| Abdel Haddi al-Omari |
Abdel Haddi al-Omari |
Islamic Jihad |
Middle East |
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20021207 |
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| Abdul Ghani Omar |
Abdul Ghani Omar |
Moro Islamic Liberation Front |
Southeast Asia |
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20040115 |
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| Abu Al-Abas Al-Omary |
Abu Al-Abas Al-Omary |
al-Qaeda |
India-Pakistan |
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20020915 |
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| Abu Omar |
Abu Omar |
Al Qaeda |
India-Pakistan |
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20030111 |
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Abu Omar |
al-Qaeda in Europe |
Europe |
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20051002 |
Link |
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Abu Omar |
Ansar al-Islam |
Europe |
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20040111 |
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Abu Omar |
Supreme Council of Global Jihad |
Terror Networks |
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20030813 |
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Abu Omar |
Ansar Al-Islam |
Europe |
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20031210 |
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Abu Omar |
Iraqi Insurgency |
Iraq-Jordan |
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20040309 |
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Abu Omar |
Chechnya |
Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia |
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20051219 |
Link |
| Abu Omar Abdebir |
Abu Omar Abdebir |
Salafist Group of Preaching and Combat |
Africa North |
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20060909 |
Link |
| Abu Omar Abdul Bir |
Abu Omar Abdul Bir |
Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat |
Africa North |
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20060104 |
Link |
| Abu Omar Al-Seif |
Abu Omar Al-Seif |
al-Qaeda |
Terror Networks |
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20031231 |
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| Abu Omar As-Seyf |
Abu Omar As-Seyf |
Chechnya |
Europe |
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20031212 |
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| Abu Omar Mohammed bin Abdullah al-Saif |
Abu Omar Mohammed bin Abdullah al-Saif |
Chechnya |
Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia |
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20051203 |
Link |
| |
Abu Omar Mohammed bin Abdullah al-Saif |
al-Qaeda |
Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia |
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20051203 |
Link |
| Abu Omar Muhammad Al-Seif |
Abu Omar Muhammad Al-Seif |
al-Qaeda |
Terror Networks |
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20031101 |
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| Abu Omar Muhammad al-Sayf |
Abu Omar Muhammad al-Sayf |
Chechnya |
Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia |
Chechen? |
At Large |
Holy Man |
20060130 |
Link |
| |
|
Mufti of the Chechen mujahideen |
| Abu Omar al-Saif |
Abu Omar al-Saif |
Learned Elders of Islam |
Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia |
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20050928 |
Link |
| |
Abu Omar al-Saif |
Supreme Council of Global Jihad |
Terror Networks |
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20030813 |
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Abu Omar al-Saif |
Chechnya |
Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia |
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20051211 |
Link |
| Abu Omar al-Seif |
Abu Omar al-Seif |
Chechnya |
Africa North |
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20051215 |
Link |
| Abu-Omar |
Abu-Omar |
Tehrik-i-Islami Pakistan |
India-Pakistan |
|
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20031123 |
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| Adnan bin Abdullah Al Omari |
Adnan bin Abdullah Al Omari |
al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula |
Arabia |
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20051108 |
Link |
| Ahmed Omar Abdel Rahman |
Ahmed Omar Abdel Rahman |
al-Qaeda |
India-Pakistan |
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20030302 |
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| Ahmed Omar Saeed Shaikh |
Ahmed Omar Saeed Shaikh |
Jaish-e-Mohammad |
Afghanistan/South Asia |
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20020219 |
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| Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh |
Ahmad Omar Saeed Sheikh |
Jaish-e-Muhammad |
India-Pakistan |
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20040125 |
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Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh |
Jaish e-Mohammad |
Britain |
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20030502 |
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Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh |
Jaish-e-Mohammad |
India-Pakistan |
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20050731 |
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Omar Sheikh |
Harkat-ul-Jehad Islamia |
Afghanistan/South Asia |
|
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20020122 |
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| |
Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh |
al-Qaeda |
Afghanistan/South Asia |
|
In Jug |
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20030502 |
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| |
Omar Saeed Sheikh |
al-Qaeda |
Afghanistan/South Asia |
|
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20040509 |
Link |
| |
Omar Saeed Sheikh |
Jaish-e-Muhammad |
India-Pakistan |
|
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20030424 |
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| Ahmed Omar Sheikh |
Ahmed Omar Sheikh |
Harkat-ul Ansar |
India-Pakistan |
|
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20020127 |
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| Ali Mohammed Omar Sharbagy |
Ali Mohammed Omar Sharbagy |
al-Qaeda in Yemen |
Arabia |
|
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20040317 |
