On
this date, September 9, 1978, a group of super villains called The Legion of
Doom mad its first appearance in a cartoon series, "Wanted: The Super
Friends" (Challenge of the Super Friends, Episode 1). There were
thirteen members of the Legion of Doom, so I decided to post 13 dead terrorists
who were either executed or killed in military action. I will put them in order
of the dates they were terminated from the face of the earth, starting with the
earliest.
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| Screenshot of the Legion of Doom. From left to right: Black Manta, Giganta, Toyman, the Riddler, Bizarro, the Scarecrow, Lex Luthor, Captain Cold, Cheetah, Solomon Grundy, Gorilla Grodd, Brainiac, and Sinestro. |
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Timothy McVeigh
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1. Timothy McVeigh A.K.A Timothy James "Tim"
McVeigh (April 23, 1968 –
June 11, 2001) was an American terrorist who detonated a truck bomb in front of
the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City on April 19, 1995.
Commonly referred to as the Oklahoma
City Bombing, the attack killed 168 people and injured over 800. It was the
deadliest act of terrorism within the United States prior to the September 11,
2001 terrorist attacks. As of 2013, the bombing remains the deadliest act of
domestic terrorism in United States history. McVeigh, a militia movement
sympathizer and Persian Gulf War veteran, sought revenge against the federal
government for their handling of the Waco Siege, which ended in the deaths of
76 people exactly two years prior to the bombing, as well as for the Ruby Ridge
incident in 1992. McVeigh hoped to inspire a revolt against what he considered
to be a tyrannical federal government. He was convicted of eleven federal
offenses and sentenced to death. His execution took place on June 11, 2001 at
the Federal Correctional Complex in Terre Haute, Indiana. Terry Nichols and
Michael Fortier were also convicted as conspirators in the plot.
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| Abu Musab al-Zarqawi |
2. Abu Musab al-Zarqawi (Arabic: أبومصعب الزرقاوي, ’Abū Muṣ‘ab
az-Zarqāwī, Abu Musab from Zarqa); October 30, 1966 – June 7,
2006), born Ahmad Fadeel al-Nazal
al-Khalayleh (Arabic: أحمد فضيل النزال الخلايله, ’Aḥmad Faḍīl an-Nazāl al-Ḫalāyla)
was a Jordanian militant Islamist who ran a paramilitary training camp in
Afghanistan. He became known after going to Iraq and being responsible for a
series of bombings, beheadings, and attacks during the Iraq War.
He
formed al-Tawhid wal-Jihad in the 1990s, and led it until his death in June
2006. Zarqawi took responsibility, on several audio- and videotapes, for
numerous acts of violence in Iraq including suicide bombings and hostage
executions. Zarqawi opposed the presence of US and Western military forces in
the Islamic world, as well as the West's support for the existence of Israel.
In late 2004 he joined al-Qaeda, and pledged allegiance to Osama bin Laden.
After this al-Tawhid wal-Jihad became known as Al-Qaeda in Iraq (AQI), and
al-Zarqawi was given the Al-Qaeda title, "Emir of Al Qaeda in the Country
of Two Rivers".
In
September 2005, he declared "all-out war" on Shia in Iraq after the
Iraqi government offensive on insurgents in the Sunni town of Tal Afar. He
dispatched numerous suicide bombers throughout Iraq to attack American soldiers
and areas with large concentrations of Shia militias. He is also responsible
for the 2005 bombing of three hotels in Amman, Jordan. Zarqawi was killed in a targeted
killing by the USAF on June 7, 2006, while attending a meeting in an
isolated safehouse approximately 8 km (5.0 mi) north of Baqubah. One
United States Air Force F-16C jet dropped two 500-pound (230 kg) guided
bombs on the safehouse.
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From left to right: Ali Ghufron Mukhlas, Imam
Samudra & Amrozi
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3 to 5. Amrozi
A.K.A the Smiling Assassin was executed together with Imam Samudra
and Ali Ghufron
Mukhlas by firing squad in Nusa
Kambangan Island, Indonesia. They were involved in the 2002
Bail Bombings.
