by Adrian Levy
Al Qaeda shura (leadership council)
on building a force in Iraq pre-Iraq War, here, here
escape from Kandahar post-9/11, here
in Iran, here, here
in Iranian prison with OBL’s family, here, here, here, here, here, here
Mokhtar’s offshoot in Karachi, here, here
OBL rules in favor of Planes Operation, here
opposition to Planes Operation, here, here
and Planes Operation, here, here, here, here, here, here
plans for leaving Iranian prison, here
plotting suicide operations, here
resentment toward OBL and KSM post-9/11, here, here
safeguarding bin Laden family, here, here
Qahtani, Mohammed al-, here
Qatada, Abu, here, here, here, here
Qatar, here, here
Qazi, Ashraf Jehangir, here, here, here
Qom, Iran, here
Quds Force, Iran, here, here
and Mahfouz, here, here
and OBL’s family, here
and prison riot, here
refugee camp for Al Qaeda families, here
and Zarqawi fighters, here
Quds Force Training Facility, Tehran, Iran, here. See also Tourist Complex; Imam Ali University, Tehran, Iran
Quetta, Pakistan
base of transport operations, here
Mullah Omar in, here, here, here
Mahfouz’s journey from Quetta to Taftan, here,
Abu Musab al-Suri captured in, here
as Al Qaeda refuge post-9/11, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here,
Younis al-Mauritani captured in, here, here
Rabbani, Abdul, here, here, here, here, here
Rabbani, Ahmad, here, here, here
Rabia, Abu Hamza, here
Rahman, Atiyah Abd al- (aka Sheikh Mahmud), here, here
arranging travel for Khairiah and Hamzah, here, here, here
background, here
and Baghdadi, here, here
and Balawi, here
criticizing OBL and asking to be replaced, here
death of, here
duties as Al Qaeda Number Three, here, here, here, here, here, here
finding replacements for himself and Kuwaiti brothers, here, here, here
as Hamzah’s guardian, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here
OBL appoints as Number Three in Al Qaeda, here
OBL’s rebuke to Iranians, here
on Pakistan’s security measures, here
on Al Qaeda shura members in Iranian prison, here
responsible for Iran relations, here, here, here, here, here, here, here
and Saad bin Laden’s death, here
and Zarqawi, here
Rahman, Gul, here, here, here
Rahman, Sheikh Abd al-, here
Raja Shahr prison, Karaj, Iran, here
Ramzi. See Shibh, Ramzi bin al-
“rectal-rehydration” torture technique, here, here, here
Red Squadron, SEAL Team Six
Abbottabad raid approved by Obama, here
briefing for Abbottabad raid, here
delivering body bag with OBL, here
and production of Killing bin Laden, here, here, here
See also Abbottabad raid
Reid, Richard, here
Riedel, Bruce, here
Rishawi, Ali al’, here
Rishawi, Sajida al-, here, here
Riyadh the Facilitator, here, here, here
Rodriguez, Jose, here, here, here, here
Rumsfeld, Donald, here, here, here, here
Russia, Suleimani luring into Syrian war, here
Sadeh, Zakariya al- (brother of Amal bin Laden), here, here, here
Saeed, Ahmad, here
Saeed, Bushra, here, here, here
Saeed, Habib Ahmad, here. See also Ahmed, Ibrahim Saeed (Abu Ahmad al-Kuwaiti)
Saeed, Hafiz, here, here
Saeed, Sheikh, here, here, here
Saif. See Adel, Saif al-
Salahuddin (Al Qaeda courier), here, here
Saudi Arabia
embassy in Tehran, Iran, here, here
OBL’s rebuke for not supporting mujahideen, here
Omar bin Laden living in, here
Al Qaeda terrorist attacks in, here
U.S. sends SA intelligence chief to Kandahar, here
Save the Children vaccination scheme by CIA, here, here, here, here, here, here
