Madeleine Albright |
Secretary of State, 1997-2001 |
Charles Allen |
Assistant Director of Central Intelligence for Collection, 1998- |
Richard Armitage |
Deputy Secretary of State, 2001- |
Larry Arnold |
Commander, First Air Force and Commander of the Continental U.S. North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) Region, 1997-2002 |
John Ashcroft |
Attorney General, 2001- |
Monte Belger |
Acting Deputy Administrator, Federal Aviation Administration 1997-2002 |
Samuel "Sandy" Berger |
National Security Advisor, 1997-2001; Deputy National Security Advisor 1993-1997 |
J. Cofer Black |
Director, DCI Counterterrorist Center, 1999-2002 |
Joshua Bolten |
White House Deputy Chief of Staff, 2001-2003 |
Robert "Bear" Bryant |
Deputy Director, Federal Bureau of Investigation, 1997-1999 |
George H.W. Bush |
41st President of the United States, 1989-1993; Vice President, 1981-1989 |
George W. Bush |
43rd President of the United States, 2001- |
Andrew Card, Jr. |
White House Chief of Staff, 2001- |
Richard B. Cheney |
Vice President of the United States, 2001- |
Richard Clarke |
National Counterterrorism Coordinator, NSC, 1997-2001 |
William J. Clinton |
42nd President of the United States, 1993-2001 |
William Cohen |
Secretary of Defense, 1997-2001 |
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Roger Cressey |
NSC counterterrorism official, 1999-2001 |
Ralph Eberhart |
Commander in Chief, NORAD and U.S. Space Command, 2000- |
Tommy Franks |
Commander, U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM), 2001-2003 |
Louis Freeh |
Director, Federal Bureau of Investigation, 1993-2001 |
Scott Fry |
Director of Operations for the Joint Chiefs of Staff, 1998-2000 |
Jane Garvey |
Administrator, Federal Aviation Administration, 1997-2002 |
Newt Gingrich |
Speaker of the House, 1995-1999 |
Rudolph Giuliani |
Mayor, City of New York, 1994-2001 |
John Gordon |
Deputy Director of Central Intelligence, 1997-2000 |
Al Gore, Jr. |
Vice President of the United States, 1993-2001 |
Scott Gration |
Fry's Chief Information Operations Officer, 2000-2001 |
Stephen Hadley |
Deputy National Security Advisor, 2001- |
Dennis Hastert |
Speaker of the House, 1999- |
Karl Inderfurth |
Assistant Secretary of State for South Asia, 1997-2001 |
Donald Kerrick |
Deputy National Security Advisor, 2000-2001 |
Zalmay Khalilzad |
NSC Senior Director for Near East and South Asia and Special Envoy to Afghanistan, 2001-2003 |
Anthony Lake |
National Security Advisor, 1993-1997 |
Trent Lott |
Senate Majority Leader, 1996-2001 |
Mary McCarthy |
NSC senior director for intelligence, 1998-2001 |
John McLaughlin |
Deputy Director of Central Intelligence, 2000-2004 |
William Milam |
U.S. Ambassador to Pakistan, 1998-2001 |
Norman Mineta |
Secretary of Transportation, 2001- |
Robert Mueller |
Director, Federal Bureau of Investigation, 2001- |
Richard Myers |
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, September 2001-; Joint Chiefs Vice Chairman, 2000-2001 |
John O'Neill |
FBI Special Agent in Charge for National Security, New York Field Office, 1997-2001; Chief of Security of the World Trade Center, killed on 9/11 |
Paul O'Neill |
Secretary of the Treasury, 2001-2002 |
James Pavitt |
Deputy Director of Operations, CIA, 1999-2004 |