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| Hadji Omar Ramalan |
Hadji Omar Ramalan |
Abu Sayyaf? |
Southeast Asia |
|
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20040128 |
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| Haisam Omar Hussein Omar |
Haisam Omar Hussein Omar |
al-Qaeda Africa |
East/Subsaharan Africa |
|
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20020924 |
|
| Haji Mohammad Omar |
Haji Mohammad Omar |
al-Qaeda |
Afghanistan/South Asia |
|
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20040709 |
Link |
| Haji Omar |
Haji Omar |
Wazir Taliban |
India-Pakistan |
|
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20060323 |
Link |
| Hassan Omar Al-Samik |
Hassan Omar Al-Samik |
al-Tawhid |
Iraq-Jordan |
|
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20050721 |
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| Jihad Al Omarin |
Jihad Al Omarin |
al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades |
Middle East |
|
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20020705 |
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| Jihad al-Omarayn |
Jihad al-Omarayn |
Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades |
Middle East |
|
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20020820 |
|
| Khaled Omar Saeed Omar |
Khaled Omar Saeed Omar |
al-Qaeda |
Iran |
|
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20031107 |
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| Mirwaiz Omar Farooq |
Mirwaiz Omar Farooq |
All Parties Hurriyat Conference |
Afghanistan/South Asia |
Kashmiri |
At Large |
|
20050611 |
|
| Mohamed El Omari |
Mohamed El Omari |
Salafia Jihadia |
Africa: North |
|
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20030819 |
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Mohamed El Omari |
al-Assirat al-Moustaquim? |
North Africa |
|
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20030529 |
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| Mohamed El-Omari |
Mohamed El-Omari |
Salafia Jihadia |
Africa: North |
|
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20030726 |
|
| Mohammad Ibrahim Omar |
Mohammad Ibrahim Omar |
Iraqi Baath Party |
Iraq |
|
|
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20051023 |
Link |
| Mohammed Ibrahim Omar al-Musslit |
Mohammed Ibrahim Omar al-Musslit |
Iraqi Insurgency |
Iraq-Jordan |
|
|
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20040327 |
|
| Mohammed Omar |
Mohammed Omar |
Supreme Council of Global Jihad |
Terror Networks |
|
|
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20030813 |
|
| Mohammed bin Said al-Omari |
Mohammed bin Said al-Omari |
Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula |
Arabia |
|
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20050725 |
|
| Mollah Omar |
Mollah Omar |
Jamaatul Mujahideen Bangladesh |
Bangladesh |
|
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20060228 |
Link |
| Muhammad Abu Omar al-Seif |
Muhammad Abu Omar al-Seif |
Learned Elders of Islam |
Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia |
|
|
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20050928 |
Link |
| Mulla Mohammad Omar |
Mulla Mohammad Omar |
Taliban |
Afghanistan/South Asia |
|
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20050706 |
|
| Mullah Mohammad Omar |
Mullah Mohammad Omar |
Taliban |
Afghanistan/South Asia |
|
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20020223 |
|
| Mullah Muhammad Omar |
Mullah Muhammad Omar |
Taliban |
Afghanistan |
|
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20030330 |
|
| Mullah Omar Akhund |
Mullah Omar Akhund |
Taliban |
Afghanistan/South Asia |
|
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20011008 |
|
| Mullah al-Hajj Omar |
Mullah al-Hajj Omar |
Wazir Taliban |
Afghanistan |
|
|
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20060501 |
Link |
| Nasser Bin Suleiman Al-Omar |
Nasser Bin Suleiman Al-Omar |
Learned Elders of Islam |
Arabia |
|
|
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20040624 |
Link |
| Nasser Omar |
Nasser Omar |
Dinnieh Group? |
Syria-Lebanon |
|
|
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20030516 |
|
| Nasser al-Omar |
Nasser al-Omar |
Learned Elders of Islam |
Arabia |
|
|
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20040103 |
|
| Omar Abdel Fatah Al-Shishani |
Omar Abdel Fatah Al-Shishani |
al-Qaeda |
Home Front |
|
|
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20031009 |
|
| Omar Abdel Rahman |
Omar Abdel Rahman |
Al-Gamaat al-Islamiyya |
Europe |
|
|
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20060217 |
Link |
| Omar Abdel Razek |
Omar Abdel Razek |
Hamas |
Israel-Palestine-Jordan |
|
|
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20060830 |
Link |
| Omar Abdel-Rahman |
Omar Abdul Rahman |
Supreme Council of Global Jihad |
Terror Networks |
|
|
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20030813 |
|
| |
Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman |
al-Gamaa al-Islamiya |
Africa North |
|
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20020615 |
|
| |
Omar Abdul Rahman |
al-Qaeda |
Terror Networks |
|
|
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20030306 |
|
| |
Sheikh Omar Abdel Rahman |
al-Qaeda |
Terror Networks |
Egyptian |
In Jug |
Big Shot |
20030305 |
|
| |
|
convicted in 1995 of conspiring to blow up the UN offices in New York |
| |
Omar Abdel Rahman |
Masjid al-Taqwa |
Home Front |
|
|
|
20031203 |
|
| |
Omar Abdel-Rahman |
al-Qaeda |
Home Front: WoT |
|
In Jug |
|
20030303 |
|
| |
Omar Abdel Rahman |
al-Gamaa al-Islamiya |
Europe |
|
|
|
20051002 |
Link |
| |
Sheik Omar Abdel-Rahman |
al-Qaeda |
Fifth Column |
|
|
|
20031119 |
|
| |
Mohammed Omar Abdel-Rahman |
al-Qaeda |
India-Pakistan |
|
|
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20030303 |
|
| Omar Abdi Mohamed |
Omar Abdi Mohamed |
Western Somali Relief Agency |
Down Under |
|
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20040201 |
|
| |
Omar Abdi Mohamed |
Global Relief Foundation |
Down Under |
|
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20040201 |
|
| |
Omar Abdi Mohamed |
al-Qaeda |
Down Under |
|
|
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20040131 |
|
| Omar Abdi Mohammed |
Omar Abdi Mohammed |
Western Somali Relief Agency |
Fifth Column |
|
|
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20040128 |
|
| |
Omar Abdi Mohammed |
Global Relief Foundation |
Fifth Column |
