Alqaeda a name of terror is an organization which actually is a misinterpretation of Islam. They use terror and violence which has nothing to do with the teaching of Muhammad S.A.W and Quran.

1. AL QAIDA

4.  Part 1 - Overview Of al-qaida
 Part 2 - Future Terrorist Caps
Of al-qaida
 Part 3 - Recommendations

6. • Al-qaida or “The Base”. The name “qaida”
can be translated from Arabic into
“foundation” or “base”.

7. Cleansing the muslim countries from corrupt
and secular leadership, and fight against the
powers that threaten muslim states and the
holy places of islam.

8.  Radicalise existing Islamic groups and create Islamic
gps where none existent.
 Advocate destruction of the United States, which is
seen as the chief obstacle to reform in Muslim
societies.
 Sp Muslim fighters in Afghanistan, Algeria, Bosnia,
Chechnya, Eritrea, Kosovo, Pakistan, Somalia,
Tajikistan, Philippines and Yemen.
 Al-Qaida's main goal is to “unite all Muslims and to
estb the Caliphate”.
 Al-Qaida's goal, therefore, is to overthrow nearly all
those Muslim govts, which are viewed as corrupt, to
drive Western influence from those ctys, and
eventually to abolish state bdrys.

9. • The name al-Qaida, or "the Base," dates back to 1988 and
reportedly originated from the term used to refer to one of bin
Laden's guesthouses.
• Al-Qaida grew out of the Afghan war against the Soviets, and its
core members consist of Afghan war veterans from all over the
Muslim world.
• Based in Afghanistan, bin Laden used an extensive international
network to maintain a loose connection between Muslim
extremists in diverse countries.
• He was in touch with an unknown number of followers all over
the Arab world, as well as in Europe, Asia, the United States and
Canada.

10.  This org structure should not be read as defining a
hierarchical chain of command for specific terrorist
operations.
 Means for coord fns and providing material sp to ops.
 Once a specific op is decided upon, it would be asg to a
carefully selected CN cell, headed by a snr al-qaida op
who reported pers to Bin Laden.

11. • Shura/Advisory Council. Dir the overall strat.
• Sharia/Pol Committee. Resp for issuing fatwas.
• Mil Committee. Conceiving and planning
ops, aswell as managing
trg camps.
• Fin Committee. Fund-raising, and the clt
of assets.

12. • Foreign Purchases Committee. Acqn of foreign arm and
supplies.
• Security Committee. Phy protection, int, and
CI.
• Info Committee. In charge of propaganda.

13. • Usama bin Laden is the ldr of Al-Qaida.
• Raised in Saudi Arabia in a wealthy, high
profile, family of Yemeni origins.
• The beginning of his radicalisation dates
back to his university studies in Jeddah,
Saudi Arabia, where he was linked to
members of the Muslim Brotherhood.
• Later, his involvement in the Afghan
struggle against the Soviet occupation
played a maj role in shaping his ideology.
During this experience, he found a sense
of purpose and became deeply religious.
• Bin Laden also made contacts with
Islamic fighters from around the world
and participated in victorious struggles
against a secular superpower.

14. • According to an Arab security service, Al-Qaida consisted
of 2,830 members,
• 594 Egyptians,
• 410 Jordanians,
• 291 Yemenis,
• 255 Iraqis,
• 162 Syrians,
• 177 Algerians,
• 111 Sudanese,
• 63 Tunisians,
• 53 Moroccans,
• 32 Palestinians.
• Many Al-Qaida members are Mujahedeen, veterans of the
Afghan resistance against the Soviet occupation. These
militants fight not only for their cause, but also because
it is the only life they know. Most cannot return to their
native countries because of their militancy.

15. • In 1998, Bin Laden announced the fmn of
an umbrella organization called “The
Islamic World Front for the struggle
against the Jews and the Crusaders” (Al-
Jabhah al-Islamiyyah al-`Alamiyyah li-
Qital al-Yahud wal-Salibiyyin).
• Among the active members of this
organization are the Egyptian Al-Gama’a
al-Islamiyya and the Egyptian Al-Jihad.
• Both of these groups have been active in
terrorism over the past decade and are
now considered as part and parcel of Al-
Qaida.

16.  The main reasons for Usama Bin Laden to be against
United States of America (USA) are the presence of the US
forces on the holy land of Arabian Peninsula and an
unconditional US support to the Israel against the
Palestinians. It is evident from his following Fatwas:-
• “Declaration of War against the Americans Occupying the Land
of the Two Holy Places” was issued by Usama Bin Laden in
August 1996.
• Later in the same year he said that "Terrorizing the American
occupiers (of Islamic Holy Places) is a religious and logical
obligation."
• In February 1998 he issued and signed a 'fatwa' which included
a decree to all Muslims emphasising that the killing of
Americans and their civilian and military allies is a religious
duty for each and every Muslim to be carried out in whichever
country they are .
• In an interview aired on Al Jazira (Doha, Qatar) television he
stated: "Our enemy is every American male, whether he is
directly fighting us or paying taxes."