Sensitive Site Exploitation (SSE) booklet for Abbottabad compound, here
Senusi, Abdullah al-, here
September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks
Fouda’s documentary, here, here
as fundraiser for Al Qaeda, here
Mir watching news in Islamabad, here
OBL preparing for tenth anniversary, here, here
origin of idea, here
See also Planes Operation
Sethi, Najam, here, here
Al Shabaab, Somalia, here, here, here, here, here
Shahikot, Afghanistan, here
Shahzad, Syed Saleem
on ISI-CIA collusion in bin Laden raid, here
murder, here
on Al Qaeda-ISI alliance, here
on Waziristan Accord, here
Shakai Al Qaeda base, Pakistan, here, here, here
Shangla, Pakistan, here
Sharif, Nawaz, here, here
Shehzad, Tahir, here
Sheikh, Omar, here, here, here, here, here
Sheikh, Zafar, here
Sheikh Mahmud. See Rahman, Atiyah Abd al- (aka Sheikh Mahmud)
Shias
bin Laden family sheltered in Iran, here
Hezbollah, here, here
and Jaish-e-Mohammed, here
pogroms in Afghanistan, here, here
terror attacks against, here, here, here
Al Qaeda collaboration with, here, here
Al Qaeda members sheltered in Iran, here, here, here
Al Qaeda–Quds Force alliance, here
Al Qaeda resistance to Shia attacks, here, here, here, here
Qassem Suleimani, here
and Quds Force, here
Zarqawi campaigns against, here, here, here, here
Shibh, Ramzi bin al-
as 9/11 plot coordinator, here
background, here
caught in ISI raid in Karachi, here
delivering Mahfouz’s warning about Iran, here
in Hamburg communicating with hijackers, here
interview with Fouda of Al Jazeera, here, here, here
recruiting suicide team for Heathrow mission, here
transfer to Guantánamo, here
Siddiqui, Aafia, here, here, here, here
sentence and jihadists’ outcry, here
testimony at trial in New York, here
Siddiqui, Ahmed, here
Sindi, Abdullah al-, here
Sipah-e-Sahaba, here
Slahi, Mohamedou Ould, here, here, here, here
Soufan, Ali, here, here, here, here, here, here
Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, here, here
Stallone, Sylvester, here
Star Wars camp (Najm al-Jihad), Jalalabad, Afghanistan, here, here, here, here
“subjection to deafening noise” torture technique, here
Sudan, here, here
Sufi shrines desecrated by Ansar ul-Islam, here
suicide bombers
Balawi, at Camp Chapman, here, here, here
Bali, Indonesia, backpack followed by car bomb, here
car bomb at Hillah, here
convincing of, here
husband and wife Ali and Sajida al-Rishawi, here
Islamabad Marriott truck bombing, here
in Islamabad’s diplomatic zone, here
Jarrad, Yassin, here
in Pakistan, here, here, here
recruiter Ramzi bin al-Shibh, here
Suleimani, Qassem, here, here, here
background, here
Eid with OBL’s sons, here
expanding Iran’s axis of resistance, here
and OBL’s family in Iran, here
and Al Qaeda refugees in Iran, here
and Al Qaeda shura in his prison, here
Suri, Abu Khalid al-, here
death of, here
Suri, Abu Musab al- (Nasar, Mustafa Setmariam; the Syrian)
background, here, here, here
Call for Global Islamic Resistance, The, here, here
captured and imprisoned, here, here
influence on Abu Mohammad al-Julani, here
opposed to attack on U.S./Israel, here, here
plan for declaration of caliphate, here, here
plan for global jihad, here, here
Al Qaeda leadership escape from Kandahar, here
resentment toward OBL, here
Survival, Evasion, Resistance and Escape (SERE) program, U.S. Air Force, here, here, here. See also Mitchell, James.
