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New Al Qaida chief called 'pure terrorist commander'; targets Saudis WASHINGTON - Al Qaida's new chief was deemed brutal and intent on toppling the royal family in Saudi Arabia. Western intelligence sources said Saif Al Adel, named the new commander of Al Qaida, engaged in brutality as part of a campaign to promote himself and the Islamic insurgency network. They said Al Adel would also team with Al Qaida's No. 2, Ayman Zawahiri, in a new drive against Saudi Arabia. http://www.geostrategy-direct.com/geostrategy-direct/images/2011/alqaidachie f.jpg Saif Al Adel. <http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/id.9559/pub_detail.asp> _____ "One of their [Al Adel and Zawahiri] first targets would be the Saudis," a Western intelligence analyst said. The sources said Al Adel, named Osama Bin Laden's successor in May, angered Al Qaida's founder with the former's brutal methods. They cited the abduction and beheading of American journalist Daniel Pearl in Pakistan in 2002 by Khalid Sheikh Mohammad, known as KSM. "One of the high value detainees told interrogators that Osama Bin Laden was angry that KSM had slaughtered Pearl so publicly and brutally, arguing that the murder brought unnecessary attention on the network," a report on Pearl's investigation, which quoted a former U.S. military prosecutor, said in January. The sources said Al Adel encouraged Mohammad to abduct Pearl during his visit to Pakistan. Pearl had been kidnapped by Islamic militants in Pakistan, and Al Adel was believed this could represent a coup for Al Qaida. In 2003, Mohammed was captured and taken for interrogation to the U.S. Navy prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. "KSM told the FBI that he was pulled into the kidnapping by a high-level leader in Al Qaida circles, an Egyptian named Saif Al Adel, who told him to make the kidnapping an Al Qaida operation," the report by the Pearl Project at Georgetown University said. "He [Al Adel] thought this was an opportunity," the report quoted Mohammad as telling FBI agents as saying. "We can take advantage of it. He said he wanted to make sure it's an Al Qaida thing." In 2002, Pakistan tried and convicted four Islamist defendants for the killing of Pearl. All of them have appealed their sentences, one of which was capital punishment. The sources also said Al Adel would work closely with Zawahiri, both Egyptian nationals, in operations against Saudi Arabia. They said Bin Laden had restricted Al Qaida attacks against his native Saudi homeland after 2007. "Unlike Bin Laden, Al Adel is a pure terrorist commander and strategist who truly believes that the key to destroying the United States is to topple the Saudi royal family," the intelligence analyst said. "Zawahiri believes the same thing, but until now Bin Laden stopped him." The sources said Al Adel, known as a critic of Bin Laden, has retained close links to Iran. They said Al Adel used Iran as a haven since Al Qaida's air suicide strikes on New York and Washington in which more than 3,000 people were killed in 2001. "We don't know what the Iranians are telling Al Adel, but it is clear that Teheran wants to use Al Qaida in any anti-Saudi agenda," the analyst said. Al Adel was also said to have been one of the most experienced Al Qaida commanders. The sources said he helped plan the 1998 bombings of the U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, regarded as one of the most complex and successful attacks on U.S. interests abroad. 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