17.  The State Dept of US currently
links Al-Qaida to many recent
terrorist attks, among them the
main acts are:-
 Feb 1993. A bomb at New York's
World Trade Centre killed six
people and injured another 1,000.
 Nov 1995.A car bomb in Saudi
Arabia killed five American
servicemen.
 Jun 1996. A car bomb in Saudi
Arabia shattered an apartment
complex housing US servicemen,
killing at least 19 and wounding
400.

18.  Aug 1998. Bombing at U.S.
embassies in Kenya and Tanzania
killing 224 people - including 12
Americans - and injuring thousands
others.
 Dec 1999. Jordanian intelligence
uncovered a plot to attack US
installations during millennium
celebrations.
 Oct 2000. A suicide bomb off the
USS Cole in the Yemeni port of Aden
killed 17 sailors and injured 39
others.
 Sep 2001. Four hijacked planes
crashed into New York City World
Trade Centre, Washington Pentagon
and Pennsylvania grass field area.
Attacks killed more than 5,000
people.

19.  Usama Bin Laden’s Pers Assets.
 The primary source of funding is believed
to be bin Laden's fortune. Usama bin
Laden is 17th son out of 52 children of
Saudi construction tycoon Muhammad
Awad bin Laden, who amassed a fortune
from successful construction and
contracting companies in Yemen and Saudi
Arabia. Today, the bin Laden family
fortune is estimated at $5 billion, of which
Usama is reported to have received an
estimated $300 million before his family
disavowed him.
 In April 1994, after his Saudi citizenship
was revoked, Bin Laden moved to
Khartoum in Sudan where he set up
factories and farms. Among bin Laden’s
numerous Sudanese commercial interests
are: a factory to process goat skins, a
construction company, a bank, a sunflower
plantation, and an import-export
operation.

20. • Donations. Besides the
personal property of Usama
Bin Laden, it is believed that a
lot of financial support to Al-
Qaida was being provided in
terms of donations by various
Muslims especially from the oil
rich Gulf countries in the
name of support for the Jihad.
Although no worthwhile names
could be found to substantiate
this claim of the US
government.

21. • Drug Trafficking. Bin Laden is
also alleged to benefit from the
drug trade in Afghanistan, the
world's leading exporter of
heroin. This is quite unlikely as
the Taliban banned poppy
production in Afghanistan and
implemented that ban very
effectively. Moreover, since
growing poppy and doing
business in narcotics is un-
Islamic, hence it is not likely that
the men with a strong belief in
the basics of Islam will benefit
from drug trafficking.

22.  The trg camps, which the Bush adm
described as factories churning out
terrorists, were focused largely on
creating an army to support the
Taliban, who were waging a long
ground war against the Northern
Alliance.
 important facets of trg in Al-Qaida:-
• Al-Qaida till 11 September 2001 op
approx 12 trg camps in Afghanistan, in
which it has reportedly trained as many
as 5,000 militants. These militants
have allegedly created cells in 50 ctys.
• Oath Taking Before the Trg. Every
member was req to undertake an oath
before starting his trg.
• Phy Trg. Rects are subj to
rigorous phy trg routine.

23. • Basic Inf Trg. Most of the
recruits received basic infantry
training that covered the use of
various small arms, as well as anti
armour and antiaircraft weapons and,
in some cases basic demolition; the
documents show. The notebooks
discovered from the destroyed
training camps go on to describe how
to carry out a coordinated infantry
assault.
• Elite Trg. A smaller gp of recruits is
selected for elite training that
prepare them for terrorist actions.
"Observing foreign embassies and
facilities," was the subject of one al-
qaida espionage course. Another
taught "shooting the personality and
his guard from a motorcycle."

24. • Trg for Sabotage. "Training was
imparted to Al-Qaida men for
sabotage of electric plants, gas
plants, airports, railroads, large
corporations and hotels where
conferences are held." Another
advanced class was on such
matters as "hit teams" and
"hijacking of air, bus, ship."
• Making of Explosives. An
Arabic language explosives
curriculum found in the vacated
houses gave detailed instructions
on how to make and handle a
range of substances: nitro-
glycerine, HMDT, RDX, C-4, C-3,
dynamite and ammonium nitrate.