|
|
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20040128 |
|
| Omar Abdul Karim |
Omar Abdul Karim |
Jemaah Islamiyah |
Southeast Asia |
|
|
|
20040115 |
|
| Omar Abdullah Hassan al-Shehabi |
Omar Abdullah Hassan al-Shehabi |
Learned Elders of Islam |
Arabia |
|
|
|
20040606 |
Link |
| Omar Abdullah Kamal |
Omar Abdullah Kamal |
al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula |
Arabia |
|
|
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20040622 |
Link |
| Omar Abu Omar |
Omar Abu Omar |
al-Qaeda |
Terror Networks |
|
|
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20020708 |
|
| Omar Ahmad |
Omar Ahmad |
Council on American-Islamic Relations |
Fifth Column |
|
|
|
20030217 |
|
| Omar Ahmed Khadr |
Omar Ahmed Khadr |
al-Qaeda |
Home Front: WoT |
|
|
|
20051111 |
Link |
| Omar Al Khadr |
Omar Khadr |
al-Qaeda |
Afghanistan |
Canadian-Pakistani |
In Jug |
|
20031015 |
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| |
|
Canadian national, who faces murder charges for allegedly throwing a hand grenade that killed a US soldier in Afghanistan. Mr. Khadr was 15 years old at the time. |
| |
Omar Al Khadr |
al-Qaeda |
Afghanistan |
|
|
|
20020905 |
|
| Omar Al-Farouq |
Omar Al-Farouq |
al-Qaeda |
Iraq |
|
|
|
20061012 |
Link |
| Omar Ali Litu |
Omar Ali Litu |
Jamaatul Mujahideen Bangladesh |
Afghanistan/South Asia |
|
|
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20050912 |
Link |
| Omar Almagboul |
Omar Almagboul |
al-Qaeda in Europe |
Britain |
|
|
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20050812 |
|
| Omar Babbush |
Omar Babbush |
Janjaweed |
Africa: Horn |
|
|
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20040626 |
Link |
| Omar Bakri |
Omar Bakri |
Al-Ghuraba |
Britain |
|
|
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20060219 |
Link |
| |
Omar Bakri |
Supreme Council of Global Jihad |
Terror Networks |
|
|
|
20030813 |
|
| Omar Bakri Mohammad |
Omar Bakri Mohammad |
Ahl al Sunnah and al Jamaa |
Britain |
|
|
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20051119 |
Link |
| |
Omar Bakri Mohammad |
al Ghurabaa |
Britain |
|
|
|
20051119 |
Link |
| Omar Bakri Mohammed |
Omar Bakri Mohammed |
Central London Muslim Association |
Britain |
|
|
|
20040418 |
Link |
| |
Omar Bakri Mohammed |
Al Muhajiroun |
Fifth Column |
|
|
Supremo |
20010912 |
|
| |
Omar Bakri Mohammed |
al Ghurabaa |
Britain |
|
|
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20051029 |
Link |
| |
Omar Bakri Mohammed |
Al-Muhajiroon |
Britain |
|
|
|
20050806 |
|
| Omar Bazayah |
Omar Bazayah |
Takfir wal Hijra |
Middle East |
|
|
|
20021120 |
|
| Omar Baziyani |
Omar Baziyani |
Ansar al-Islam |
Iraq |
|
|
|
20060609 |
Link |
| Omar Bernal |
Omar Bernal |
Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia |
International |
|
|
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20020721 |
|
| Omar Brooks |
Omar Brooks |
Al-Muhajiroun |
Britain |
|
|
|
20040418 |
Link |
| |
Omar Brooks |
al-Muhajiroun |
Britain |
British |
At Large |
|
20060921 |
Link |
| Omar Deghayes |
Omar Deghayes |
al-Qaeda in Europe |
Europe |
|
|
|
20040215 |
|
| Omar Dhobi |
Omar Dhobi |
al-Qaeda |
India-Pakistan |
|
|
|
20030501 |
|
| Omar Fahim Nasser a-Din |
Omar Fahim Nasser a-Din |
Tanzim |
Israel-Palestine |
|
|
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20020430 |
|
| Omar Ghazi al-Bazayaa |
Omar Ghazi al-Bazayaa |
al-Tawhid |
Middle East |
|
|
|
20030927 |
|
| Omar Hadid |
Omar Hadid |
Mujahideen Front |
Iraq-Jordan |
|
|
|
20040628 |
Link |
| |
Omar Hadid |
al-Qaeda in Iraq |
Israel-Palestine-Jordan |
|
|
|
20051012 |
Link |
| Omar Hadouchi |
Omar Hadouchi |
Salafi Jihadi |
North Africa |
|
|
|
20021130 |
|
| Omar Ibn Al Khattab |
Omar Ibn Al Khattab |
al-Qaeda |
Arabia |
|
|
|
20040628 |
Link |
| Omar Ibn al Khattab |
Omar Ibn al Khattab |
Chechnya |
Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia |
|
|
|
20020427 |
|
| Omar Iman Abubakar |
Omar Iman Abubakar |
Council of Islamic Courts |
Africa Horn |
Somali |
|
|
20060625 |
Link |
| Omar Karim Khadr |
Omar Karim Khadr |
al-Qaeda |
Great White North |
|
|
|
20040410 |
|
| Omar Khan Sharif |
Omar Khan Sharif |
Hamas |
Middle East |
|
|
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20030430 |
|
| |
Omar Khan Sharif |
al-Muhajiroun |
Middle East |
|
|
|
20030519 |
|
| Omar Khyam |
Omar Khyam |
al-Muhajiroun |
Britain |
|
|
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20040401 |
|
| |
Omar Khyam |
al-Qaeda in Europe |
Europe |
|
|
|
20040331 |
|
| Omar Mahmood Abu Omar |
Omar Mahmood Abu Omar |
al-Qaeda |
Britain |
|
|
|
20030522 |
|
| Omar Mahmoud Abu Omar |
Omar Mahmoud Abu Omar |
al-Qaeda |
Britain |
|
|
|
20050724 |
|
| Omar Mahmoud Othman |
Omar Mahmoud Othman |
al Ghurabaa |
Britain |
|
|
|
20051119 |
Link |
| Omar Mohammed Othman |
Omar Mohammed Othman |
Learned Elders of Islam |
Britain |
|
Arrested |
Holy Man |
20021205 |
|
| |
|
Real name (?) of Abu Qatada |
| Omar Mubarak Al-Hakami |
Omar Mubarak Al-Hakami |
al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula |
Arabia |
|
|
|
20030602 |
|
| Omar Nakhcha |
Omar Nakhcha |
al-Qaeda in Europe |
Europe |
|
|
|
20060115 |
Link |
| Omar Opik Lasal |
Omar Opik Lasal |
Abu Sayyaf |
Southeast Asia |
|
|
|
20031012 |
|
| |
Omar Opik Lasal |
Moro Islamic Liberation Front |
Southeast Asia |
|
|
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20030908 |
|
| |
Omar Opik Lasal |
Abu Sayyaf |
Southeast Asia |
|
|
|
20031012 |
|
| Omar Pael |
Omar Pael |
Abu Sayyaf |
Southeast Asia |
|
|
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20050331 |
|
| Omar Patek |
Omar Patek |
Jemaah Islamiah |
Southeast Asia |
|
|
|
20060217 |
Link |
| Omar Qadoos |
Omar Qadoos |
Jamaat-e-Islami |
India-Pakistan |
|
|
|
20030301 |
|
| Omar Rifai |
Omar Rifai |
Dinnieh Group |
Syria-Lebanon |
|
|
|
20030609 |
|
| Omar Saabawi Ibrahim Hassan al-Tikriti |
Omar Saabawi Ibrahim Hassan al-Tikriti |
Iraqi Insurgency |
Iraq |
|
|
|
20060703 |
Link |
| Omar Said Omar |
Omar Said Omar |
al-Qaeda in Africa |
Africa: East |
|
|
|
20031129 |
|
| Omar Saiki |
Omar Saiki |
Finsbury Park mosque |
Terror Networks |
|
|
|
20030128 |
|
| |
Omar Saiki |
al-Qaeda |
Terror Networks |
|
|
|
20030128 |
|
| Omar Sayel al-Khalayleh |
Omar Sayel al-Khalayleh |
al-Qaeda in Iraq |
Iraq-Jordan |
|
|
|
20040510 |
Link |
| |
Omar Sayel al-Khalayleh |
al-Tawhid |
Middle East |
|
|
|
20031219 |
|
| Omar Sharif |
Omar Sharif |
Hamas |
Britain |
|
|
|
20030502 |
|
