Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP)
Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) is an Al Qaeda affiliate group based in the Arabian Peninsula and was formed in January 2009. It operates primarily in Yemen and occasionally recruits from Saudi Arabia. Of all the Al Qaeda affiliates, AQAP has been the most effective and dedicated to projecting attacks against the West. Mohammed Saeed al Shamrani, who committed the Pensacola Naval Air Station shooting in December 2019, was reportedly recruited and radicalized by AQAP.
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Hate Group
An organization whose goals and activities are primarily or substantially based on a shared antipathy towards people of one or more other different races, religions, ethnicities/nationalities/national origins, genders, and/or sexual identities. The mere presence of bigoted members... Read more
Colleyville Synagogu…
On January 15, 2022, a gunman entered Congregation Beth Israel in Colleyville, Texas, during services, taking three congregants and a rabbi as hostages. The standoff ended more than ten hours later with all hostages released, unharmed, and... Read more
Aafia Siddiqui
Siddiqui is a Pakistani woman who studied neuroscience at Brandeis and MIT in the 1990s and returned to Pakistan in 2003. She allegedly worked as a courier and financier for Al Qaeda. She was taken into custody... Read more
Abu Musab al-Zarqawi
Abu Musab al-Zarqawi was the leader of ISIS's predecessor organization, Al Qaeda in Iraq. Al Qaeda in Iraq split from the central Al Qaeda terrorist organization in 2004. As leader of Al Qaeda in Iraq, Zarqawi emphasized... Read more