25.  Poisons and Poisonous Gases.A final
section dealt with maj poisons and poison
gases, which can be extracted in various
ways. The docus listed the toxins - incl
resin, botulism and cyanide - and
described how to manufacture and use
them. In one of the lessons, the students
watched their trainers kill a dog in a box
with homemade cyanide gas, and learned
how this crude chemical weapon could be
placed near the air intakes of office and
apartment buildings.
 Tech Sophistication. Al-Qaida members
are familiar with modern communications
and have been reported to use encrypted
e-mail, cellular phones, satellite
communications, and training manuals on
CD-ROMs.

26.  The core of Al-Qaida is made up of Usama Bin Laden working close with a
Majlis-e-Shura consisting of about 10 members
 Below are the adm parts of the organisation, made up of 4 executive
committees covering these 4 fields: military activity and training; religious
education; commercial activity; media relations.
 Each cell operates independently with its members not knowing the identity
of other cells.
 If one group is arrested they will not be able to betray others.

27.  Strong Conviction. The activists of Al-Qaida have a strong
conviction. They are fully convinced that they have a just cause and
a sound reasoning to carry out their mission which they call as
Jihad.
 Devotion to Cause. The people in Al-Qaida are fully devoted to
their cause/mission. They do not have any other purpose of their
lives but to attain the goals of Al-Qaida.
 Unity of Command. Usama bin laden is the commander and
spiritual leader of Al-Qaida. He is the sole authority to make any
major decisions thus resulting in complete coordination of actions
by all.
 Blind Obedience of the Leader. The activists of Al-Qaida
follow the instructions of their leader in letter and spirit without
questioning their validity. This reflects the highest level of trust and
cohesion they have in each other and is the reason for failure of the
USA in breaking this organisation by creating the differences
amongst the members.

28.  Selflessness. All the members of Al-Qaida have
absolutely no political, financial or personal gains from the
acts of Al-Qaida. They can not be bought and there are no
cases of corruption or moral turpitude against them.
 Lack of Fear of Death. The people in Al-Qaida are
ready to sacrifice their lives for the attainment of their
mission. To them, their cause is the most sacred.
 Highest Level of Motivation. Motivation of everyone
in Al-Qaida is the highest possible. They never get
demoralised if they have suffered any failures; instead
they keep on trying again and again till such time the
mission given to them is accomplished.
 Simple Living Style. Everyone including the leader
lives a simple life despite the vast financial resources at
their disposal. The commanders at all levels live like
ordinary workers and have simple food and clothing.

29.  Highest Level of Secrecy. The highest level of
secrecy of plans is maintained by all the concerned.
This made them to execute the plans of the scale of
9/11 and no one could get a substantial clue of it.
 International Reach. Al-Qaida is an organisation
with international reach as its members are spread
all over the world. Hence, they can strike at their
targets at the time and place of their choosing.
 Vast Financial Resources. Al-Qaida has
sufficient money to support and sustain all of its
operations. This money mostly comes from Usama
Bin Laden and the donations by the people.

30.  Violence. Al-Qaida seeks to achieve its ends by violent
means like bombing, hijacking the aircrafts, shooting the
people and terrorising the innocent civilians. It is because of
this violence that the world has organised a global war to
eradicate the Al-Qaida.
 Loose Network. Al-Qaida does not have a well defined
hierarchical organised structure. This makes command and
control of the people difficult. Once the instructions are to
be passed or feed back is to be taken, it becomes quite
cumbersome.
 Faulty Strategy. It is being alleged by the international
community that Al-Qaida planned and executed the 9/11
terrorist attacks on USA. It did bring a lot of media coverage
and the cause of Al-Qaida was amply highlighted. But, Al-
Qaida never thought that the world would join hands in a
fight to annihilate them and Taliban from Afghanistan. This
wrong strategy led to destruction of its entire infrastructure
in Afghanistan and loss of so many of its members.

31.  One Man Show. Al-Qaida revolves around Usama Bin
laden, he being the leader and spiritual head of the
organisation. If Usama bin laden is eliminated or
arrested, it is likely that the organisation will break
up and will not be able to sustain.
 Rigidity. One common quality of all the members of
Al-Qaida is the rigidity in their thought. They can not
be convinced by any logic or reasoning to give up
their current path of violence which they call as
Jihad.

32. FUTURE OF AL-QAIDA

33.  Bio wpns. Al Qaida has
progressed much further toward
dev a particular biological wpn
than the world realise. The int
community was surprised by al
Qaida's advs in a virulent strain
in the disease, identified by the
commission only as "Agent X”. Al
Qaida is also believed to have
acquired tech sp from certain
multinational drug coys who are
sympathetic their cause.