| Omar Shebli |
Omar Shebli |
Palestine Liberation Front |
Terror Networks |
|
|
|
20040310 |
|
| Omar Sheikh |
Omar Sheikh |
al-Qaeda |
Afghanistan/South Asia |
|
|
|
20050812 |
|
| |
Omar Sheikh |
Jaish-e-Mohammad |
India-Pakistan |
|
|
|
20031102 |
|
| Omar Shibli |
Omar Shibli |
Palestinian Liberation Front |
Syria-Lebanon-Iran |
|
|
|
20040404 |
|
| Omar Shishani |
Omar Shishani |
al-Qaeda |
Home Front |
|
|
|
20040101 |
|
| |
Omar Shishani |
al Qaeda |
Home Front |
Jordanian-Chechen |
Arrested |
Holy Man |
20020719 |
|
| |
|
Omar Shishani, 47, of Dearborn, was arrested at Detroit Metro Airport after getting off a flight from Indonesia. Customs agents found the nine counterfeit cashier's checks during a search of his luggage. The checks supposedly were issued by a Pomona, Calif., branch of West America Bank. The bank doesn't have an office there. Two checks were issued for $500,000 each, two for $5 million each, and five for $200,000 each. |
| Omar Shubeki |
Omar Shubeki |
Islamic Jihad |
Middle East |
|
|
|
20031001 |
|
| Omar Taliban |
Omar Taliban |
Harakat al Muhajedeen |
Afghanistan/South Asia |
|
|
|
20050912 |
Link |
| Omar Tayeh |
Omar Tayeh |
Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine |
Middle East |
|
|
|
20030504 |
|
| Omar Utman |
Omar Utman |
Islamic Jihad |
Middle East |
|
|
|
20030821 |
|
| Omar Wahdallah Dad |
Abu Nur |
Islamic State in Iraq |
Iraq |
|
In Jug |
|
20070517 |
|
| |
|
admitted responsibility for the June 2006 kidnapping and murder of four Russian diplomats. Abu Nur is accused of personally beheading two of the Russians |
| Omar al-Baghdadi |
Omar al-Baghdadi |
al-Qaeda in Iraq |
Israel-Palestine-Jordan |
|
|
|
20051012 |
Link |
| Omar al-Bayoumi |
Omar al-Bayumi |
al-Qaeda |
Arabia |
|
|
|
20030729 |
|
| |
Omar al-Bayoumi |
al-Qaeda |
Home Front |
|
|
|
20030802 |
|
| Omar al-Farouq |
Omar Al-Faruq |
al-Qaeda |
Southeast Asia |
|
|
|
20030116 |
|
| |
Omar Al-Faruq |
Jemaah Islamiyah |
Southeast Asia |
|
|
|
20021013 |
|
| |
Omar al-Farouq |
Jemaah Islamiyah |
Southeast Asia |
Kuwaiti |
Captured |
Big Shot |
20021013 |
|
| |
Omar al-Farouq |
al-Qaeda |
Europe |
|
|
|
20040331 |
|
| Omar al-Faruq |
Omar al-Faruq |
al-Qaeda |
Afghanistan |
|
|
|
20051219 |
Link |
| Omar al-Hadidi |
Omar al-Hadidi |
al-Qaeda in Iraq |
Iraq-Jordan |
|
|
|
20040622 |
Link |
| |
Omar al-Hadidi |
Al-Jamaa al-Salafiya al-Mujahida |
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| Jordan makes biggest bust of ‘ISIS drug’ in years on border with Saudi Arabia |
| 2024-06-08 |
[IsraelTimes] Authorities in the Hashemite Kingdom find millions of captagon pills hidden in construction vehicles at the end of a weeks-long operation
Jordan has foiled two plots to smuggle millions of captagon pills through a border post near Soddy Arabia
...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face...
 ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula, largely made up of sand and oil rigs. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual haj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. Formerly dictatorial and steeped in Olde Tyme Religion, deferring to Salafist holy men on all issues, it has now done a 180 and is making a serious effort to modernize, so as not to be left in the sand by its Gulf Arab neighbors. The holy men have been shoved to the background and the nation is now still dictatorial but somewhat Frational. That doesn't make them trustworthy, but it's a start...
, in the biggest seizure in years of drugs smuggled by Iran-linked networks operating in southern Syria to lucrative Gulf markets.
The haul was discovered hidden in construction vehicles at the Omari crossing, officials told Rooters on Wednesday.
Law enforcement authorities had for weeks tracked two separate operations bringing the consignment of drugs across Jordan’s northern border with Syria, but unlike in previous drug busts, authorities made the seizure at the Saudi border.
War-ravaged Syria has become the region’s main site for the mass production of the addictive, amphetamine-type stimulant known as captagon, with Jordan a key transit route to the oil-rich Gulf states, Western anti-narcotics officials say.
Jordanian officials, like their Western allies, say that Leb
...an Iranian satrapy currently ruled by Hassan Nasrallah situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozen flavors of Christians, plus Armenians, Georgians, and who knows what else? It is the home of the original Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers...
’s Iran-backed Hezbollah terror group and pro-Iranian militias who control much of southern Syria are behind a surge in the multi-billion-dollar drugs and weapons trade. Iran
...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate Jews Zionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol...
and Hezbollah deny the allegations.
UN experts and US and European officials say the illicit drug trade finances a proliferation of pro-Iranian militias and pro-government paramilitary forces created by more than a decade of conflict in Syria.
Officials call it the "Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems....
drug," as it was supposedly used by jihadists to prevent fear and fatigue during fighting in Syria and Iraq.
After Hamas
..not a terrorist organization, even though it kidnaps people, holds hostages, and tries to negotiate by executing them,...
’s October 7 attack on Israel, in which thousands of bandidos Lions of Islam killed some 1,200 people and took 251 hostages, various media reports said the bandidos Lions of Islam had been under the influence of captagon.
I’d forgotten about that. More than 400 million pills were seized in the Middle East and beyond in 2021, according to official figures, with seizures last year set to top that.
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| Sudan: RSF kills at least 100 in attack on village |
| 2024-06-07 |
[AFRICANEWS] At least 100 people were killed, and dozens were maimed after the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces attacked a village in Gezira province in Sudan
 ...a Moslem country located in the Horn of Africa. It is noted for its affinity for rule by ex- or current generals, its holy men, and for the oppression of the native Afro population by its Arab conquerors. South Sudan, populated mostly by the natives, split off from Sudan proper, which left North and South Darfur to be oppressed by the guys with turbans...
on Wednesday, officials said.