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Noordin Mohammad Top
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6. Noordin Mohammad Top (11 August
1968 – 17 September 2009), of Malaysian citizenship, was a Muslim extremist,
also referred to as (Noordin) Din Moch Top, Muh Top, or Mat Top,
and Indonesia's most wanted Islamist militant. Born in Kluang, Johor, Malaysia,
he is thought to have been a key bomb maker and/or financier for Jemaah
Islamiyah (JI) and to have left JI and set up a more violent splinter group
Tanzim Qaedat al-Jihad. Noordin was reported by the FBI to be "an
explosives expert". The FBI also has reported him to be "an officer,
recruiter, bombmaker, and trainer for the Jemaah Islamiah (JI) group."
Noordin and Azahari Husin were thought to have
masterminded the 2003 JW Marriott hotel bombing in Jakarta, the 2004 Australian
embassy bombing in Jakarta, the 2005 Bali bombings and the 2009 JW Marriott -
Ritz-Carlton bombings, and Noordin may have assisted in the 2002 Bali Bombings.
Noordin, nicknamed "Moneyman", was an
indoctrinator who was specialized in recruiting militants into becoming suicide
bombers and collecting funds for militant activities.
Having long since been wanted by Malaysian and
Indonesian authorities, in 2006, he also became listed on the FBI's third major
"wanted" list, the FBI Seeking Information - War on Terrorism list.
He was killed during a police raid in Solo, Central
Java, on 17 September 2009 conducted by the Indonesian anti-terrorist team,
Densus 88.
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John Allen Muhammad
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7. The D.C. Sniper, John Allen
Muhammad was executed by lethal injection at Greensville
Correctional Center in Jarratt, Virginia on November 10, 2009. He went on a
spree killing and had killed more than 10 people.
John
Allen Muhammad (December 31, 1960 - November 10, 2009) was a convicted murderer
from the United States. He, along with his seventeen-year-old partner, Lee Boyd
Malvo, carried out the 2002 Beltway sniper attacks, killing at least 10 people.
Muhammad and Malvo were arrested in connection with the attacks on October 24,
2002, following tips from alert citizens. Although the pairing's actions were
classified as psychopathy attributable to serial killer characteristics by the
media, whether or not their psychopathy meets this classification or that of a
spree killer is debated by researchers.
Born
as John Allen Williams, Muhammad joined the Nation of Islam in 1987 and later
changed his surname to Muhammad. At Muhammad's trial, the prosecutor claimed
that the rampage was part of a plot to kill his ex-wife and regain custody of
his children, but the judge ruled that there was insufficient evidence to
support this argument. His trial for one of the murders (the murder of Dean
Harold Meyers in Prince William County, Virginia) began in October 2003, and
the following month he was found guilty of capital murder. Four months later he
was sentenced to death. While awaiting execution in Virginia, in August 2005,
he was extradited to Maryland to face some of the charges there, for which he
was convicted of six counts of first-degree murder on May 30, 2006.
Upon
completion of the trial activity in Maryland, he was returned to Virginia's
death row pending an agreement with another state or the District of Columbia
seeking to try him. He was not tried on additional charges in other Virginia
jurisdictions, and faced potential trials in three other states and the
District of Columbia involving other deaths and serious woundings. All appeals
of his conviction for killing Dean Harold Meyers had been made and rejected.
Appeals for Muhammad's other trials remained pending at the time of his
execution.
Muhammad
was executed by lethal injection on November 10, 2009, at 9:06 pm EST at
Greensville Correctional Center in Jarratt, Virginia, and was pronounced dead
at 9:11 pm EST. Muhammad declined to make a final statement.
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| Dulmatin |
8. Dulmatin (6 June
1970 – 9 March 2010) was a senior figure in the militant group Jemaah Islamiyah
(JI) and one of the most wanted terrorists in Southeast Asia. He was also known
as Amar Usmanan, Joko Pitoyo, Joko Pitono, Abdul Matin,
Pitono, Muktarmar, Djoko, and Noval. He had a
nickname "Genius". Dulmatin was a Javanese with 172 cm tall,
weighing 70 kg, with a brown complexion.
According to the Jakarta Globe when he was a
young man he attended a religious boarding school run by the founder of the
Jemaah Islamiyah, Abu Bakar Bashir.
Dulmatin had received training in al-Qaeda camps in
Afghanistan. He was believed to have been the protégé of Azahari Husin and
under Azahari's guidance Dulmatin became an electronics specialist and bomb
making expert. He participated in the car bomb attack on the Philippine
ambassador in Jakarta on 1 August 2000 and assembled the timers for the 38
Christmas 2000 church bombings in Indonesia which killed 19 people. He was one
of the masterminds behind the 2002 Bali bombings in Indonesia which killed 202
people, including 27 from the United Kingdom and 88 Australian citizens .
