Gallery of Terrorists

AKA: Qatil

Role: Al-Shabaab Supporter

Status: At Large

Brief:

Liban Haji Mohamed is also known as Abu Ayrow, Shirwa, Shirwac, Qatiluhum, and Qatil. He was born on January 4, 1986. He is a naturalized American citizen. He immigrated to the USA from Somalia. He supposedly had ties with Zachary Chesser who has been convicted for aiding terrorists. He worked many years as a taxi driver in Northern Virginia. The FBI is offering $50,000 for information leading to his arrest ...

AKA: Abu Yusif

Role: Al Qaeda Operative

Status: At Large

Brief:

Videos discovered in Afghanistan record Faker Boussora's intentions for suicide martyrdom. He was born in Tunisia on March 22, 1964. In 1988 he immigrated to France, and in 1991 went on to Canada. In 1999 he became a Canadian citizen, after which he departed for terrorist training in Afghanistan. He has disfigured protruding ears and may have a health threatening pituitary gland illness. He was last seen in Turkey in ...

Role: Taliban Leader

Status: At Large

Brief:

Mohammad Fazl is one of five detainees released from Guantanamo Bay on June 1, 2014 in exchange for US Army Soldier Bowe Bergdahl who was being held by the Taliban-aligned Haqqani network. He was the deputy defense minister of the Taliban-ruled Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan before the US invasion after 9-11. Intelligence analysts think that he was born around 1967 in Afghanistan and that he was responsible for killing ...

Role: al-Shabaab operative

Status: At Large

Brief:

Hassan Afgooye oversees a complex financial network whose activities range from fake charities and fundraising to racketeering, and kidnapping in support of all al-Shabaab's activities. He is considered one of the key leaders in al-Shabaab and critical to its continuing operations. The US Rewards for Justice program is offering $5 million for information that brings him to justice.

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AKA: Ustad Abu

Role: Indonesian Cleric

Status: Sponsor

Brief:

Abu Baker Bashir is also known as Ustad Abu and as Abdus Somand. To an Al Jazeera reporter he announced that the Bali night club bombers were not terrorists. He said that their intentions were to defend Islam. (see the clip on YouTube). He was born in 1938. He directed the Indonesian Mujahedeen Council and ran a boarding school in Central Java. His school trained pupils for promoting ...

AKA: Miski

Role: Jihadist in Al-Shabab

Status: At Large

Brief:

Mohamed Abdullahi Hassan turned himself in to Somali authorities in 2015. He became wanted by the FBI at 22 years old on August 4, 2010, for conspiring to support a terrorist organization in Somalia and conspiring to kill persons abroad. He was also similarly charged in August 2009. He reportedly departed for Somalia in 2008 before graduating from Roosevlet High School in Minneapolis. He was communicating with friends in the ...

AKA: Makawi

Role: assassin

Status: at large

Brief:

Mohamed Makawi Ibrahim Mohamed was a leader and shooter in the murder of two USAID employees on New Year's Day 2008. In the Sudanese legal system he was tried and convicted along with four accomplices. He was sentenced to hanging. He escaped from prison in June 1010, and fled to Somalia. The US Department of Justice is offering $5 million for information leading to his capture.

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Role: Bomb Maker

Status: Captured

Brief:

Abu Agila Mohammad Masud is charged with making the bomb that took down Pan Am flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scottland in 1988. The crash killed 270 people. The flight was bound from London to New York. Masud was arrested for other crimes after the collapse of the Muammar Gaddafi Libyan government. Information about his role in the bombing came out in interviews by Libyan authorities. The US Department of ...

AKA: Muhammad Yusuf

Role: Lone Wolf

Status: Captured

Brief:

Jose Pimentel (aka Muhammad Yusuf) was arrested in New York City on November 20, 2011 for planning to bomb post offices and police stations throughout Manhattan. in March 2014, he was sentenced to 16 years in prison. Police stormed the Harlem apartment in which he was working as he was building a bomb. He was born on November 8, 1984. He is a naturalized U.S. citizen. He came to the ...

AKA: Kamel Mustafa

Role: terrorism instigator

Status: captured

Brief:

Abu Hamza al-Masri is also known as Mustafa Kamel Mustafa. He was jailed in Britain in 2004 for instigating acts of terrorism. He was extradited to the USA on October 5, 2012. He faced charges of supporting al-Qaeda, aiding kidnappings and plotting to open terrorist training camps in the USA. A federal jury in Manhattan found him guilty of eleven terrorism charges in 2014. He got sentenced to life in ...

Role: senior Haqqani Network member

Status: At Large

Brief:

Aziz Haqqani was born around 1988. He is a senior member of the Haqqani Network and brother to Haqqani Network leader Sirajuddin Haqqani. He is intimately involved in logistical operations and command decisions in support of coordinating cross border attacks against International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) and Government of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan forces in Afghanistan. Furthermore, he serves as the primary conduit (for the Haqqanis) for operations in ...

Role: President of Syria

Status: Sponsor

Brief:

Bashar al-Assad was studying to be an ophthalmologist and trying to avoid politics until his older brother was killed in a car crash in 1994. He succeeded his father as Syria’s president in 2000. Though members of the minority Alawite Shiite Muslim sect, the al-Assad family has considerable wealth and influence. Alawites ascribe deity to Ali. Many Muslims consider them heretical. The US, European Union, France, and Israel contend that, ...

Role: Jihadist in Al-Shabab

Status: At Large

Brief:

Ahmed Ali Omar is hiding in Somalia's capital from Al Shabaab assasins for defecting from that group. He became wanted by the FBI at 27 years old on August 4, 2010, for conspiring to support that terrorist organization in Somalia and conspiring to kill persons abroad. He was also similarly charged in August 2009. That indictment alleged the he persuaded four others to go with him to train with a ...

Role: West Bank Leader for Hamas

Status: Sponsor

Brief:

Sheikh Hassan Yousef of Ramallah is the West Bank leader for Hamas. He has been in and out of jail on "Administrative Detention." He was arrested again on October 19, 2003, following the 7 October attack on Israel from Gaza. He praises suicide bombers and encourages violence, but he does not become personally involved. His oldest son, Musab Yousef, has become a Christian.