Women, children, and elderly were among the victims in the attacks by the Rapid Support Forces on Wad al-Noura village in Gezira, Mini Arko Minawi, the governor of Darfur province, said on X, formerly Twitter.
A grassroots group set up to protect residents in Wad Madani, the capital city of Gezira, said late Wednesday on social media that the paramilitary force, which has been fighting the Sudanese army for over a year, used heavy artillery to besiege and attack the village.
The Madani Resistance® Committee, which has been threatened and attacked by the RSF in the past, accused the paramilitaries of looting Wad al-Noura in the midst of the attacks which it said started Wednesday morning.
The RSF claimed in December that it had seized control of Wad Madani, about 100 kilometers (60 miles) southeast of the Sudanese capital, Khartoum, and a haven for hundreds of thousands of people displaced by fighting.
The resistance committee said the RSF invaded the village, displacing residents, including women and kiddies, to other parts of the district of al-Manaqil.
The Sudanese transitional government in a statement on its Telegram channel condemned the attacks and called for the international community to hold the RSF accountable.
"These are criminal acts that reflect the systematic behavior of these (RSF) militias in targeting civilians, plundering their property, and forcibly displacing them from their areas," said the media office for the Transitional Sovereignty Council, which was set up after the ouster of longtime president Omar al-Bashir
...Former President-for-Life of Sudan He came to power in 1989 when he, as a brigadier in the Sudanese army, led a group of officers in a bloodless military coup that ousted the government of Prime Minister Sadiq al-Mahdi and eventually appointed himself head cheese. He fell out with his Islamic mentor, Hasan al-Turabi, tried to impose shariah on the Christian and animist south, resulting in its secessesion, and attempted to Arabize Darfur by unleashing the barbaric Janjaweed on it. Sudan's potential prosperity has been pissed away in warfare that has left as many as 400,000 people dead and 2.5 million displaced. Hee was overthrown by popular consent in 2019. Omar has been indicted for genocide by the International Criminal Court but nothing is expected to come of it...
in 2019. |
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| Home Front: Politix |
| 34 reasons the Bragg-Biden Show Trial should have been TOSSED OUT; each one alone providing grounds for a mistrial: |
| 2024-06-03 |
[Paul Ingrassia's Substack] 1. Unconstitutional Gag Order that prevented President Trump from criticizing the trial, exposing the many conflicts that should have forced the judge to recuse himself, and the railroading of his fundamental due process rights.
2. Judge Merchan’s many, many conflicts of interests — all of which were disqualifying. His daughter, Loren Merchan, is President of Authentic Campaigns, a political consulting firm that hires the likes of the Biden-Harris Campaign, Adam Schiff, Ilhan Omar, and many other far left Democratic lawmakers. Loren’s firm has made tens of millions off these clients — Juan Merchan, through his daughter, had a direct financial stake in the outcome of this trial, a flagrant breach of the canons of legal ethics, both under the ABA and NY State, that under any other judge would have been grounds for a recusal.
3. Judge Merchan’s wife was previously employed by Letitia James, the Attorney General of New York State who campaigned on "getting" Donald Trump.
4. Bragg’s Lead Prosecutor was Matthew Colangelo, the former #3 official at the DOJ. We are told Colangelo graciously decided to step down from his prestigious office to work for a lowly state DA’s office — of course, a reasonable inference would be that he was directed to do so by the Biden Regime to persecute his leading political opponent in Donald John Trump.
5. Statute of Limitations (2 years, NY State) had long expired for the business records falsification scheme that served as the primary charge brought against Trump. For this reason, the case was passed over by the DOJ and even Alvin Bragg over seven years because it was so weak. Only once Bragg felt political pressure, externally via Clinton attorney Mark Pomerantz, who previously worked in Bragg’s office, and internally via Colangelo, a Biden lackey, did Bragg buckle under the political weight and press charges.
6. Venue in bright-blue Manhattan, a borough that voted for Joe Biden over Donald Trump at almost a 9 to 1 clip, prevented the President from ever getting a fair trial, because the pool of jurors was naturally biased against the 45th President, and could not possibly rule fairly and impartially (8 of the 12 cited the NY Times as their main source of news). Any pro-Trump jurors who were considered chose to self-select out themselves because they claimed they "could not rule fairly." Case in point: no way in hell is the burden of proof met on any of these charges, and yet the jury pool consisted of two lawyers, who evidently believed just that. No reasonable juror, and especially no reasonable lawyer-juror, would have found that the elements of every single crime brought against Trump met the burden of proof of beyond a reasonable doubt. |
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| Rudaw Round up: SDF vs ISIS in Syria |
| 2024-06-02 |
SDF arrest suspect accused of smuggling ISIS families
6/1/2024
[Rudaw] The Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) on Saturday announced the arrest of an individual accused of smuggling people out of al-Hol camp, which houses families linked to the Islamic State
 ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems....
(ISIS) in northeast Syria (Rojava).
Abdullah Muhammad Ibrahim, known as Abu Hisham, was arrested in the village of Abu Jern in northeastern Hasaka. Ibrahim was "actively smuggling ISIS members and families out of al-Hol camp," the SDF stated.
"The terrorist Ibrahim was involved in smuggling children known as ’Cubs of the Caliphate’ and women affiliated with ISIS. He aimed to transport them to ISIS-controlled areas in the Syrian Badia desert and Ottoman Turkish-occupied territories that harbored the ISIS key leaders," read a statement from the SDF.
The SDF arrested thousands of ISIS fighters along with their wives and children when they took control of the group’s last stronghold in Syria in March 2019. Many of these people have been living in camps for the past five years.
Al-Hol is the largest of these camps. It is located in northeast Syria’s Hasaka province and houses over 50,000 ISIS-linked people. The camp has been branded a breeding ground for terrorism. Residents come from around the world, but the majority are Syrian and Iraqi.
Iraq has brought nearly 9,000 of its nationals back so far, but the repatriations have sparked opposition from tribes unwilling to accept and welcome people associated with the group that committed atrocious human rights
One man's rights are another man's existential threat.
abuses and war crimes from 2014 to 2017, when it controlled vast areas of the country.
SDF, US-led coalition arrest ISIS leader in east Syria: Monitor
6/1
The Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) and the United States-led coalition on Friday arrested a suspected leader of the Islamic State (ISIS) in Syria’s eastern Deir ez-Zor province, a conflict monitor reported.