Working alongside Azahari, Dulmatin helped to assemble car bomb and explosive
vests used in the attack. He allegedly set off one of the bombs with a mobile
phone.
He was believed to be with the Abu Sayyaf group in
the Philippines since 2003 and was involved in providing explosive expertise
and training other militants. From radio intercept and human intelligence,
authorities believe that Dulmatin was wounded in a gun battle with the
Philippines military in January 2007, on the southern island of Jolo. In May
2007, Dulmatin again eluded capture when he fled from a safe house in Simunul
island just hours before Philippine police and military forces raided the
location. The authorities found 4 children believed to be Dulmatin's children.
The United States government offered a reward of up
to US$10 million for the capture of Dulmatin under the Rewards For Justice Program.
At the beginning of 2010 Dulmatin began training a
group of militants in the foothills of Jalin, just south of Banda Aceh in
Indonesia in an attempt to build a 'nerve centre for Southeast Asian terrorism'
under the name 'Al-Qaeda of the Verandah of Mecca.' The group was quickly wiped
out, beginning with police raids on 22 February 2010, when many were killed or
arrested, and followed up with intelligence from locals and ex-rebels who
banded against the non-Acehnese militants.
Dulmatin was killed in a police raid in Pamulang,
Jakarta on 9 March 2010 on the outskirts of Jakarta by Detachment 88,
Indonesia's special counter-terrorism unit.
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Osama Bin Laden
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9. Osama Bin Laden (March 10, 1957 – May 2, 2011)
was the founder of al-Qaeda, the Sunni militant Islamist organization that
claimed responsibility for the September 11 attacks on the United States, along
with numerous other mass-casualty attacks against civilian and military
targets. He was a Saudi Arabian, a member of the wealthy bin Laden family, and
an ethnic Yemeni Kindite.
He
was born in the bin Laden family to billionaire Mohammed bin Awad bin Laden in
Saudi Arabia. He studied there in college until 1979, when he joined the
mujahideen forces in Pakistan against the Soviets in Afghanistan. He helped to
fund the mujahideen by funneling arms, money and fighters from the Arab world
into Afghanistan, also gaining popularity from many Arabs. In 1988, he formed
al-Qaeda. He was banished from Saudi Arabia in 1992, and shifted his base to
Sudan, until US pressure forced him to leave Sudan in 1996. After establishing
a new base in Afghanistan, he declared a war against the United States,
initiating a series of bombings and related attacks. Bin Laden was on the
American Federal Bureau of Investigation's (FBI) lists of Ten Most Wanted
Fugitives and Most Wanted Terrorists for his involvement in the 1998 U.S.
embassy bombings.
From
2001 to 2011, bin Laden was a major target of the War on Terror, as the FBI
placed a $25 million bounty on him in their search for him. On May 2, 2011, bin
Laden was shot and killed inside a private
residential compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan, by members of the United States
Naval Special Warfare Development Group and Central Intelligence Agency operatives
in a covert operation ordered by United States President Barack Obama.
Here
are 5 previous blog posts about Osama Bin Laden:
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Anwar al-Awlaki
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10. Anwar al-Awlaki (also spelled al-Aulaqi; Arabic: أنور العولقي
Anwar al-‘Awlaqī; April 21, 1971 – September 30, 2011) was an
American and Yemeni imam and Islamic militant. U.S. government officials said
that he was a senior talent recruiter and motivator who was involved in
planning terrorist operations for the Islamist militant group al-Qaeda. With a
blog, a Facebook page, the al-Qaeda magazine Inspire, and many YouTube
videos, the Saudi news station Al Arabiya described him as the "bin Laden
of the Internet." After a request from the U.S. Congress, in November 2010
YouTube removed many of Awlaki's videos.
U.S.
officials say that as imam at a mosque in Falls Church, Virginia (2001–02),
which had 3,000 members, al-Awlaki spoke with and preached to three of the 9/11
hijackers, who were al-Qaeda members. In 2001, he presided at the funeral of
the mother of Nidal Malik Hasan, an Army psychiatrist who later e-mailed him
extensively in 2008–09 before the Fort Hood shootings. During al-Awlaki's later
radical period after 2006–07, when he went into hiding, he was associated with
Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the Nigerian who attempted the 2009 Christmas Day
bombing of an American airliner. Al-Awlaki was allegedly involved in planning
the latter's attack.
