一些知识

CIA Alec station by Martin Schmidt: Al Qaeda special group

Wadih el-Hage: UBL secretary in Sudan

Mohamed Rashed Daoud Al-Owhali (born 18 January 1977)

a British-born Saudi terrorist. Al-Owhali is one of the four al-Qaeda members sentenced in 2001 to life without parole for their parts in the 1998 United States embassy bombings.

Jamal Ahmed al-fadl (born 1963-)

a Sudanese militant and former associate of Osama bin Laden in the early 1990s.

Two paths: as a crime of hostile individuals or as hostile nations (the act of war)

What qualifies as an act of war?

72 virgins in the heaven

Ahmad Mohammad

an al-Qaeda operative from Yemen whose family is described by US government officials as a "supercell" within the al-Qaeda network.

Malaysia meeting summit:

Al-quso Khallad/Attash

John Patrick O'Neill (February 6, 1952 – September 11, 2001)

an American counter-terrorism expert who worked as a special agent and eventually a Special Agent in Charge in the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

He subsequently learned of al-Qaeda and Osama bin Laden, and investigated the 1996 Khobar Towers bombing in Saudi Arabia and the 2000 USS Cole bombing in Yemen. Partly due to personal friction he had within the FBI and federal government, O'Neill left the Bureau in August 2001.[1] He became the head of security at the World Trade Center, where he died at age 49 while helping to evacuate the North Tower during the September 11 attacks. O'Neill's life has been featured in a number of documentaries and books.

Donald Henry Rumsfeld (July 9, 1932 – June 29, 2021)

an American politician, government official and businessman who served as Secretary of Defense from 1975 to 1977 under Gerald Ford, and again from 2001 to 2006 under George W. Bush.

Khalid Muhammad Abdallah al-Mihdhar (May 16, 1975 – September 11, 2001)

a Saudi Arabian hijacker. He was one of the five hijackers of American Airlines Flight 77, which was flown into the Pentagon as part of the September 11 attacks.