Abu Umar al-Almani

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Abu Umar al-Almani ( Arabic أبو عمر الألماني, DMG Abū ʿUmar al-Almānī ; * 1986 in Stuttgart ; † March 25, 2017 at ath-Thaura , ar-Raqqa , Syria ) was the self-chosen battle name of the German-born terrorist and Islamic fundamentalist Yamin Abou-Zand of the terrorist organization Islamic State . He committed war crimes in Syria and was wanted by the German authorities.

Life

Yamin Abou-Zand moved with his parents to Königswinter near Bonn in 2000 . After his marriage, he lived in seclusion with his wife. He started training at Deutsche Telekom . According to his employer, at the end of 2013 and beginning of 2014 he changed and suddenly expressed sympathy for ISIS. The group had informed the security authorities, said a spokesman. A year later, Abou-Zand stopped showing up for his work and initiated the resignation . Without informing his family of his plans, he traveled to Syria via Turkey in 2014 and joined the IS units.

Abu Umar published recordings with the 30-year-old Austrian IS terrorist Mohamed Mahmoud , which are considered to be the first exclusively German-language propaganda video of the Islamic State . In the video, the Austrian put pressure on indecisive jihad fans in Germany and Austria to finally travel to the Islamic State (IS) in Syria. Abu Umar also had his say in the video. He spoke monotonously and, according to the Spiegel, appeared “almost a little absent”. In the video, Abu Umar murdered a helpless prisoner in Palmyra .

Abu Umar al-Almani was killed on 25 March 2017 in clashes with units of the Syrian Democratic Forces near the Tabqa Dam .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Florian Flade: Authorities identify German IS killers. In: The world . WeltN24 GmbH , August 13, 2015, accessed on March 27, 2017 .
  2. ↑ Abu Omar al-Almany was killed. (No longer available online.) In: hawarnews.com. Hawar News Agency, March 26, 2017, archived from the original March 26, 2017 ; accessed on March 27, 2017 (English). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / en.hawarnews.com
  3. ↑ Ex-terrorist unpacks - The secret IS terror network in Germany. In: Berliner Kurier . Berliner Verlag GmbH , August 5, 2016, accessed on March 27, 2017 . World Heritage Site in Syria: ISIS terrorists behead chief archaeologists in Palmyra. In: Spiegel Online . Spiegel-Verlag Rudolf Augstein GmbH & Co. KG, August 19, 2015, accessed on November 13, 2015 .
  4. ↑ Ines Bodammer: Königswinter in shock - This is how IS hangman Yamin A.-Z lived. in the Rhine idyll. In: express.de . Alfred Neven DuMont, August 15, 2015, accessed November 13, 2015 .
  5. ^ Threats against Merkel: IS publishes propaganda video in German. In: Spiegel Online . Spiegel-Verlag Rudolf Augstein GmbH & Co. KG, August 5, 2015, accessed on November 13, 2015 .
  6. ^ Islamic State commander from Germany killed in Tabqah by SDF. (No longer available online.) In: komnews.com. March 26, 2017, archived from the original on March 27, 2017 ; accessed on March 27, 2017 (English). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / komnews.com
personal data
SURNAME al-Almani, Abu Umar
ALTERNATIVE NAMES أبو عمر الألماني (Arabic); Abou-Zand, Yamin (real name); Yamin A.-Z.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-born terrorist and fanatic of the terrorist organization Islamic State
DATE OF BIRTH uncertain: 1986
PLACE OF BIRTH Stuttgart , Baden-Wuerttemberg , Germany
DATE OF DEATH March 25, 2017
Place of death near ath-Thaura , ar-Raqqa governorate , Syria