S-Wing branch of ISI
and Ahmed Shuja Pasha, here, here, here
assassination attempts on Musharraf, here, here, here, here, here
extremist groups alleged connection to 9/11, here, here
and Ilyas Kashmiri, here
and Mumbai siege, here, here
Musharraf’s crackdown on extremists, here
response to Abbottabad raid, here, here, here
support for extremist groups, here, here, here, here, here
support for Hamid Gul, here
and Umar Patek, here, here
warned Al Qaeda of Shakai raid, here
See also Ahmed, Mahmud; Gul, Hamid; Pasha, Ahmed Shuja; Lashkar-e-Taiba
Syria
al-Baghdadi recruits for IS, here
Hamzah bin Laden pledges Al Qaeda support for Syrian revolution, here
IS losing strength, here
formation of Nusra Front, here
Iran support for Assad, here, here
Julani’s goal of overthrowing Assad, here, here
Najwa bin Laden in, here, here, here, here, here, here
Nusra Front and ISIL at war, here
Al Qaeda military council relocated to, here, here
Al Qaeda outpost during Iraq war, here
Sednaya military prison, here, here, here
Suleimani gains Russian support, here
See also Assad, Bashar al-; IS; Baghdadi, Abu Bakr al-; Nusra Front; Islamic State
Syrian, the. See Nasar, Mustafa Setmariam
Tabani, Yaqoob, here
Tabarak, Abdullah, here
Taftan, Pakistan, here
Taj, Nadeem, here
Taliban
and 9/11, here
abandoning Kabul and Kandahar, here
and Ahmed, here
battle with police at Lal Masjid, Pakistan, here, here
death of Omar, here
declaration of an Islamic emirate, here, here
decree that they would not fight the Pakistan Army, here
and federally administered tribal areas of Pakistan, here
guarding refugee camp for Al Qaeda members, here
and Gul, Hamid, here
Haqqani, Jalaluddin, here, here, here
Iranian animosity, here
and ISI, here, here
and Mahfouz, here
media center, Kandahar, here
in Pakistan, here
Al Qaeda vs., here, here
response to Pakistanis in shorts, here
Siddiqui, Aafia’s faith in, here
and strategy for U.S. war in Afghanistan, here, here, here
See also Omar, Mullah; Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan
Tarnak Qila, Afghanistan, here, here, here
Task Force 145 (secret military unit after Zarqawi), here, here, here
Tawhid al-Jihad, here, here, here, here. See also Zarqawi, Abu Musab al-
Tayyib, Agha al-, here
Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), here, here, here, here, here, here
Tenet, George, here, here, here
terrorist attacks
Ahmadi sect mosque attack, Lahore, here
Bali bombing of 2002, here
Bhutto’s cavalcade blown up in Karachi, here
bombing of Mashhad in 1994, here
El Ghriba Synagogue hit by gas truck, Djerba, Tunisia, here, here, here
Haqqani network attack on U.S. embassy in Kabul, here
hotel bombings in Amman, here, here
Islamic State post-Abbottabad, here
London transport bombings (2005), here
Mumbai siege by Al Qaeda and Lashkar-e-Taiba, here, here
OBL and Mokhtar’s plans for, here
OBL’s plans for, here
Pakistan Naval Air Station, Mehran, Karachi, here
of Quds Force, against Israelis, here
in Saudi Arabia, here
shoe bombers’ failure, here
Western housing compound, 2003, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, here
Zarqawi’s, here, here, here, here
Zawahiri’s offensive against NATO forces in Afghanistan, here
terrorists, here, here, here, here. See also suicide bombers; specific terrorist groups
Tora Bora, Afghanistan
overview, here
development of, here, here
OBL brings his family to, here
Zarqawi’s forces assigned to, here, here
Tora Bora, United States attack on
overview, here
attack on Melawa garrison, here
Cheney announcement to troops, here
field reports and missile attacks, here
OBL’s escape, here
and Pakistan’s western frontier, here, here, here
Al Qaeda members at, here
U.S. possession of Al Qaeda radio, here
Zarqawi at, here
torture
CIA confirms approval of, here
CIA destroying records and permanently incarcerating victims of, here, here