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AKA: Muqtada al-Sadr

Role: Iraqi Shia Leader

Status: Sponsor

Brief:

Sayyid Muqtada al-Sadr was born in Baghdad in 1973 of Lebanese descent. He takes the title "Sayyid" as a descendent of Muhammad. His great-grandfather and father were respected religious leaders. His father was supposedly murdered by Sadaam Hussein. He controls the intimidating and occasionally violent Mahdi Army, and he directs a network of charitable organizations that was founded by his father in the Baghdad suburb called "Sadr City." These connections ...

Role: Fort Hood Shooter

Status: Captured

Brief:

Nidal Malik Hasan shouted "Allahu Akbar" and then shot over three-dozen soldiers in a Soldier Readiness Processing (SRP) center at Fort Hood on November 5, 2009. Over a dozen died. He is an Army Psychiatrist. He was born in America in 1970 to immigrants from Palestine. He attended high school in Virginia. He enlisted in the Army in the 80s. He graduated from Virginia Tech in 1995. He earned his ...

AKA: The Underwear Bomber

Role: Al Qaeda Operative

Status: Captured

Brief:

On Christmas day, 2009, Umar Farouk Abdul Mutallab apparently attempted to detonate himself aboard a Northwest Airlines flight on approach to Detroit. He reportedly bypassed security with a powder and a liquid that he mixed on the plane and then ignited to cause a loud pop, smoke, and flame. He claimed to be acting upon instructions from Al Qaeda. He was subdued by passengers and taken into custody in Detroit. ...

Role: Boston Marathon bomber

Status: Captured

Brief:

Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was caught after a gun battle in a Boston suburb on the evening of April 19, 2013. He is strongly suspected to be one of the two Boston Marathon bombers. His older brother and fellow suspect, Tamerlan, was killed in the manhunt that followed. His brother's namesake, Tamerlane, was one of the most brutal Muslim empire builders in history. Dzohkhar (pronounced Joe-HARR) ...

Role: al-Qaeda Leader

Status: At Large

Brief:

Malik Abou Abdelkarim is a citizen of Mali. He was born in 1972. He also goes by the names of Abu Abd al Karim al Tariqi and Abou Hamid Abdel Karim. He is a senior leader of a company of fighters within the terrorist group, al-Qaida in the Lands of the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM). Under his command, his company has acquired weapons and conducted kidnappings and small-scale terrorist attacks in ...

Role: Accused of Plotting Terrorism

Status: Captured

Brief:

On July 27, 2009, Ziyad Yagi was arrested and charged with conspiring to provide material support to terrorists and conspiring to murder, kidnap, maim, and injure persons abroad. On January 13, 2012, he was sentenced to 32 years in prison. He is a U.S. citizen. He was 21 years old at the time of his arrest. He is one of seven men simultaneously arrested near Raleigh, North Carolina on these ...

Role: A Terror Group Senior Leader

Status: At Large

Brief:

Abu ‘Abd al-Karim al-Masri is an Egyptian veteran member of al-Qa’ida and a senior leader of an al-Qa'ida affiliated group called Hurras al-Din that is operating predominantly in a northwest province of Syria called Idlib. In September 2019 the US State Department designated Hurras al-Din to be a terrorist group, and the US Department of Justice began offering a $5 million reward for information that would lead Abu ‘Abd ...

AKA: Abo Ghaith

Role: Al-Qaeda Official Spokesman

Status: Captured

Brief:

Sulaiman Abu Ghaith was born in Kuwait around 1966. After 9-11, he become an Al-Qaeda spokesman for which he has been stripped of Kuwaiti citizenship. He has appeared in several videos praising terrorists attacks on Americans and threatening further terrorism. He is one of the founders of the charity called al-Wafa al-Igatha al-Islamia that was a front for fund-raising for Al-Qaeda. In July 2003, he was supposedly offered by Iran ...

Role: Iranian Qods Operative

Status: At Large

Brief:

Gholam Shakuri is wanted for his part in orchestrating an attempt to have Saudi and Israeli embassies in Washington, D.C. bombed and to have the Saudi Ambassador assassinated. He is thought to be an operative in a branch of Iran's Revolutionary Guard called the Qods Force.

See also:

• Arrested co-conspirator Manssor Arbabsiar
• Iranian precendent setter Ahmad Vahidi

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AKA: Samir

Role: Suspected Al Qaeda Operative

Status: At Large

Brief:

Little is known about Samir Abduh Sa'id al-Maktawi. He was born in 1968 in Saudi Arabia and is identified as a Yemeni citizen. He became associated with the now deceased Yemeni Al Qaeda terror cell leader who orchestrated an attack on a French tanker in 2002. For some time the FBI was seeking him for questioning.

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AKA: Ahmed

Role: 9-11 Facilitator

Status: Captured

Brief:

Mustafa al-Hawsawi, has been held at Guantanamo Bay for connections with several of the 9-11 hijackers and other known terrorists. He is being sent to New York for trial. Most of the money transferred to the hijackers from the U.A.E. came from his and Ali Abd al-Aziz Ali's accounts. Prior to 9-11, he worked in Al Qaeda's media committee in Kandahar, Pakistan. He worked with the ringleader, Mohammed Atta, ...

AKA: Abdulrahman Makki

Role: Jamaat-ud-Dawa 2nd in Command

Status: at Large

Brief:

Hafiz Abdul Rahman Makki is second in command of a radical Islamist organization called Jamaat-ud-Dawa. It operates in Pakistan and India. It wants Islamist rule throughout the world. It's military branch, Lashkar-e-Tayyiba is suspected of masterminding terror attacks in Mumbai in 2008. He was born around 1948 in Pakistan.  The U.S.A. is offering $2 million for information helping to locate Hafiz Saeed.

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Role: Al-Shabaab Cell Leader

Status: At Large

Brief:

Maalim Ayman is also known as Nuh Ibrahim Abdi, Abdiaziz Dubow Ali, and Ayman Kabo. He was born in Somalia in 1973. He planned the January 5, 2020, attack on Kenyan and U.S. personnel at Manda Bay Airfield, Kenya. That attack killed two U.S. contractor pilots and a U.S. Army specialist who was acting as an air traffic controller. A third U.S. contractor and two other U.S. service members ...

