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- Caliphate [r]: An Islamic form of government in which one person acts as head of state, head of government and head of religion; also the jurisdiction of such a government. [e]
- Jihad [r]: Literally meaning "struggle", a Muslim concept that can refer to an inward-directed personal process to submit to God's will, or to an external combat with the enemies of Islam [e]
- Osama bin Laden [r]: A radical jihadist who founded, with Ayman al-Zawahiri, a group known as al-Qaeda, which is credited with a series of terrorist attacks. [e]
- Muslim Brotherhood [r]: An Islamic political group, formed in Egypt and increasingly part of the political system there, which has worldwide branches; it may be moving from a Salafist ideology to a more mulilateral one [e]
- Salafism [r]: A strict branch of Sunni Islam, dedicated to the restoration of the Caliphate, often by means of armed jihad [e]
- Sayyid Qutb [r]: Born in 1906, radicalized in 1951, and executed in 1966, an influential theorist of Salafist revolutionary Islam; considered one of the two spiritual fathers of al-Qaeda and the mentor of Ayman al-Zawahiri [e]
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- Abd al-Qadir bin ‘Abd al-‘Aziz [r]: A Salafist scholar who was the first leader of Egyptian Islamic Jihad, and an opponent, within jihadi circles, of Ayman al-Zawahiri [e]
- Egyptian Islamic Jihad [r]: A jihadist organization formed in the 1970s, dormant by the 1990s, with the more extreme members probably in al-Qaeda along with the leader of the time, Ayman al-Zawahiri [e]
- Al-Qaeda [r]: International islamist terrorist network. Responsible for the 9-11 attack and other terrorist attacks. [e]
- 9-11 Attack [r]: The largest terrorist attack on the continental United States, occurring on September 11, 2001, using hijacked airliners as suicide weapons against major buildings [e]
- Khalid Sheikh Mohammed [r]: Described by the U.S. and by his own proud statement, the operational planner, for al-Qaeda, of the 9-11 attack; a U.S. High Value Detainee to be tried in a civilian criminal court in U.S. v. Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, et al. [e]
- 9-11 Attack [r]: The largest terrorist attack on the continental United States, occurring on September 11, 2001, using hijacked airliners as suicide weapons against major buildings [e]
- Armed Islamic Group [r]: An apparently dormant Algerian jihadist movement, formed in 1992 when the secular government outlawed the Islamist party that won the legislative elections; members now may be affiliated with Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb [e]
- Ahmed Agiza [r]: An Egyptian citizen, rendered to Egypt by Swedish and U.S. personnel, where he was imprisoned for a 1999 in absentia conviction of belonging to an illegal organization, Egyptian Islamic Jihad; the removal from Sweden did not involve extradition and may have violated the refoulement provision of the Convention against Torture. [e]
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- Abdullah Azzam [r]: A Salafist legal scholar and jihadist, who formed the Services Office supporting the Afghanistan War (1978-92) with Osama bin Laden, one of the organizations that formed al-Qaeda [e]
- Peter Bergen [r]: Senior Research Fellow, American Strategy Program and Co-Director, Counterterrorism Strategy Initiative, New America Foundation; CNN's national security analyst and fellow at Center on Law & Security, New York University; adjunct professor, School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University [e]
- Muhammad Omar [r]: Salafist cleric and leader of the Taliban [e]
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- 1996 Khobar Towers bombing [r]: A truck bombing of a U.S. Air Force barracks in Saudi Arabia, killing and wounding personnel involved in enforcing the no-fly zone over southern Iraq; primary responsibility is generally assigned to Saudi Hizbollah with support from Iran [e]
- Abdel Bari Atwan [r]: Analyst of Islamic politics and Editor of an independent U.K. based Arabic language based newspaper, Al-Quds Al-Arabi; has had access to Osama bin Laden but is also a frequent analyst in Western and Muslim media and academic publications [e]
- Abdul Rasul Sayyaf [r]: An Afghanistan politician and warlord, the only Pashtun leader in the Northern Alliance, and a Wahhabist favoring strict Islamic rule [e]
- Abu Ayoub al-Iraqi [r]: Reported as one of the founders of al-Qaeda, he appeared to drop from the leadership, and drowned in a ferry accident in Kenya in 1996 [e]
- Abu Jandal [r]: Bodyguard to Osama bin Laden, captured in 2002 and who has provided information on al-Qaeda [e]