“In a special operation in the town of al-Busayrah in Deir ez-Zor countryside, the global coalition forces and the SDF arrested a leader of the Islamic State organization who leads a cell in the town to launch attacks and target SDF areas,” said the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a UK-based war monitor.
Joint operations to pursue ISIS cells on the banks of the Euphrates River are ongoing, the monitor said, two days after the US-led coalition arrested three people in an airdrop operation in Hasaka province, with the support of the SDF.
ISIS attacks in Syria, particularly in the vast expanses of its eastern desert where the group is active amid a security vacuum, have been on the rise in recent months, sparking fears of a possible resurgence.
The commander of American operations in the Middle East, CENTCOM, General Michael Kurilla told Congress in March that if US troops were to leave, as they are under pressure to do in Iraq, “ISIS would reconstitute the ability to seize territory within two years,” according to the Pentagon’s most recent quarterly report on anti-ISIS operation.
Hundreds of US troops stationed in Syria are part of an international coalition that has fought ISIS alongside the SDF.
ISIS attacks oil field in east Syria: Watchdog
5/31
Islamic State (ISIS) sleeper cells on Friday attacked an oil field in Syria’s eastern Deir ez-Zor province, setting one of the wells on fire, a conflict monitor reported. The UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) reported that “ISIS cells attacked one of the oil wells in Al-Sabhan oil field in the northern countryside of Deir Ezzor, where they burned it, before fleeing to an unknown destination.”
ISIS has increased its attacks in Syria in recent weeks, particularly in the vast expanses of desert where the group launches surprise attacks amid a security vacuum.
No casualties have been reported, according to the watchdog.
The Arab-majority province of Deir ez-Zor was where ISIS militants made their last stand in Syria and were territorially defeated. Control of the province, on the Iraqi border, is now split between the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) and the Syrian regime, along with its Iranian backers.
It is also home to many of the country’s key oilfields, such as Omar and Conoco, which the US-led global coalition against ISIS helps the SDF protect.
According to SOHR data, ISIS has conducted 124 operations in the areas controlled by the SDF, killing 63 individuals, including 11 civilians.
SDF arrests senior ISIS member in Raqqa
5/25
The Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) on Saturday announced they had arrested a senior Islamic State (ISIS) member in Raqqa earlier in the week.
On May 21, the Military Operations Teams (MOT) of our SDF forces conducted a precise and special security operation targeting one of the key leaders of ISIS cells in the northern countryside of Raqqa, known as Ayman Abdel Moati, aka Yacoub Al-Hadidi or Osama Al-Qurashi,” the SDF said in a statement.
Moati was the terror group’s “military official in Raqqa and the planner of all terrorist acts in Raqqa and its countryside, including bombings, assassinations, kidnappings, and intimidation of civilians,” according to the SDF.
His personal documents and mobile phones, along with a variety of ammunition, were also seized during the operation.
On Tuesday, the SDF had said it arrested two “dangerous” ISIS leaders in Qamishli and Raqqa.
UK repatriates four ISIS-linked nationals from Rojava
5/24
Kurdish authorities in northeast Syria (Rojava) this week handed over a British woman and three children affiliated with the Islamic State (ISIS) to a visiting delegation from the United Kingdom.
A British woman and three children linked with ISIS were handed over to the delegation on Wednesday, the statement added, without identifying the four people or clarifying where they were held before their repatriation. The Associated Press reported that they were last detained at Roj camp.
The British government has yet to comment on the rare repatriation of its nationals from Syria.
Thousands of people from around the world affiliated with ISIS live in camps in Rojava, the largest of which is the sprawling al-Hol camp that has more than 40,000 residents. The camp has been branded a breeding ground for terrorism.
Iraqis and Syrians make up the majority of the ISIS-linked people held at al-Hol. Iraqi National Security Advisor Qasim al-Araji said in March that around 20,000 Iraqis below the age of 18 are still at al-Hol.
Earlier this month, the United States, Canada, the Netherlands and Finland repatriated a total of 22 of their citizens.
Two ‘dangerous’ ISIS leaders captured in Rojava: SDF
5/22
The Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) announced on Tuesday the arrest of two “dangerous” Islamic State (ISIS) leaders during security operations in the cities of Qamishli and Raqqa.
“The Military Operations Teams (MOT) of our SDF forces have conducted two precise security operations that resulted in capturing two ISIS leaders in the cities of Qamishlo and Raqqa,” read a statement from the SDF.
The two leaders were identified as Ahmed Mahmoud al-Qurashi, going under the alias of Abu Moaz al-Kurdi, and Ahmed Thamer al-Muhammad. Quashi was arrested in Qamishli, and Muhammad was arrested in Raqqa.
According to the statement, Qurashi was involved in an explosive car attack in the al-Shuhail town in Deir ez-Zor. |
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| Africa Horn |
| US fails to compensate victims of drone strikes in Somalia |
| 2024-05-15 |
[Garowe] The Department of Defence has failed to compensate victims of dronezaps in Somalia since 2022, The Intercept reports, despite evidence of several casualties throughout the said period in a total of 288 attacks within the country.
For 17 years, the US has carried out 288 attacks in the Horn of Africa nation, with the US Africa Command only admitting 5 deaths, including Luul and Mariam, who tragically gave up the ghost following an Arclight airstrike
 ...KABOOM! ...
in southern regions.
But despite the smaller number quoted by US Africa Command, the Airwars, a UK-based group monitoring airstrikes, at least 3,000 people have been killed in Somalia over the last two decades, with their families failing to get justice even with overwhelming evidence.
Not long ago, the Pentagon started giving quarterly reports on casualties, but in the last two years, the US Africa Command has failed to acknowledge several deaths attributed to defence airstrikes within Somalia. US Africa Command offers aerial surveillance during ground operations.
Pentagon directed the armed forces to address people and communities on the receiving end of military operations, including by "expressing condolences" and providing ex gratia payments to next of kin.
Since 2020, Congress appropriate $15 million meant for compensation of victims of airstrikes. The money is sent to families of the victims of the airstrikes; both those killed or injured. The military rarely makes compensation payments, even in cases as clear-cut as the 2018 strike in Somalia.
