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}} Saif al-Adel ((アラビア語:سيف العدل)) (born 11 April 1960/63) is an Egyptian former military colonel,〔〔 explosives expert, and a high-ranking member of al-Qaeda who is still at large. Adel is under indictment by the United States 〔(Copy of indictment ) ''USA v. Usama bin Laden et al.,'' Center for Nonproliferation Studies, Monterey Institute of International Studies 〕 for his part in the 1998 United States embassy bombings in Kenya. According to the indictment, Adel is a member of the ''majlis al shura'' of al-Qaeda and a member of its military committee. He has provided military and intelligence training to members of al-Qaeda and Egyptian Islamic Jihad in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Sudan, and to anti-UN Somali tribes.〔 It is possible that his trainees included the Somalis of the first Battle of Mogadishu.〔 He established the al-Qaeda training facility at Ras Kamboni in Somalia near the Kenyan border.〔 He was one of the masterminds of the assassination of Egyptian President Anwar Al Sadat in 1981, and left the country in 1988 to join the mujahideen in repelling the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan.〔 He is believed to have traveled to southern Lebanon along with Abu Talha al-Sudani, Sayful Islam al-Masri, Abu Ja`far al-Masri, and Abu Salim al-Masri, where he trained alongside Hezbollah Al-Hejaz.〔Hegghammer, Thomas. CTC Sentinel, (Deconstructing the myth about al-Qaida and Khobar ), February 2008〕 In Khartoum, Sudan, Adel taught recruited militants how to handle explosives.〔Jamal al-Fadl testimony, United States vs. Osama bin Laden et al., trial transcript, Day 2, February 6, 2001.〕 Along with Saeed al-Masri and Mahfouz Ould al-Walid, he is believed to have opposed the September 11 attacks two months prior to their execution.〔9/11 Commission, p. 251〕 Married to the daughter of Mustafa Hamid, they have five children.〔 Since 2011, he has been connected with the kidnapping of the journalist Daniel Pearl in 2002.〔 On 29 February 2012, Egyptian authorities arrested a man believed to be Adel at Cairo International Airport, but the man was later identified as Mohammed Ibrahim Makkawi.〔 ==Early life== The Egyptian military has yet to release his files, but it is believed that Saif al-Adel (which translates to "Sword of Justice") is a pseudonym. His real name is thought to be Mohammed Salah al-Din Zaidan. He was born around 1960 (most FBI Documents claim 11 April). He joined the Egyptian Military around 1976 and became a Colonel in the Special Forces as an Explosives expert, possibly being trained in the Soviet Union. He fled Egypt in 1981, shortly after the assassination of Anwar El Sadat, and although his FBI file makes no mention of this, a connection has never been ruled out.〔 Adel reportedly made his way to Afghanistan, joining the relatively small but well funded (and mainly Egyptian and Saudi) Maktab al-Khidamat, which was the forerunner to al-Qaeda.〔 He became a trainer in Explosives to new recruits, and would stay in Afghanistan after the war to train members of the newly formed Taliban. The leader of the Somali militant Islamist group al-Shabaab, Moktar Ali Zubeyr, has said that Saif al-Adel and Yusef al-Ayeri played an important role in the 1993 Battle of Mogadishu by providing training and participating in the battle directly. Adel would later join Bin Laden in Sudan after 1994. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Saif al-Adel」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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