Thomas Pickard |
Acting Director, Federal Bureau of Investigation, June 25, 2001-September 4, 2001 |
Thomas Pickering |
Under Secretary of State, 1997-2000 |
Colin Powell |
Secretary of State, 2001- |
Ronald Reagan |
40th President of the United States, 1981-1989 |
Janet Reno |
Attorney General, 1993-2001 |
Condoleezza Rice |
National Security Advisor, 2001- |
Bill Richardson |
Ambassador to the United Nations, 1997-1998 |
Thomas Ridge |
First Secretary of Homeland Security, 2003-; Homeland Security Advisor, 2001-2003 |
Bruce Riedel |
Senior Director for Near East and South Asia, NSC, 1997-2001 |
Christina Rocca |
Assistant Secretary of State for South Asia, 2001- |
Michael Rolince |
FBI Section Chief, International Terrorism Operations Section, 1998-2002 |
Donald Rumsfeld |
Secretary of Defense, 2001- |
Peter Schoomaker |
Commander, Special Operations Command, 1997-2000 |
Gary Schroen |
CIA Station Chief, Islamabad, 1996-1999 |
Michael Sheehan |
Counterterrorism Coordinator, U.S. Department of State, 1998-2000 |
Hugh Shelton |
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, 1997-2001 |
Walter Slocombe |
Under Secretary of Defense for Policy, 1994-2001 |
James Steinberg |
Deputy National Security Advisor, 1996-2000 |
Strobe Talbott |
Deputy Secretary of State, 1994-2001 |
George Tenet |
Director of Central Intelligence, 1997-2004 |
Larry Thompson |
Deputy Attorney General, 2001-2003 |
Dale Watson |
Executive Assistant Director for Counterterrorism and Counterintelligence, FBI, 2001-2002 |
Paul Wolfowitz |
Deputy Secretary of Defense, 2001- |
Anthony Zinni |
Commander, U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM), 1997-2000 |
Ali Abdul Aziz Ali |
a.k.a. Ammar al Baluchi) Pakistani; KSM's nephew; financial and travel facilitator for 9/11 plot |
Ahmad Khalil Ibrahim Samir al Ani |
Iraqi intelligence officer who allegedly met with Atta in Prague, Czech Republic; currently in U.S. custody |
Mohamed Atta |
Egyptian; tactical leader of 9/11 plot; pilot/hijacker (AA 11) (deceased) |
Mohammed Atef |
(a.k.a. Abu Hafs al Masri) Egyptian; al Qaeda military commander (deceased) |
Tawfiq bin Attash |
(a.k.a. Khallad, Waleed bin Attash) Yemeni; senior al Qaeda operative connected to the U.S. embassy bombings, the USS Cole attack, and the 9/11 attacks; currently in U.S. custody |
Anwar Aulaqi |
U.S. citizen; Imam at Rabat mosque (San Diego, CA) and later at Dar al Hijra mosque (Falls Church,VA), who associated with two 9/11 hijackers |
Abdullah Azzam |
Palestinian; founder of the Maktab al Khidmat, which provided logistical support to mujahideen in Afghanistan (deceased) |
Jamal al Badawi |
Yemeni; co-conspirator arrested in Yemen for the USS Cole attack |
Said Bahaji |
German son of Moroccan immigrant; Hamburg cell associate |
Saeed al Baluchi |
Saudi; candidate 9/11 hijacker |
Fayez Banihammad |
Emirati; 9/11 hijacker (UA 175) (deceased) |
Abu Ubaidah al Banshiri |
Egyptian; al Qaeda military commander until 1996 (deceased) |
Abu Bara al Yemeni |
(a.k.a. Abu al Bara al Ta'izi, Suhail Shurabi, and Barakat) Yemeni; potential suicide bomber in original 9/11 plot |
Ramzi Binalshibh |
Yemeni; Hamburg cell member; coordinator for 9/11 plot; currently in U.S. custody |
