"operations with the support of local communities, also gaining income independent of the funding of sheiks. The English name of the organization is a simplified transliteration of the Arabic noun """" (), which means ""the foundation"" or ""the base"". The initial ""al-"" is the Arabic definite article ""the"", hence ""the base"". In Arabic, ""al-Qaeda"" has four syllables (). However, since two of the Arabic consonants in the name are not phones found in the English language, the common naturalized English pronunciations include , and . Al-Qaeda's name can also be transliterated as ""al-Qaida"", ""al-Qa'ida"", or ""el-Qaida"". Bin Laden explained the"
"al-Baghdadi when the group was still solely operating in Iraq, as the Islamic State of Iraq, and condemned Ayman al-Zawahiri for not making this same claim for Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, and that Zawahiri was encouraging factionalism and division between former allies of ISIL such as the al-Nusra Front. Publications: Al-Qaeda Al-Qaeda (; ', , translation: ""The Base"", ""The Foundation"" or ""The Fundament"" and alternatively spelled al-Qaida, al-Qæda and sometimes al-Qa'ida) is a militant Sunni Islamist multi-national organization founded in 1988 by Osama bin Laden, Abdullah Azzam, and several other Arab volunteers in the city of Peshawar, Pakistan, during the Soviet"
"could ever be perpetuated. Osama bin Laden, closely advised by Egyptian Islamic Jihad leader Ayman al-Zawahiri, in 1988 founded Al-Qaeda (Arabic: القاعدة, meaning ""The Base""), an Islamic jihadist movement to replace Western-controlled or dominated Muslim countries with Islamic fundamentalist regimes. In pursuit of that goal, bin Laden issued a 1996 manifesto that vowed violent jihad against U.S. military forces based in Saudi Arabia. On August 7, 1998, individuals associated with Al Qaeda and Egyptian Islamic Jihad carried out simultaneous bombings of two U.S. embassies in Africa which resulted in 224 deaths. On October 12, 2000, Al-Qaeda carried out the USS"
"one book carried by Ajaj in 1992 was a word translated by the FBI as meaning ""the basic rule."" It was later found to be ""al Qaeda"" – meaning ""the base"" (Lance 2004 p 32). During a CBS ""60 Minutes"" interview in 2002, co-conspirator Abdul Rahman Yasin said that Yousef originally wanted to bomb Jewish neighborhoods in New York City. Yasin added that after touring Crown Heights and Williamsburg, Yousef had changed his mind. Yasin alleged that Yousef was educated in bomb-making at a training camp in Peshawar, Pakistan. Yousef rented a Ryder van and on 26 February 1993, loaded"
"Al-Qaidah (newspaper) Al-Qaidah (, The Base) was a newspaper published in Iraq. It was an organ of the Iraqi Communist Party. It was printed clandestinely for thirteen years, albeit with interruptions. The first issue of ""al-Qaidah"" came out in January 1943. ""Al-Qaidah"" was founded in the midst of a split in the party. It was set up by Yusuf Salman Yusuf (Fahd)'s three supporters in the party Central Committee: Daud as-Sayegh, Hussain Muhammad ash-Shabibi and Zaki Muhammad Basim. The newspaper sought to compete with ""ash-Shararah"" ('The Spark') for the position as the party organ. Effectively the different factions were known"
"and that it carried a heading on the front and succeeding pages: ""The Basic Rule"". But those were all errors, as Emerson pointed out. The heading said ""al-Qaeda"" – which translates as ""The Base"". In addition, the document was published in 1989, a year after al-Qaeda was founded, and the place of publication was Afghanistan, not Jordan. In 2010, ""The New York Times"" quoted Emerson criticizing the Obama administration's solicitation of Muslim and Arab-American organizations such as the Islamic Society of North America, which was listed as an unindicted co-conspirator in a 2008 case against the Holy Land Foundation for"