AKA: Dandou Cheffou

Role: ISIS-GS fighter

Status: At Large

Brief:

Ibrahim Ousmane is also known as Dandou Cheffou. He is a key leader in ISIS of the Greater Sahara (ISIS-GS). The US Department of Justice is offering $5 million for information leading to his capture. He is wanted for his participation in the 2017 ambush in Niger that killed four American and eight Nigerian soldiers. He operates in Burkina Faso, Mali, and Niger.

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Role: Hezbollah Operative

Status: At Large

Brief:

Mohammed Ali Hamadei is a member of Lebanese Hezbollah. He is also known as Mohammed Ali Hammadi. He was born in Lebanon on June 13, 1964. He speaks both German and Arabic. In 1985, he participated in hijacking TWA flight 847 to Beirut and Algiers, during which a Navy diver was murdered. In 1987, he was arrested trying to smuggle liquid explosives into Frankfurt, Germany. In 2005, he was paroled, ...

AKA: Times Square Car Bomber

Role: Al Qaeda Operative

Status: Captured

Brief:

The car bomb he parked in New York City Times Square in May 2010 failed to explode. He was pulled from a Dubai bound airplane 53 hours later at Kennedy Airport. Faisal was born in Pakistan. He became an American citizen in 2009 after which he traveled to Pakistan for terrorist training in a Taliban controlled area. The Pakistan government has made several arrests connected to this case. He has ...

AKA: Dauod

Role: Homegrown Accomplice

Status: Captured

Brief:

David Williams, also known as Dauod, allegedly participated in a plot to bomb two synagogues in the Bronx and shoot down planes flying from a New York Air National Guard base. The alleged ring-leader was James Cromitie. Two other accomplices were Onta Williams, and Laguerre Payen. They became known as the "Newburgh Four." The FBI arrested them after they planted car bombs outside their targets. They also ...

AKA: Umar Sheikh

Role: Daniel Pearl Murderer

Status: Captured

Brief:

Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh was born December 23, 1973 in England to Pakistani parents. He is a former student of the London School of Economics. He has been caught and sentenced to death in Pakistan for the 2002 kidnapping and murder of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl. The process of appeal and carrying out the sentence appears complicated by links to the Pakistani Inter-Services Intelligence. Earlier he had served ...

AKA: Abderraouf Jdey

Role: 9-11 Plotter and Al Qaeda Operative

Status: At Large

Brief:

Abd al-Rauf Bin al-Habib Bin Yousef al-Jiddi (a.k.a. Abderraouf Jdey) is a member of Al-Qaeda and a Canadian citizen. He was born in Tunisia on May 30, 1965. He left a suicide note at his home and a suicide video at a safe house in Afghanistan, hinting he was to have been either a 9-11 hijacker or part of a second wave. He left Tunisia in 1991, and immigrated to Canada ...

AKA: Omar

Role: ISIS Supporter

Status: Captured

Brief:

Omar Faraj Saeed Al Hardan was charged in January 2016 with attempting to provide material support to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL). In December 2017, he was sentenced to prison for 16 years. He had entered the United States as an Iraqi refugee of Palestinian background in 2009. He received legal permanent residence status in 2011. He had been residing in Houston. He had been working ...

AKA: Omar

Role: Accused of Plotting Terrorism

Status: Captured

Brief:

Carlos Eduardo Almonte was arrested at the age of 24 in June 2010 as he and his friend Mohamed Mahmood Alessa attempted to board a plane from New York to Somalia. In April 2013, he was sentenced to prison for 20 years. Carlos and Mohamed had referred to themselves as "Arabian knights." According to the FBI, they were intending to join a terror group in Somalia to kill, maim, ...

Role: Al-Qaeda Master Planner

Status: At Large

Brief:

Abu Hafiza is one of Al-Qaeda's master planners. He appears to have orchestrated the 2004 terror attacks in Spain. His self-proclaimed intention was to impact Spain psychologically, influence Spain's elections, and to embarass state heads of Britain, Italy, and the USA.  In 2003 he traveled through Pakistan and Saudi Arabia recruiting combatants to fight Americans in Fallujah, Iraq. He is originally from Morocco where he served as a military psychiatrist.

Role: ISIS-GS Fighter

Status: At Large

Brief:

Issa Barrey is a key leader in ISIS of the Greater Sahara (ISIS-GS). The US Department of Justice is offering $5 million for information leading to his capture. He is wanted for his participation in the 2017 ambush in Niger that killed four American and eight Nigerian soldiers. He operates in Burkina Faso, Mali, and Niger.

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Role: Jihadist in Al-Shabab

Status: At Large

Brief:

Jehad Serwan Mostafa defended Islam to his friends as a "religion of peace and love." Today, he is wanted by the FBI for fighting with an Al-Qaeda connected terrorist organization in Somalia. He grew up in San Diego. He was studying economics at the University of California at San Diego in 2001. He worked as an automobile mechanic. The U.S. Department of Justice is offering $5 million for information that ...

Role: Taliban Leader

Status: At Large

Brief:

Abdul Haq Wasiq is is the current Director of Intelligence of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan. He is one of five detainees released from Guantanamo Bay on June 1, 2014 in exchange for US Army Soldier Bowe Bergdahl who was being held by the Taliban-aligned Haqqani network. He was deputy chief of the intelligence service for Taliban-ruled Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan. He had direct access to Taliban and Hezb-e-Islarni ...

Role: al-Qaeda Leader

Status: At Large

Brief:

Shawki Ali Ahmed Al-Badani is a leader and operative for al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP). He reportedly assigned an AQAP member to target the Sana, Yemen U.S. Embassy in 2012. He also has been described as being connected to a suicide bomber who killed over 100 Yemeni soldiers in a May 2012 attack. Furthermore, he played a key role in a plan for a major attack in summer 2013 ...

Role: Al-Qaeda Leader

Status: At Large

Brief:

Ibrahim al-Banna is also called Abu Ayman al-Masri. He is a citizen of Egypt and a leader in al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP). He was a founding member. He and has served as chief of security and has provided military and security guidance. He was born in Egypt in 1965. The US Department of State is offering a $5 million reward for information that helps to capture him.

