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Timeline ... note Iranian connection:

C 1960 : (EGYPT? : FUTURE EGYPTIAN SPECIAL FORCES COLONEL & EIJ/ALQAEDA TERRORIST MUHAMMAD IBRAHIM MAKKAWI aka “SAIF AL ADEL” IS BORN -—See SOMALIA, IRAN, AL JIHAD)

1980s? : (EGYPT : EGYPTIAN ISLAMIC JIHAD/ALQAEDA’S MUHAMMAD IBRAHIM MAKKAWI aka “SAIF AL ADEL” SERVES AS A SPECIAL FORCES COLONEL IN EGYPT’S ARMED FORCES-—See SOMALIA, IRAN, AL JIHAD) -———Iran plotting to groom bin Laden’s successor, The Daily Telegraph (UK) ^ | November 14, 2006 | By Con Coughlin and George Jones, Political Editor

1987 : ( EGYPT ACCUSES EGYPTIAN ISLAMIC JIHAD’S MUHAMMAD IBRAHIM MAKKAWI aka “SAIF AL ADEL” {See KSM} OF TRYING TO OVERTHROW THE GOVERNMENT-———, IRAN, SOMALIA)

1980s OR 1990s : (EGYPTIAN MUHAMMAD IBRAHIM MAKKAWI aka “SAIF AL ADEL” JOINS THE FIGHT AGAINST THE USSR IN AFGHANISTAN -—— See EGYPTIAN ISLAMIC JIHAD [LATER A PART OF AL QAEDA], AL JIHAD, IRAN, SOMALIA)

1990s : (EIJ’s MUHAMMAD IBRAHIM MAKKAWI aka “SAIF AL ADEL” ... INVOLVED IN TERROR ATTACKS AGAINST THE U.S. IN AFRICA, INCLUDING IN SOMALIA ——See IRAN, SOMALIA, AL JIHAD)

1993? : (SOMALIA : ISLAMISTS WHO ATTACKED US TROOPS IN MOGADISHU ARE THOUGHT TO HAVE BEEN TRAINED BY EGYPTIAN MUHAMMAD IBRAHIM MAKKAWI aka “SAIF AL ADEL” OF THE EGYPTIAN ISLAMIC JIHAD {See AQ, IRAN})

1990s : (EIJ’s MUHAMMAD IBRAHIM MAKKAWI aka “SAIF AL ADEL” ... INVOLVED IN TERROR ATTACKS AGAINST THE US IN AFRICA, INCLUDING IN SOMALIA ——See IRAN, SOMALIA, AL JIHAD)

FEBRUARY 1998 : (AFGHANISTAN : ISLAMIC FRONT AGAINST JEWS & CRUSADERS IS FORMED WHEN GAMAA ISLAMYYA, AL JIHAD {See MUHAMMAD IBRAHIM MAKKAWI aka “SAIF AL ADEL”} AND OTHERS JOIN)

1998 : (KENYA & TANZANIA : US EMBASSIES ARE BOMBED... SIMULTANEOUSLY —— See PERP EGYPTIAN MUHAMMAD IBRAHIM MAKKAWI aka “SAIF AL ADEL” OF THE EGYPTIAN ISLAMIC JIHAD——See AL QAEDA, KSM)

JANUARY 2000 + : (YEMEN : USS THE SULLIVANS PLOT FLOPS AFTER TERRORISTS’ DINGY SINKS UNDER THE WEIGHT OF THEIR EXPLOSIVES; AQ EGYPTIAN MUHAMMAD IBRAHIM MAKKAWI aka “SAIF AL ADEL” THEN SEEKS HELP FROM HEZBOLLAH -—— See EGYPTIAN ISLAMIC JIHAD/ALQAEDA)

< SEPTEMBER 11, 2001 : (9/11 -—EGYPTIAN MUHAMMAD IBRAHIM MAKKAWI aka “SAIF AL ADEL” TRAINS SOME OF THE FUTURE 9/11 HIJACKERS?-———— See EGYPTIAN ISLAMIC JIHAD/ALQAEDA, KSM)

SEPTEMBER 11, 2001 or later : (EIJ’s MUHAMMAD IBRAHIM MAKKAWI aka “SAIF AL ADEL” IS NAMED ON THE FBI’s MOST WANTED LIST FOR HIS ALLEGED INVOLVEMENT IN TERROR ATTACKS AGAINST THE US IN AFRICA, INCLUDING IN SOMALIA ——See IRAN)

2001 late : (EIJ’s MUHAMMAD IBRAHIM MAKKAWI aka “SAIF AL ADEL” FLEES AFGFHANISTAN, ENDS UP LIVING IN A REVOLUTIONARY GUARD GUEST HOUSE IN TEHRAN, IRAN)

MARCH 1, 2003 : (THOUGHT TO BE AQ’S REPLACEMENT FOR MOHAMMED ATEF, EGYPTIAN MUHAMMAD IBRAHIM MAKKAWI aka “SAIF AL ADEL” IS STILL AT LARGE...-—— See EGYPTIAN ISLAMIC JIHAD/ALQAEDA)

2003 Spring : (OBL FRUSTRATED WITH HIS LIEUTENANTS IN IRAN BECAUSE AQ HAD BEEN UNABLE TO STRIKE ANY SIGNIFICANT BLOWS AS THE US INVADED IRAQ-— see MUHAMMAD IBRAHIM MAKKAWI aka “SAIF AL ADEL” )

MAY 2003 : (AL QAEDA 3RD-RANKING OFFICIAL? EGYPTIAN MUHAMMAD IBRAHIM MAKKAWI aka “SAIF AL ADEL” STILL AT LARGE , IN IRAN, SHELTERED BY IRAN’S REVOLUTIONARY GUARD?-—— See EGYPTIAN ISLAMIC JIHAD/ALQAEDA)

NOVEMBER 13, 2006 : (REPORT : IRAN TRYING TO GROOM EGYPTIAN MUHAMMAD IBRAHIM MAKKAWI aka “SAIF AL ADEL” TO TAKE OVER FROM OSAMA BIN LADEN?-—— See EGYPTIAN ISLAMIC JIHAD/ALQAEDA)