 attacks. Binalshibh was the first to be publicly identified as the "20th hijacker," of whom there were several individuals thought to have consecutively been tasked to fill out the single missing slot among the four terrorist teams.
- Ali Mohamed
Ali Abdul Saoud Mohamed, also known as Ali Mohammed (b. 1952) is an acknowledged Al Qaeda operative who was charged with the August 7, 1998 bombings of the United States' embassies in Nairobi, Kenya and in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. In October 2000, he pleaded guilty to five counts of conspiracy to kill nationals of the United States and officers or employees of the U.S. government on account of their official duties, to murder and kidnap, …
- Abd Al-Rahim Al-Nashiri
Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri is one of the aliases of the Saudi al-Qaeda member Abdul-Rahim Hussein Muhammad 'Abdu (عبد الرحيم حسين محمد عبده). Other aliases include Mullah Bilal, Mohammed Omar al-Harazi, and Abdul Rahman Hussein al-Nashari. He is alleged to be the mastermind of the USS Cole bombing and other terrorist attacks, …
- Mohammed Atef
Mohammed Atef (also transliterated as Muhammad Atef, Muhammed Atef, Muhammad ‘Āṭif and several other ways) (1944-2001) was the alleged military chief of the international terrorist organization al-Qaida. Among his known aliases are Abu Hafez, Abu Hafs, Abu Hafs al-Masri, Abu Hafs El-Masry El-Khabir, Taysir, …
- Hani Hanjour
Hani Saleh Hanjour, (August 13 1972 - September 11 2001) was one of five men named by the FBI as hijackers of American Airlines flight 77 in the September 11, 2001 Terrorist Attack. The FBI believes that he piloted the plane and crashed it into The Pentagon. Hanjour is largely considered to have been among the most conservative and religiously observant of the hijackers.
- Ziad Jarrah
Ziad Samir Jarrah (May 11, 1975 - September 11, 2001), was the hijacker who acted as pilot of United Airlines Flight 93, part of the September 11, 2001 attacks. He is believed to have taken over as the pilot of the aircraft and made an unsuccessful attempt to crash the plane into the U.S. Capitol. There are many variations on his name, including Ziad Samir Al-Jarrah, Zaid Jarrahi, Ziad Jarrah Jarrat, …
- Wadih El-Hage
Wadih el-Hage alias Abd'al Sabur alias the Manager is a former al-Qaeda member who is serving life imprisonment in the United States for his part in the 1998 United States embassy bombings. He was indicted and arrested in 1998, and convicted on all counts and sentenced to life without parole in 2001. He and some of his codefendants are currently in the supermax prison known as ADX Florence.
- Ahmed Ressam
Ahmed Ressam aka "The Millennium Bomber" was convicted and given a prison sentence of 22 years in a plot to bomb Los Angeles International Airport on New Year's Eve 1999.
- Abu Qatada
Abu Qatada al-Filistini, sometimes called Abu Omar is a radical Islamist cleric who has been accused of terrorist activities by a number of governments. Under the name Omar Mahmoud Othman (عمر محمود عثمان), he is under worldwide embargo by the United Nations Security Council Committee 1267 for his affiliation with al-Qaeda. He is wanted on terrorism charges in Algeria, the United States, Belgium, Spain, France, Germany, Italy, …
- Tawfiq bin Attash
Tawfiq bin Attash, also referred to as 'Khallad', was an Al Qaeda member first suspected of being a member of the network in August 1998, when investigators learned he had assigned Mohamed Rashed Daoud Al-Owhali to bomb the U.S. Embassy in Nairobi, Kenya.
- Adam Yahiye Gadahn
Adam Yahiye Gadahn is an American-born English-language spokesman for the al-Qaeda organization. He is notable for his suspected appearances as "Azzam the American" (ʿAzzām al-Amrīki, عزام الأمريكي), a spokesperson in 2004-2006 videotapes which claim to be messages from Al Qaeda to the United States. In 2004, he was added to the FBI Seeking Information - War on Terrorism list. On October 11, 2006 he was removed from that list, …
- Omar Al-Faruq
Omar al-Faruq (24 May 1971 - 25 September 2006) was a Kuwaiti of Iraqi decent, and a senior al-Qaeda member. He was a liaison between al-Qaeda and Islamic terrorists in the Far East, particularly Jemaah Islamiyah. He was captured in Bogor, Indonesia in 2002 by Indonesian security agent who handed him over to the United States. Al-Faruq's capture was based on information derived from the capture of Abu Zubaydah.
- Satam Al-Suqami
Satam M. A. al-Suqami, was one of five men named by the FBI as hijackers of American Airlines Flight 11 in the September 11, 2001 attacks.
- Jamal Al-Fadl
Jamal Ahmed al-Fadl is a Sudanese militant and associate of Osama bin Laden in the early 1990s. Al-Fadl was recruited to the Afghan mujahideen "through the Farouq mosque in Brooklyn" (presumably in the later 1980s), and he became a "senior employee" of al-Qaeda. After embezzling $110,000 from the organization, al-Fadl "defected". He contacted the CIA via the US's Eritrean embassy and, …
- Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani
Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani is a member of the al-Qaeda terrorist organization. He was indicted in the United States as a participant in the 1998 U.S. embassy bombings. He was on the FBI Most Wanted Terrorists list from its inception in October of 2001. In 2004, he was captured and detained by Pakistani forces in a joint operation with the United States.
- Majed Moqed
Majed Mashaan Moqed was one of five men named by the FBI to be hijackers of American Airlines Flight 77 in the September 11, 2001 Terrorist Attack. His aliases as reported by the FBI included Majed M.GH Moqed and Majed Moqed.