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Role: Senior Abu Sayyaf Leader in the Philippines

Status: At Large

Brief:

Radullan Sahiron the most wanted man in the Philippines. The US Department of Justice is offering a $1 million reward for information that will help to capture him. He is at least 70 years old and the most senior leader of the Abu Sayyaf Group. He played a role in the tourist kidnapping that included Martin and Gracia Burnham. Authorities believe he is hiding in southern Mindanao from where he ...

AKA: Mohammad

Role: NY Subway Bombing Plotter

Status: Captured

Brief:

Adis Medunjanin (aka Mohammad) allegedly conspired with Najibullah Zazi and Zarein Ahmedzay to bomb subways in New York in September 2009. In November 2012 he was sentenced to life in prison. The three were high school classmates in Queens, NY. In 2008 they trained at terror camps in Pakistan together. Adis came to America from Bosnia in 2004. He became an American citizen in 2002. He played football ...

Role: Japanese Red Army operative

Status: At Large

Brief:

Junzo Okudaira was born on February 2, 1949. He was a member of the Japanese Red Army terrorist group when he allegedly exploded a car bomb outside the USO Club in Naples, Italy, on April 14, 1988. That blast killed five and injured fifteen. He is also allegedly connected to a 1987 car bombing and mortar attack on the US Embassy in Rome. The US Department of Justice is ...

Role: Lackawanna Six Terror Cell Operative

Status: At Large

Brief:

Jaber Elbaneh was born on September 9, 1966, in Yemen. He has worked as a salesman and taxi driver. In 2002, he was connected to a broken up terror cell in Buffalo, New York, called the Lackawanna Six that was plotting a 9-11 anniversary terrorist attack. Also in 2002, he was caught in Yemen and jailed for attacks on oil facilities there. He escaped detention 2006. In 2007, he surrendered ...

Role: homegrown terrorist

Status: captured

Brief:

The FBI arrested Sami Osmakac on January 7, 2012 and charged him with plotting to attack crowded locations around Tampa, Florida with a car bomb, assault rifle, and other explosives. In November 2014, he received a 40 year prison sentence. He was 25 years old when arrested. He said in an 8-minute video recorded shortly before his arrest that Muslim blood was more valuable than non-Muslim blood and that he ...

Role: Terror Accomplice

Status: At Large

Brief:

At 26 years old, Hayat Boumeddiene became the most wanted woman in France for assisting her husband in an Al-Qaeda inspired terror rampage through Paris that killed workers at the satirical Charlie Hebdo weekly newspaper and shoppers at a Kosher grocery store. She was once a bikini-wearing modern woman and a cashier. She has an Algerian background. She became radicalized, altered her first name to sound more Islamic, and was ...

Role: Al Qaeda Sympathizer

Status: Captured

Brief:

Muhammad Reza Taheri-azar was born May 5, 1983 in Tehran. He has been sentenced to over 33 years in prison for using a rented Jeep Grand Cherokee as a deadly weapon on a crowded courtyard at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He turned himself in saying, he did it to “follow in the footsteps of one of my role models, Mohammad Atta.” A reclusive and antisocial lover ...

Role: Cell Member WTC 1993 Bombing

Status: Captured

Brief:

Nidal Ayyad was born in 1968 to Palestinian parents in Kuwait. He is at the ADX Florence, CO, supermax prison today. He ordered the compressed hydrogen tanks and mixed and assembled bomb components used in the 1993 attack on the World Trade Center. He began studies in chemical and biochemical engineering at Rutgers University in New Jersey in 1985. He graduated and became a US citizen in 1991. In 1993, ...

AKA: Omar al-Bashir

Role: Former President of Sudan

Status: Sponsor

Brief:

Omar al-Bashir was born in 1944 in a small town north of Kartoum. He is was the President of Sudan until deposed by the military in April 2019. His was a likely terrorism (and genocide) sponsoring government. Omar received military education in Cairo, fought with Egypt against Israel in the 1973 war, and became a general in 1980. In 1989 he led a coup, deposing the elected prime minister, to ...

AKA: al-Golani

Role: Terror Group Leader

Status: At Large

Brief:

Abu Muhammad al-Julani leads the branch of Al-Qaida in Syria called the al-Nusrah Front (ANF). He also goes by al-Golani, Abu Ashraf, Ahmed Hussein al-Shar'a, and al-Sheikh al-Fateh. The U.S. Department of Justice is offering $10 million for information leading to his capture. He was born in Syria sometime in the late 1970s. He fought American troops in Iraq beginning in 2003. He was detained for some time at ...

Role: Explosives Expert

Status: At Large

Brief:

Abdul Saboor is an explosives expert associated with Hezb-e Islami Gulbuddin (HIG) in Afghanistan. He is responsible for the May 16, 2013 suicide vehicle-borne improvised explosive device (SVBIED) attack in Kabul which destroyed a U.S. armored SUV, killing two soldiers and four U.S. civilian contractors, eight Afghans - including two children - and wounded at least 37 others. He and HIG explosives expert Abdullah Nowbahar were key participants in ...

Role: Homegrown Conspirator

Status: Captured

Brief:

Tarek Mehana was arrested and charged on October 21, 2009, for providing and conspiring to provide material support to terrorists and for conspiring to kill in a foreign country. In April 2012, he was sentenced to prison for 17 years. He was a pharmacist who was living with his parents in a Boston suburb. He allegedly conspired together with Ahmad Abousamra and an unnamed informant to train in ...

AKA: Shannon

Role: Home Grown Terrorist

Status: Released

Brief:

The FBI arrested 19-year-old Shannon Conley in April 2014 as she attempted to board a plane in Denver. She was allegedly on her way to marry a Tunisian militant and assist in the battle to establish an Islamic state in Syria and Iraq. Agents found CDs and DVDs labeled "Anwar al-Awlaki" in her luggage. Earlier she had told FBI agents about joining the U.S. Army Explorers ...

AKA: Mohammed Usman

Role: Boko Haram Branch Leader

Status: at Large

Brief:

Khalid al-Barnawi escaped from a Nigerian prison when it was attacked on the evening of July 5, 2022. He had been captured by Nigerian military forces in 2016. He is also known as Mohammed Usman. He was born in Nigeria in 1976. He was reported to be a leader of a Nigeria-based terrorist part of Boko Haram commonly called Ansaru. He sought to establish an Islamic caliphate in Nigeria. He ...

