The Devil Himself

Osama Bin Laden
Date of Photograph Unknown

• Date of Birth: 1957
• Hair: Brown
• Place of Birth: Saudi Arabia
• Eyes: Brown
• Height: 6' 4" to 6' 6"
• Complexion: Olive
• Weight: Approximately 160 pounds
• Sex: Male
• Build: Thin
• Nationality: Saudi Arabian
• Occupations: Unknown
• Remarks: Leader of a terrorist organization known as Al-Qaeda "The Base".
• Physical Attributes: He walks with a cane.
• Scars and Marks: None

INTELLIGENCE DATA

DESCRIPTION

Established by Usama Bin Laden about 1990 to bring together Arabs who fought in Afghanistan against the Soviet invasion. Helped finance, recruit, transport, and train Sunni Islamic extremists for the Afghan resistance. Al-Qaida is a network of many different fundamentalist organizations in diverse countries. The common factor in all these groups is the use of terrorism for the attainment of their political goals, and an agenda whose main priority is the overthrow of the “heretic governments” in their respective countries and the establishment of Islamic governments based on the rule of “Shariah.”

Current goal is to "reestablish the Muslim State" throughout the world. Works with allied Islamic extremist groups to overthrow regimes it deems "non-Islamic" and remove Westerners from Muslim countries. Issued statement under banner of "The World Islamic Front for Jihad Against The Jews and Crusaders" in February 1998, saying it was the duty of all Muslims to kill US citizens, civilian or military, and their allies everywhere.

ACTIVITIES

• Associated with the initial World Trade Center bombing in New York City on Feb. 26, 1993 killing six and injuring thousands.
• Linked to plans for attempted terrorist operations, including the assassination of the Pope during his visit to Manila in late 1994;
• Simultaneous bombings of the US and Israeli Embassies in Manila and other Asian capitals in late 1994;
• Two bombings in Saudi Arabia -- one in Riyadh in November 1995 and one in Khobar in June 1996, which killed 24 U.S. troops;
• The midair bombing of a dozen US trans-Pacific flights in 1995; and a plan to kill President Clinton during a visit to the Philippines in early 1995;
• Conducted the August 7, 1998, bombings of the U.S. Embassies in Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania and Nairobi, Kenya that killed at least 301 persons including 12 Americans and injured more than 5,000 others;
• Conducted a terrorist attack on the U.S.S. Cole Naval Destroyer in Aden, Yemen, on Oct. 12 killing 17 U.S. sailors;
• Simultaneous attacks using 4 hijacked passenger jets with full fuel, on the World Trade Center twin towers in New York City on 9/11/01 and on the U.S. Pentagon;
• Attempted strikes at the U.S. White House and Air Force One on 9/11/01; conspiracy to attack other U.S. targets on American soil within the next 3 days of the 9/11/01 attacks.

Continues to train, finance, and provide logistic support to terrorist groups that support these goals. Also, is in the process of training his and other groups that share his hatred against the U.S. in biological and chemical agents and is working on getting his hands on nuclear capabilities.

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EXTERNAL AID

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• Abu Ahmad Salayuddin (alias Abu Sabaya), Killed by Phillipine Troops 6-20-02
  Spokesperson of the Basilan-based Abu Sayyaf ALDAM TILAO aka ABU SABAYA.
  Sabaya, whose flamboyant character made him a natural for the job of ASG spokesman, made his media debut only on April 2000. A veteran of the Chad wars in central Africa and a former Moro National Liberation Front Bangsamoro member. Sabaya took up engineering courses in Zamboanga A.E. Colleges.

• Khaddafy Janjalani.
  Authorities believe Janjalani, younger brother of former Abu Sayyaf leader Abdurajak Abubakar Janjalani, took the helm of the outlaw group upon his brother's death in 1998. He reportedly got his first name because of his father's admiration of Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi.

  KHADAFFY JANJALANI aka DAF/PEK Only 26 years old, Khadaffy Janjalani is the youngest in a brood of five (which includes the oldest, the late Ustadz Abdurajack, and the second to the youngest Hector). "Daf" took up Islamic studies in Marawi City, and received a crash course in military training in Pakistan. Recognized as the "Amir" of the Basilan group. Married to Sherma, his first cousin and the daughter of Ustadz Hussein Manatad, one of the religious directors of the Tabuk, Mosque in Isabela, Basilan.