34.  Chem Wpn
 Al Qaida leaders have shown an interest in
acquiring and employing chemical weapons, as
indicated by experiments testing the use of
hydrogen cyanide on animals in Al Qaida camps in
Afghanistan prior to the September 11 attacks on
the United States in 2001.
 In addition to other docs showing ongoing research
on chemical weapons, al Qaida planned and then
aborted a chemical attack on the New York
City subway system in 2005.
 Al Qaida initiated chlorine attacks in Iraq in 2007.
 It is believed by analysts that Al Qaida ldrs would
not hesitate to use any chem, bio, radiological, or
nuc weapons that they might acquire.
 Al Qaida openly issued a public invitation for
Muslim chemists, biologists, and physicists to join
their cause.
 Unfortunately, a substantial amount of information
on how to manufacture chemical weapons already
exists in the public domain, particularly on the
Internet, which is within reach of individuals and
groups worldwide.

35.  Nuc wpns.
 In 1986, the Nuc Con Institute, in coop with
the Institute for Studies in Intl Terrorism of
the State University of New York, convened
the International Task Force on Prevention
of Nuc Terrorism, comprised of 26 nuclear
scientists and industrialists, current and
former government officials, and experts on
terrorism from nine countries.
 The Task Force warned that the "probability
of nuclear terrorism is increasing" because
of a number of factors including "the
growing incidence, sophistication and
lethality of conventional forms of
terrorism," as well as the vulnerability of
nuclear power and research reactors to
sabotage and of weapons-usable nuclear
materials to theft.

36.  There is now intense national and
international attention to the risks of
nuclear terrorism.
 The possibilities that Al Qaida might acquire
the materials and the knowledge for
building nuclear weapons or "dirty bombs"
or might attack commercial nuclear-power
facilities to trigger a nuclear meltdown are
of particular concern.
 The Nuclear Control Institute has been
alerting the public and policymakers to
these risks, seeking emergency measures to
reduce the vuln, and monitoring and
assessing the responses of industry, govts
and intl agencies.
 With regards to nuc proliferation, ctys incl
Iran, Libya, North Korea, Pakistan and some
cen asian republics are viewed with
particular concern by the intl community.

37.  Cyber Terrorism.
 Besides disposable cellular phones and indefinable
cellular sim cards, for instance made in Switzerland,
Al qaida uses free based email boxes at Hotmail,
Yahoo!, etc for messaging and exchanging of
information, where it is impossible to intercept them.
 John Hamre, Deputy Secretary of Defence (1997-
1999) said that on Al qaida's laptops, which they had
got our hands on, there had been all these probing of
sites dealing with programming of supervisory control
and data acquisition (SCADA) systems and control of
SCADA systems within electrical and other power
company scenarios.
 Osama bin Laden showed the importance of Internet
when he created an original hacker school at the
faculty of electronics in his university.
 Most troubling, the campaign of terror planned in
1993 and the September 11, 2001, attacks on the
WTC and Pentagon indicates that Al-Qaida has not
only the patience and resources for meticulous, long-
term planning but a willingness to undertake terrorist
actions of a scale hitherto unknown.
 FBI cyber security experts believe that the threat is
very different to earlier financial disruptions caused
by hackers or viruses. Instead, they fear the targets
will be physical structures such as dams and power
stations controlled by computers. They believe Al-
Qaida has been quietly probing such systems using
computers in the Middle East and South-east Asia.

38.  Economic terrorism.
 Osama bin laden plans strategies based
on his victory over the Soviets in
Afghanistan during the 1980s.
 He believes the way to bring down a
superpower is to weaken its economy
through protracted guerrilla warfare.
 AL Qaeda bled Russia for ten years until
it went bankrupt and was forced to
withdraw in defeat.
 "We are continuing in the same policy to
make America bleed profusely to the
point of bankruptcy," said bin Laden.
 To bring the U.S. to suffer a fate similar
to that of the Soviet Union, the terrorists
need to drain America's resources and
bring it to the point it can no longer
afford to preserve its military and
economic dominance.

39.  Methods of Economic War
 The first is the destruction of high-cost
qualitative targets by low-cost qualitative
means.
 The 2001 attack on the World Trade Centre is a
perfect example of how terrorists can get more
bang for their cheap buck.
 Bin Laden cited estimates that Al qaida spent
$500,000 to carry out the attacks of September
11, which caused America to lose more than $500
billion. "Every dollar of Al qaida defeated a
million US dollars," bin Laden concluded.

