Hamza al-Ghamdi
တောင်ပိုင်းနှင့် အလယ်ပိုင်း အာၡ | အၡေ့အလယ်ပိုင်း - မြောက်အာဖရိကနှင့် အၡေ့အလယ်ပိုင်း
About
Rewards for Justice is offering a reward of up to $5 million for information on al-Qa’ida (AQ) key leader Hamza Salih bin Sa’id al-Ghamdi.
Hamza al-Ghamdi is a native of Saudi Arabia and a senior leader of the terrorist group al-Qa’ida. During the weeks leading up to al-Qa’ida’s September 11, 2001, attacks on the World Trade Towers and the Pentagon in the United States, Al-Ghamdi was one of AQ leader Usama bin Laden’s most trusted associates and head of bin Laden’s security detail.
Al-Ghamdi fought invading Soviet troops alongside bin Laden in Afghanistan in the 1980s. He participated in terrorist attacks in Tajikistan in the early 1990s and also operated an al-Qa’ida guesthouse in Kabul, Afghanistan.
In December 2001 he fought in the last battle of Tora Bora, a U.S. military operation in eastern Afghanistan aimed at capturing or killing bin Laden in response to the September 11 attacks.
Al-Ghamdi wrote a letter in which he pledged to abide by AQ’s line of succession and revealed that he was now part of the organization’s Shura council. He also worked with senior AQ leaders Abd al-Rahman al-Maghrebi and the now-deceased Ayman al-Zawahiri.