Omar Hassan Ahmed al Bashir |
President of Sudan, 1989- |
Abu Bakar Bashir |
Indonesian; spiritual leader and founder of Jemaah Islamiya, al Qaeda-affiliated terrorist group in Southeast Asia |
Omar al Bayoumi |
Saudi; assisted two 9/11 hijackers in San Diego, CA |
Khalil Deek |
U.S. citizen; created electronic version of Encyclopedia of Jihad; believed to be involved in millennium plot to destroy tourist landmarks in Jordan |
Caysan Bin Don |
(a.k.a Isamu Dyson, a.k.a Clayton Morgan) U.S. citizen; met two 9/11 hijackers in Los Angeles and San Diego, CA |
Zakariya Essabar |
Moroccan; Hamburg cell associate |
Jamal Ahmed Mohamed al Fadl |
Sudanese; al Qaeda member who defected to the United States in 1996 |
Ahmed al Ghamdi |
Saudi; 9/11 hijacker (UA 175) (deceased) |
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(a.k.a. Abu Bakr al Azdi) Saudi; candidate 9/11 hijacker; currently in U.S. custody |
Hamza al Ghamdi |
Saudi; 9/11 hijacker (UA 175) (deceased) |
Saeed al Ghamdi |
Saudi; 9/11 hijacker (UA 93) (deceased) |
Saeed ("Jihad") al Ghamdi |
Saudi; candidate 9/11 hijacker |
Hassan Ghul |
Pakistani; al Qaeda facilitator; currently in U.S. custody |
Abu Hafs al Masri |
see Mohammed Atef |
Abu Hafs al Mauritani |
Mauritanian; senior al Qaeda theologian |
Wadi al Hage |
U.S. citizen; al Qaeda operative; Bin Ladin's personal assistant; convicted in embassy bombings trial |
Mushabib al Hamlan |
Saudi; candidate 9/11 hijacker |
Hani Hanjour |
Saudi; 9/11 pilot/hijacker (AA 77) (deceased) |
Mustafa al Hawsawi |
Saudi; al Qaeda media committee member; financial and travel facilitator for 9/11 plot |
Nawaf al Hazmi |
Saudi; 9/11 hijacker (AA 77) (deceased) |
Salem al Hazmi |
Saudi; 9/11 hijacker (AA 77) (deceased) |
Ahmad al Haznawi |
Saudi; 9/11 hijacker (UA 93) (deceased) |
Gulbuddin Hekmatyar |
Afghani; founder and leader of the Hizb-e-Islami, a Taliban opposition group; Prime Minister of Afghanistan, 1993-1994; 1996 |
Saddam Hussein |
President of Iraq, 1979-2003 |
Zein al Abideen Mohamed Hussein |
(a.k.a. Abu Zubaydah) Palestinian; al Qaeda associate; currently in U.S. custody |
Abu Hajer al Iraqi |
see Mamdouh Mahmud Salim |
Riduan Isamuddin |
(a.k.a. Hambali) Indonesian; operational leader of Jemaah Islamiya; currently in U.S. custody |
Ziad Jarrah |
Lebanese; 9/11 pilot/hijacker (UA 93) (deceased) |
Abderraouf Jdey |
(a.k.a. Faruq al Tunisi) Tunisian/Canadian; candidate 9/11 hijacker |
Mohamed al Kahtani |
Saudi; candidate 9/11 hijacker; currently in U.S. custody |
Mir Amal Kansi |
Pakistani; extremist who killed two CIA employees at CIA headquarters in Virginia in 1993 (executed) |
Hamid Karzai |
Interim Leader and later President of Afghanistan, Dec. 2001- |
Younis Khalis |
Afghani; leader of Hizb-e-Islami; hosted UBL upon his return to Afghanistan in 1996 |
Khallad |
see Tawfiq bin Attash |
Wali Khan Amin Shah |
(a.k.a. Osama Asmurai) Turkmen; early associate of Usama Bin Ladin; convicted in Manila air (Bojinka) plot |
Ibn al Khattab |
Saudi; mujahid leader in Chechnya |
L'Houssaine Kherchtou |
(a.k.a. Joe the Moroccan, Abu Talal) Moroccan; former al Qaeda member who broke with Bin Ladin and became a U.S. government informant |
Usama Bin Ladin |
(UBL) Saudi; head of al Qaeda |
Ibn al Shaykh al Libi |
