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Saif al-Adl: Al-Qaeda’s military commander since 2002. It is unclear what his real name is. He may be Mohammed Ibrahim Makkawi, a former Egyptian military officer. Thought to be in hiding in Iran.
Abdullah Anas: Algerian mujahid who fought with Ahmed Shah Massoud and married Abdullah Azzam’s daughter. Worked in the Services Bureau with Osama bin Laden and Jamal Khalifa. Perhaps the greatest warrior of the Arab Afghans. His real name is Boudejema Bounoua. Currently lives in London, where he serves as an imam at the Finsbury Park mosque.
John Anticev: FBI agent on the I-49 squad who obtained the crucial telephone number in Yemen belonging to Ahmed al-Hada, which served as an al-Qaeda switchboard.
Mohammed Atta: The Egyptian leader of the 9/11 hijacking team; pilot of American Airlines Flight #11 that struck the World Trade Center.
Abdullah Azzam: Charismatic Palestinian cleric who founded the Services Bureau in Peshawar in 1984. His fatwa summoning Muslims to repel the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan began the Arab involvement in that war. He was assassinated on November 24, 1989, a crime that has never been solved.
Mahfouz Azzam: Ayman al-Zawahiri’s mother’s uncle; the family patriarch and longtime lawyer and political figure in Cairo. He was Sayyid Qutb’s protégé and later his attorney. He still lives in Helwan, Egypt.
Umayma Azzam: Ayman al-Zawahiri’s mother. She still lives in Maadi, Egypt.
Ahmed Badeeb: Osama bin Laden’s former teacher at the Thagr School, Badeeb became Prince Turki’s chief of staff. After the Afghan jihad, Badeeb became chairman of the board of United Press International. He is now a businessman in Jeddah and ran a losing campaign in the first municipal elections in that country in 2005.
Saeed Badeeb: Prince Turki’s director of analysis and Ahmed Badeeb’s brother; now retired and living in Jeddah and Washington, D.C.
Hasan al-Banna: Founder and Supreme Guide of the Muslim Brotherhood; murdered by Egyptian authorities in 1949.
Khaled Batarfi: Neighbor and boyhood friend of Osama bin Laden in Jeddah; now an editor at Al-Medina newspaper and frequent columnist for Arab News.
Ramzi bin al-Shibh: Member of the Hamburg cell who oversaw the 9/11 plot. Captured in Karachi, Pakistan, on September 11, 2002, and is now in American custody in an undisclosed location.
Abdullah bin Laden: Osama’s oldest child, now living in Jeddah and working for a division of the Saudi Binladin Group.
Abdul Rahman bin Laden: Son of bin Laden and Umm Abdullah and born with a birth defect called hydrocephalus, which has caused him permanent mental damage. He now lives with his mother in Syria.
Mohammed bin Laden: Creator of the Saudi Binladin Group and father of the bin Laden dynasty. Born in Rubat, in the Hadramout section of Yemen; as a young man left Yemen for Ethiopia and made his way to Arabia in 1931. Died in 1967 at the age of fifty-nine in an air crash in southern Saudi Arabia.
Osama bin Laden: Born in Riyadh in January 1958; became a fund-raiser for the Afghan jihad after the Soviet invasion in 1979; founded al-Qaeda in 1988. Whereabouts unknown.
Steven Bongardt: FBI agent and member of the I-49 squad, now teaching at the FBI Academy in Quantico, Virginia.
Richard A. Clarke: Former counterterrorism coordinator in the National Security Council. Clarke retired from government in 2003 and became the best-selling author of Against All Enemies. He is also the founder of Good Harbor Consulting.
Jack Cloonan: Former member of the I-49 squad who handled Jamal al-Fadl and Ali Mohammed. Now president of Clayton Consultants, a risk-management firm specializing in negotiating kidnappings, and a consultant for ABC News.
Daniel Coleman: FBI agent and member of the I-49 squad who became the representative of the New York office of the FBI at