"inspector Mark Cozine and Robert Malafronte found a Saudi passport, altered Jordanian passport, with supporting documents for both; a plane ticket and British passport in the name of Mohammed Azan, bomb-making manuals, videos and other materials on assemble weapons and explosives assembly, letters referencing his attendance at terrorist training camps; anti-American and anti-Israeli materials, instructions on document forgery, and two rubber stamp devices to alter the seal on passports issued from Saudi Arabia. One of the manuals, written in 1982, seven years before the group was founded, was entitled ""al-Qaeda"" (“The Base” or “The Foundation”) and was more widely reported"
"al-Islam wal Muslimin. The group's official name is Organization of al-Qa'ida in the Land of the Islamic Maghreb (""Qaedat al-Jihad fi Bilad al-Maghrib al-Islami""), often shortened to Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM, from French ""al-Qaïda au Maghreb islamique, AQMI""). Prior to January 2007 it was known as the ""Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat"" ( ') and the French acronym ""GSPC"" ('). In January 2007, the GSPC announced that it would now operate under the name of Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM). On 19 January 2009, the UK newspaper ""The Sun"" reported that there had been an outbreak"
"territory before they were stopped. The terrorists were killed by the Israeli Air Force and soldiers. 25 September 2012: Unnamed jihadist group; attack on international troops at a base in the Egyptian Sinai. The terrorists breached the perimeter and wounded four soldiers in the attack. Reportedly, before they exited, the attackers hoisted a black al-Qaeda flag over the base. Al-Qaeda in Sinai Peninsula Al-Qaeda (Arabic: al-Qāᶜidah, ""the Base"") in the Sinai Peninsula, or AQSP, is an Egyptian militant jihadist organization possibly formed by a merger between al-Qaeda operatives in Sinai and Ansar al Jihad. It is Al-Qaeda's branch in the"
"Qaida (book) Qaida (also spelt Qaeda; ), in Islam in South Asia, are a series of books for beginners to learn Quranic Arabic. It is used to teach children how to read the Quran. The series of books was compiled by Moolvi Noor Muhammad Ludhyanvi. The Qaida has further more categories including Noorani Qaida, Madani Qaida, etc. These are to understand how to Quran Works. The Noorani Qaida teaches students via passages of the Quran. It begins with the Arabic alphabet. It then shows how the alphabets are connected, the accents of ""Zabr"", ""Zair"", and ""Paysh"", etc. before moving onto"
"origin of the term in a videotaped interview with Al Jazeera journalist Tayseer Alouni in October 2001: It has been argued that two documents seized from the Sarajevo office of the Benevolence International Foundation prove that the name was not simply adopted by the ""mujahideen"" movement and that a group called al-Qaeda was established in August 1988. Both of these documents contain minutes of meetings held to establish a new military group, and contain the term ""al-Qaeda"". Former British Foreign Secretary Robin Cook wrote that the word al-Qaeda should be translated as ""the database"", because it originally referred to the"
"their commitment to ""jihad"" and to carry a Qur'an with them wherever they went. Although many of his followers had been illiterate, he taught them how to read and write using the Qur'an as their basis for learning. Al-Qassam also asked his fighters to engage in the spiritual exercises practiced by the Qadiriyya Sufi order and to recite Sufi chants before battle. The guerrilla bands became known as the Black Hand (""al-kaff al-aswad""), an anti-Zionist and anti-British militant organization. The idea for such a group appeared to have crystallized after the 1929 riots. From the outset, a split occurred in"
"pun on the phrases ""al-Qaeda"" (""the base"") and the Vanguards of Conquest. Al-Adel was a key source in a 2005 book on al-Qaeda's global strategy by the journalist Fouad Hussein. Al-Adel is a leader of al-Qaeda in Iran, according to American security expert Seth Jones. Adel has been on the FBI's list of Most Wanted Terrorists since its inception in 2001. The State Department's Rewards for Justice Program is offering up to US$10 million for information on his location. There has been speculation that Adel fled Afghanistan to Iran and was detained under house arrest near Tehran. Later reports indicated"