- Abu Muhammad al-Maqdisi [r]: A Salafist theologian with much influence on Jihad, currently in Jordan; some affiliation with al-Qaeda but not necessarily in full agreement with their approach [e]
- Abu Musab al-Zarqawi [r]: Killed in an airstrike in 2006, the head of al-Qaeda in Iraq, who had previously run a separate organization [e]
- Afghan Arab [r]: Fighters against the Soviets, and then participants in jihad operating from Afghanistan and Pakistan, who are not of Afghan ethnicity but fought in the region, trained there or were supported by organizations based in the areas [e]
- Afghanistan War (1978-92) [r]: A civil war in Afghanistan that matched the Soviet Union and its Afghan allies against a coalition of anti-Communist groups called the mujahideen, supported from the outside by the United States, Pakistan, and Saudi Arabia. [e]
- Afghanistan War (2001-), major combat phase [r]: During the Afghanistan War (2001-), the period of combat by Afghan ground forces, with U.S. and British air & special operations support, which drove the Taliban and al-Qaeda from their bases, in October through December 2001 [e]
- Al-wala’ wa’l-bara’ [r]: A Muslim, primarily Salafist belief that the faithful should show exclusive allegiance to Allah and Islam, and repudiation of unbelief and unbelievers, not associating with non-Muslims [e]
- Albania [r]: Republic in south-eastern Europe (population c. 3.6 million; capital Tirana), with a long Adriatic coastline on the west and land borders with Montenegro, Kosovo, Macedonia and Greece. [e]
- Arabic language [r]: is a Semitic language used by Islam and is an official or co-official language in the 22 countries which together make up the Arab World. [e]
- Battle of Tora Bora [r]: A battle of the Afghanistan War (2001-), in which allied special operations forces, principally using Afghan troops, attempted to kill or capture an escaping Osama bin Laden [e]
- Beard [r]: Human facial hair covering part of the lower face, particularly the chin, throat and lower cheeks. [e]
- CIA activities in the Middle East and South Asia [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Chemical weapon [r]: A weapon that cause death or disease by means of chemical interaction with the metabolism of the victim, as opposed to causing injury through blast, thermal, or other effects not on a molecular level [e]
- Cold War [r]: Geostrategic, economic and ideological struggle from about 1947 to 1991 between the Soviet Union and the United States and their allies. [e]
- Combat search and rescue [r]: The location and rescue of military and civilian personnel in hostile areas, such that a military operation is necessary to retrieve them [e]
- David Kilcullen [r]: A former Australian infantry officer with a doctorate in the study of insurgency and history, he is an advisor on counterinsurgency to the Australian and U.S. governments. His models draw a sharp distinction between the tactic of terror, and the conduct of wars that make use of that tactic. Board of Advisors, Center for a New American Security [e]
- Extraordinary rendition, U.S., Bill Clinton Administration [r]: Extraordinary rendition of suspects of counterterrorism programs in the Clinton Administration, with brief U.S. interrogation but primary coercive interrogation in third countries [e]
- Extraordinary rendition, U.S. [r]: General United States policy and laws regarding the transfer of a person of interest to another country, without going through formal international extradition but possibly through other administrative hearings [e]
- Federally Administered Tribal Area (Pakistan) [r]: A region of Pakistan that is outside the regular system of Pakistani provincial government, involving a combination of tribal leaders and "agents" of the national government; the subdivisions are called "agencies", not "provinces"; from an international standpoint, it is fairly lawless [e]
- General Intelligence Department (Saudi Arabia) [r]: The national intelligence service of Saudi Arabia [e]
- George Tenet [r]: Director of Central Intelligence from July 1997 to July 2004, heading the United States intelligence community and the Central Intelligence Agency [e]
- Gulbuddin Hekmatyar [r]: Afghan radical jihadist leader, not affiliated with the Taliban, at large in Afghanistan or Pakistan [e]
- Hassan al-Turabi [r]: A Sudanese political and Islamist leader, whose status has ranged from national leader to political prisoner, and has been affiliated with Islamist movements worldwide, often changing affiliation [e]
- Hosni Mubarak [r]: President of Egypt since 1981 [e]
