Abdul Hadi al-Iraqi
Abdul Hadi al Iraqi ( Arabic عبد الهادي العراقي Abd al-Hadi al-Iraqi , DMG ʿAbdu l-Hādī al-ʿIrāqī ; * 1961 in Mosul , Iraq ) alias Nashwan Abdulrazzaq Abdulbaqi (نشوان عبد الرزاق عبد الباقي Naschwan Abd ar-Razzaq Abd al-Baqi , DMG Našwān ʿAbdu r-Razzāq ʿAbdu l-Bāqī ) is a high-ranking Iraqi member of al-Qaeda . He is currently in US custody in Guantánamo Bay , Cuba .
Life
Abdul Hadi is an ethnic Kurd . He speaks several languages, including Arabic , Urdu , Kurdish , Persian and Pashto , as well as various Pakistani languages.
According to some sources, he was a senior major in the former Iraqi army. Other sources contradict this. What is certain is that Abdul Hadi joined the Afghan mujahedin during the Soviet intervention in Afghanistan in order to fight against the Soviet army.
After the Northern Alliance in Afghanistan increasingly came to power with the support of the Americans and the Taliban were overthrown, Abdul Hadi withdrew to the Pakistani-Afghan border region. He was wanted by the US State Department .
Abdul Hadi was personally selected by Osama bin Laden as al-Qaeda’s global deputy. Prior to that, Abdul Hadi was the former head of al-Qaeda’s internal operation. He has been linked to numerous terrorist attacks in Afghanistan and the Pakistani border region of Peshawar . He had a reputation for being a qualified and experienced al-Qaeda commander and commanded numerous terrorist training camps in Afghanistan. According to the US military, Abdul Hadi was in close contact with Osama bin Laden and even received indirect orders from the al-Qaeda leader.
According to Newsweek (news magazine), Abdul Hadi traveled to the Kurdistan Autonomous Region from Pakistan in February 2005 . In the northern region of Iraq, Abdul Hadi is said to have played a kind of mediator role between Osama bin Laden and Abu Musab az-Zarqawi . On April 27, 2007, Abdul Hadi was arrested and interrogated several times by CIA agents, after which he was taken to Guantánamo Bay, Cuba.
Web links
- Alleged Qaeda Member Faces Tribunal
- Iraqi Government releases '41 Most Wanted 'list
- Defense Department Takes Custody of a High-Value Detainee
- Biographical notes ( Memento from August 7, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 57 kB)
Individual evidence
- ^ Abd al Hadi al Iraqi - The Guantánamo Docket. Retrieved January 1, 2019 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Abdul Hadi al-Iraqi |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Abdul Hadi al Iraqi; Abdulbaqi, Nashwan Abdulrazzaq; العراقي, عبد الهادي (Arabic); نشوان عبد الرزاق عبد الباقي (Arabic) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Iraqi senior al-Qaida member |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1961 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Mosul , Iraq |