Word: saad
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...command, Ayman al-Zawahiri (U.S. authorities believe that the voice on the tape was indeed al-Zawahiri's)--have added to the tension. A senior State Department official believes that the messages by bin Laden and al-Zawahiri may amount to the starting gun for a fresh campaign. Saad al Fagih, a Saudi dissident based in London, says those in circles close to al-Qaeda talk these days with "strange confidence" about a second big attack against the U.S. "Before Sept. 11, bin Laden would talk in general terms about a major attack coming and a major, major attack following...
...Saad bin Laden ASSUMED ALIVE --Osama's son is only about 22 but Arab sources claim he has taken over the reins of al-Qaeda. U.S. officials downplay the likelihood that junior is in charge, but they say his role has increased since 9/11. Intel reports suggest Saad, a finance and logistics guy, is hiding out separately from his father on the Afghanistan-Pakistan border...
...next generation taking over Dad's family terror business? With Osama bin Laden on the run or dead--depending on which rumor you believe--prominent Arab newspapers like the London-based Asharq Al-Awsat speculated last week that one of his sons, Saad bin Laden, has taken control of the Al Qaeda network. The CIA and other Arab experts don't think so. But with many of bin Laden's top lieutenants captured or killed, there's room now for the young man to move up, the agency believes...
Little is known about Saad. He's believed to be 21 or 22 and the third eldest son of bin Laden's 23 children. He lived with his father when Osama was exiled to the Sudan from 1991-96, then moved with him to Afghanistan after the Sudanese government ejected them. Since then, Saad, who is married to a woman from Yemen, has done chores for his dad, like helping move money around the globe for terror operations and making travel arrangements for al Qaeda guerrillas. Intelligence officials think Saad is now hiding out somewhere along Pakistan's border with...
...Saad's principal value now is the fact that he's a bin Laden and willing to follow his father's footsteps. If Osama dies, Saad is the symbol that the "struggle lives on," says French counter-terror expert Roland Jacquard. "If bin Laden lives, Saad remains symbolic of the generation of young mujehadin ready to step into the battle." The CIA agrees, which is why the agency is eagerly hunting for him. "Just as there's some symbolism to him being there to run the organization," says a senior U.S. intelligence official, "there's also some symbolism in picking...