40.  Bin Laden's second form of economic warfare involves
forcing the U.S. to sink unsustainable amounts of funding
into its defence agencies.
 The more the U.S. invests in defence, the more its
domestic investment suffers neglect.
 Not much is needed, bin Laden reasons, to provoke
America into expensive military interventions: "All that
we have to do is to send two mujahedeen to the furthest
point east to raise a piece of cloth on which is written Al
Qaida, in order to make generals race there to cause
America to suffer human, economic and political losses
without their achieving anything.“
 America now spends an extra $100 billion per year on its
military. Add to this the creation of a $30 billion-per-year
Department of Homeland Security, and the billions
directed to the State Department and other agencies
aiding allies in the War on Terror and we discover a price
tag of at least $150 billion annually to defend the U.S.
against terrorism.

41.  Oil, which jihadists call "the provision line and the
feeding to the artery of the life of the crusader's
nation," is the third component of bin Laden's
strategy.
 Oil facilities and oil workers have been attacked
around the world. In Iraq more than 190 attacks
targeted oil pipelines. Rising oil prices partly reflect
the "fear premium" added by oil terrorism. For the
US, an importer of more than 10 million barrels a day,
the spike in oil prices means a loss of over $50 billion
in one year.
 Attacks on oil serve jihadists in another, subtler way.
Higher oil prices mean a historic transfer of wealth
from oil-consuming countries -- primarily the U.S. --
to the Muslim world, where three quarters of global
oil reserves are concentrated.

43.  Meeting the Demands. One of the basic ways
to solve a conflict is to meet the demands of the
aggrieved party. In the present scenario if the
declared demands of Al-Qaida; establishing rule
of Shariah in the Arab Monarchies and
extrication of US forces from the Arab holy
places is met, it is very likely that Al-Qaida will
cease to exist, or at least it will loose popular
support of the followers of her ideology.
However, meeting of these demands either by
the Arab countries or USA is not at all likely.

44. • US Foreign Policies Based on Justice for All.
Since the main target of Al-Qaida has been
USA only; hence to eradicate it, the world in
general and USA in particular has to adopt the
uniform just policies for all the nations
irrespective of their religion, or geographical
location. The reinforcement of United Nations
Security Council resolutions is equally essential in
all the matters and for all the nationalities, may it
be Iraq, Libya, Iran, Israel, India or any other
nation. The USA, being the only superpower shares
the maximum blame of injustice.

45.  Resolution of Palestine Issue. Palestine Issue
being one of the oldest issues still unresolved
despite numerous United Nations Security
Council resolutions, needs to be resolved justly
at the top most priority as the first step to
counter Al-Qaida. The USA has to stop
unconditionally supporting Israel and show to the
world that she is in favour of a just solution of
the Issue. Unless the USA seriously follows a just
policy on Palestine and keeps on supporting the
mass killings by the Israel, the desperate
innocent youths of Palestine will keep on going
for suicide attacks to make their voice heard as
all of their hopes through other means have been
failing for the past half century.

46.  Restoring Law and Order in Afghanistan,
Somalia and Other Such Like Countries. To
deny Al-Qaida a base of operations and a safe
heaven, law and order has to be brought in
Afghanistan, Somalia and other such like
countries. Unless a rule of law exists in these
countries, the war lords will keep on giving
shelter to all type of terrorist organisations for
the want of money.

47.  Drying Up the Financial Resources. Drying up
the financial resources of terror is vital to end the
terrorist threat. More than 112 nations have issued
blocking orders and frozen assets used to finance
operation of Al-Qaida, which have been found
everywhere from bank accounts in the United States
to relief organizations in Europe and chains of
honey shops in the Middle East. The 29-nation
Financial Action Task Force has played a particularly
active role in coordinating efforts to identify and
stop financial flows to terrorist organizations. If
effective financial control can be maintained on
resources of Al-Qaida, then it will run out of the
fuel necessary to keep the flames of terrorism alive.

48. • Military Action. Military action against Al-
Qaida and Taliban has brought quite encouraging
results. The network of Al-Qaida has been
disrupted and many of their hardcore members
have either been killed or arrested. A few of the
top executives including Usama Bin Laden are still
at large. Once arrested, all suspected Al-Qaida
members involved in various terrorist acts should
be brought to justice through open and fair court
trials. Inhuman acts of torture to the arrested
members being kept at various US military bases
like Camp Delta in Guantanmao as shown by world
media will invite retaliatory attacks and will
further aggravate the situation.

49. • Infil of al Qaida Network. There can be no
better way to defeat al qaida than from the
inside. It reqs an int collaboration on the intl
forum especially of those ctys with high stakes in
the global war on terrorism (GWOT). The
knowledge of their future plan coupled with their
modus operandi would result in unearthing
complete cells of al qaida.