Libyan; head of jihadist training camp in Afghanistan |
Ahmed al Nami |
Saudi; 9/11 hijacker (UA 93) (deceased) |
Sheikh Saeed al Masri |
Egyptian; head of al Qaeda finance committee |
Ahmed Shah Massoud |
Leader of Afghanistan's Northern Alliance, a Taliban opposition group (assassinated Sept. 9, 2001) |
Khalid al Mihdhar |
Saudi; 9/11 hijacker (AA 77) (deceased) |
Khalid Sheikh Mohammed |
(KSM) (a.k.a. Mukhtar) Pakistani; mastermind of 9/11 attacks; currently in U.S. custody |
Majed Moqed |
Saudi; 9/11 hijacker (AA 77) (deceased) |
Mounir el Motassadeq |
Moroccan; Hamburg cell associate |
Zacarias Moussaoui |
French; arrested in the U.S. in connection with the 9/11 attacks |
Hosni Mubarak |
President of Egypt, 1981- |
Pervez Musharraf |
Leader of Pakistan, 1999- |
Abdelghani Mzoudi |
Moroccan; Hamburg cell associate |
Qutaybah al Najdi |
Saudi; candidate 9/11 hijacker |
Abd al Rahim al Nashiri |
(a.k.a. Mullah Bilal) Saudi; mastermind of USS Cole attack; currently in U.S. custody |
Mullah Mohammed Omar |
Leader of Afghanistan's Taliban, which ruled most of the country from 1996 to 2001 |
Abdul Aziz al Omari |
Saudi; 9/11 hijacker (AA 11) (deceased) |
Muammar Qadhafi |
Leader of Libya, 1970- |
Fahd al Quso |
Yemeni; al Qaeda co-conspirator arrested in Yemen for the USS Cole attack |
Sayyid Qutb |
Egyptian writer; member of Muslim Brotherhood (deceased) |
Eyad al Rababah |
Jordanian; Virginia resident who helped Hazmi and Hanjour |
Abd al Rahim Ghulum Rabbani |
(a.k.a. Abu Rahmah) Saudi; al Qaeda member who worked closely with KSM in Karachi and assisted many of the 9/11 hijackers |
Sheikh Omar Abdel Rahman |
(a.k.a. the Blind Sheikh) Egyptian cleric; convicted for crimes related to 1993 World Trade Center bombing and 1995 plots against other NY landmarks |
Saud al Rashid |
Saudi; candidate 9/11 hijacker |
Ahmed Ressam |
(a.k.a. Benni Antoine Noris) Algerian; convicted in millennium plot to bomb Los Angeles International Airport |
Mamdouh Mahmud Salim |
(a.k.a. Abu Hajer al Iraqi) Iraqi; chief procurement officer for al Qaeda in Sudan; arrested in connection with 1998 embassy bombings |
Yazeed al Salmi |
Saudi; briefly a housemate of a 9/11 hijacker in San Diego |
Abdul Rasul Sayyaf |
Afghani; head of the Hizbul-Ittihad El-Islami, and KSM's mentor |
Aysel Senguen |
German; fiancée of 9/11 hijacker Jarrah |
Nawaz Sharif |
Pakistani Prime Minister, 1990-1993, 1997-1999 |
Marwan al Shehhi |
Emirati; 9/11 pilot/hijacker (UA 175) (deceased) |
Mohand al Shehri |
Saudi; 9/11 hijacker (UA 175) (deceased) |
Wail al Shehri |
Saudi; 9/11 hijacker (AA 11) (deceased) |
Waleed al Shehri |
Saudi; 9/11 hijacker (AA 11) (deceased) |
Mohamedou Ould Slahi |
(a.k.a. Abu Musab) Mauritanian; recruited 9/11 hijackers in Germany |
Yazid Sufaat |
Malaysian; member of Jemaah Islamiya |
Satam al Suqami |
Saudi; 9/11 hijacker (AA 11) (deceased) |
Madani al Tayyib |
Saudi; former head of al Qaeda finance committee |
Zuhair al Thubaiti |
Saudi; candidate 9/11 hijacker |
Fahad al Thumairy |
Saudi; Imam of King Fahd mosque in Los Angeles; accredited diplomat at Saudi Consulate in Los Angeles |
Hassan al Turabi |
Sudan's longtime hard-line ideological leader and Speaker of the country's National Assembly during the 1990s |