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According to most western news agencies, Saif al-Adel is currently based in Iran, since the 2000s. Following the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan, Saif al-Adel was given secret asylum in Iran during which he was monitored by the IRGC.
Saif al-Adel is an Egyptian militant Islamist who served as a high-ranking member of al-Qaeda and head of Osama bin Laden’s personal security force. He was indicted by the U.S. for his alleged participation in the bombing of U.S. embassies in East Africa in 1998.
Saif al-Adel is a senior al-Qaeda leader wanted by the U.S. government in connection with the August 7, 1998, bombings of the U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania.
After months of ambiguity over al Qaeda’s leadership, Saif al Adel became its third emir, the United Nations reported in February 2023. He succeeded Osama bin Laden, the Saudi founder who was killed during a U.S. ground raid in May 2011, and Ayman al Zawahiri, an Egyptian doctor who died in a U.S. drone strike in July 2022.
Saif Al-Adel is wanted in connection with the August 7, 1998, bombings of the United States Embassies in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, and Nairobi, Kenya. SHOULD BE CONSIDERED ARMED AND DANGEROUS
Feb 15, 2023 · Saif al-Adel, who is wanted by the United States in connection with the 1998 bombings of its embassies in Tanzania and Kenya, has been identified by many countries as the new “de facto and...
Feb 16, 2023 · DUBAI, Feb 15 (Reuters) - Seif al-Adel, a former Egyptian special forces officer who is a high-ranking member of al Qaeda with a $10 million U.S. bounty on his...
Feb 28, 2023 · One of the key reasons why leadership on all the key fronts – security, organizational, and financial – shifted away from Al-Zawahiri was the strident claims on those spheres made by the group’s second-in-command, Mohammed Salah al-Din Zaidan, also known by the nom de guerre Saif al-Adel.
Feb 16, 2023 · WASHINGTON — Saif al-Adel, an Iran-based Egyptian, has become the head of Al-Qaeda following the July 2022 death of Ayman al-Zawahiri, the US State Department said Wednesday. “Our assessment...
Feb 16, 2023 · WASHINGTON — Saif al-Adel, an Iran-based Egyptian, has become the head of Al-Qaeda following the July 2022 death of Ayman al-Zawahiri, the US State Department says.
