Mustafa Setmariam Nasar

Mustafa Setmariam Nasar (* 1958 in Aleppo , Syria ) also known as Kunya Abu Mus'ab as-Suri ( Arabic أبو مصعب السوري, DMG Abū Muṣʿab as-Sūrī ) is a leading figure in al-Qaeda . He is considered one of the masterminds and strategists of jihadism in Syria and a high-ranking ideologist of al-Qaeda.

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Mustafa Setmariam Nasar was born in Aleppo. His family traditionally had close ties with the Rifāʿīya Suffraternity . During the 1980s, Nasar was a member of the armed arm of the Syrian Muslim Brotherhood . After the Muslim Brotherhood uprising was crushed, Nasar fled to Afghanistan . There he took over the post of deputy commander of the Syrian contingent in the Afghan war against the Soviet Union . In Afghanistan he became a close friend of Osama bin Laden .

During the 1990s, Nasar attempted unsuccessfully from Jordan to revive jihadism in Syria. During this time he wrote numerous works on the strategy and tactics of jihadism. He was particularly concerned with the failed uprising of Hama in 1982. He attributed the failure to a lack of armament, a lack of ideological unity and the insurgents' lack of media access. He also analyzed the defeat of the Islamists in the Algerian civil war and bin Laden's failure to establish a jihadist movement in Yemen in 1989 . Nasar is one of the critics of Muslim scholars who oppose jihadism.

In the Taliban state , Nasar acted as a radio host to spread jihadist ideology and as a trainer for foreign jihadists. In 2004 he published The Global Islamic Resistance Call, a 1,600-page work as a strategy of al-Qaeda. The aim is to establish an Islamic theocracy through different organizations that are united by the same ideology but not organizationally dependent on one another. In 2005, Mustafa Setmariam Nasar was arrested in Quetta , Pakistan . Because of his position in the jihadist movement, he was extradited to the USA, which in 2008 extradited him to his home state of Syria. The jihadist militia al-Nusra Front during the Syrian Civil War relied heavily on the writings of Nasar and was founded by former disciples of Nasar.

There are reports that refer to Islamist Internet forums that he was released by the Syrian government in 2012. There are also reports from 2014 which deny the release.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Brynja Liar: Destructive Doctrinarians. in Roel Meijer: Global Salafism - Islam's New Religious Movement. New York 2009, p. 282
2. ↑ Sami Moubayed: Under The Black Flag. London, 2015 pp. 50–55
3. ↑ Sami Moubayed: Under The Black Flag. London, 2015 pp. 50–55
4. ↑ Brynjar Lia: Destructive Doctrinarians. in Roel Meijer: Global Salafism - Islam's New Religious Movement. New York 2009, pp. 282-284
5. ↑ Sami Moubayed: Under The Black Flag. London, 2015 pp. 50–55
6. ↑ Sami Moubayed: Under The Black Flag. London, 2015 pp. 50–55
7. ↑ Sami Moubayed: Under The Black Flag. London, 2015 p. 218
8. ↑ Syria's Surprising Release of Jihadi Strategist Abu Mus'ab al-Suri. Retrieved January 16, 2020 (American English). 
9. ↑ Al Qaeda's American propagandist notes death of terror group's representative in Syria. Retrieved January 16, 2020 (American English). 

literature

• Brynjar Lia: Architect of Global Jihad: The Life of Al Qaeda Strategist Abu Mus'ab Al-Suri (2008), Columbia University Press