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alQaeda_iranops.appHeader = "fact file|Al-Qaeda Operatives in Iran";
alQaeda_iranops.appFooter = "Source: NBC research";
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Age: 41
Citizenship: Egyptian
Real Name: Mohammed Makkawi
Aliases: Muhamad Ibrahim Makkawi, Seif Al Adel, Ibrahim Al-Madani
Personal: Al-Qaeda's No. 3, its military commander and chief military strategist, succeeding Mohamed Atef, who was killed in November 2001 and Khalid Sheik Mohamed, who was captured in March 2003. Served previously as Al Qaeda's security chief. As early as 1987, wanted to hijack a commercial aircraft and fly it into the Egyptian Parliament. Wrote analysis for an a1 Qaeda website advising Iraqis on how to fight the US. Sees himself as a strategic thinker. Thought to be in Iran by some.
The US has established a reward of $25 million for information leading to his capture.
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Age: 39
Citizenship: Kuwaiti
Aliases: Not known
Personal: A former religious scholar and teacher turned Bin Laden's personal spokesman, Abu Ghaith first appeared on the scene in October 2001 when he introduced Bin Laden and Ayman al Zawahiri in two tapes that were played on al Jazeera just before the US invaded Afghanistan.
His most famous line, delivered during the first tape was: \"Americans should know the storm of the planes will not stop... There are thousands of the Islamic nation's youths who love death just as the Americans love life.\"
In July 2003, a Kuwaiti minister said the Iranian government had offered to extradite Abu Ghaith to Kuwait, but the Kuwaitis refused, saying they had revoked his citizenship.
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Age: 28
Citizenship: Mauretanian
Aliases: Abu Hafs the Mauretanian, Khalid al Shiquiti, Mafouz Walad al-Walid, Mahamedou Ouid Slahi
Personal: A native of the African nation of Mauritania, Walid was said by the U.S. to have been killed in an airstrike in Afghanistan in January 2002, but he has recently been placed among dozens of al-Qaida members being sheltered in Iran. He was listed by the Pentagon as one of bin Laden's top aides in the immediate aftermath of the Sept. 2001 terror attacks.
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Age: 43
Citizenship: Egyptian
Aliases: Thirwat Saleh Shihata
Personal: Egyptian Islamic Jihad Deputy Emir, Zawahiri's No. 2. He has received two death sentences in absentia in Egypt for alleged terrorist activities. Believed to have been part of the plot to assassinate Anwar Sadat. Believed by Egyptian intelligence to be in Iranian custody.
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Age: 45
Citizenship: Egyptian
Aliases: Abu Hazem, Mohamed Gamal El-Sayed, Mohamed Gamal El-Sayed Ali Khalil
Personal: Commander of the military branch of the Islamic Group. He was sentenced to death in absentia by an Egyptian court in the Returnees from Afghanistan case. It is believed he took part in the 1981 assassination of Egyptian President Anwar Sadat, the attempted assassination of President Mubarak in 1995, and the Luxor massacre, which killed more than 60 German and Japanese tourists as well as Egyptian guides, in 1997. Believed to be in Iranian custody along with Shirhata above.
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Age: 23
Citizenship: Saudi citizenship revoked in 2003
Aliases: None known
Personal: Osama Bin Laden's third oldest son and fourth oldest child. He is the oldest son known to be loyal to his father, his brothers Abdullah and Abdel Rahman being more loyal to their mother, who Osama divorced a few years ago to marry a 17-year-old Yemeni girl. Believed to be in Iranian custody. Saudi Arabia has asked Iran to extradite him (unsuccessful thus far). Believed to have been integral player in May 2003 Riyadh bombings and responsible for planning the March 2001 bombing of the Djerba synagogue in Tunisia along with Khalid Sheik Mohamed.
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Age: 14
Citizenship: revoked by Saudi Arabia in 2003
Aliases: Not known
Personal: Also close to his father, he was seen on a 2001 al Qaeda video playing in the ruins of a US helicopter that had crashed in Afghanistan. Known to have fought with his father. Wrongly reported to have been captured by U.S. forces near Rabat, Afghanistan in March, 2003.
CIA believes he too is in Iran.";
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Age: 36
Citizenship: Syrian and Spanish
Aliases: Abu Musab al-Suri, Umar Abd al-Hakim
Personal: One of the group's key strategists and propagandists. It was he, according to several sources, who proposed in a November 2003 meeting of al Qaeda leaders that the group abandon its hierarchical structure and become more of a network. That meeting reportedly took place in northern Iran. US intelligence refers to him as \"pen jihadist\" but one so important that the US has put a $5 million reward on his head. Other reports have him in Venezuela where he could easily fit in. Although Syrian, he has red hair, favors jean shirts and pants and speaks fluent Spanish…his wife is a Spaniard.
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Age: 34
Citizenship: Saudi
Aliases: Sa’ad al-Sharif
Personal: Bin Laden chief financier and brother-in-law, officially the “chief financial officer and leader of al Qaeda’s finance committee”. He first linked up with Bin Laden in Sudan during the late 1990s. Some US investigators believe he wired money to Mohammed Atta, ringleader of the hijackers, before the September 11 attacks.
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Age: Not known
Nationality: Yemeni
Aliases: Aldahak, Abu Dhahak
Personal: Al Qaeda’s “facilitator” with Chechen rebels.
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