was identified in a November 2005 video as al-Qaeda's field commander in south-east Afghanistan, while Abd al-Hadi al-Iraqi was named as its commander in the south-west. Habib seems to have assumed overall command after the latter's capture in 2006. He was described as al-Qaeda's "military commander" in July 2008. US military officials say he oversees al-Qaeda's "internal" operations in Afghanistan and northern Pakistan. Habib may be operating under an assumed identity, according to some analysts. One of his noms de guerre is believed to be Khalid al-Harbi. Adnan el Shukrijumah In August 2010, the FBI said Adnan Gulshair el Shukrijumah had taken over as chief of al-Qaeda's "external operations council". Having lived for more than 15 years in the US, he is the first leader intimately familiar with American society to have been placed in charge of planning attacks for the group outside Afghanistan. Such a position - once held by the alleged mastermind of 9/11, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed - necessitates regular contact with al-Qaeda's senior leadership and military commanders, and makes him likely to be killed or captured. Born in Saudi Arabia, Shukrijumah moved to the US when his father, a Muslim cleric, took up a post at a mosque in Brooklyn. They later moved to Florida. In the late 1990s, he became convinced that he had to participate in jihad in place like Chechnya, and left for training camps in Afghanistan. Shukrijumah has been named in a US federal indictment as a conspirator in the case against three