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– GUANTANAMO BAY

Guantanamo Bay is on the eastern end of Cuba Island. USA leased in 1903 116 km2 for a Naval base to USA Navy for 99 years as a part of Cuban-American treaty, that came after the Spanish- American war of 1898. There is an international judicial debate if the USA presence on Cubas’ territory is still legal or an USA un legal occupation. Continue reading

– ALI MOHAMMED – AL-QAEDA SPY IN U.S

Ali Mohammed is an USA citizen of Egyptian Muslim origin born in 1951. He was conscripted to Egyptian army in 1970, served in the Egyptian military intelligence and got commando training, as a member of the Egyptian army, in Port Brag, USA, at the beginning of 1980. Continue reading

– THE 9/11

On the morning of 09/11/2001 at about 08:15, USA east coast local time, four commercial airliners where hijacked almost simultaneously. Continue reading

– KHALID SHEIKH MOHAMMED – KSM

Khalid Sheikh Mohammed born in Kuwait 1965 ( or possibly in Baluchistan 1964). Uncle of Ramzi Yousef. Khalid Shaikh Mohammed joined the Moslim Brothers at the age of 16. In 1983 he arrived to USA to study engineering in Chowan University of North Carolina. Continue reading

– MOHAMMED ATEF – ABU HAFEZ

Mohammed Atef was born in Egypt and was an Egyptian Islamic Jihad activist. After the assassination of the Egyptian President Anwar Saadat, on 10/06/1981, and the crack down on Islamic Jihad activist, he fled Egypt to Somalia sometime in the middle of the ‘80. Continue reading

– AYMAN AL-ZAWAHIRI

In 1979 dr’ Ayman Al Zawahiri became one of the leaders of the extreme Egyptian Islamic Jihad. After the assassination of the Egyptian President Anwar Saadat, on 10/06/1981, Ayman Al Zawahiri, like many other Islamic jihad militants, was arrested and later sentenced to 3 years in jail. Continue reading

– BAKER-HAMITON REPORT

The Baker-Hamilton report of the “Iraq Studying Group” (ISG) published in Washington Thursday, 07/12/2006, cause worry not because its’ contents but because of its’ lack of relevancy to the problems it concerns with. The main recommendations are: Continue reading

– AL QAEDA

Al Qaeda was a relatively short-living organization with a long lasting influence and inspiration for the Global Jihad. Al Qaeda survived less than two decades, but its� legacy will influence the next century. Continue reading

– OSAMA BIN LADEN

Osama Bin Laden, who founded in 1989 together with Ayman Al Zawahiri and Dr' Abdullah Azzama a new support group for the Mujahidin in Afghanistan, later known as "Al Qaeda", is, arguably, the most notorious terorist in the history of the world. Continue reading