- Nawaf Al-Hazmi
Nawaf al-Hazmi was one of five terrorists named by FBI as hijackers of American Airlines flight 77, which was crashed into the Pentagon in the September 11, 2001 attack. His younger brother, Salem al-Hazmi, was another of the 9/11 terrorists and helped hijack the same flight.
- Saif Al-Adel
Saif Al-Adel (or Seif Al Adel, or Seif al-Adl is one of the aliases of a certain Egyptian senior member of the al-Qaeda terrorist organisation. It is possible, but disputed, that he is a former colonel by the name Muhammad Ibrahim Makkawi (محمد إبراهيم مكاوي).
- Marwan Al-Shehhi
Marwan Yousef al-Shehhi (May 9 1978 - September 11, 2001) was named by the FBI as the suicide pilot aboard United Airlines flight 175 which crashed into the second World Trade Center tower on September 11 2001. He trained at the Huffman Aviation pilot school with Mohammed Atta. At 23 years of age, he was youngest of the four pilots.
- Riduan Isamuddin
Riduan Isamuddin (also transliterated as Riduan Isamudin, Riduan Isomuddin, and Riduan Isomudin, better known by the "nom de guerre" Hambali, born as Encep Nurjaman, born April 4, 1966) is an Indonesian terrorist. Isamuddin was the leader of the Indonesian terrorist organization Jemaah Islamiyah (JI), which is linked with Al Qaeda.
- Ali Abdul Aziz Ali
Ali Abdul Aziz Ali is a member of the al-Qaida terrorist organization and reportedly a "nephew" or "cousin" of Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, an important leader in the organization. Ali was an important facilitator and financer of the September 11, 2001 attacks. He is currently in U.S. custody in an unknown location.
- Ahmed Said Khadr
Ahmed Said Khadr (أحمد سعيد خضر) (sometimes called Ahmed Saeed Abdur Rehman Khadar) was an Egyptian-Canadian terrorist living in Afghanistan, who was an al-Qaeda leader and an associate of Osama bin Laden.
- Fazul Abdullah Mohammed
Fazul Abdullah Mohammed is a suspected member of al-Qaeda, sometimes purported to be the leader of their East African presence. Mohammed was born in Moroni, Comoros Islands and has Kenyan as well as Comorian citizenship. He speaks French, Swahili, Arabic, English, and Comorian.
- Khalid Al-Mihdhar
Khalid al-Mihdhar (May 16 1975 - September 11 2001) was one of five terrorists named by the FBI as hijackers of American Airlines flight 77, which was crashed into the Pentagon in the September 11, 2001 attacks. He was one of the six participants known as the organizers of the attacks. He has used the aliases Sannan al-Makki, Khalid bin Muhammad, Addallah al-Mihdhar, and Khalid Mohammad al-Saqaf.
- Wali Khan Amin Shah
Wali Khan Amin Shah (He had many aliases, including Osama Turkestani, Osama Asmuray, and Grabi Ibrahim Hahsen), convicted on charges of terrorism, was an Al-Qaeda member that allegedly had a role in the foiled Operation Bojinka terrorist attack plot. Shah, an Afghan had fought with Osama bin Laden in Afghanistan during the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan.
- Mohammed Haydar Zammar
Mohammed Haydar Zammar is a Muslim jihadist who served as an important al-Qaida recruiter. He claims to have recruited many of the organizers of the September 11, 2001 attacks. He is detained in Far'Falastin.
- Anas Al-Liby
Nazih Abdul-Hamed Nabih al-Ruqai'i alias Anas al-Liby (born March 30 1964 or May 14 1964), a Libyan, is under indictment in the United States for his part in the 1998 United States embassy bombings in Nairobi, Kenya and Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. His aliases in the indictment are Nazih al Raghie and Anas al Sebai. In the FBI and State Department wanted posters about this individual, …
- Abu Ayyub Al-Masri
Abu Ayyub al-Masri (Translation: Father of Ayyub (the eldest) the Egyptian) (born c. 1967) and Abu Hamza al-Muhajir (أبو حمزة المهاجر Translation: Father of Hamza (the eldest) the Muhajir) are two pseudonyms of the same person according to an FBI wanted poster and the U.S. State Department.
- Mohammed Jamal Khalifa
Mohammed Jamal Khalifa (born 1 February 1957, died 31 January 2007) was a Saudi Arabian businessman from Jeddah who married one of Osama bin Laden's sisters.
- Salem Al-Hazmi
Salem al-Hazmi, was one of five men named on September 14, 2001 by the FBI as hijackers of American Airlines flight 77 in the September 11, 2001 Terrorist Attack. His older brother, Nawaf al-Hazmi was another of the hijackers.
- Mounir el Motassadeq
Mounir el Motassadeq was accused of being a member of al-Qaeda and of assisting some of the organizers of the September 11, 2001 attacks. He was initially convicted of involvement in the attack, but his sentence was set aside on appeal, then reinstated on further appeal. On January 8, 2007 he was sentenced to serve 15 years by the German court. Motassadeq first came to Germany in 1993 and moved to Hamburg in 1995, where he studied electrical engineering in college.
- Said Bahaji
Said Bahaji was an alleged member of the Hamburg cell that provided money to the perpetrators of the September 11, 2001 Terrorist Attacks. He's a German citizen, was born to a Moroccan father and a German mother in 1975. The family moved to Morocco when he was nine years old. He came to Hamburg in 1995. He enrolled in an electrical engineering program at a technical university in 1996.