AKA: Kallad

Role: 9-11 Facilitator

Status: Captured

Brief:

Walid bin 'Attash, has been held at Guantanamo Bay for connections with several of the 9-11 hijackers and other known terrorists. He is being sent to New York for trial. He has been identified as the mastermind behind the terrorist attack on the USS Cole when it was at harbor in Yemen, in 2000. Prosecutors also allege that he helped with the 1988 attacks on US embassies in East Africa, ...

Role: Founder of Jamaat-ud-Dawa

Status: Captured

Brief:

Hafiz Mohammad Saeed is the founding member of a radical Islamist organization called Jamaat-ud-Dawa. It operates in Pakistan and India. It wants Islamist rule throughout the world. It's military branch, Lashkar-e-Tayyiba is suspected of masterminding terror attacks in Mumbai in 2008. Hafiz Saeed was born around 1950 in Pakistan. The U.S.A. had been offering $10 million for information helping to locate him. Pakistan authorities arrested him in July 2019.

AKA: Abu Zubaydah

Role: Osama's Deputy for Operations

Status: Captured

Brief:

Zayn al-Abidin Muhammad Husayn (a.k.a. Abu Zubaydah) was born March 12, 1971 in Saudi Arabia. He was captured after cell phone traces and a gun battle in Faisalabad, Pakistan. He now resides at Guantanamo Bay, as perhaps the highest-ranking Al Qaeda leader in US custody. He affiliated with Al Qaeda at its beginning and became bin Laden’s second deputy in 1995. He was responsible for planning attacks and screening recruits. ...

AKA: Cemal

Role: Head of the HPG in the PKK

Status: At Large

Brief:

Murat Karayilan is also known as Cemal. He was born on June 5, 1954 in Sanliurfa, Turkey. He is is indicted by the Government of Turkey for inciting violence. He is head of the People’s Defense Forces (HPG) and a senior leader of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK). The PKK has targeted Turkish government officials, police and security forces and indiscriminately injured and killed civilians. It obtain weapons through ...

AKA: Abu Faraj al-Libbi

Role: Al Qaeda Operations Planner

Status: Captured

Brief:

Abu Faraj al-Libbi is a Libyan senior Al Qaeda operative of unknown age. He was arrested by Pakistani police after cell phone intercepts and turned over to the USA for interrogation and detention at Guantanamo Bay. The plan to blow up transatlantic flights in 2006 with liquid explosives, resulting in heightened airport screening of gels and liquids, was allegedly his.

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Role: ISIS-DRC Leader

Status: At Large

Brief:

Seka Musa Baluku is also known as Mzee Kajaju, Lumu, Lumonde, and Makuba. He was born in 1975 or 1976 in Uganda. He leads ISIS in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (ISIS-DRC). Under his leadership, ISIS-DRC targets, kills, maims, rapes, and commits other sexual violence and engages in abduction of civilians, including children. The group also recruits and uses children during attacks and for forced labor. ISIS-DRC is ...

AKA: Abdullah al-Muhajir

Role: Al Qaeda Operative

Status: Captured

Brief:

Jose Padilla was born on October 18, 1970 in Brooklyn, New York. He is also known as Muhajir Abdullah. He was sentenced in January 2008 to over 17 years in prison for conspiracy to kill people and fund overseas terrorism. In September 2011 the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the sentence imposed by a Miami federal judge was too lenient and sent the case back for a ...

Role: Al-Shabaab Commander

Status: At Large

Brief:

Mohamoud Abdi Aden is also known as Mahamoud Abdirahman. He was born in Kenya in 1985. He helped plan the terror attack on the DusitD2 Hotel complex in Nairobi, Kenya, on January 15, 2019. Gunmen armed with explosives, automatic weapons, and grenades attacked that 6-building complex of shops, offices, and a hotel. At least 21 people, including one U.S. citizen, were killed in the assault. The U.S. Department of ...

Role: Jihadist in Al-Shabab

Status: At Large

Brief:

Abdikadir Ali Abdi is hiding in Somalia's capital from Al Shabaab assasins for defecting from that group. He became wanted by the FBI at 19 years-old on August 4, 2010, for conspiring to support a terrorist organization in Somalia and conspiring to kill persons abroad. He is a US citizen. He grew up in the Somali immigrant community in a suburb of Minneapolis, MN.

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AKA: Hassan

Role: Hezbollah Operative

Status: At Large

Brief:

Hassan was born in Lebanon in 1963. He is an operative with Hezbollah in Lebanon. On June 14, 1985, he was part of a group that hijacked TWA flight 847 from Athens to Rome. During the 17 day ordeal in which Navy diver Robert Dean Stethem was killed, flight 847 made two trips to Algiers. The U.S. Department of Justice is offering $5 million for information that brings him to ...

AKA: Abdullah Khowar

Role: al-Qaeda Facilitator

Status: Sponsor

Brief:

Abdallah Khawar has worked with Salim al-Kuwari to deliver money, messages and other material support to al-Qaeda elements in Iran. He is based in Qatar. He has helped facilitate travel for extremists interested in traveling to Afghanistan for jihad. His birthday is August 17, 1981.

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AKA: Ammar al-Baluchi

Role: 9-11 Facilitator

Status: Captured

Brief:

Ali Abd al-Aziz Ali, also known as Ammar al-Baluchi, has been held at Guantanamo Bay for connections with several of the 9-11 hijackers and other known terrorists. He is being sent to New York for trial. Most of the money transferred to the hijackers from the U.A.E. came from his and Mustafa al-Hawsawi's accounts. When captured in Pakistan in 2003, he was carrying correspondence for Osama bin Laden> from ...

AKA: Abumumin Turkistony

Role: Accused Terrorism Supporter

Status: Deported

Brief:

The FBI arrested Jamshid Muhtorov on Janurary 21, 2012 at Chicago's O'Hare airport. At his first court appearance on February 2, he proclaimed his innocence through an interpreter. He was allegedly on his way from Denver to Asia in order to fight on behalf of the Islamic Jihad Union (IJU). The State Department has designated the IJU as a terrorist organization. It is based in Pakistan. It conducts suicide attacks ...

