Al-Qaeda (75 page)

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Authors: Jason Burke

al-Moulla al-Bilal, Ahmed
262
Moussaoui, Zacarias
229
,
252
,
253
Mubarak, Hosni
114
,
115
,
154
,
240
Muhamed, K. K.
7
–8,
96
Mujahed, Abu
276
–80
Mujahed, Fazl Haq
160
mujahideen
xxi
–xxii,
59
,
60
–61,
68
,
75
,
79
; bases
77
–8; and bin Laden
5
,
79
–80,
136
; splits within
81
–2,
165
mullahs, in Afghanistan
63
,
123
Mursi, Midhat (Abu Khabab)
208
Mushayt, Khamis
247
Muslim Brotherhood (Egypt)
47
,
48
–9,
53
,
75
,
151
,
153
,
241
; in Afghanistan
66
; Iraq branch
222
; Sudan branch
144
;
see also
Gamaa-al-Islamiyya
Muslim Sisterhood (Egypt)
134
Muslim World League (
Rabitat al-Alam al-Islami
)
57
,
60
Muttawakil, Wakil Ahmed
211
–12
Nairobi, Kenya, embassy bombing
158
–60,
177
–8,
199
Najibullah, Mohammed
80
,
89
,
129
,
130
Namangani, Juma
190
,
191
–2
al-Nami, Ahmed
247
al-Nashiri, Abd al-Rahim
214
,
231
Nasser, Gamal Abdel
36
,
53
,
55
,
151
Netherlands, the
282
–3
‘network of networks’
10
–13,
14
,
139
,
171
,
231
,
261
–2
New York, USA: MAK branch in
75
,
84
,
101
;
see also
11 September attacks; World Trade Center
Northern Alliance
xxiii
,
192
Nouar, Nizar
263
Odeh, Mohammed Sadeeq
106
,
148
,
177
oil
138
,
310
; Algerian oil revenues
200
–201; embargo (1973)
46
Omar, Mullah Mohammed
xxiii
,
123
,
124
,
135
,
193
,
194
,
296
; and bin Laden
183
,
185
–7,
194
al-Omari, Abdulaziz
247
,
253
Operation ‘Infinite Reach’ (1998)
180
–81,
186
,
188
,
292
Operation ‘Mountain Lion’ (2001–2)
254
–6
Operation ‘Restore hope’
141
–2
opium
293
; ban
193
; drugs trade
16
,
126
,
127
Ottoman Empire
43
,
280
al-Owhali, Mohammed Rashid Daoud
158
–60,
169
–70,
174
,
177
–8
Pabbi, Pakistan, complex at
78
,
103
,
107
–8,
114
Pahlavi, Muhammad Reza, Shah of Iran
56
,
132
Pahlwan, Said Mohammed
70
,
80
Pakistan
52
,
82
,
90
–1,
98
; and Afghanistan
67
–8,
68
–9,
80
–81,
82
,
98
–9; bin Laden and
175
; Deobandism in
92
–5,
109
–10,
304
; and Kashmir
16
,
96
–8,
99
–100,
189
; militants in
89
–90,
103
–5,
108
–9,
114
–15,
296
; political Islam in
91
–2,
98
; Sidique Khan’s visits
286
,
288
,
289
,
290
–91,
296
; and the Taliban
124
–8,
187
–90; tries to reverse policy
262
;
see also
ISI; Peshawar
Palestine
280
,
281
,
296
–7
Palestinian groups
12
,
84
;
see also
Hamas
Pashtun tribes
64
,
122
,
123
,
259
; cultural code
134
; Pakistan and
67
,
69
,
124
,
126
; and the Taliban
123
–4,
125
Pashtun, Yusef
257
PDPA (People’s Democratic Party of Afghanistan)
62
,
66
,
67
Pearl, Daniel
87
,
100
,
296
Peshawar, Pakistan
41
,
114
; Afghan Colony
41
–2; Arab volunteers in
61
,
72
,
73
,
150
; bin Laden in
3
,
57
–8,
58
,
105
; guesthouses
75
,
103
–4,
105
Peshmerga fighters (KDP)
222
,
227
Philippines: Abu Sayyaf group
15
–16,
107
,
230
,
262
; ‘Bojinka plot’
110
,
114
,
228
PLO (Palestine Liberation Organization)
84
political Islam:
see
Islam, political
polytheism (
shirk
)
27
,
42
Powell, Colin, US Secretary of State
274
propaganda
288
–9,
311
; bin Laden and
19
–20,
89
,
174
–5,
281
–2,
288
,
311
; intelligence services and
16
–18; and the Madrid bombings
269
–70
PUK (Patriotic Union of Kurdistan)
223
,
225
,
298
al-Qaeda
xxv
,
1
,
308
; and bin Laden
xxv
,
1
,
85
,
140
,
297
; ideology
13
–14; links with London bombings
289
–90,
291
; links with al-Zarqawi
274
,
275
; no connection to the Madrid bombing
268
; origins and use of name
1
–8,
14
–15,
38
–9,
85
–6,
173
; in Somalia
148
,
149
; state repression of Islamic radicalism
15
; structure and organization
8
–13,
14
,
231
–3,
291
; in Sudan
143
; three phases of
311
–12;as vanguard
2
,
19
,
37
,
166
,
297
,
311
–12; ‘War on Terror’ and
259
–61

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