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Saif al Islam el Masry

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Saif el-Masry


Saif al-Islam el-masry (Arabic: سيف الإسلام المصري‎‎) is the name of a certain member of al-Qaeda. The name is probably, but not certainly, a nom de guerre; Saif al-Islam means Sword of Islam and el-Masry means the Egyptian, but either or both could be a real name. Little is publicly known about this person, but his name has come up in reports and testimony on a variety of major terrorist attacks and related paramilitary and financial activities. According to those sources, Saif al-Islam

  • was one of fifteen men—all Arabs—captured in the Pankisi Gorge in a joint operation by Georgian and American Special Forces, in early October 2002
  • was until then a member of al-Qaeda's majlis al-shura and its military committee
  • was handed over to the Americans
  • ran the Jihad Wal training camp near Khost, Afghanistan in 1992
  • had been an officer of the Chechnya branch of the terrorist charity Benevolence International Foundation
  • fought against American forces in Somalia
  • instructed Ali Mohamed to get training from Hezbollah in south Lebanon.

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