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Osama's Death. Does it mean end of Al-Qaeda? The Potential New Osamas

5. Khalid al-Habib



Khalid al-Habib, thought to be either Egyptian or Moroccan, was identified in a November 2005 video as al-Qaeda's field commander in south-east Afghanistan, while Abd al-Hadi al-Iraqi was named as its commander in the south-west.

He was described as al-Qaeda's "military commander" in July 2008.Habib seems to have assumed overall command after the latter's capture in 2006.

US military officials say he oversees al-Qaeda's "internal" operations in Afghanistan and northern Pakistan.

Habib may be operating under an assumed identity, according to some analysts. One of his noms de guerre is believed to be Khalid al-Harbi.

Osama's Death. Does it mean end of Al-Qaeda? The Potential New Osamas

Viewpoint returns with the list of the potential successors to the once most wanted man in the world, Osama Bin Laden.


2. Abdulla Ahmed Abdullah

Abdulla  Ahmed Abdullah, known also as Abu Mohammed al-Masri, was born in 1963 in Egypt. Like many other Islamic militants in Egypt, He fled Egypt in the mid 80s’ and joined other Egyptian fugitives abroad. Abdulla  Ahmed Abdullah helped in 1992 Saif al-Adel to provide military and intelligence training to members of Al Qaeda in Sudan and in Somalia to Islamic militants who fought the Americans during operation “Restoring Hope” and the battle on Mogadishu in 1993.

In 1996-98 Abdulla  Ahmed Abdullah ran Al Qaeda training camps in Afghanistan, including the al-Farooq camp near Kandahar.

Before the attack on USA embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, on08/07/1998, Abdulla  Ahmed Abdullah provided forged passport toMohammed Saddiq Odeh so he could travel to Pakistan and Afghanistan unnoticed. A day before the attack, on 08/06/1998, Abdulla  Ahmed Abdullah took a flight, with Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani, from Nairobi to Karachi,Pakistan.

Abdulla  Ahmed Abdullah is since in the list of USA most wanted list for his involvement in the USA embassies attack and a bounty of $5 was set on his head.

According to unconfirmed intelligence reports Abdulla  Ahmed Abdullah and other Al Qaeda personnel, were in Liberia around 2001, buying conflictdiamonds on behalf of Al Qaeda.

It is most likely that after operation Absolute Justice in Afghanistan in 12/2001, Abdulla  Ahmed Abdullah managed to flee Afghanistan to Iran, probably with other senior Al Qaeda operatives, such as Saif al-Adel, Suleiman abu Ghaith and Saad Bin Laden, one of Osama Bin Laden’ssons.

A joint Saudi-Egyptian-Jordanian intelligence inquiry in April 2006 concluded that Abdullah currently resides in Southeast Iran, under the protection of the Hamze unit of the Revolutionary Guards.

Today (04/2009) the deeds or whereabouts of Abdulla  Ahmed Abdullah are unknown.

  


3.Ayman al-Zawahiri

Ayman al-Zawahiri, an eye surgeon who helped found the Egyptian Islamic Jihad militant group, is expected to replace Osama Bin Laden as the leader of al-Qaeda.

He was already the group's chief ideologue and was believed by some experts to have been the "operational brains" behind the 11 September 2001 attacks in the US.

Zawahiri was reportedly last seen in the eastern Afghan town of Khost in October 2001, and went into hiding after a US-led coalition overthrew the Taliban.Zawahiri was number two - behind only Bin Laden - in the 22 "most wanted terrorists" list announced by the US government in 2001 and continues to have a $25m bounty on his head.

He was thought to be hiding in the mountainous regions along the Afghanistan-Pakistan border with the help of sympathetic local tribes. However, the killing of Bin Laden on 1 May 2011 in Abbottabad, north of the Pakistani capital Islamabad, suggests this may not be the case. His wife and children were reportedly killed in a US air strike in late 2001.

Zawahiri was for a time al-Qaeda's most prominent spokesman, appearing in 40 videos and audiotapes since 2003 - most recently in April 2011 - as the group tried to radicalise and recruit Muslims worldwide.

He has also been indicted in the US for his role in the 1998 US embassy bombings in Africa, and was sentenced to death in Egypt in absentia for his activities with Islamic Jihad during the 1990s.

4. 

