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In as many as 50 countries young "holy warriors" are lying low devoted to the ways of Osama bin Laden. The FT investigates the al-Qaeda terrorist network and its financial and military links and our interactive map details locations of these operations across the globe.
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| methods and tactics
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 In its early stages, the rise of the al-Qaeda terror network went largely unnoticed - certainly unheeded - except by the more astute Arab intelligence services. It took the cataclysmic events of September 11 for the rest of the world to realise that it had a global threat on its hands.
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Holy war on the world
November 28
It was in the southern Afghanistan town of Kandahar that the authoritarian religious regime took root in 1994 before coming to dominate most of a country already traumatised by 15 years of war. What it brought was a government almost unimaginable in modern times and a base for bin Laden's al-Qaeda movement, now fanatically, even boastfully, devoted to waging "holy war" on governments and peoples across the globe.
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Bin Laden's martyrs for the cause
November 28
The war that drove the Soviets from Afghanistan in 1989 left Osama bin Laden with a global army in the making. But it needed a stronger structure and a new mission.
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Bankrolling bin Laden
November 29
Al-Qaeda's legitimate businesses are a failure. It is drugs, crime and donations from disgruntled Saudi merchants that finance terror.
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Trail of terrorist dollars that spans the world
November 29
Suitcases of cash, informal money transfers, standard banking procedures - al-Qaeda used them all to pay the bills of terrorism.
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How the hijackers went unnoticed
November 30
In the days leading up to the September 11 terrorist attacks, three of the 19 hijackers were tidying up loose ends. Mohammed Atta, Marwan al-Shehhi and Waleed Alsheri wired $15,000 to the United Arab Emirates in the Gulf where it was picked up in Sharjah at a branch of the Al Ansari Exchange.
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A catastrophic failure of intelligence
November 30
The Taliban was not too bothered about having prestigious premises for the de facto embassy it ran in Germany for the last five years.
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What is known about al-Qaeda operatives? the FT has pieced together what is known to create these profiles providing an insight into the men involved
Chance find that averted airport bombing
November 28
When Ahmed Rezzam drove his rented Toyota Corolla off the ferry from Vancouver Island in Canada to Port Angeles near Seattle in the US he soon raised the suspicions of US customs inspectors. In response to questions about his journey, the Algerian became agitated.
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Suicide bomber who funked martyrdom
November 29
Mohammed Rashed Daoud al-Owhali was prepared to die for al-Qaeda, but was denied the martyrdom so carefully planned for him when he helped plant the bomb at the US embassy in Nairobi that killed 213 people.
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Bin Laden's London agent in cosy world of asylum
November 30
Wrapped in a blue overcoat on a wet November evening in north London, hands deep in his pockets, white jelabia barely gliding above the pavement puddles, the short figure of Khaled al-Fawwaz appeared an unlikely associate of terrorists.
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Discussion: Who will win the war on terror?
The US has promised to kill or capture Osama bin Laden and the al-Qaeda leadership, but will this be enough to neutralise the network? Click here to share your views.
FT investigation: al-Qaeda after Afghanistan
In as many as 50 countries young "holy warriors" are lying low devoted to the ways of Osama bin Laden. The FT investigates the al-Qaeda terrorist network and its financial and military links and our interactive map details locations of these operations across the globe.
Special report: The war in Afghanistan
Read about the main issues facing Afghanistan since the overthrow of the Taliban.
Special report: Attack on Terrorism
Read the latest news and analysis on the international war against terrorism.
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Central Intelligence Agency: The war on terrorism
US State Department: Global coalition against terrorism
Dudley Knox Library, Naval Postgraduate School: Al-Qaeda profile
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