AKA: Shahab al-Muhajir

Role: ISIS-K Leader

Status: At Large

Brief:

Sanaullah Ghafari is also known as Shahab al-Muhajir and Sanaullah al-Sadiq. The US Department of Justice is offering $10 million for information leading to his capture. He is a citizen of Iraq, but he is leading ISIS in the Khorasan province of Afghanistan. He was a mid-level commander in the Haqqani Taliban network and a member of Al-Qaeda before defecting to lead his ISIS group. He is alleged to have ...

Role: alleged Jihadist

Status: Captured

Brief:

Private First Class Naser Jason Abdo was arrested in July 2011 at a hotel three miles from Fort Hood's main gate. He was defiant and unrepentant at his sentencing on August 10, 2012. He will spend the rest of his life in a Federal prison. He was AWOL from Fort Campbell, KY at the time of his arrest. In his room, police found a handgun and ingredients for making explosives. ...

Role: Jihadist in Al-Shabab

Status: At Large

Brief:

Abdiweli Yassin Isse became wanted by the FBI at 26 years old on August 4, 2010, for conspiring to support a terrorist organization in Somalia and conspiring to kill persons abroad. He was also charged in 2009 for conspiring to kill, kidnap, maim, and injure persons outside the USA. Court documents allege he raised money travel for himself and others to travel to Somalia to wage "jihad" against Ethiopians. He ...

AKA: Abdulrab

Role: Suspected Al Qaeda Operative

Status: At Large

Brief:

Little is known about Abdulrab Muhammad Muhammad Ali al-Sayfi. He is a Yemeni citizen. He became associated with the now deceased Yemeni Al Qaeda terror cell leader who orchestrated an attack on a French tanker in 2002. For a long time, the FBI was seeking him for questioning.

• Abdulrab Muhammad Muhammad Ali al-Sayfi on Wikipedia

Role: assassin

Status: at large

Brief:

Abdelbasit Alhaj Alhassan Haj Hamad was a shooter in the murder of two USAID employees on New Year's Day 2008. In the Sudanese legal system he was tried and convicted along with four accomplices. He was sentenced to hanging. He escaped from prison in June 1010, and fled to Somalia. The US Department of Justice is offering $5 million for information leading to his capture.

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AKA: Jihad Jamie

Role: Accused of Helping Plot Assassination

Status: Released

Brief:

Jamie Paulin-Ramirez was arrested on Good Friday in 2010 in Philadelphia on her way back from Europe. She was charged with participating in the conspiracy to kill a Swedish artist and with intending to support violent jihad throughout Europe. In March 2011, she pled guilty. She received an 8 year sentence. She comes from Leadville, Colorado. The woman known as Jihad Jane invited her into the conspiracy through the ...

Role: homegrown bomber

Status: captured

Brief:

Adel Daoud was arrested on September 14, 2012 after he allegedly attempted to detonate what he believed to be a car bomb in front of a bar in downtown Chicago. He was 18 years old. He is a U.S. citizen and resident of the Chicago suburbs. According to an affidavit in support of the complaint, beginning in about October 2011, He used e-mail accounts to obtain and distribute material, some ...

AKA: Haji Yusef

Role: Qods Force Commander

Status: At Large

Brief:

Abdul Reza Shahla’i is also known as Haji Yusef and as Abu al-Karkh. He is an Iranian Brigadier General. He commands Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps–Qods Force (IRGC-QF) in Sanaa, Yemen. He is linked to attacks on US troops in Iraq and to an assassination attempt on the Saudi Ambasador in Washington DC. The US Department of Justice is offering $15 million for information on his financial activities, networks, ...

AKA: Mr. Fadi

Role: Financier

Status: At Large

Brief:

Muhammad Ja’far Qasir is also known as Shaykh Salah, Mr. Fadi, Majid, Eynaki, and Hossein Gholi. He is a key Hizballah financier. The US Department of Justice is offering $10 million for information that will disrupt his financial dealings with Hizballah. He is known for illegal smuggling and procurement activities and other criminal enterprises. He is a conduit for financial disbursements from Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps-Qods Force (IRGC-QF) ...

AKA: El-Hoorie

Role: Saudi Hezbollah Operative

Status: At Large

Brief:

Ali Saed Bin Ali El-Hoorie belongs to pro Iranian Saudi Hezbollah. He was born in Saudi Arabia in 1965. With help from Iranian officials, El Hoorie helped plan and orchestrate the 1996 attack on the Khobar Towers US military barracks in Saudi Arabia. He was a passenger in the bomb truck driven to within 80 feet of the building, and made his getaway as a passenger in an accompanying sedan. ...

Role: DC Metro Bombing Conspirator

Status: Captured

Brief:

He was arrested at the end of October 2010 for plotting to assist in bombing Metro stations throughout Washington, D.C. He was born in Pakistan. He grew up on Staten Island in New York. He became a US citizen around 1993 at the age of 17. Some of his Muslim associates tipped off the FBI that he wanted to kill US citizens abroad. The FBI trapped him in a sting ...

AKA: Ammar Mansour Bouslim & Hassan Rostom Salim

Role: Hezbollah Operative

Status: At Large

Brief:

Ali Atwa is a Lebanese national born in Lebanon in 1960, and he is an operative with Hezbollah in Lebanon. On June 14, 1985 he was to have been one of the hijackers of TWA flight 847 from Athens to Rome, but he was bumped from the flight. After the hijacking to Beirut, he was arrested in Greece and then released as part of a deal to free hostages. During ...

AKA: Salih Dar Sulaiman

Role: Hamas Operative

Status: At Large

Brief:

Saleh al-Arouri is also known as Salih Muhammad Sulayman al-Aruri and as Salih Dar Sulaiman. He was born on August 19, 1966 in Ramallah of the West Bank. He is a Lebanese citizen. He is thought to be living in Lebanon. He is one of the founders of HAMAS' military wing. He is also deputy leader of the Hamas Political Bureau. He funds and directs Hamas military operations in ...

Role: Al Qaeda Supporter

Status: Released

Brief:

Mohammed Junaid Babar was arrested in New York in 2004 while returning from Pakistan, where he provided money and materials like night vision goggles to Al Qaeda fighters and helped set up training camps. He is cooperating with investigators by testifying against other terrorists in order to avoid the death penalty in Pakistan for attempts on Musharraf’s life in 2002. He moved to Queens, NY with his family from Pakistan ...

