9. Ayman al-Zawahiri
- Education: Surgeon (MBBS Doctor)
- Date: 11 September 2001
- Location: Kabul, Afghanistan
- The United States killed Al-Qaeda chief Ayman al-Zawahiri in a precise drone strike in Kabul, Afghanistan. Zawahiri was a close associate of Osama bin Laden, the mastermind of the 9/11 attacks, and became the leader of Al-Qaeda after bin Laden.
10. Afzal Guru
- Education: MBBS student at a medical college in Srinagar (doctor)
- Date: 13 December 2001
- Place: Delhi
- Terror Links: Jaish-e-Mohammed
- Charge: Linked to Jaish-e-Mohammed, Executed for Conspiracy in the Parliament Attack
- Five terrorists attacked the Parliament complex in which 9 security personnel attained Veergati.Arrested for planning the attack, helping the terrorists, and being involved in the conspiracy.
Executed in 2013
Engineer
11. Zubair Hungargekar
- Education, Profession - Software Engineer QA Analyst at Cybage Software, Pune
- Date of Arrest: 27 October 2025
- High-tech software engineer from Pune, Maharashtra,
Charge: Turned his QA and coding skills into tools for Al-Qaeda’s digital jihad
- Part of an online radicalisation network of AQIS in India, which was recruiting youths for “cyber jihad.”
12. Shahnawaz Alam
- Education, Profession - Mining Engineering, Government School Teacher
- Date of Arrest: 2 October 2023
- Charge: NIA’s most-wanted suspects list
Terror Link
- Arrested by Delhi Police from Uttar Pradesh
- He was allegedly involved in the Pune module linked to the banned terrorist organization Islamic State (IS). According to police reports, Alam was planning terrorist attacks/explosions in Delhi (especially Akshardham) and Ayodhya ahead of upcoming festivals. He had also marked Mumbai’s Chabad House as a possible target.
13. Mohammad Arshad
- Education: BTech in Mechanical Engineering
- Mohammad Rizwan Ashraf
- Education: BTech in Information Technology
- Date of Arrest: 2 October 2023
- Along with Shahnawaz Alam, Mohammad Arshad (from Garhwa, Jharkhand) and Mohammad Rizwan Ashraf (born in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia) were also arrested from different areas of Uttar Pradesh. Both of them were planning terrorist attacks/explosions in Delhi (especially Akshardham) and Ayodhya before the upcoming festivals.
14. Name: Ahmad Murtaza Abbasi
- Profession: Chemical Engineer
- Education: IIT Mumbai
- Incident Date: 3 April 2022
- Verdict Date: 28 January 2023
- Judicial Inquiry Duration: 60 days
- Ahmad Murtaza Abbasi, a Chemical Engineer from IIT Mumbai, was accused of attacking the Gorakhnath Temple in Gorakhpur and the security personnel deployed there with a banka (a sharp weapon) on 3 April 2022. After a 60-day judicial inquiry, he was sentenced to death on 28 January 2023.
15. Name: Mohammed Emwazi
- Profession: Electrical Engineer
- University: University of Westminster
- Date of Death: 12 November 2015
- Mohammed Emwazi, widely known as “Jihadi John,” was a British terrorist of Kuwaiti origin. He appeared in several videos released by the extremist group Islamic State (IS), where multiple hostages were beheaded during 2014 and 2015. He was also a member of a four-person terrorist cell commonly referred to as “The Beatles.”
16. Name: Anwar al-Awlaki
- Profession: Civil Engineer
- Education:
Colorado State University (B.S.)
San Diego State University (M.S.)
George Washington University
- Date of Death: 30 September 2011 – He was killed in a U.S. government drone strike.
- Anwar al-Awlaki, who died at the age of 40 in Yemen after being hit by missiles fired from a U.S. drone, was an influential preacher of radical Islam and played a key role in spreading the message of al-Qaeda and its affiliated organizations. Awlaki was a personal guide to several groups and individuals who were planning acts of violence, such as Nidal Malik Hasan and Faisal Shahzad.