CIA interrogators requests new working model for techniques, here
CIA report on interrogations, here
claims about success of, here
interrogation techniques lists, here, here
Mitchell and Jessen’s claim that torture worked, here, here
portrayed in Zero Dark Thirty, here
report of escapee Abu Yahya al-Libi, here
See also Mitchell, James; Zubaydah, Abu; SERE; waterboarding
tortured in CIA black camps/detention facilities
Baheer, Ghairat, here, here, here
Faraj, here
Ghul, Hassan, here
Libi, Abu Yahya al-, here
Mokhtar (Khalid Shaikh Mohammad), here, here
Mokhtar’s young sons, here
Rahman, Gul, here, here, here
Siddiqui’s claims of, here
Zubaydah, here, here, here, here, here, here, here
Toubasi, Iyad al-, here, here, here, here
Tourist Complex
Abu Ghaith’s departure, here
Hamzah bin Laden departure, here
Iman bin Laden’s escape from, here
Ladin bin Laden removed from, here
Mahfouz’s departure, here
morale of Al Qaeda party, here
Al Qaeda party detained at, here, here, here, here, here, here, here
Trump, Donald, here
Twenty Guidelines on the Path to Jihad (Ghaith), here, here
United Nations, here, here
United Nations Security Council, here
United States
and Ahmed, here
Bush’s 2002 Axis of Evil speech, here
and Iran, here
ISI headquarters rebuilt by, here
leaflets promising rewards, here
meeting with Mahfouz, here
Musharraf’s interest in financial opportunity of war on terror, here
and Pakistan choosing violent extremism as policy, here
Powell’s speech to U.N. about war on Iraq, here
U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM), here
U.S. embassy, Dar-es-Salaam, 1998 terrorist attack, here, here
U.S. embassy, Nairobi, 1998 terrorist attack, here, here
U.S. National Security Agency (NSA), here, here
USS Cole 2000 terrorist attack, Aden, Yemen, here, here, here
Uthman, Abu, here, here, here
“verge of death and back again” torture technique, here
Vickers, Michael, here, here
Wafa Foundation, Al, here
“walling” torture technique, here, here, here, here, here
war in Afghanistan
Afghani preparations for, here
attacking Taliban as strategy for catching OBL, here, here
bombing of Kandahar meeting of shura, here
CIA covert operatives on the ground, here
first strikes, here
fliers and leaflets distributed by U.S., here, here
Logar Province, here
OBL moving his family as Northern Alliance advances, here
Pakistan supplies men and arms for, here
Panjwai Bridge massacre, here, here
Al Qaeda evacuates from Kandahar to Pakistan, here
Al Qaeda sending families to Pakistan, here
See also Tora Bora, United States attack on
war on terror, here, here, here, here, here, here, here. See also CIA’s Enhanced Interrogation Program; torture
“waterboarding” torture technique
championed by Donald Trump, here
determined lawful by Bush administration, here, here
developed by James Mitchell, here, here
revealed by John Kiriakou, here
used on KSM, here, here
used on Zubaydah, here, here, here, here
in Zero Dark Thirty, here, here
Wazir, Nek Muhammad, here, here, here, here, here
Waziristan peace agreements, Pakistan, here, here, here
weapons of mass destruction (WMDs) in Iraq, here, here
wedding day massacre, Amman, Jordan, here
Western housing compound 2003 terrorist attack, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, here
White House correspondents’ dinner, Washington, D.C., here
World Trade Center 1993 terrorist attack, here, here, here
Wuhayshi, Nasir al-, here, here
Yemen, here, here, here
Abu Jandal’s mission to, here
OBL choosing a wife from, here
Younis, Mohammed, here, here
Younsei, Ali, here, here, here, here, here
Yousef, Ramzi, here, here, here, here
Zabol fort, Iran, here
Zahar, Masood, here
Zahidan, Pakistan, here
Zaidan, Ahmad, here
Zai-ul Uloom Taleemal Qu’ran Seminary, FATA, here
Zakaria, Fareed, here
Zameer, Etesham, here
Zardari, Asif Ali, here, here, here, here, here