Role: Explosives Expert

Status: At Large

Brief:

Abu-Yusuf al-Muhajir is Egyptian. He was born on September 7, 1986. He is also called Muhammad Ibrahim ‘Abd al-Sata’ar Abu al-Asad. He is an explosives expert. He is a former member of Tawhid w’al Jihad-Egypt (TWJ-Egypt), an extremist group active in the Sinai Peninsula in 2004-06, and which reconstituted in 2011. Tawhid w’al Jihad in Egypt is a loosely affiliated group of Egyptian and foreign extremists based in the Sinai ...

Role: Suspected Al Qaeda Operative

Status: At Large

Brief:

Little is known about Alyan Muhammad Ali al-Wa'eli. He was born in 1979 in Yemen. He became associated with the now deceased Yemeni Al Qaeda terror cell leader who orchestrated an attack on a French tanker in 2002. The FBI was seeking him for questioning.

• Alyan Muhammad Ali al-Wa'eli on Wikipedia
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AKA: Abu Mustafa

Role: Hizballah Advisor

Status: At Large

Brief:

Khalil Yusif Harb is also known as Sayyid Ahmad and Abu Mustafa. He was born on October 9, 1958. He is thought to be in Syria or Yemen. He is a close adviser to Secretary General Hassan Nasrallah who leads the Lebanese Hizballah terrorist group. He has served as the group’s chief military liaison to Iranian and Palestinian terrorist organizations. He has commanded and supervised the organization’s military operations ...

Role: Accused of Plotting Terrorism

Status: Released

Brief:

On July 27, 2009, Dylan Boyd was arrested and charged with conspiring to provide material support to terrorists and conspiring to murder, kidnap, maim, and injure persons abroad. On December 20, 2011 he received an 8-year prison sentence. He was 22 years old at the time of his arrest. He is one of seven men simultaneously arrested near Raleigh, North Carolina on these charges. His father, Details

AKA: Aboud Yasin

Role: World Trade Center 1993 Bombing Operative

Status: At Large

Brief:

Abdul Rahman Yasin was born April 10, 1960, in Bloomington, Indiana, when his Iraqi father was a PhD student. He was able to return to America in 1992 as an American citizen after growing up in Baghdad. He has acid burn scars on his legs from spilled bomb making chemicals. He helped prepare the explosives used in the first World Trade Center bombing of February 26, 1993. He is affiliated ...

AKA: Haji Hamad

Role: Legacy ISIS Senior Leader

Status: At Large

Brief:

Sami Jasim Muhammad al-Jaburi is also known as Haji Hamad. In October 2021, the Prime minister of Iraq tweeted that he was arrested in a "complex external operation" by the Iraqi National Intelligence Service. He is a senior leader of Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) and a legacy member of ISIS’s predecessor organization, al-Qa’ida in Iraq (AQI). He has been instrumental in managing finances for ISIS’s terrorist ...

Role: Accused of Plotting Terrorism

Status: Captured

Brief:

On July 27, 2009, Anes Subasic was arrested and charged with conspiring to provide material support to terrorists and conspiring to murder, kidnap, maim, and injure persons abroad. He was 33 years old at the time of his arrest. At the age of 36 he was sentenced to 30 years in prison. He is Croatian from Bosnia, a naturalized U.S. citizen, and resident of North Carolina. He is one of ...

AKA: Jafar

Role: Hizballah Leader

Status: At Large

Brief:

Muhammad Kawtharani is also known as Jafar al-Kawtharani. He is a senior leader of Hizballah’s forces in Iraq. The US Department of Justice is offering $10 million for information on his activities, networks, and associates. He is filling the shoes of the late commander of Iran's clandestine military operations, Qasem Soleimani. Kawtharani was born in Iraq, liekly in the late 1950s. He studied in the Shiite holy ...

AKA: Ibrahim Al-Madani & Omar al-Sumali

Role: Al Qaeda Security Chief

Status: At Large

Brief:

Saif al-Adel uses birth years of 1960 and 1963. He belongs to Egyptian Islamic Jihad and Al Qaeda. He fought the Soviets in Afghanistan, then moved on to Al Qaeda’s military committee, providing military intelligence and training to operatives in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Sudan, and Somalia. He established a terrorist training camp in Somalia. He is skilled with explosives and was involved in the 1998 US embassy bombings in East Africa, ...

Role: Home-grown Al Qaeda Conspirator

Status: Captured

Brief:

Narseal Batiste was the ringleader in a plot to blow up the Sears Tower (now Willis Tower) and FBI offices. On June 23, 2006, he and six others were captured by the FBI at a warehouse in Miami, FL. On Friday, November 20, 2009, a judge sentenced him to prison for thirteen years and six months for conspiring to aid Al Qaeda, for plotting to blow up buildings, and for ...

AKA: Omar al-Hubishi

Role: Suspected Al Qaeda Operative

Status: At Large

Brief:

Little is known about Omar Ahmad Omar al-Hubishi. He was born in 1969 in Saudi Arabia. He became associated with the now deceased Yemeni Al Qaeda terror cell leader who orchestrated an attack on a French tanker in 2002. For a while the FBI was seeking him for questioning.

Omar Ahmad al-Hubishi on Wikipedia

Role: Saudi Hezbollah Operative

Status: At Large

Brief:

Ibrahim was born on October 16, 1966 in Saudi Arabia. He is a member of the pro Iranian Saudi Hezbollah. He helped plan and participated in the 1996 attack on the Khobar Towers US military barracks in Saudi Arabia. After the attack, he fled Saudi Arabia using a fake passport. The U.S. Department of Justice is offering $5 million for information that brings him to justice.

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AKA: Daood Sayed Gilani

Role: Homegrown Conspirator

Status: Captured

Brief:

David Coleman Headley was arrested in Chicago in October 2009 for plotting attacks against the Denmark newspaper that published the cartoons of Mohammed. In January 2013, he was sentenced to 35 years in prison for what included his part in plotting the terror attcks of 2008 in Mumbai, India that killed more than 160 people. He was born in Washington D.C. in 1960 as Daood Sayed Gilani. His father is ...

