Al-Qaida staff changes
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May 19, 2011, Thursday
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AL JAZEERA television said al-Qaida has appointed a temporary leader and a new head of operations following the killing of Osama bin Laden by US commandos, citing its own correspondent yesterday.
It said in a brief news flash the Egyptian militant Saif al-Adel was named interim leader, while Mustafa al-Yemeni, whose nationality it did not give, would direct operations.
US special forces shot dead al-Qaida leader bin Laden in his hideout outside the capital of Pakistan earlier this month.
US prosecutors say Adel is one of al-Qaida's leading military commanders and helped plan the bomb attacks against the the American embassies in Nairobi and Dar es Salaam in 1998.
They also say he set up al-Qaida training camps in Sudan and Afghanistan in the 1990s.
An al-Qaida expert said on Tuesday that Adel would likely not act as head of the organization.
"This role that he has assumed is not as overall leader, but he is in charge in operational and military terms," said Noman Benotman, a former bin Laden associate who is now an analyst.
It said in a brief news flash the Egyptian militant Saif al-Adel was named interim leader, while Mustafa al-Yemeni, whose nationality it did not give, would direct operations.
US special forces shot dead al-Qaida leader bin Laden in his hideout outside the capital of Pakistan earlier this month.
US prosecutors say Adel is one of al-Qaida's leading military commanders and helped plan the bomb attacks against the the American embassies in Nairobi and Dar es Salaam in 1998.
They also say he set up al-Qaida training camps in Sudan and Afghanistan in the 1990s.
An al-Qaida expert said on Tuesday that Adel would likely not act as head of the organization.
"This role that he has assumed is not as overall leader, but he is in charge in operational and military terms," said Noman Benotman, a former bin Laden associate who is now an analyst.
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