- Huzaifa Parhat [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Ibn Sheikh al-Libi [r]: A Libyan member of al-Qaeda whose interrogation results, later recanted, were a large part of the U.S. justfication for starting the Iraq War because Iraq had weapons of mass destruction; he was in various CIA programs of extraordinary rendition and interrogation [e]
- Ibn Tamiyya [r]: A medieval Sunni Islamic theologian of the Hanbali school, who set the theoretical framework on which modern Salafism depends [e]
- Islamabad [r]: The capital of Pakistan [e]
- Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan [r]: A Central Asian jihadist movement, centered on the Ferghana Valley, where the borders of Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzistan, and Tajikistan meet; affiliated with the Taliban and al-Qaeda and may be based in Afghanistan [e]
- Jack Cloonan [r]: Retired Federal Bureau of Investigation special agent, an expert on interrogation and terrorism; headed the FBI Osama bin Laden unit [e]
- Jalalabad [r]: The capital of Nangarhar Province, Afghanistan. [e]
- Jalaluddin Haqqani [r]: Commander of Taliban armed forces but also a Pashtun Ghilzai with independent affiliations with Pakistan, both Inter-Service Intelligence and tribal, as well as his home area of Afghanistan [e]
- Jamaat al-Islamiyya [r]: An Egyptian jihadist organization, derived from the Muslim Brotherhood, which conducted terror operations primarily in Egypt in the 1990s; it has renounced violence but members have affiliated with al-Qaeda and other groups [e]
- Jamaat-i-Islami [r]: Pakistan's oldest Islamist religious party, marginal in national politics but more powerful in the semi-autonomous frontier provinces; possibly affiliated with the Taliban [e]
- Jamal al-Fadl [r]: An early (1988) associate of Osama bin Laden, who walked into a U.S. Embassy in 1996, offered his services, and testified at a 2001 trial for the 1998 bombings of U.S. Embassies in Africa [e]
- James Pavitt [r]: Principal, Scowcroft Group; Deputy Director of Operations of the Central Intelligence Agency under George Tenet, before the 9-11 attack and during the early Afghanistan War (2001-) [e]
- Jamiat Ulema-e-Pakistan [r]: A Muslim clerical party of Pakistan, currently condemning both the Taliban and U.S. attacks, and participating in the government [e]
- Jihad vs. McWorld: How Globalism and Tribalism are Reshaping the World [r]: A book by Benjamin Barber, first published in 1995, examining the interaction of globalization and consumerism with religious fundamentalism and tribalism; McDonald's, MTV, and Macintosh are used as icons for consumerism [e]
- John O'Neill [r]: Head of the Federal Bureau of Investigation counterterrorism unit, 1995-2001; he retired and became head of security at the World Trade Center, and died in the 9-11 Attack [e]
- Kenya [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Khaled al Fawwaz [r]: Accused al-Qaeda member who ran its public information service in London, is under indictment in the 1998 bombings of U.S. Embassies in Africa, and is contesting extradition from the U.K. [e]
- Michael Scheuer [r]: Former head of the Osama bin Laden/al-Qaeda unit in the Counterterrorism Center of the Central Intelligence Agency; critical of U.S. policies but with insightful analysis on what he sees as a complex enemy [e]
- Nairobi [r]: The capital of Kenya in East Africa [e]
- Nangarhar Province [r]: A province on the east of Afghanistan, on the Pakistani frontier, which forms its south and eastern sides; its major internal boundaries are with Kabul Province on its west, Langhman and Kunar Provinces to the north; the capital is Jalalabad, nearest town to the Battle of Tora Bora [e]
- National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States [r]: A bipartisan U.S. government committee that reviewed why the 9-11 Attack was not detected or averted, evaluated the response to it, and recommended improvements for the future [e]
- National security [r]: A broad, imprecise; sometimes useful, sometimes euphemistic and sometime politicized phrase describing the totality of necessary functions of a nation; maintaining it is the defense against all aspects of the grand strategy of adversaries [e]
- Northern Alliance [r]: A military alliance against the Taliban in Afghanistan's civil war, which, with U.S. assistance, drove it from power in the Afghanistan War (2001-) [e]
- Omar Abdel-Rahman [r]: Serving a life sentence (without the possibility of parole) for the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center, he is a radical Islamist cleric of Egyptian origin, who was affiliated with some of the ideological guides and founders of al-Qaeda [e]