• Commander Radhulan Sahiron
  One of the senior leaders of the Abu Sayyaf.

• Galib Andang (a.k.a. "Commander Robot")
  A local Abu Sayyaf leader on the Philippine island of Jolo believed to have participated in numerous kidnappings, including one in April 2000 in which Westerners, Malaysians and Filipinos were snatched from a resort on the Malaysian island of Sipadan. He also is known by the alias "Commander Robot." GALIB ANDANG aka COMMANDER ROBOT Andang joined the group in 1995. A smoker (a habit not allowed among Muslim fundamentalists), 'Robot' gained notoriety as a rapist and outlaw in Sulu. He is a relative of top MNLF leaders and local politicians in the southern provinces. Led the kidnapping in the Malaysian dive resort of Sipadan.

• MUJIB SUSUKAN aka MUJIB
  Son of MNLF leader Commander Susukan
  Mujib is the known as the silent-type operator; a high school drop-out. Together with Sabaya sports long hair and has a penchant for wearing sunglasses. Susukan's father carved a legend as the first MNLF fighter who shot down an Air Force plane.

Abu Sayyaf is the smaller of the Islamist groups fighting to establish an Iranian-style Islamic state in Mindanao, an island in the southern Philippines.

The Abu Sayyaf group, whose name means, “Bearer of the Sword,” split from the Moro National Liberation Front in 1991. Although based almost exclusively in the southern islands, Abu Sayyaf has ties to a number of Islamic fundamentalist organizations around the world, including Osama bin Ladin’s al-Qaida and Ramzi Yousef, who was convicted of organizing the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center in New York.

Abduragak Abubakar Janjalani, the former leader of the group, like Osama bin Ladin, was a veteran of the war in Afghanistan. Abu Sayyaf has a membership of approximately several hundreds of young Islamic radicals, many of whom were recruited from universities and high schools.

After Janjalani's death a power struggle took place within the organization, with the former leader's brother, Khadafy Janjalani finally emerging as the new leader.

Abu Sayyaf is estimated to have several hundred active fighters, largely based in the islands of Basilan, Sulu and Tawi-Tawi in the Philippines' southernmost section. It is beleived to have roughly a thousand supporters in the southern islands.

The group finances its operations mainly through robbery, piracy and ransom kidnappings. Abu Sayyaf may also receive funding from the international terrorist network of Osama bin Ladin.

Abu Sayyaf never took part in the peace process between the government and the MNLF, demanding an independent Islamic country.

The group’s first major terrorist attack was a grenade attack in 1991, in which two foreign women were killed. The following year Abu Sayyaf militants hurled a bomb at a wharf in the southern city of Zamboanga where the MV Doulous, an international floating bookstore manned by Christian preachers, was docked. Several people were injured.

This attack was followed by similar bombings on Zamboanga airport and Roman Catholic churches. In 1993 the group bombed a cathedral in Davao City, killing seven people.

The group has consitently targeted foriegners for kidnapping. In 1993, Abu Sayyaf gunmen kidnapped Charles Walton, a language researcher at the US-based Summer Institute of Linguistics. Walton, then 61, was freed 23 days later.

The following year, Abu Sayyaf militants kidnapped three Spanish nuns and a Spanish priest in separate incidents. In 1998, their victims included two Hong Kong men, a Malaysian and a Taiwanese grandmother.

In April 1995 Abu Sayyaf carried out a vicious attack on the Christian town of Ipil in Mindanao. Gunmen razed the town center to the ground and shot 53 civilians and soldiers dead. The military said at that time the group has forged links with international terrorist cells.

August 05 2001 Abu Sayyaf militants seized more than 30 people from a Christian village on Basilan island on Thursday, apparently as a diversionary tactic in the face of pursuit by government troops. Philippine troops rescued 13 of the hostages after a brief gunbattle on Sunday, after the militants beheaded 10 of their captives.