AKA: Amir Andalousi

Role: Tunnel Bombing Plotter

Status: Released

Brief:

Assem Hammoud was born July 6, 1975 in Beirut. He was arrested by Lebanese armed security forces in 2006 for plotting to blow up tunnels beneath the Hudson River with a team of backpack suicide bombers. He was reported to be out on bail in 2008. He was a professor at the Lebanese International University. He studied finance and economics in Canada for six years in the late 1990s. Speaking ...

AKA: Amer El-Maati

Role: Suspected Al Qaeda Operative

Status: At Large

Brief:

Amer El-Maati is a Canadian citizen who was born in Kuwait on May 25, 1963. He is a suspected member of Al Qaeda. His father, who resides in Toronto, claims the accusations are laughable and that his son is being vilified in order to keep fear and suspicion of Canadian Arabs high. Interrogations of captives indicate he was one of seven operatives planning terror attacks in the USA in the ...

AKA: Ali al-Jassem Fahd

Role: Hijacker

Status: At Large

Brief:

Jamal Saeed Abdul Rahim is also known as Ali al-Jassem Fahd. He was born on September 5, 1965 in Lebanon. He is Palestinian by nationality. He is wanted in connection with the hijacking of Pan Am flight 73 on the ground in Karachi, Pakistan on the September 5, 1986. The US State Department is offering $5 million for information that brings him to justice. He was reported to have been ...

Role: Afghan War Lord

Status: At Large

Brief:

Gulbuddin Hekmatyar has been a powerful and violent Afghan warlord. The Afghan government pardoned him in 2016 as part of a peace deal with the Hezb-i-Islami Taliban faction. He operated from Afghanistan's northeast mountains and Pakistan's tribal areas. He was one of the three main Taliban leaders of the Al-Qaeda allied insurgency (Mullah Omar and Sirajuddin Haqqani). He was born in 1947 in the Kunduz Province of Afghanistan. He ...

AKA: Sulaiman

Role: Abu Nidal operative and hijacker

Status: At Large

Brief:

Wadoud Muhammad Hafiz al-Turki is wanted for his role in the hijacking of Pan Am flight 73 on the ground Karachi, Pakistan, on September 5, 1986. During the incident he and the other hijackers began firing indiscriminately. They killed 20 people and seriously wounded 100 others.  He is believed to be a member of the Abu Nidal terrorist network. He is a Palestinian born in Baghdad in 1955. Authorities believe ...

Role: Accused of Plotting Terrorism

Status: Captured

Brief:

On July 27, 2009, Hysen Sherifi was arrested and charged with conspiring to provide material support to terrorists and conspiring to murder, kidnap, maim, and injure persons abroad. In May 2013, he was sentenced to life in prison. He was 24 years old at the time of his arrest. He is a native of Kosovo and a legal permanent U.S. resident. He is one of seven men simultaneously arrested near ...

Role: Dictator

Status: Sponsor

Brief:

Kim Jong-un became the dictator of North Korea after the death of his father, Kim Jong-il, in December 2011. He follows both his father and grand-father, Kim Il-sung, in that role. He is a threat to global stability and world peace. He has threatened to "wipe out" a scene of previous naval clashes, Baengnyeong Island. Under his leadership, North Korea has threatened the United States with a "pre-emptive nuclear attack" ...

Role: 9-11 Mastermind

Status: Captured

Brief:

Khalid Sheikh Mohammed was born in 1964 or 1965 in Pakistan, but he was raised in Kuwait. He has been detained at Guatanamo Bay, Cuba. He is being sent to New York for trial. He began heading Al Qaeda’s propaganda operations from Kuwait around 1999. He became the principal architect of the 9-11 attacks on America, for which he obtained approval, raised money, and supervised training. He also played a ...

Role: Senior Political Leader of HAMAS

Status: Sponsor

Brief:

Ismail Haniyeh was born in 1963 in a refugee camp near Gaza City. He was educated in Arabic literature at the Gaza Islamic University. He's been a senior leader for the HAMAS Palestinian movement since the late 1990s. From 2006 to 2017, he led HAMAS in the Gaza Strip. He became chairman of its Political Bureau in 2017 and moved to Qatar. HAMAS stands for *Harakat Al-Muqawarma Al-Islamia* which means ...

AKA: Khalil

Role: Abu Nidal operative and hijacker

Status: At Large

Brief:

Muhammad Abdullah Khalil Hussain ar-Rahayyal is wanted for his role in the hijacking of Pan Am flight 73 on the ground Karachi, Pakistan, on September 5, 1986. During the incident he and three other hijackers began firing indiscriminately. They killed 20 people and seriously wounded 100 others.  He is believed to be a member of the Abu Nidal terrorist network. He is a Palestinian born in Lebanon in 1965. Authorities ...

AKA: Salim Al-Kowari

Role: al-Qaeda Facilitator

Status: Sponsor

Brief:

Salim Hasan Khalifa Rashid al-Kuwari provides financial and logistical support to al-Qaeda, primarily through facilitators in Iran. He was born around 1977. He is based in Qatar. He has provided hundreds of thousands of dollars in financial support. His funding has helped with operations, travel of extremist recruits, and securing the release of al-Qaeda detainees in Iran and elsewhere.

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AKA: Kaskar

Role: Sponsor

Status: At Large

Brief:

Dawood Ibrahim reigns as one of the pre-eminent terror connected criminals of the Indian underworld. His drug smuggling syndicates are allied with Al-Qaeda and run throughout South Asia, the Middle East, and Africa. Interpol wants him for organized crime and counterfeiting. The US wants him for connections to terrorism. He was born in 1955. He grew up in Mumbai. Today his net worth exceeds $6 billion. His business interests span ...

AKA: Ali Khamenei

Role: Incumbent Supreme Leader of Iran

Status: Sponsor

Brief:

Ali Khamenei was born in 1939 as the oldest of eight children in the humble home of a pious religious scholar. In 1990, a council of experts chose him to replace Khomeini as the Grand Ayatollah of the terrorism sponsoring state of Iran, making him the commander in chief of the armed forces, the final authority on all aspects of foreign and domestic policies, and the top authority on Shia ...