Last year, various lobby groups in Somalia and their international partners protested to the Pentagon, asking Defence Defence Lloyd Austin to expedite compensation of Luul and Mariam families. This year, Sen. Elizabeth Being Native American has been part of my story since the day I was born Warren
...The Great White Squaw, Lizzie is the Dem Senatrix from Massachussetts. She traces her noble lineage all the way back to Big Chief Spouting Bull. She has high cheekbones that stretch all the way to the top of her head. It has been alleged that she speaks with forked tongue but she denies that. She had a DNA test to prove her lineage and it turns out she's colorless...
, D-Mass., and Reps. Sara Jacobs, D-Calif.; Ilhan Omar
...Somali-American Dem representative from Minnesota. She was apparently married to her brother and may be her own grandmaw on her mother's side. She is a member of The Squad, and would like to make the country look a lot more like Mogadishu...
, D-Minn; Barbara Lee, D-Calif.; and Jim McGovern, D-Mass., joined the effort.
The Defense Department missed the May 1, 2024, deadline for releasing its 2023 civilian casualty report.
"The 2022 report was almost a full year late, and the 2023 report is already overdue," said Shiel. "That means we have no public visibility into whether DoD finally began making payments last year as it worked to implement the action plan, which commits the Department to improve how it responds to civilian harm."
The United States withdrew its forces from Somalia in 2021 following a presidential decree, repositioning them to neighbouring Kenya and Djibouti, but the decision would be reversed later after Somalia complained to the Department of Defence.
Since then, at least 500 soldiers have been redeployed to Somalia where they are assisting the Somali National Army (SNA) and the African Union
...a union consisting of 53 African states, most run by dictators of one flavor or another. The only all-African state not in the AU is Morocco. Established in 2002, the AU is the successor to the Organisation of African Unity (OAU), which was even less successful...
Transition Mission in Somalia (ATMIS), who are actively involved in the fight against al-Shabaab
... Somalia's version of the Taliban, functioning as an arm of al-Qaeda...
The US Africa Command is also responsible for training and equipping the elite Danab forces, who are integral units in the fight against al-Shabaab. The US Africa Command carries out air raids based on the request from the Somalia government particularly in self-defence situations. |
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| Sudan's descent into chaos sets stage for al-Qaida to make a return to historic stronghold |
| 2024-05-13 |
[AFRICANEWS] "Sudan
...a Moslem country located in the Horn of Africa. It is noted for its affinity for rule by ex- or current generals, its holy men, and for the oppression of the native Afro population by its Arab conquerors. South Sudan, populated mostly by the natives, split off from Sudan proper, which left North and South Darfur to be oppressed by the guys with turbans...
's moment has come; chaos is our chance to sow the seeds of jihad," warned Abu Hudhaifa al-Sudani, a high-ranking al-Qaeda leader, in an October 2022 manifesto.
His words may have seemed premature at the time, but a year of brutal civil war has now plunged Sudan into the kind of chaos in which terrorist groups thrive. The risk of al-Qaeda gaining ground in Sudan is now very real and imperils, I believe, not only the country itself but also regional — and potentially global — security.
In April 2023, fighting broke out in Sudan between the Sudanese Armed Forces and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces, creating a power vacuum that Lions of Islam are eager to fill.
At the same time, the Rapid Support Forces — a group that developed under and was once allied to Sudan's al-Qaeda-harboring former president Omar al-Bashir
...Former President-for-Life of Sudan He came to power in 1989 when he, as a brigadier in the Sudanese army, led a group of officers in a bloodless military coup that ousted the government of Prime Minister Sadiq al-Mahdi and eventually appointed himself head cheese. He fell out with his Islamic mentor, Hasan al-Turabi, tried to impose shariah on the Christian and animist south, resulting in its secessesion, and attempted to Arabize Darfur by unleashing the barbaric Janjaweed on it. Sudan's potential prosperity has been pissed away in warfare that has left as many as 400,000 people dead and 2.5 million displaced. Hee was overthrown by popular consent in 2019. Omar has been indicted for genocide by the International Criminal Court but nothing is expected to come of it...>
— has been solidifying its grip in strategic areas such as Darfur and southern Khartoum.
Indeed, both the paramilitary group and the armed forces have been accused of recruiting Islamist fighters, fueling fears that the civil war will — regardless of the victor — prove a toehold for bully boy groups.
As a defense policy researcher and counterterrorism expert, I'm concerned that Sudan risks becoming an al-Qaeda stronghold — and a potential base for orchestrating attacks on the U.S. and its allies. A potential Rapid Support Forces takeover in Sudan could mirror pre-9/11 Afghanistan, where Taliban
...Arabic for students ...
control facilitated al-Qaeda's rise.
Al-Qaeda members, seeking opportunities to achieve what they couldn't in the Middle East, are already heeding calls to head to Sudan.
DECADES OF TURMOIL AND EXTREMISM
Sudan's civil strife predates the current fighting by decades. It ignited in 1989 when al-Bashir seized power, aligning the nation with radical Islamist ideologies. He imposed Sharia law and in 1991 sheltered al-Qaeda leader the late Osama bin Laden
...... who is now neither a strong horse nor a weak horse, but a dead horse......
. Under al-Bashir's regime, bin Laden established training camps and expanded al-Qaeda's financial network, laying the groundwork for the 9/11 terrorist attacks.
Facing international sanctions over its support of terrorism, Sudan expelled bin Laden in 1996.
But al-Bashir's sponsorship of the Janjaweed militia group, the architects of the 2003 Darfur genocide, further solidified his alignment with Islamist bully boys. Under scrutiny, al-Bashir rebranded the Janjaweed as the Rapid Support Forces in 2013, appointing ex-Janjaweed member Mohammed Hamdan "Hemeti" Dagalo as its leader and retaining their brutal tactics.
The 2021 coup, orchestrated by Gen. Abdel Fattah al-Burhan of the Sudanese Armed Forces and Hemeti of the Rapid Support Forces, soon devolved into a power struggle between the two men, igniting Sudan's current conflict.
Today, with Hemeti at the helm, the paramilitary group continues its oppressive campaign in West Darfur, engaging in alleged ethnic cleansing against the Indigenous Masalit people.
Meanwhile,
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a prison attack in April 2023, which the Sudanese army blamed on Rapid Support Forces rebels, facilitated the escape of al-Bashir's allies, though the former president remains hospitalized under guard.
SUDAN AT THE HEART OF JIHAD
With conflicts in the Middle Eastand Eastern Europe, the West might be overlooking the crisis in Sudan and the potential it holds for al-Qaeda, a group that has long harbored ambitions of returning to Sudan.
