Saif al-Adel is most wanted in connection with the August 7, 1998 bombings of the US embassies in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania and Nairobi, Kenya.
With a $10,000,000 bounty on his head, Saif al-Adel is seen as the next successor to the tainted terrorist group al-Qaeda following the death of its leader Ayman Zawahiri. Adel has been an ardent follower of the radical thinker Muhammad Abd al-Salaam Faraj, who originally founded the Egyptian Islamic Jihad (EIJ).
Adele himself was part of the EIJ along with his former chief and Al Qaeda chief Zawahiri. Adele and Zawahiri were both long part of the EIJ along with Osama bin Laden, and have reportedly fought the Russians together in Afghanistan. The United States Federal Bureau of Investigation has stated that of her many crimes, Adele is most wanted in connection with the August 7, 1998 bombings of the United States embassies in Dar es Salaam in Tanzania and Nairobi in Kenya.
However, the search for Adele began in 1993 when she allegedly led and led the infamous ambush known as Black Hawk Down, where the US military and their helicopters were targeted to kill 18 soldiers.
He is reportedly 60 to 65 years old according to the series of birth dates suggested by the FBI. Both Zawahiri and Adele have served the Egyptian government for a long time. While the former was a surgeon, the latter was an army officer.
Adel was also one of the names that would replace the al-Qaeda chief after bin Laden was killed in 2011. However, Zawahiri was chosen being senior to him. Even when bin Laden was alive, he was considered the third most important person after Zawahiri and bin Laden.
Research into Adele by the Counter Terrorism Center has suggested that since her identity is largely unknown, it is impossible to say anything about her family or childhood.
“There is some indication that he did not have a traditional Islamic education, or if he did it was not very widespread; in his 2005 memoir about Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, Saif writes that he was partly able to memorize the Qur’an. are making the most of their free time, a task to which primary Islamic education is almost exclusively devoted,” the paper states.
The Egyptian military officer, Adele was reportedly arrested in Cairo in 1987 as part of a national security case. At this time, he was ranked as a colonel in the Egyptian Special Forces. He was convicted of reviving the terrorist organization (Tanjim al-Jihad), responsible for the assassination of Egyptian President Anwar Sadat, and of killing former Egyptian Interior Minister Hassan al-Basha and journalist Makram Muhammad Ahmed. was trying. In addition, he was also accused of planning an attack on the Egyptian parliament and army.
“I found that the brothers of the al-Jihad movement and the Islamic group lacked the practical experience that would enable them to achieve the desired change. [of society], In my opinion and in the opinion of some of the brothers, it was due to over-zealousness which at times resulted in haste or carelessness,” wrote Saif in his memoir.
He has shown active participation in the fighting again of the federal government of Somalia and the African Mission in Somalia. Not only this, they have footprints in Yemen as well as Iran. Even the Australian Bureau of Investigation has cases where it planned to assassinate Australian mining magnate Joseph Gutnick. The researchers note that in al-Qaeda circles, Adel is so respected not only among soldiers but also among leaders that when al-Zawahiri receives allegiance (bayat) from members of the organization’s governing council before officially taking office. vows required, so it was Adele who did it for him.
The Counter Terrorism Center writes of him as one of the most experienced professional soldiers in the worldwide jihadist movement.
“There are war marks on his body: a wound from a bursting light shell under his right eye; a mark on his right hand; An arm injury from his time fighting the United States and its allies in Somalia. But he is no ordinary-minded thug (but) a “clever diplomat” with a poker face.