Abu Ubaidah al-Banshiri Totally Explained

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Abu Ubaidah al-Banshiri was one of the founders of the Islamist terrorist network now known as al-Qaeda. When he drowned in a ferry accident in Lake Victoria in 1996, he was the head of al-Qaeda's African presence and #2 in the whole organization, behind Osama bin Laden.
   While in Kenya and Tanzania he was known by the aliases Adel Habib, Karim, and Jalal. His real name, which had been kept secret even from his wife, was Ali Amin al-Rashidi ( علي أمين الرشيدي ).
   Al-Banshiri was born in May of 1950 in Cairo, and served as a policeman in Egypt before joining the anti-Soviet effort in Afghanistan. While still in Afghanistan, in August of 1988, he attended the founding meeting of al-Qaeda, along with bin Laden, Mamdouh Mahmud Salim, and Abdullah Azzam.
   At some point al-Banshiri acquired either Dutch citizenship or forged Dutch papers.
   When the news broke that the ferry MV Bukoba had sunk in Lake Victoria, al-Qaeda sent Fazul Abdullah Mohammed and Wadih el-Hage to the scene, to verify that al-Banshiri was dead, and hadn't defected or been captured.
   Al-Banshiri was succeeded as al-Qaeda's "military" commander by another Egyptian ex-policeman, Mohammed Atef. Al-Banshiri's senior role in East Africa was taken over, at least in part, by Abdullah Ahmed Abdullah.

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