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Mustafa Setmariam Nasar

Mustafa Setmariam Nasar
Personal
Born (1958-10-26) 26 October 1958 (age 65)[1]
Aleppo, Syria
ReligionIslam
DenominationSunni
MovementSalafi
Other nameskunya: Abu Musab al-Suri[2]
Umar Abd al-Hakim[3][4]
OccupationWriter
Children4

Abu Musab al-Suri (Arabic: أبو مصعب السوري), born Mustafa bin Abd al-Qadir Setmariam Nasar (Arabic: مصطفى بن عبد القادر ست مريم نصار; 26 October 1958), is a suspected Al-Qaeda member and writer best known for his 1,600-page book The Global Islamic Resistance Call (Da'wat al-muqawamah al-islamiyyah al-'alamiyyah). He is considered by many as 'the most articulate exponent of the modern jihad and its most sophisticated strategist'.[5][6]

Nasar has held Spanish citizenship since the late 1980s, following marriage to a Spanish woman.[5] He is wanted in Spain for the 1985 El Descanso bombing, which killed eighteen people in a restaurant in Madrid, and (as a witness)[4] in connection with the 2004 Madrid train bombings.[7]

Nasar was captured by Pakistani security forces in 2005 and was rendered to Syria,[6] where he was also a wanted man.[7] As of April 2014, he was being held in a Syrian prison.

  1. ^ "WANTED: Mustafa Setmariam Nasar". Rewards for Justice. Archived from the original on 26 November 2005.
  2. ^ Cite error: The named reference berg was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  3. ^ Key al-Qaida figure reportedly captured, NBC, 3 November 2005
  4. ^ a b Cite error: The named reference capturedCNN was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  5. ^ a b Malise Ruthven (29 May 2008). "The Rise of the Muslim Terrorists". New York Review of Books. pp. 33–36, 34. Retrieved 20 January 2009.
  6. ^ a b MacLean, William (10 June 2009). "Al Qaeda ideologue in Syrian detention – lawyers". Retrieved 2 September 2009. In brief remarks to Reuters, Nasar's wife, Elena Moreno, said she had also come to believe her husband was probably in Syria, following what she called recent but unofficial confirmation.
  7. ^ a b "Major Al Qaeda Leader Arrested in Pakistan". Fox News. Retrieved 6 October 2014.

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