The Maktab al-Khidamat, also Maktab Khadamāt al-Mujāhidīn al-'Arab (Arabic: مكتب الخدمات or مكتب خدمات المجاهدين العرب, MAK), also known as the Afghan...
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Muhammad Atef, Ayman al-Zawahiri and other veterans of the Soviet–Afghan War. Building upon the networks of Maktab al-Khidamat, the founding members...
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and their allies of the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan against Maktab al-Khidamat in Paktia Province. This battle occurred in May 1987, during the first...
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Osama bin Laden (redirect from Amal al-Sada)
against the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. In 1984, he co-founded Maktab al-Khidamat, which recruited foreign mujahideen into the war. Bin Laden was an...
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from Al Karak who recruited Abu Musab al-Zarqawi to fight in Afghanistan. He was one of participants in the Afghan Arabs, and the manager of Maktab al-Khidamat...
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Mohammed Atef (redirect from Abu Hafs al-Masri)
al-Banshiri were to each be given 6,500 Saudi riyals monthly, the same as they had been given for their work in Maktab al-Khidamat. Atef followed al-Qaeda...
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but well funded (and mainly Egyptian and Saudi) Maktab al-Khidamat, the forerunner to what would become al-Qaeda. He became an explosives trainer for new...
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al-Rashidi to Osama bin Laden, then serving as the chief financer of Maktab al-Khidamat, who was so favorably impressed that he placed him in charge of the...
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particularly the Maktab al-Khidamat (MAK), also known as the "Services Bureau". Muslim Brotherhood networks affiliated with the Egyptian Islamist Kamal al-Sananiri...
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Allegations of CIA assistance to Osama bin Laden (redirect from Al CIAda)
Before the formation of al-Qaeda in 1988, bin Laden (among others) ran a precursor organization known as Maktab al-Khidamat (MAK), investigative reporter...
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Emperor Akbar in Fatehpur Sikri around 1574 Maktab al-Khidamat (MAK), also Maktab Khadamāt al-Mujāhidīn al-'Arab, also known as the Afghan Services Bureau...
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the Soviet–Afghan War. The next two years he spent training at the Maktab al-Khidamat, an organization created by Abdullah Azzam and Osama bin Laden. They...
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Abdullah Yusuf Azzam (category Palestinian al-Qaeda members)
efforts in that country. In 1984, Azzam and bin Laden co-founded Maktab al-Khidamat, an Islamic advocacy organization that sought to raise funds for the...
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the USA were covertly sent to Maktab al-Khidamat, an organization Osama bin Laden is said to have later transformed into al Qaeda[citation needed]. Cooperative...
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with the al-Farouq Mosque in Brooklyn, which was supported by the Maktab al-Khidamat (Afghanistan Services Bureau). The Maktab al-Khidamat was established...
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Jihadism (redirect from Jihād al-ṭalab)
most famous and effective Salafi-jihadist group is al-Qaeda. Al-Qaeda evolved from the Maktab al-Khidamat (MAK), or the "Services Office", a Muslim organization...
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The Global Security reported that Jamal al-Fadl attended the camp in 1998, when it was run by Maktab al-Khidamat. They placed the camp in Khost Province...
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defeat in Jalalabad led to internal squabbles between Al-Qaeda and Maktab al-Khidamat. Ayman al-Zawahiri turned Osama bin Laden against Abdullah Yusuf...
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(18 August 2015). "The legacy of Pakistan's loved and loathed Hamid Gul". Al-Jazeera. Retrieved 4 January 2017. His commitment to jihad – to an Islamic...
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Islamic Dawah Organisation of Afghanistan (redirect from Ittehad-al-Islami)
Non-state Allies: Jamiat-e Islami Hezb-e Islami Gulbuddin (1980s–1992) Maktab al-Khidamat (1984–1988) Hezb-e Islami Khalis Opponents State Opponents: Afghanistan...
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location missing publisher (link) Wright, Lawrence (2011). The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 (First Vintage books edition, [revised] ed.). New...
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Azzam, a Palestinian-Jordanian who influenced bin Laden, they formed Maktab al-Khidamat (MAK) in 1984, to provide support for Arab mujahideen who came to...
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Wa'el Hamza Julaidan (category Al-Qaeda founders)
Service Office" or Maktab al-Khidamat in Afghanistan, along with bin Laden and Abdullah Yusuf Azzam. Many of the supporters of al-Qaeda were trained in...
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tracking him." Osama bin Laden was recruited to be part of Azzam's Maktab al-Khidamat (Services Bureau), the support network of Arab fighters in Pakistan...
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famous and effective Salafist jihadist group was Al-Qaeda. Al-Qaeda evolved from the Maktab al-Khidamat (MAK), or the "Services Office", a Muslim organization...
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Soviets to feel free invading Afghanistan. Ba'athist Syria, led by Hafez al-Assad, was one of the few states outside the Warsaw Pact that publicly favoured...
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Kuwait (1991) Non-state Allies: Hezb-e Islami Gulbuddin (1980s–1992) Maktab al-Khidamat (1984–1988) Other Mujahideen Factions Opponents State Opponents: Democratic...
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'funding militancy'". Retrieved 23 October 2014. "Hasina: No vote rigging by AL-backed candidates - Dhaka Tribune". Retrieved 23 October 2014. "Ten Islamist...
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contact with Wadi al-Hage, who also lived in the city. The pair were likely associated with the city's fledgling Maktab al-Khidamat. While living in Khartoum...
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highest religious authority) Abd al-Aziz ibn Abd Allah Al Baz. Sometime after 1980, Azzam established the Maktab al-Khidamat to organize guest houses in Peshawar...
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