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Authors: Morten Storm,Paul Cruickshank,Tim Lister
Agent Storm: My Life Inside al-Qaeda (56 page)
Mark Hulstrøm.
Awlaki’s son was killed a few months after his father in a drone strike.
Negotiating with the Masai tribe in Shompole, Kenya.
Toby Cowern in northern Sweden, March 2010.
Apologizing to Naser Khader on TV.
PET director Jakob Scharf (Danish DR).
Militants and Islamists
| Abab, Sheikh Adil al- | Yemeni cleric who became religious guide of AQAP |
| Abdaly, Taimour Abdulwahab al- | 2010 Stockholm suicide bomber I knew in Luton |
| Abdelghani | Islamist I knew from Denmark who sent me an invitation from the Islamic Courts Union |
| Abdul | Yemeni friend who worked as a courier for al-Qaeda |
| Abdulmutallab, Umar Farouk | Nigerian ‘underwear bomber’ who targeted Northwest flight 253 over Detroit |
| Abu Bilal | Swedish-Ghanaian room-mate in Dammaj |
| Abu Hamza | Radical Moroccan preacher in Aarhus |
| Adebolajo, Michael | Nigerian-British radical who killed British soldier in London in 2013. |
| Ahmed, Zohaib | British extremist convicted for plot to target the EDL in 2012 |
| Ali | Danish convert and fellow member of Awlaki’s Sana’a study circle |
| Aminah | Croatian convert seeking to marry Awlaki. Real name: Irena Horak |
| Andersen, Abdallah | Danish convert from Odense convicted for 2006 terrorism plot |
| Arab, Abu | Danish-Palestinian extremist I met in Lebanon. Real name: Ali al-Hajdib |
| Asiri, Abdullah al- | Brother of Ibrahim al-Asiri and so-called butt-bomber |
| Asiri, Ibrahim al- | AQAP master bomb-maker |
| Avdic, Adnan | Bosnian extremist friend in Denmark acquitted in terror case |
| Awlaki, Abdulrahman al- | Awlaki’s son |
| Awlaki, Anwar al- | American-Yemeni terrorist cleric |
| Awlaki, Omar al- | Awlaki’s brother |
| Bakri Mohammed, Omar | Syrian founder of British extremist group al-Muhajiroun |
| Balawi, Humam al- | Jordanian ‘triple agent’ responsible for suicide attack on CIA in Afghanistan |
| Barbi, Rashid | US army veteran who travelled to Dammaj with me |
| bin Laden, Osama | Al-Qaeda’s founder and leader till 2011 |
| Choudary, Anjem | Deputy to al-Muhajiroun’s founder, Omar Bakri Mohammed |
| Geele, Mohammed | Somali convicted of axe attack on the Danish cartoonist Kurt Westergaard in 2010 |
| Godane, Ahmed Abdi | The leader of al-Shabaab. Aka: Muktar al-Zubayr |
| Hajdib, Saddam al- | Brother of Abu Arab and senior member of Lebanese terrorist group Fatah al-Islam |
| Hajdib, Youssef al- | Brother of Abu Arab convicted of a 2006 plot to bomb a train in Germany |
| Hajuri, Shaikh Yahya al- | A teacher at Dammaj |
| Hammami, Omar | American al-Shabaab member from Alabama. Aka: Abu Mansoor al-Amriki |
| Hartaba | Awlaki’s driver and a former bin Laden bodyguard |
| Hasan, Nidal | US army major responsible for 2009 Fort Hood shooting in Texas |
| Hazmi, Mohammed al- | Muslim Brotherhood cleric in Sana’a |
| Hazmi, Sheikh al- | Cleric with links to AQAP I met in Yemen in 2001; nephew of Mohammed al-Hazmi |
| Hussain, Anzal | British extremist convicted of plot to target EDL in 2012 |
| Ibrahim | Algerian radical in Aarhus |
| Ikrimah | Somali-Kenyan al-Shabaab operative I met in Nairobi. Real name: Mohamed Abdikadir Mohamed |
