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Abubakar Shekau
The leader of Boko Haram, a militant Islamist movement based in Nigeria that has made numerous threats against the United States, claimed responsibility for kidnapping nearly 300 schoolgirls in April 2014. Six months later, he promised to release the girls as part of a cease-fire agreement with the Nigerian government, but went back on his word. He said the girls had become Muslims and that Boko Haram had "married them off." Other kidnappings and terrorist acts followed. The United States designated Boko Haram a terrorist organization in 2013.
Tamerlan & Dzhokhar Tsarnaev
Two brothers from the former Soviet Union, who immigrated with their family to the United States in 2002 in search of a better life, allegedly set off two pressure cooker bombs near the finish line of the Boston Marathon on April 15, 2013. The explosions killed three people and injured 264 others. The brothers also allegedly killed an MIT policeman. During the manhunt that followed the Boston Marathon bombings, the older brother was killed. The younger brother was apprehended and now faces numerous charges. If convicted, he could face the death penalty.
Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi
He is the leader of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), which has been using terrorism, ethnic cleansing and human rights abuses to expand its influence in the Middle East and to impose an Islamic state wherever it seizes control. In October 2011, the U.S. State Department listed him as a "specially designated global terrorist" and announced a reward of up to $10 million for information leading to his capture or death.
Lashkar-e-Taiba
Founded in 1990, this group is one of the largest and most active terrorist organizations in South Asia, operating mostly from Pakistan and striking at targets in India. Among the group's most notable acts of terrorism are the 2001 attack on the Indian Parliament and the 2008 Mumbai attacks, a series of shootings and bombings carried out over four days that took the lives of 164 people and wounded at least 308
Hasib Hussain, Shahzad Tanweer, Germaine Lindsay & Mohammed Sidique Khan
On July 7, 2005, at 8:50 a.m., explosions ripped through three subway trains of the London Underground, killing 39 people. An hour later, 13 more people were killed when a bomb exploded on the upper deck of a bus in Tavistock Square. Together, the four attacks injured more than 700 people. Each of the London Underground attacks was carried out by one of these four suicide bombers.
Samantha Lewthwaite
The widow of one of the terrorists who died in the 2005 London Underground bombings, this British woman is also considered to be a terrorist in her own right. She has been accused of orchestrating grenade attacks on non-Muslim places of worship and other terrorist acts, and she is currently wanted by Interpol and is considered one of the world's most wanted terrorists.
Abu Sayyaf
Since its founding in 1991, this militant Islamic group in the Philippines has carried out bombings, kidnappings, assassinations, rape, child sexual assault, drive-by shootings, extortion and drug trafficking in pursuit of its political goals. In February 2004, the group claimed responsibility for a bomb that destroyed Superferry 14, killing 116 people in the Philippines' deadliest terrorist attack and the world's deadliest terrorist attack at sea. The U.S. State Department has classified the group as a terrorist organization.
Umer Patek
An Indonesian member of the terrorist group Jemaah Islamiyah, this admitted terrorist was a key perpetrator of the 2002 Bali bombings that killed 202 people in a tourist section of Bali. It was the deadliest act of terrorism in Indonesian history, and the United Nations Security Council passed a resolution condemning the attack as a threat to international peace and security. In 2012, this man was convicted on several counts of murder and bomb-making and sentenced to 20 years in prison.
Bruce E. Ivins
Working alone, this senior biodefense researcher at the United States Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases was suspected of sending letters containing anthrax to the offices of two leading U.S. senators and to several media organizations, including The New York Times and the three major broadcast networks. The so-called Amerithrax attacks began on September 18, 2001 and lasted several weeks. The suspected terrorist died on July 29, 2008 of apparent suicide after learning that the FBI was planning to file charges against him.
Osama bin Laden
After orchestrating the terrorist attacks against the United States on September 11, 2001 that killed nearly 3,000 people, he was the focus of an international manhunt that lasted nearly a decade. U.S. military and intelligence forces tracked him to a residential compound in Pakistan, where he was shot and killed on May 2, 2011.
