Saif al-Adel, a former Egyptian special forces lieutenant-colonel and close affiliate of Osama bin Laden is al-Qaeda's "new head leader", according to a US State Department statement.

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Reported by|Tony Wild
Politics section CJ journalist
16 Feb. 2023

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     After Osama bin Laden and Ayman al-Zawahiri, Al-Qaeda chooses a new head leader's name for itself.
USA State Department statement announced that the former Egyptian special forces lieutenant colonel" Saif al-Adel" is the new leader of the terrorist Islamist Group...the new leader was one of the best men and nearest one to Osama Bin Laden.

The statement backs the UN's report on Tuesday,10 Feb. warned f their return and expectation of new terrorist attacks, especially in Africa and M.E...The report named the new leader of Al-Qada which also identified al-Adel as the first head of the terrorist organization.
The former al-Qaeda leader, Ayman al-Zawahiri, was reportedly killed in July 2022.

 

 

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There is no official announcement from Al-Qada itself till now about its new leadership.
“But in discussions in November and December many UN member states took the view that Saif al-Adel is already operating as the head and leader of the group,” the UN report said.

In the 1990s, al-Adel gave up military service in Egypt and joined al-Qaeda becoming its key military trainer.
It is believed, he has trained some of the hijackers involved in the c2001 attacks on the World Trade Center in the US, the US Counter Extremism Project says.
Al-Adel is also wanted by the US authorities for the bombings of the country's embassies in Kenya and Tanzania in 1998.
According to US officials, he was involved in the creation of Daesh* in Syria and Iraq.

Alqada is a terrorist organization formed before 1978 during the Russian occupation in Afghanistan, where it is formed by the American training them during the cold war. after that Osama Bin laden formed a new group and settled in Afghanistan where he below and planned his terrorist attacks worldwide...and then he became an enemy of the USA. The leader of the terrorist group was assassinated in 2011 and leadership passed to his right-hand man Ayman al-Zawahiri. The group has claimed responsibility for several terrorist attacks, including the 11 September 2001 attacks in the US.