| Ja’far Umar Thalib | Dammaj alumnus and leader of the Indonesian terrorist group Laskar Jihad |
| Jimmy | Owner of a gym popular with extremists in Birmingham |
| Khan, Samir | American editor of AQAP’s Inspire magazine |
| Khurshid, Hammad | Danish-born Pakistani convicted of 2007 Denmark terror plot |
| Lewthwaite, Samantha | So-called ‘White Widow’ of a 7/7 bomber on the run in East Africa |
| Majeed, Abdul Waheed | Omar Bakri acolyte who became the first British suicide bomber in Syria |
| Masri, Hussein al- | Egyptian Islamic Jihad operative I met in Sana’a |
| Mehdar, Abullah | Yemeni tribal leader close to Anwar al-Awlaki |
| Menni, Nasserdine | Algerian friend from Luton convicted of providing funds to Stockholm suicide bomber Taimour Abdulwahab al-Abdaly |
| Misri, Abdullah | Yemeni AQAP financier and arms broker |
| Mostafa, Jehad Serwan | American member of Awlaki study circle in Yemen who became a senior al-Shabaab operative |
| Moussaoui, Zacarias | French-Moroccan I met in London who became the ‘twentieth’ 9/11 hijacker |
| Mujeeb | Yemeni Islamist who mediated between Salafists and AQAP |
| Mukhtar | French Muslim friend and flatmate of Zacarias Moussaoui in Brixton |
| Muqbil, Sheikh | Salafist founder of the Dammaj Institute |
| Nabhan, Saleh Ali | Kenyan al-Qaeda operative responsible for 1998 bombings of US embassies in East Africa |
| Newman, Clifford Allen | American convert I met in Dammaj along with his son, Abdullah. AKA: Amin |
| Ramadan, Mustapha Darwich | Fellow prisoner in Denmark who took part in the beheading of Nick Berg |
| Raymi, Qasim al- | Second most senior Yemeni in AQAP |
| Reid, Richard | So-called shoe-bomber who targeted a Paris–Miami flight in December 2001 |
| Saheer | British-Pakistani Birmingham ex-con who plotted attack on Danish newspaper |
| Salim | British-Pakistani al-Muhajiroun follower whose father owned taxi company I worked for in Birmingham |
| Samulski, Marek | Australian-Polish fellow member of Awlaki’s Sana’a study circle |
| Somali, Abu Musab al- | Somali terrorist operative I knew from Denmark |
| Sorensen, Kenneth | Danish convert to Islam who was in Sana’a with me in 2006 |
| Sudani, Abu Talha al- | Sudanese senior al-Qaeda operative based in East Africa |
| Tabbakh, Hassan | Syrian refugee convicted of the 2007 UK terror plot |
| Tariq, Shiraz | Pakistani friend from Odense extremist circle |
| Tayyib, Mahmud al- | Saudi I met in Regent’s Park mosque who suggested I study in Dammaj |
| Tokhi, Abdelghani | Danish resident of Afghan descent convicted of 2007 terror plot |
| Uddin, Jewel | British-Pakistani extremist convicted of 2012 plot to target the EDL |
| Uqla, Sheikh Humud bin | Saudi cleric who issued a fatwa in support of 9/11 |
| Usman, Mohammed | British-Pakistani I met on the flight to Yemen in September 2009 |
| Warsame, Ahmed Abdulkadir | Somali friend who became a senior operative in al-Shabaab |
| Wuhayshi, Nasir al- | Leader of AQAP and former senior bin Laden aide |
| Zaher, Mohammad | Palestinian from Odense convicted of 2006 terorrism plot |
| Zarqawi, Abu Musab al- | Jordanian founder of al-Qaeda in Iraq |
| Zawahiri, Ayman al- | Leader of al-Qaeda from 2011 |
| Zindani, Abdul Majid al- | Head of Muslim Brotherhood in Yemen and founder of al-Iman University |
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