Ayman al-Zawahri
The current leader of al-Qaeda, this man is a former member of Islamist organizations that have carried out terrorist attacks on several continents, including North America. In 2012, he called on Muslims to kidnap Western tourists when they travel in Muslim countries. Since the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, the U.S. State Department has offered a $25 million reward for information leading to his capture.
Khalid Sheikh Mohammed
Identified as "the principal architect of the 9/11 attacks" by the 9/11 Commission Report, he is accused of several acts of terrorism that have resulted in the mass murder of civilians. He is also suspected of either orchestrating or being involved in terrorist acts ranging from the 1993 World Trade Center bombing to the execution of U.S. journalist Daniel Pearl. He is currently being held in U.S. military custody in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba.
Nasir al-Wuhayshi
A citizen of Yemen, he is deputy leader of al-Qaaeda and emir of al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), which is widely regarded as the most dangerous of al-Qaeda's many splinter organizations. For several years, he was Osama bin Laden's private secretary in Afghanistan. When he left Afghanistan in 2001, he was arrested by Iranian authorities and handed over to Yemen, where he was imprisoned without charges. In February 2006, he was one of 23 Yemeni prisoners who escaped from a maximum security prison. He is currently a fugitive and wanted by both Yemen and Saudi Arabia.
Ibrahim Hassan al-Asiri
Believed to be the main bomb maker and primary explosives expert for al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, he is suspected of making the bombs for several high-profile terrorist acts. There were reports that he had been seriously wounded in a drone attack in 2013 or killed in a firefight in 2014, but the reports were never confirmed.
Timothy McVeigh
Hoping to inspire a revolt against the U.S. government, this Gulf War veteran organized and led a terrorist attack on the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City on April 19, 1995, the two-year anniversary of the Waco Siege. The truck bomb he detonated in front of the building killed 168 people, including 19 children under the age of 6, and injured more than 600 others. He was convicted of 11 federal crimes, sentenced to death, and executed on June 11, 2001 at the Federal Correctional Complex in Terre Haute, Indiana.
The leader of Boko Haram, a militant Islamist movement based in Nigeria that has made numerous threats against the United States, claimed responsibility for kidnapping nearly 300 schoolgirls in April 2014. Six months later, he promised to release the girls as part of a cease-fire agreement with the Nigerian government, but went back on his word. He said the girls had become Muslims and that Boko Haram had "married them off." Other kidnappings and terrorist acts followed. The United States designated Boko Haram a terrorist organization in 2013.
Tamerlan & Dzhokhar Tsarnaev
Two brothers from the former Soviet Union, who immigrated with their family to the United States in 2002 in search of a better life, allegedly set off two pressure cooker bombs near the finish line of the Boston Marathon on April 15, 2013. The explosions killed three people and injured 264 others. The brothers also allegedly killed an MIT policeman. During the manhunt that followed the Boston Marathon bombings, the older brother was killed. The younger brother was apprehended and now faces numerous charges. If convicted, he could face the death penalty.
Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi
He is the leader of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), which has been using terrorism, ethnic cleansing and human rights abuses to expand its influence in the Middle East and to impose an Islamic state wherever it seizes control. In October 2011, the U.S. State Department listed him as a "specially designated global terrorist" and announced a reward of up to $10 million for information leading to his capture or death.
Lashkar-e-Taiba
Founded in 1990, this group is one of the largest and most active terrorist organizations in South Asia, operating mostly from Pakistan and striking at targets in India. Among the group's most notable acts of terrorism are the 2001 attack on the Indian Parliament and the 2008 Mumbai attacks, a series of shootings and bombings carried out over four days that took the lives of 164 people and wounded at least 308
Hasib Hussain, Shahzad Tanweer, Germaine Lindsay & Mohammed Sidique Khan
On July 7, 2005, at 8:50 a.m., explosions ripped through three subway trains of the London Underground, killing 39 people. An hour later, 13 more people were killed when a bomb exploded on the upper deck of a bus in Tavistock Square. Together, the four attacks injured more than 700 people. Each of the London Underground attacks was carried out by one of these four suicide bombers.