"of Iraq, targeting UN representatives, Iraqi Shiite institutions, the Jordanian embassy, provisional Iraqi government institutions. After it pledged allegiance to Osama bin Laden's al-Qaeda network in October 2004, its official name became ""Tanzim Qaidat al-Jihad fi Bilad al-Rafidayn"". On 7 June 2006, the leader of AQI, al-Zarqawi, and his spiritual adviser Sheik Abd-Al-Rahman, were both killed by a U.S. airstrike with two 500 lb (230 kg) bombs on a safe house near Baqubah. The group's leadership was then assumed by the Egyptian militant Abu Ayyub al-Masri, also known as Abu Hamza al-Muhajir. In a letter to al-Zarqawi in July 2005,"
"Al Qaeda Handbook The Al Qaeda Handbook 1677-T 1D is a computer file found by Manchester (England) Metropolitan Police during a search of the Manchester home of Anas al-Liby in 2000. A translation has been provided by the American Federal Bureau of Investigation. Officials state that the document is a manual for how to wage war, and according to the American military, was written by Osama bin Laden's extremist group, al-Qaeda. However, the manual was likely written either by a member of Egyptian Islamic Jihad or al-Gama'a al-Islamiyya; in addition, the mentioned targets in the manual are the rulers of"
"Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula ( or , ""Tanẓīm Qā‘idat al-Jihād fī Jazīrat al-‘Arab"", ""Organization of Jihad's Base in the Arabian Peninsula""), or AQAP, also known as Ansar al-Sharia in Yemen (, ""Jamā‘at Anṣār ash-Sharī‘ah"", ""Group of the Helpers of the Sharia""), is a militant Islamist organization, primarily active in Yemen and Saudi Arabia. It was named for al-Qaeda, and states it is subordinate to that group and its now-deceased leader Osama bin Laden, a Saudi citizen of Yemeni heritage. It is considered the most active of al-Qaeda's branches, or ""franchises,"" that emerged due to"
"computer file of the thousands of ""mujahideen"" militants who were recruited and trained with CIA help to defeat the Russians. In April 2002, the group assumed the name ""Qa'idat al-Jihad"" ( """"), which means ""the base of Jihad"". According to Diaa Rashwan, this was ""apparently as a result of the merger of the overseas branch of Egypt's al-Jihad, which was led by Ayman al-Zawahiri, with the groups Bin Laden brought under his control after his return to Afghanistan in the mid-1990s."" The radical Islamist movement developed during the Islamic revival and the rise of the Islamist movement after the Iranian"
"al-Jaheishi. Jordanian militant Abu Musab al-Zarqawi started a group called Jama'at al-Tawhid wal-Jihad (Organization of Monotheism and Jihad) in 1999, aiming to overthrow the 'apostate' Kingdom of Jordan. Although they are believed to have assassinated US diplomat Laurence Foley in 2002, they became notorious for their violent campaign in Iraq, which began in August 2003. In October 2004, Zarqawi pledged alliance to Osama bin Laden and changed the name of his group to Tanzim Qaidat al-Jihad fi Bilad al-Rafidayn (Organization of Jihad's Base in Mesopotamia), often referred to as Al Qaeda in Iraq (AQI), which indulged in dozens of violent"
"miscalculation by western security agencies. Throughout the 80s he was armed by the CIA and funded by the Saudis to wage jihad against the Russian occupation of Afghanistan. Al-Qaida, literally ""the database"", was originally the computer file of the thousands of mujahideen who were recruited and trained with help from the CIA to defeat the Russians. However the notion that the CIA had any contact with non-Afghan mujahideen and specifically bin Laden is disputed by a number of sources. According to Peter Bergen of CNN the story that the CIA funded bin Laden or trained bin Laden—is simply a folk"
"Tanzim Qaidat al-Jihad fi Bilad al-Rafidayn Tanzim Qaidat al-Jihad fi Bilad al-Rafidayn or TQJBR (, ), also referred to as Al-Qaeda in Iraq, AQI, or Al-Qaeda in Mesopotamia) was an Iraqi Sunni Islamic Jihadist organization affiliated with al-Qaeda, for part of the first two decades of the 21 century. The group was founded by the Jordanian militant Abu Musab al-Zarqawi in 1999 under the name Jama'at al-Tawhid wal-Jihad (Arabic: جماعة التوحيد والجهاد, ""Group of Monotheism and Jihad""). The group is believed to have started bomb attacks in Iraq as of August 2003, five months after the coalition invasion and occupation"