Abu Yahya al-Libi

Abu Yahya al-Libi, also known as Hasan Qayid and Yunis al-Sahrawi, is thought to have been a member of the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group (LIFG) before he allied himself to Osama Bin Laden.

Libi is believed to have spent five years as a religious student in Mauritania in the 1990s.

He has since emerged as al-Qaeda's leading theologian, and most visible face on video, surpassing Ayman al-Zawahri in recent years.

He claims he was captured by Pakistani forces in 2002 and then sent to the US military airbase at Bagram in Afghanistan, from where he escaped in July 2005 along with three other al-Qaeda members.

Al-Qaeda has named Libi as a field commander in Afghanistan, though he has styled himself in his many videos as a theological scholar, and spoken on a variety of global issues of importance to the group.

German man trapped in women's prison rescued by mayor

A 24-year-old man who was looking for a shortcut to a nearby park became trapped in a women's prison in central Germany on Monday.

The unnamed man found himself shut inside the walls of Hilldesheim jailnear Hannover after entering a metal door on the outside of the prison, only for it to close behind him.

He was eventually rescued after a passing cyclist heard his cries for help. The town's mayor, who also happened to be passing, called the police, but prison officials initially feared the two men were trying to help a prisoner escape – until one of them recognised the mayor and arranged for the "prisoner" to be freed.

Officials at the prison mounted an investigation and discovered that one of three bolts in the door was loose, meaning that it had not closed properly.

"The doors had recently been repaired and one of the bolts was wobbly. These things sometimes happen," said Georg Wessling, spokesman for the ministry of justice in Lower Saxony.

"The man wasn't really locked into the jail," said Wessling. "He just got into an internal courtyard which leads to two further secure prison walls. It's the area visitors pass through, or prison officers when they start their shifts. There was no danger of him encountering any criminals – or of any criminals escaping. He was only in there for a matter of minutes."

The man told prison officials he had made a "blunder" while strolling to a local park, said Wessling. "He said he had been looking for a shortcut."

No crime had been committed, said Wessling. The prison wasn't too embarrassed about the security breach, he insisted. "We see this more as something to laugh about than get angry over."

Osama's Death. Does it mean end of Al-Qaeda?

 Osama bin Laden (Al-Qaeda leader) is dead. He was shot and killed dead deep on Sunday night inside Pakistan in a night-time helicopter raid by United States covert forces, ending a decade-long manhunt for the mastermind of the September 11 attacks.Senior US officials said two brothers believed to be bin Laden’s couriers and one of his adult sons were also killed in the raid, while a woman who was used as a human shield perished.

But if anyone in his right mind thinks the killing of the Al-Qaeda mastermind would really put an end to the Al- Qaeda network then such person must seriously be sleeping on "okada" (yoruba word for motorcycle). 

Viewpoint examines a list of potential successors to the former most wanted man in the world. 

1.Ali Sayyid Muhamed Mustafa al-Bakri

The Egyptian Ali Sayyid Muhamed Mustafa al-Bakri alias Abdul-Aziz al-Masri (  (b. 1966 in Bani Suwayf) is a member of majlis al-shura (leadership) of the terrorist organization al-Qaeda, and a former member of Egyptian Islamic Jihad,^[1] from which he migrated to al-Qaeda along with Ayman al-Zawahiri. Al-Bakri is at large, and the United States Department of State is offering up to US$5 million for information about his location.^[2] The State Department wanted poster reads in part

Ali Sayyid Muhamed Mustafa al-Bakri, better known as Abd al-Aziz al-Masri, is an al Qaeda member and expert on explosives and chemical weapons. He is a member of the al Qaeda Shura (leadership) council and is a close associate of al Qaeda leaders Sayf al-Adl, Khalid Shaykh Muhammad, and Dr. Ayman Zawahiri. Prior to joining al Qaeda, al-Bakri was a member of the Egyptian Islamic Jihad terrorist group, under the direction of Ayman Zawahiri. He served as an instructor in al Qaeda’s camps in Afghanistan, providing terrorist recruits with training in the use of explosives and chemical weapons. Al-Bakri also unsuccessfully attempted to hijack a Pakistani Air passenger flight in December, 2000. It is highly probable that he continues to train al Qaeda terrorists and other extremists.

For his membership in al-Qaeda, al-Bakri (under the surname Bakri) is under worldwide embargo by the United Nations Security Council Committee 1267.^[3]The UN entry about him, from 2005, says that al-Bakri may be in Iran.

to be continued...