The
Yemeni government began trying him in absentia in November 2010, for
plotting to kill foreigners and being a member of al-Qaeda. A Yemeni judge
ordered that he be captured "dead or alive." U.S. officials said that
in 2009, al-Awlaki was promoted to the rank of "regional commander"
within al-Qaeda. He repeatedly called for jihad against the United
States.
In
April 2010, U.S. President Barack Obama placed al-Awlaki on a list of people
whom the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency was authorized to kill because of
terrorist activities. The "targeted killing" of an American citizen
was unprecedented. Al-Awlaki's father and civil rights groups challenged the
order in court. Al-Awlaki was believed to be in hiding in Southeast Yemen in
the last years of his life. The U.S. deployed unmanned aircraft (drones) in
Yemen to search for and kill him, firing at and failing to kill him at least
once, before succeeding in a fatal American drone attack in Yemen on
September 30, 2011. Two weeks later, al-Awlaki's 16-year-old son,
Abdulrahman al-Awlaki, a U.S. citizen who was born in Denver, was killed by a
CIA-led drone strike in Yemen. Nasser al-Awlaki, Anwar's
father, released an audio recording condemning the killings of his son and
grandson as senseless murders.
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Hamam El-Kamouny
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11. Hamam El-Kamouny
was executed by hanging in Egypt on a Monday morning (October 10, 2011).
He was put to death for the January 7, 2010 Nag Hammadi massacre where he
shot dead six Christians and a Muslim.
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Ajmal Kasab
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Mohammad Ajmal Kasab pictured carrying an automatic
rifle as he enters a train station in Mumbai late on November 26, 2008.
(Credit: AFP)
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12. Mohammed Ajmal Amir Kasab (Punjabi/Urdu: محمد
اجمل امیر قصاب;
13 July 1987 – 21 November 2012) was a Pakistani militant and a member of
the Lashkar-e-Taiba Islamist group, through which he took part in the 2008 Mumbai terrorist
attacks in India. Kasab was the only attacker captured alive by
police.
Kasab
was born in Faridkot, Pakistan to a family belonging to the Qassab community.
He left his home in 2005, engaging in petty crime and armed robbery with a
friend. In late 2007, he and his friend encountered members of
Jama'at-ud-Da'wah, the political wing of Lashkar-e-Taiba, distributing
pamphlets, and were persuaded to join.
On
3 May 2010, Kasab was found guilty of 80 offences, including murder, waging war
against India, possessing explosives, and other charges. On 6 May 2010, the
same trial court sentenced him to death on four counts and to a life sentence
on five counts. Kasab's death sentence was upheld by the Bombay High Court on
21 February 2011. The verdict was upheld by the Supreme Court of India on 29
August 2012. Kasab was hanged on 21 November 2012 at 7:30 a.m. and buried at
Yerwada Jail in Pune.
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Afzal Guru
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13. Mohammad Afzal Guru (1969 - 9 February 2013), an Indian
national, was convicted by Indian court for the December 2001 attack on the Indian Parliament,
and sentenced to death by a special Prevention of Terrorism Act Court in 2002.
The Delhi High Court confirmed the judgment in 2003 and his appeal was rejected
by the Supreme Court of India in 2005. The Supreme Court did not find any
evidence as to his membership to any terrorist organisation but stated that the
circumstances clearly established that Guru was associated with the deceased
terrorists in almost every act done by them in order to achieve the objective
of attacking the Parliament and there was sufficient and satisfactory
circumstantial evidence to establish that he was a partner in the conspiracy.
The sentence was scheduled to be carried out on 20 October 2006, but Guru was
given a stay of execution after protests in Jammu and Kashmir and remained on
death row. On 3 February 2013, his mercy petition was rejected by the President
of India, Pranab Mukherjee. He was secretly hanged at Delhi's Tihar Jail around
08:00 am on 9 February 2013 and afterward buried inside jail grounds in
Operation Three Star. His family was not informed prior to execution and his
dead body was later denied to his family, while his execution resulted in
violent protests across the Kashmir region.
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