Saif Al-Adel Al Qaeda leadership holds the reins for a while?

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(Arrahmah.com) - An Egyptian Mujahid who had been a high-ranking Special Forces have been selected to "guard" leadership of Al Qaeda after the martyrdom (Insha Allah) Sheikh Osama bin Laden may Allaah have mercy, according to a source quoted by CNN. International media reported this news on Tuesday (17/05/2011).

Interim leader of Al Qaeda today is Saif al-Adel, who has long played an important role in the group, said Noman Benotman. Benotman has long been known in the leadership of Al Qaeda for more than two decades. He never became the leader of the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group (LIFG), an organization "militant" who formerly had the same ideology with Al Qaeda but has now left their original ideology.

Benotman told CNN that based on personal communication with the mujahideen and jihad discussions in the forum, al-Adel, also known as Muhammad Ibrahim Makkawi, has been selected as Al-Qaeda chiefs temporarily because of the global jihadist community have been turbulent in recent days to wait for the official announcement of the successor son of Laden.

Still according to the recognition Benotman, this is not a formal decision of Al Qaeda's shura council, because it's not currently possible to gather them in one place, but it seems this is a decision six to eight high-ranking Al Qaeda in Afghanistan-Pakistan border region. Al-Adel is one of the bigwigs in the region.

Al Adel fought against the Soviet Union during the 1980's. After the fall of the Taliban in the winter of 2001, he went to Iran. According to senior officials "counter-terrorism" Arabia, from where Al-Adel inaugurate a branch of Al Qaeda in Saudi Arabia to launch their attack campaign that began in Arabia in Riyadh in May 2003.

Some reports in one year terakhit said that it sounded like Al Adel has left Iran and are in Pakistan.

There has been no official release from the Al Qaeda to respond to this news.

Source: (Haninmazaya/arrahmah.com)