Abu Sufian bin Qumu
Abu Sufian Ibrahim Ahmed Hamouda bin Qumu ( Arabic أبو سفيان إبراهيم أحمد حمودة بن قمو, DMG Abū Sufyān Ibrāhīm Aḥmad Ḥammūda b. Qumū ; * June 26, 1959 in Darna ) is a Libyan rebel leader.
Life
From 1979 to 1990 bin Qumu served as a tank driver in the Libyan army. He was sentenced to 10 years in prison for a number of crimes, including murder and drug trafficking. He escaped from prison in 1993 and fled to Egypt. He traveled to Afghanistan and trained at Usama bin Laden's camp in Torkham . Bin Qumu then moved to Sudan . There he joined the Libyan Islamic Combat Group (LIFG) and worked as a truck driver for Wadi al Aqiq, one of Usama Bin Laden's companies. Under pressure from the Libyan and Sudanese governments, he left Sudan in 1997. He traveled to Pakistan with a forged Mauritanian passport. In 1998 he withdrew from the LIFG and joined the Taliban movement; In 2000 he moved to the tribal area in Peshawar . In 2001 he worked for al-Wafa in Kabul. Bin Qumu fought with the Taliban against the Northern Alliance and was wounded in the leg. At the end of 2001, he moved from Kabul to Peshawar, where the Pakistani police arrested him in his hotel following a tip from the Gaddafi regime and handed him over to the USA. In May 2002 he was transferred to Guantánamo.
From 2002 to 2007, bin Qumu was detained in Guantanamo . The US transferred him to Libya on the condition that he must remain in custody there. In fact, bin Qumu was initially held in Abu Salim Prison , but was released by the Gaddafi clan in 2010.
In 2011 he became the leader of a group of fighters in his hometown and took part in the civil war in Libya . Despite having the same name, his group was not involved in the attack on the US consulate in Benghazi .
In April 2013, bin Qumu was transferred to the intensive care unit with a gunshot wound.
Web links
- ROD NORDLAND and SCOTT SHANE: Libyan, Once a Detainee, Is Now a US Ally of Sorts - NYT, April 24, 2011
- http://wikileaks.org/gitmo/prisoner/557.html
Individual evidence
- ^ Joint Task Force Guantanamo : JTF GTMO Detainee Assessment
- ↑ http://www.dod.mil/news/May2006/d20060515%20List.pdf
- ↑ http://in.news.yahoo.com/libya-releases-37-militant-islamists.html
- ↑ http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2012/09/obama-admin-says-no-evidence-gitmo-detainee-behind-benghazi-attack
- ↑ http://news.yahoo.com/head-libyan-islamic-extremist-militia-shot-213155403.html
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Am Qumu, Abu Sufian |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Bin Qumu, Abu Sufian Ibrahim Ahmed Hamouda (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Libyan rebel leader |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 26, 1959 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Darna |