Zubaydah is known by over thirty-five aliases, including Zayn al-Abidin Muhammad Husain (Zein-al-Abideen Mohammed Hussein) and Abd Al-Hadi Al-Wahab.
He is also an associate of Ibn al-Shaykh al-Libi. During the 1990s, he was the chief recruiter of Al-Qaida.
He had been sentenced to death in absentia by a Jordanian court for his role in the failed 2000 bomb plot in Jordan. He was also allegedly behind the Airport bomb plot in 2000 and the organizer of the September 11, 2001 Terrorist Attacks. A plot to bomb the U.S. embassy in Paris failed, as did an alleged plot to attack a target in Yugoslavia. He was probably conspiring in both of those plots.
The U.S. government believes he became Al Qaeda's top military strategist following the death of Muhammad Atef in November 2001.
He is said to have gained weight and changed his hairstyle probably to evade capture, yet he was captured 2 March, 2003 in Pakistan. He had suffered a wound to the groin in a firefight.
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