Samantha Lewthwaite
The widow of one of the terrorists who died in the 2005 London Underground bombings, this British woman is also considered to be a terrorist in her own right. She has been accused of orchestrating grenade attacks on non-Muslim places of worship and other terrorist acts, and she is currently wanted by Interpol and is considered one of the world's most wanted terrorists.
Abu Sayyaf
Since its founding in 1991, this militant Islamic group in the Philippines has carried out bombings, kidnappings, assassinations, rape, child sexual assault, drive-by shootings, extortion and drug trafficking in pursuit of its political goals. In February 2004, the group claimed responsibility for a bomb that destroyed Superferry 14, killing 116 people in the Philippines' deadliest terrorist attack and the world's deadliest terrorist attack at sea. The U.S. State Department has classified the group as a terrorist organization.
Umer Patek
An Indonesian member of the terrorist group Jemaah Islamiyah, this admitted terrorist was a key perpetrator of the 2002 Bali bombings that killed 202 people in a tourist section of Bali. It was the deadliest act of terrorism in Indonesian history, and the United Nations Security Council passed a resolution condemning the attack as a threat to international peace and security. In 2012, this man was convicted on several counts of murder and bomb-making and sentenced to 20 years in prison.
Bruce E. Ivins
Working alone, this senior biodefense researcher at the United States Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases was suspected of sending letters containing anthrax to the offices of two leading U.S. senators and to several media organizations, including The New York Times and the three major broadcast networks. The so-called Amerithrax attacks began on September 18, 2001 and lasted several weeks. The suspected terrorist died on July 29, 2008 of apparent suicide after learning that the FBI was planning to file charges against him.
Osama bin Laden
After orchestrating the terrorist attacks against the United States on September 11, 2001 that killed nearly 3,000 people, he was the focus of an international manhunt that lasted nearly a decade. U.S. military and intelligence forces tracked him to a residential compound in Pakistan, where he was shot and killed on May 2, 2011.
Ayman al-Zawahri
The current leader of al-Qaeda, this man is a former member of Islamist organizations that have carried out terrorist attacks on several continents, including North America. In 2012, he called on Muslims to kidnap Western tourists when they travel in Muslim countries. Since the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, the U.S. State Department has offered a $25 million reward for information leading to his capture.
Khalid Sheikh Mohammed
Identified as "the principal architect of the 9/11 attacks" by the 9/11 Commission Report, he is accused of several acts of terrorism that have resulted in the mass murder of civilians. He is also suspected of either orchestrating or being involved in terrorist acts ranging from the 1993 World Trade Center bombing to the execution of U.S. journalist Daniel Pearl. He is currently being held in U.S. military custody in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba.
Nasir al-Wuhayshi
A citizen of Yemen, he is deputy leader of al-Qaaeda and emir of al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), which is widely regarded as the most dangerous of al-Qaeda's many splinter organizations. For several years, he was Osama bin Laden's private secretary in Afghanistan. When he left Afghanistan in 2001, he was arrested by Iranian authorities and handed over to Yemen, where he was imprisoned without charges. In February 2006, he was one of 23 Yemeni prisoners who escaped from a maximum security prison. He is currently a fugitive and wanted by both Yemen and Saudi Arabia.
Ibrahim Hassan al-Asiri
Believed to be the main bomb maker and primary explosives expert for al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, he is suspected of making the bombs for several high-profile terrorist acts. There were reports that he had been seriously wounded in a drone attack in 2013 or killed in a firefight in 2014, but the reports were never confirmed.
Timothy McVeigh
Hoping to inspire a revolt against the U.S. government, this Gulf War veteran organized and led a terrorist attack on the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City on April 19, 1995, the two-year anniversary of the Waco Siege. The truck bomb he detonated in front of the building killed 168 people, including 19 children under the age of 6, and injured more than 600 others. He was convicted of 11 federal crimes, sentenced to death, and executed on June 11, 2001 at the Federal Correctional Complex in Terre Haute, Indiana.
