Authors: Jason Burke
Abu Gaith, Suleiman
33
Abu Ghraib prison, Iraq
276
Abu Hajer, Abu Rahman
106
Abu Hoshar, Khadar
109
–10,
211
Abu Khabab (Midhat Mursi)
208
Abu Mohammed
218
Abu Qutada
184
–5,
220
,
226
,
252
,
283
Abu Sayyaf group (Philippines)
15
–16,
107
,
230
,
262
Abu Yasir Rifa’IAhmad Taha
176
Abu Ziad
171
Abu Zubaydah
105
,
167
,
206
–7;
capture
260
; and Millennium Plots
208
,
209
,
210
,
211
;
organization of attacks
221
,
248
al-Adel, Saif
115
,
148
,
248
,
260
Aden, Yemen: bombings (1992)
141
,
147
Afghan veterans
80
,
82
; in Algeria
202
; Azzam and
72
,
73
–4; ideology
83
; in Pakistan
90
,
103
; in Saudi Arabia
139
,
140
,
155
; in Somalia
148
; in Sudan
143
,
145
;
see also
volunteers
Afghanistan
xxiv
,
63
–6,
273
,
292
–3,
297
; bin Laden in
xxiii
,
5
–6,
78
–9,
160
–1,
182
; Islam in
62
–3; militant groups in
6
,
8
–10,
102
,
195
; mujahideen in
xxi
–xxii,
xxiii
,
5
,
59
,
60
–1,
75
,
79
,
81
–2; Northern Alliance
xxiii
,
192
; Operation ‘Mountain Lion’ (2001–2)
254
–6; opium
126
–7,
193
; Pakistan and
67
–8,
68
–9,
80
–1,
82
,
98
–9,
125
–6; political Islam in
61
–2,
64
,
66
–9,
120
,
122
,
168
; post-Taliban
256
,
257
,
258
–9; Soviet invasion
2
,
56
,
59
,
64
,
80
; the Taliban
116
–18,
120
–4,
127
–35,
196
,
257
–8,
292
–3; volunteers in
1
–2,
3
,
13
,
61
,
72
,
75
,
75
–7,
80
,
84
,
85
; ‘War on Terror’
254
–6; Western failure in
291
–2;
see also
Taliban: training camps
Ahmed, Hussein
67
Ahmed, Najmuddin Feraj
223
,
224
–5,
226
,
227
Aideed, Farah
148
,
149
AIS (Armée Islamique de Salvation)
205
,
217
Ajaj, Ahmed Mohammed
3
,
108
Akhund, Mullah Hassan
179
Akora Khattak: religious complex
95
Algeria
84
,
120
,
133
,
200
–3,
262
,
296
,
304
;
see also
AIS; GIA; GSPC
al-Ali, Abdallah
236
Ali, Ayaan Hirsi
282
–3
Alwan, Emad Abdelwahid Ahmed
218
Andalusia
73
Ansar ul Islam (Kurdish northern Iraq)
11
,
17
,
18
,
225
–7,
261
,
271
,
272
,
274
,
275
,
299
arms dealing
147
,
196
–7;
see also
weapons
Arnaout, Enaam
250
–51
‘Aso, Mullah’
225
Assuna Annabawiyah mosque, Montreal
203
Ataturk, Kemal
43
,
132
Atef, Mohammed
76
,
213
; al-Qaeda planning by
196
,
199
,
209
,
248
; and bin Laden
167
,
176
; and Somalia
148
,
149
; death
259
Atta, Mohammed
17
; background
153
,
238
–42,
243
–5; motivation
24
,
253
,
309
; 11 September pilot
34
,
234
,
237
,
251
,
253
Atwan, Abdul Bari
166
al-Auda, Salman
139
,
247
Ayub, Arif
195
Azhar, Maulana Massoud
96
,
190
al-Azhar University, Cairo
66
Aziz, Mullah Uthman Ali
223
Azzam, Nairobi embassy bomber
158
–9,
174
,
177
,
214
Azzam, Abdallah
2
,
47
,
72
–3,
223
,
273
; ideology
73
–5,
76
,
83
,
162
; view of al-Qaeda as vanguard
2
,
37
; death
82
;
see also
MAK
Ba’asir, Abu Bakr
228
,
228
–9
Ba’ath Party, Iraq
275
,
279
Babar, General Naseerullah
68
,
125
,
125
–6
al-Badr: battle (624 CE)
30
; camp complex
168
Baghdad: fall to Mongols (1258)
29
,
311
Bagram, Afghanistan
255
–6
Bali: bombing (2002)
264
–5,
309
Bamiyan, Buddhas of: destruction
196
Bangladesh
24
,
91
,
96
al-Banna, Hassan
47
–9,
166
al-Banshiri, Abu Ubaidah
106
,
149
,
177
Barot, Dhiren
285
al-Bashir, Omar Hassan
145
Baudrillard, Jean
38
bayat (oath-taking)
85
Beghal, Djamal
220
–21
Belgium: GSPC activists
219
Benevolence International Foundation (BIF)
250
–51
Bhutto, Benazir
98
,
115
,
125
,
126
,
168
; assassination attempt
108
,
113
–14
Bhutto, Zulfikar Ali
67
,
91
,
125