Despite his expulsion, bin Laden continued to emphasize Sudan's importance in his plans for global jihad. This was evident in his 2006 audiotape and diary entries in which he referred to Sudan as a pivotal operational base.
A 2023 publication by key al-Qaeda figure Ibrahim al-Qussi titled "Fragments from al-Qaeda's History" revealed that bin Laden directed an investment of US$12 million solely for jihad in Sudan, highlighting the region's ongoing relevance to al-Qaeda's objectives.
Sudan's appeal to Lions of Islam extends beyond its connections to bin Laden. Strategically bridging North and sub-Saharan Africa, Sudan is a key location for Islamist Lions of Islam aiming to expand their influence across the region.
After the 2021 U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan and the Taliban's return to power, al-Qaeda reestablished a presence in the country, reopening training camps and madrassas.
Well before that, however, al-Qaeda had long since evolved from a centralized organization in Afghanistan into a decentralized network with global affiliates — from the Arabian Peninsula to the Indian subcontinent all the way to sub-Saharan Africa and the Sahel.
HISTORIC TIES, NEW AMBITIONS
Recent developments highlight al-Qaeda's increased focus on Sudan and are driven by detailed expansion plans of Sudanese al-Qaeda leader Abu Hudhaifa al-Sudani. A former bin Laden associate with a notorious background in Afghanistan and Iraq, al-Sudani issued a renewed call for jihad.
Following the onset of civil war in Sudan, al-Sudani's 2022 manifesto, "Now the fighting has come: War messages to the Mujahideen in Sudan," not only prescribes a military strategy of targeted strikes and guerrilla warfare across Sudan but also a vision for jihad extending from Dongola in the country's north to Darfur in its south, with Khartoum as the command center.
Al-Qaeda further articulated its threat in a message on the 22nd anniversary of the 2001 attacks on the U.S., promising, "It is only a matter of time before the next strike eclipses the horrors of 9/11."
This declaration, combined with the group's escalating presence in conflict zones such as Niger and Libya, actively positions them to target U.S. interests worldwide. Indeed, a 2022 United Nations
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report indicated that al-Qaeda was planning high-profile attacks, possibly at sea.
What an bully boy takeover would mean
Al-Qaeda's potential in resource-rich Sudan should not be underestimated. Historically, the group's operations from resource-limited Afghanistan were devastating; in Sudan, with its abundance of oil, gold and fertile land, their capabilities could be significantly magnified.
Sudan provides a lucrative base for whoever holds power. Forging links with both sides of the civil war would no doubt be of huge financial benefit to al-Qaeda should either side prevail, in the same way al-Bashir's rule was a generation earlier.
And Sudan's Red Sea access makes it potentially an even greater threat than Iraq and Afghanistan combined.
Gaining a Sudanese stronghold could empower al-Qaeda affiliates across Yemen
...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of...
, Somalia and the Sahel region
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, exacerbating regional conflicts and threatening crucial Red Sea trade routes. Interestingly, a United Nations July 2022 report revealed that al-Qaeda's Yemen branch had been boosting its maritime capabilities.
The resurgence of al-Qaeda capabilities in the region could lead to increased piracy, militarized blockades and unregulated arms flow, escalating regional tensions and causing broader geopolitical unrest.
But as the United States redirects resources and attention to wars in Europa
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and the Middle East and countering China, Sudan has seemingly slipped down its priority list. Complicating matters further, U.S. responses are tangled in the conflicting interests of its Gulf allies supporting various factions in Sudan's civil war.
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[Garowe] The Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF) has denied claims that it is involved in the Sudanese conflict, which has seen Rapid Support Forces (RSF) engage the Sudanese army in fierce fighting as the two factions push for total control of government.
A statement issued by the Tigray Interim Administration termed the claims as 'baseless', noting that it has never been involved in the Sudan Armed Forces (SAF) and Rapid Support Forces (RSF) conflict, which has left thousands of people dead.
The claims, Tigray Interim Administration noted, are "apparently designed to shore up international support for its campaign against the SAF by internationalizing the tragic civil war." "The RSF’s allegation that TPLF fighters were taking part in the Sudanese civil war is based on nothing more than a fecund imagination."
RSF, the paramilitary wing which previously worked closely with the Sudanese army, made sensational claims that it has 'credible' evidence linking TPLF with close partnerships with SAF, which is struggling to contain the group.
The RSF leveled accusations against the Sudanese army, contending that since the outset of the civil conflict in Sudan, the SAF has actively solicited support from foreign mercenaries and entities across various nations, Addis Standard reports.
According to the RSF, these external entities have provided extensive support to the SAF, encompassing diverse operational domains such as air force operations, engineering tasks, artillery maneuvers, the deployment of military drones, and engagement in information warfare.
"Our advanced surveillance systems have documented the deaths of numerous mercenaries killed in combat and tracked their remains as they were repatriated through Port Sudan Airport last November and December."
The civil war erupted in Sudan on 15 April 2023, pitting two factions of the military government against each other: the SAF and the RSF. Allegations of foreign involvement in exacerbating the conflict have been rampant on both sides.
In November 2023, the Sudanese army, led by General Abdul Fattah al-Burhan, accused the United Arab Emirates (UAE) of supporting the RSF and facilitating the transfer of supplies through countries including Uganda.
Sudan has been in political turmoil since the ouster of Omar al-Bashir
...Former President-for-Life of Sudan He came to power in 1989 when he, as a brigadier in the Sudanese army, led a group of officers in a bloodless military coup that ousted the government of Prime Minister Sadiq al-Mahdi and eventually appointed himself head cheese. He fell out with his Islamic mentor, Hasan al-Turabi, tried to impose shariah on the Christian and animist south, resulting in its secessesion, and attempted to Arabize Darfur by unleashing the barbaric Janjaweed on it. Sudan's potential prosperity has been pissed away in warfare that has left as many as 400,000 people dead and 2.5 million displaced. Hee was overthrown by popular consent in 2019. Omar has been indicted for genocide by the International Criminal Court but nothing is expected to come of it...
, with the military always tussling for leadership with civilians. And the RSF entered the twist, pushing for integration into the Sudan Armed Forces.
"Despite confronting internal adversities, the Sudanese populace and government have diligently extended aid and protection to the distressed refugees," reads the statement.
Given these circumstances, the Addis Standard adds, the interim administration, led by Getachew Reda, emphasized that "Tigray does not incline to intervene in the ongoing civil strife, recognizing Sudan as a cherished sanctuary for Tigrayans."
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