- Omar Khadr [r]: A Canadian citizen, captured in Afghanistan at the age of 15, who was charged with attacking U.S. forces and has been held in Guantanamo Bay detention camp; the Supreme Court of Canada has scheduled a hearing on his repatriation on November 13, 2009 [e]
- Quetta [r]: Capital of the Balochistan Province of Pakistan. It is believed to be the headquarters of the Taliban Quetta shura governing body under Mullah Muhammad Omar. [e]
- Ramzi Yousef [r]: A participant in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, now serving life without parole in a U.S. prison; the nephew of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and involved in what, at the time, was an informal worldwide network of jihadists [e]
- Richard Bernstein [r]: American journalist and author, dealing with general cultural issues, Asia and France, and book reviews [e]
- Richard Clarke [r]: Career U.S. defense official who served in policy posts in the Ronald Reagan,George H. W. Bush, Bill Clinton and George W. Bush Administrations, specializing in counterterrorism in the latter two [e]
- Saad al-Faqih [r]: A U.K.-based surgeon and Saudi dissident, who has been designated a terrorist supporter of al-Qaeda by the United States; he describes himself as a Saudi reformer [e]
- Services Office [r]: An Arab organization, principally based in Pakistan with a U.S. branch called al-Khifa, which supported Afghans against the Soviets in the Afghanistan War (1978-92), but also was an ancestor of radical jihadist movements [e]
- Shadi Adalla [r]: An al-Qaeda bodyguard of Osama bin Laden [e]
- Special operations [r]: Military or paramilitary operations that differ from conventional operations in degree of physical and political risk, operational techniques, mode of employment, independence from friendly support, and dependence on detailed operational intelligence and indigenous assets; they are often controlled at a national or strategic level of command [e]
- Special reconnaissance [r]: Also known as SR, missions deep in denied areas, conducted by special operations personnel. They may be in or out of uniform. While SR units may direct air, missile, or artillery strikes, they strive to stay undetected. [e]
- Susan Crawford [r]: Convening authority under the Military Commissions Act of 2006 that tries non-national terrorism suspects; a retired Chief Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Armed Services [e]
- Takfir wal-Hijra [r]: An extreme Salafist organization of Egyptian origin, whose executed leader wanted to withdraw from modern society, build strength, and then excommunicate and kill those they considered apostates, such as Osama bin Laden [e]
- Takfir [r]: A Muslim, primarily Salafist practice of excommunication or shunning of non-observant Muslims; it may extend to killing them [e]
- Tanzania [r]: A large coastal East African nation bordered by Kenya, Uganda, Congo and the Indian Ocean. [e]
- Terrorism and U.S. Intelligence [r]: Activities of the U.S. government to identify potential sources for the tactical use of terrorism, related to but distinct from intelligence on political insurgencies that may or may not use that tactic [e]
- Turki al-Faisal [r]: Senior prince of Saudi Arabia, who has headed their General Intelligence Department and been Ambassador both to the U.K. and U.S.; board, International Crisis Group [e]
- U.S. Intelligence and terrorism from 2000 [r]: Add brief definition or description
- U.S. Intelligence and terrorism in the 1980s [r]: Tracking and actions against terrorism by the United States intelligence community in the 1980s [e]
- U.S. Intelligence and terrorism in the 1990s [r]: Tracking and actions against terrorism by the United States intelligence community in the 1990s [e]
- U.S. intelligence activities in Africa [r]: Activities of the United States intelligence community in Africa [e]
- United States Special Operations Command [r]: A U.S. Unified Combatant Command with both functional and operational responsibilities, both to prepare special operations forces for the geographic commands, and to execute strategic special operations, typically under national orders and high security classification [e]
- Wadi al Aqiq [r]: A holding company, owned by Osama bin Laden, in Sudan [e]
- Wahhabism [r]: A socially conservative branch of Sunni Islam, strongest in the House of Saud, which rules Saudi Arabia [e]
- War on terror [r]: A major policy of the George W. Bush Administration, defining global terrorism, as opposed to nation-states as in the Cold War, as the focal point of national security policy [e]
- Yunis Khalis [r]: An early leader of the mudjahedin (1919-2006), whose stronghold was Jalalabad in Nangarhar Province [e]