"Agency on 29 September 2002. Jamal Beghal (alt.: Djamel Beghal, Djamal Beghal) confessed to being a member of Takfir wal-Hijra, which was affiliated with Al-Qaida. Begal has a French wife and three children, the family lived until 1997 in a ground-floor apartment in Corbeil-Essonnes, ""a middle- and working-class suburb south of Paris that was the suspected hub of the network."" He then lived in London, and frequented the Finsbury Park Mosque. Beghal said that Bin Laden ordered the attack and that a man named Zein-al-Abideen Mohammed Hussein recruited him. The man turned out to be Abu Zubaydah. Investigators say that"
"a week later, but one was subsequently charged with visa irregularities, and the ensuing controversy within the university led to the suspension of the educator teaching the terrorism course. Al Qaeda Handbook The Al Qaeda Handbook 1677-T 1D is a computer file found by Manchester (England) Metropolitan Police during a search of the Manchester home of Anas al-Liby in 2000. A translation has been provided by the American Federal Bureau of Investigation. Officials state that the document is a manual for how to wage war, and according to the American military, was written by Osama bin Laden's extremist group, al-Qaeda."
"Laden. However, various authorities relate that the Agency brought both Afghans and Arabs to the United States for military training. The network that became known as al-Qaeda (""The Base"") grew out of Arab volunteers who fought the Soviets and their puppet regimes in Afghanistan in the 1980s. In 1984 Abdullah Azzam and Osama bin Laden set up an organization known as the Office of Services in Peshawar, Pakistan, to coordinate and finance the ""Afghan Arabs"", as the volunteers became known. Azzam and Bin Laden set up recruitment offices in the US, under the name ""Al-Khifah"", the hub of which was"
"and the ""Crescent"" (Arabic: ""al-Hilal""), respectively – which continued to operate in the post-war period, until being forcibly closed down in September 1997 by the Lebanese Internal Security Forces (ISF) during a nationwide crack-down on Sunni religious extremists. A former member, Khalid El-Masri, was illegally kidnapped by the CIA. German reports assert that El-Masri himself reported his being a member of ""El-Tawhid"" or ""Al-Tawhid"" when he applied to Germany for refugee status, in 1985. The reference to ""El-Tawhid"" may have been confused with the group Abu Mussab al-Zarqawi lead, Al Qaeda in Iraq, used to be called ""Jama'at al-Tawhid wal-Jihad""."
"Kitáb-i-Aqdas The Kitáb-i-Aqdas or Aqdas is the central book of the Bahá'í Faith written by Bahá'u'lláh, the founder of the religion, in 1873. The work was written in Arabic under the Arabic title ( / ""al-Kitāb al-ʾaqdās""), but it is commonly referred to by its Persian title, ""Kitáb-i-Aqdas"" ( / ""Ketâb Âqdas""), which was given to the work by Bahá'u'lláh himself. It is sometimes also referred to as ""the Most Holy Book"", ""the Book of Laws"" or the Book of Aqdas. The word Aqdas has a significance in many languages as the superlative form of a word with its primary"
"mosques, civilians, Iraqi government institutions and Italian soldiers of the US-led 'Multi-National Force'. In October 2004, when al-Zarqawi swore loyalty to Osama bin Laden and al-Qaeda, he renamed the group ""Tanẓīm Qāʻidat al-Jihād fī Bilād al-Rāfidayn"" (), commonly known as al-Qaeda in Iraq (AQI). Although the group never called itself ""al-Qaeda in Iraq"", this remained its informal name for many years. Attacks by the group on civilians, Iraqi government forces, foreign diplomats and soldiers, and American convoys continued with roughly the same intensity. In a letter to al-Zarqawi in July 2005, al-Qaeda's then deputy leader Ayman al-Zawahiri outlined a four-stage"
