Al-Qaeda (78 page)

video ‘last will and testament’, Mohammed Sidique Khan
288
–9

volunteers
xxv
–xxvi,
172
,
209
,
231
–2; in Afghanistan and Pakistan
1
–2,
13
,
61
,
73
,
75
,
75
–7,
80
,
84
,
85
; Algerian
219
–20; bin Laden and
3
,
168
–9; Egyptian
76
–7,
78
,
150
; final letters
271
; internationalism of
75
,
105
,
171
; in Iraq
273
,
275
–6; Kurdish
223
,
225
,
298
–301; and martyrdom
74
; motivation
72
,
310
–11; recruitment
75
,
204
; for 11 September
238
,
247
–8;

Taliban and
190
–1; Western European
282
;
see also
Afghan veterans; training camps

al-Wadai’l, Sheikh Moqbul
185
,
195

al-Wahhab, Mohammed ibn Abd
42
–3

Wahhabism
40
,
42
–3,
52
,
60
,
83
; bin laden on
57
; in Iraqi Kurdistan
224
; ulema
44
; in Yemen
141
;
see also
Salafism

‘War on Terror’
xxv
,
22
,
254
,
259
–61,
261
–2,
269
,
295
,
312
–13

weapons
208
,
297
; arms dealing
147
,
196
–7; availability in Iraq
277
; Improvized Explosive Devices (IED)
279
; planes as
236
,
244

West: exposure of Islamic world to
303
; Islamic view of
53
–4,
310
–11

women: Afghan
116
–18,
131
–2,
132
–3; Deobandi doctrine on
94
–5; Islamic attitudes to
132
,
133
–4; Qutb on
53
; Taliban attitude to
131
,
132
–3,
134
–5,
193
–4

Woodward, Bob
259

World Islamic Front
175
–6

World Trade Center: 1993 bombing
4
,
101
–2,
108
;
see also
11 September attacks

Yasin, Shaikh Ahmed
84
,
296

Yemen
141
,
147
,
213
–14; attacks in
141
–2,
199
,
213
,
214
,
266
; bin Laden and
140
–1,
144
,
147
,
214

Yousef, Ramzi Ahmed
24
,
101
–2,
102
–3,
107
–9,
110
–12,
113
–14,
236
; motivation
24
,
309

Yugoslavia, war in
88
–9

al-Zammar, Mohammed Hayder
252

Zargoun, Haji
70

al-Zarqawi, Abu Musab
18
,
294
,
304
; background
273
; and bin Laden
274
; career and activities
274
–5; on ‘foreign fighters’
276
; links with al-Qaeda
274
,
275
; death
274

al-Zawahiri, Ayman
19
,
115
,
154
,
217
,
289
; background
150
–51,
152
–3; and bin Laden
150
,
167
,
176
,
248
; ideology and views
23
–4,
35
,
36
–7; and internationalism
165
; in Peshawar
72
,
77
; in Sudan
143
,
153
–4

Zhawar Khili training base
77
–8,
79
,
104
,
168

Zia ul-Haq, General
68
,
80
,
91
–2,
98
; policy on Afghanistan
59
,
80
,
97

Zubaydah, Abu
296

zulm
(tyranny)
31

Table of Contents

Cover

About the Author

Title Page

Copyright Page

Contents

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgements

Maps

Introduction

Al-Qaeda

1 What is al-Qaeda?

2 11 September, Terror and Islam

3 Radicals

4 Mujahideen

5 Heroes

6 Militants

7 Terror

8 Seekers

9 Home

10 Flight

11 Struggle

12 Global Jihad

13 The Millennium Plot

14 The Holy War Foundation

15 11 September

16 The War on Terror

17 Iraq and London

Illustrations

Conclusion

Notes

Glossary

Militants and Radical Ideologues

Select Bibliography

Index