"head of a criminal organisation responsible for the bombings. They find a former associate of bin Laden, Jamal al-Fadl, and pay him to testify that bin Laden is the head of a massive terrorist organisation called ""al-Qaeda"". With the September 11 attacks, neoconservatives in the new Republican administration of George W. Bush use this invented concept of an organisation to justify another crusade against a new enemy, culminating in the launch of the War on Terror. After the American invasion of Afghanistan fails to uproot the alleged terrorist organisation, the Bush administration focuses inwards, searching unsuccessfully for terrorist sleeper cells"
"of the CIA, the ISI and the Saudi Istikhbarat, they established a logistics base for the thousands of Arab fighters arriving in the city. Bin Laden would vet the volunteers before assigning them to the various Afghan factions Bin Laden would lead religious debates, many centred on the Sura Yasin of the Qur'an which are reported to have played a pivotal role in the formation of the al Qaida network. Saad Al-Faqih, reported to be an expert on al Qaeda's history, has stated that al Qaeda's origin was tied to a computer system situated in the ""bait al-Ansar guesthouse"" At"
"English; however, bin Laden's name is most frequently rendered ""Osama bin Laden"". The FBI and Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), as well as other U.S. governmental agencies, have used either ""Usama bin Laden"" or ""Usama bin Ladin"". Less common renderings include ""Ussamah bin Ladin"" and, in the French-language media, ""Oussama ben Laden"". Other spellings include ""Binladen"" or, as used by his family in the West, ""Binladin"". The decapitalization of ""bin"" is based on the convention of leaving short prepositions, articles, and patronymics uncapitalized in surnames; the nasab ""bin"" means ""son of"". The spellings with ""o"" and ""e"" come from a Persian-influenced"
"Al-Qaeda in Sinai Peninsula Al-Qaeda (Arabic: al-Qāᶜidah, ""the Base"") in the Sinai Peninsula, or AQSP, is an Egyptian militant jihadist organization possibly formed by a merger between al-Qaeda operatives in Sinai and Ansar al Jihad. It is Al-Qaeda's branch in the Sinai peninsula, and is composed of many Al-Qaeda factions in the area. Despite sharing similar ideology and possibly some resources, AQSP and the Islamic State have never formally affiliated with one another. The Al-Qaeda branch in Egypt was first announced on 5 August 2006, when the deputy leader of Al-Qaeda Ayman al-Zawahiri announced that a faction of Al-Gama'a al-Islamiyya"
"getting assurances that Kotey and Elsheikh would not face the death penalty. This was contrary to established UK practise but it was feared otherwise advisors to President Trump would be outraged and Trump would bear a grudge. The Beatles (terrorist cell) ""The Beatles"", dubbed as such by their hostages because of their English accents, was an Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) militant group. Its members were nicknamed ""John"", ""Paul"", ""George"", and ""Ringo"" by the hostages, after the four members of the British rock group the Beatles. In November 2015, one of the militants was killed and one"
"killing the terrorists. Al Qaeda still has a lot up its sleeves and both sides are forced to ratchet up the violence. During the course of the long and bloody war that follows, intelligence services captured hundreds of tapes shot by Al Qaeda’s own foot soldiers. Using only this material, as well as rare CSI footage shot by police to record the carnage, this startling film tells the story of Al Qaeda’s daring – and ultimately suicidal – mission to topple the House of Saud. AQAP – Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula MOI – Ministry of Interior (Saudi Arabia)"
"cathedral is Allah's enemy,"" and ""You will go to hell, Allah willing."" The call that had alerted British intelligence had been made by one in the group asking Abu Doha, the alleged mastermind of the plot, for more cash; Doha was already wanted by the United States for his connection to the Los Angeles International Airport millennium bombing plot. Members of the Frankfurt group were found to have trained in al-Qaeda camps in Afghanistan, to have connections to Islamist networks in Spain, Italy, Belgium and the United Kingdom, and to the Algerian terrorist group Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat"