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Al Libi
Al wikt:ليبي, Liby (اللّيبي, 'the Libyan'), or variations, is a surname, alias or nom-de-guerre used by several individuals from Libya. Variations include al Libi, al-Libi, al-Liby and al-Libby. People with the name include: * Abd al-Muhsin Al-Libi (Ibrahim Tantoush), an alleged Libyan Al-Qaeda leader, indicted by the U.S. * Abdel Wahab Qaid, or Abu Idris al-Libi, Libyan politician and former militia leader * Abdullah Said al Libi, al Qaeda's operations planner for Pakistan, killed by a drone in 2009 * Abu Anas al-Liby (Nazih Abdul-Hamed Nabih al-Ruqai'i), indicted for the 1998 East Africa embassy bombings, died in U.S. custody in 2015 * Abu Faraj al-Libbi (Mustafa Faraj Muhammad Muhammad Masud al-Jadid al-Uzaybi), alleged Al-Qaeda leader, held at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba * Abu Habib al-Libi, or Abu Habib al-Libi, senior Islamic State leader in Iraq and Libya * Abu Laith al-Libi (Ali Ammar Ashur al-Rufayi,), senior figure in al Qaeda, reportedly killed in a drone strike in 20 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nom-de-guerre
A ''nom de guerre'' (, 'war name') is a pseudonym chosen by someone to use when they are involved in a particular activity, especially fighting in a war. In ''ancien régime'' France it would be adopted by each new recruit (or assigned to them by the captain of their company) as they enlisted in the French army. These pseudonyms had an official character and were the predecessor of identification numbers: soldiers were identified by their first names, their family names, and their ''noms de guerre'' (e. g. ''Jean Amarault dit Lafidélité''). These pseudonyms were usually related to the soldier's place of origin (e. g. ''Jean Deslandes dit Champigny'', for a soldier coming from a town named Champigny), or to a particular physical or personal trait (e. g. ''Antoine Bonnet dit Prettaboire'', for a soldier ''prêt à boire'', ready to drink). In 1716, a ''nom de guerre'' was mandatory for every soldier; officers did not adopt ''noms de guerre'' as they considered them derogatory. In ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abd Al-Muhsin Al-Libi
Muhsin Al libi (born 1966 or 1969), frequently known as Ibrahim muhsin (also spelt Ibraheem muhsen), is an alleged Libyan Al-Qaeda leader. He is also connected with the alias "Ibrahim Ali Abu Bakr" as well as many other aliases including "Abdalmushi", "Abdel Ilah Sabri" and "Abu Anas". He is currently believed to be leading forces of the " Western Shield" Islamist armed group. He was reportedly involved in the capture of a base called Camp 27 from the Libyan National Army in April 2014. The United Nations and the United States Treasury associate him with Al-Qaeda. John R. BoltonDenied Persons Pursuant to UN Security Council Resolution ''United States Federal Registry'', 2003, accessdate=2010-11-03 Kurt Eichemwald U.S. Freezes Assets of 2 Groups, Saying They Diverted Gifts to Al Qaeda ''The New York Times'', 2002-01-10, accessdate=2011-01-31mirror On 20 December 2000, a grand jury in the Southern District of New York, the United States, returned an indictment against Tantoush ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abdel Wahab Qaid
Abdel Wahab Mohamed Qaid (), alias Abu Idris al-Libi is a Libyan politician and former militia leader. Since 2012, he has been a member of the Libyan Parliament (General National Congress) and the head of the National Border Guard for southern Libya. He was described as one of the most senior members of the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group that fought against the rule of Muammar Gaddafi. He was one of the last members of LIFG to be released from prison (on February 16, 2011) as part of the reconciliation program headed by the leader's son Saif al-Islam Gaddafi. He is the elder brother of Abu Yahya al-Libi, former number 2 in al-Qaeda, who was killed in a US drone strike in June 2012. After the Libyan Civil War of 2011 that led to the deposition of Gaddafi, he was elected to the General National Congress as an independent, representing a constituency in Southern Libya. After the parliament was constituted, he founded the al-Wafa Bloc (full name: ''al-Wafa li dimaa Al-Shuhadaa'', "Rem ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abdullah Said Al Libi
Abdullah Said al-Libi (died 17 December 2009) was described as being an al Qaeda operational leader in Pakistan. He is reported to have previously served in the Libyan military. He led an al-Qaeda paramilitary force. Said al-Libi was killed in a drone strike on 17 December 2009 in North Waziristan. In April 2009 he had released a statement where he identified himself as the leader of al Qaeda's efforts to take control of Khorasan - an ancient Islamic province that included Afghanistan, Pakistan, and some neighboring areas. According to Joby Warrick, the author of ''The Triple Agent'', al Libi had lived with Humam Khalil Abu-Mulal al-Balawi, who would later convince Central Intelligence Agency The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA; ) is a civilian foreign intelligence service of the federal government of the United States tasked with advancing national security through collecting and analyzing intelligence from around the world and ... officers that he was their doubl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abu Anas Al-Liby
Nazih Abdul-Hamed Nabih al-Ruqai'i, Libyan pronunciation: known by the alias Abu Anas al-Libi ( ; Libyan pronunciation: ; 1964 – 2 January 2015), was a Libyan under indictmentCopy of indictment USA v. Usama bin Laden et al., Center for Nonproliferation Studies, in the United States for his part in the . He worked as a computer specialist for |
Abu Faraj Al-Libbi
Abu Faraj al-Libi ( ; أبو الفرج الليبي) (also transliterated al-Libbi) is an assumed name or nom de guerre of a Libyan alleged to be a senior member of the al-Qaeda terrorist organization. His real name is Mustafa Faraj Muhammad Muhammad Masud al-Jadid al-Uzaybi (born 1 November 1970).Press release about Abu Faraj and 13 other suspects, He was arrested by 's |
Abu Habib Al-Libi
Hasan al-Salahayn Salih al-Sha'ari (, born 1975), known as Abu Habib al-Libi (), is a Libyan man who has been a senior Islamic State leader in both Iraq and Libya. History He was born in Derna, Libya in 1975. Iraq After the 2003 invasion of Iraq, he traveled from Libya to Iraq via Syria to fight coalition forces. He was a member of Al-Qaeda in Iraq since at least 2004 and was an associate of Abu Umar al-Tunisi since then. According to a description given by the United States Department of the Treasury, he was personally trained by Abu Musab al-Zarqawi. He was captured by American forces in Al-Karābilah, Al Anbar Governorate on September 6, 2005. A press release at the time says he admitted to being the improvised explosive device emir of Karabilah, responsible for conducting numerous bombings against Coalition and Iraqi forces. Libya In mid-2012 he was freed from jail in Iraq and returned to Libya, where he continued to support IS, starting a branch of IS in Libya in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abu Laith Al-Libi
Abu al-Layth al-Libi (; 1 January 1967 – 29 January 2008), born Ali Ammar Ashur al-Raqiai, was a Libyan militant who was a leader of al-Qaeda in Afghanistan who appeared in several al-Qaeda videos. He was believed to have been active in the tribal regions of Waziristan. He also served as an al Qaeda spokesman. According to the Defense Intelligence Agency, he was an "expert in guerilla warfare." Life The Defense Intelligence Agency says he was born in 1967. In the 1980s he was one of the Afghan Arabs who came to Afghanistan to fight the Soviet Union during the Soviet–Afghan War. He returned to Libya in 1994 and took part in a failed attempt to oust Muammar Gaddafi. In the wake of this attempt al-Libi escaped to Saudi Arabia, where he was imprisoned in Riyadh following the Khobar Towers bombing. Sometime thereafter he was either released or managed to escape, and came to Afghanistan to collaborate with al-Qaeda and the Taliban. In 1997, a dispute between the two oldest broth ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abu Yahya Al-Libi
Abu Yahya al-Libi (, ; January 1, 1963, Marzaq – June 4, 2012), born Mohamed Hassan Qaid, was a terrorist and leading high-ranking official within al-Qaeda, and an alleged member of the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group.New York TimesRising Leader for Next Phase of Al Qaeda’s War April 4, 2008Scheuer, Michael FPart1 anPart 2/ref> He is believed to have been able to speak Urdu, Pashto and Arabic and to have used the aliases Hasan Qaiid (Hasan Qayad or Hassan Qayid), Yunis al-Sahrawi,BBC NewsKey 'al-Qaeda militant' surfaces/ref> and Hassan Qaed al-Far. Al-Libi was a citizen of Libya, who was held in extrajudicial detention in the Bagram interim detention facility. At that time, American counter-terrorism analysts asserted that al-Libi was a member of al Qaeda. Al-Libi was one of several high-profile Bagram captives who escaped on the night of July 10, 2005. Jarret Brachman, a former analyst for the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), states of al-Libi: He’s a warrio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ibn Al-Shaykh Al-Libi
Ibn al-Shaykh al-Libi (; born Ali Mohamed Abdul Aziz al-Fakheri; 1963 – May 10, 2009) was a Libyan national captured in Afghanistan in November 2001 after the fall of the Taliban; he was interrogated by American and Egyptian forces. The information he gave under torture to Egyptian authorities was cited by the George W. Bush administration in the months preceding its 2003 invasion of Iraq as evidence of a connection between Saddam Hussein and al-Qaeda. That information was frequently repeated by members of the Bush administration, although reports from both the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) strongly questioned its credibility, suggesting that al-Libi was "intentionally misleading" interrogators. In 2006, the United States transferred al-Libi to Libya, where he was imprisoned by the government of Muammar Gaddafi. He was reported to have tuberculosis. On May 19, 2009, the government reported that he had recently committed suicide in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Katiba Al-Bittar Al-Libi
Katiba al-Bittar al-Libi is an armed Islamist group operating in Iraq, Syria and Libya. The group is composed largely of Libyan fighters who entered Syria in the wake of the Arab Spring and early post-civil uprising stage of the Syrian Civil War. Though the group is composed largely of Libyans, the group also has large amounts of Tunisians and Francophone Maghrebis from Europe, reportedly the perpetrators of the November 2015 Paris attacks and Manchester Arena bombing, including Abdelhamid Abaaoud, who was suspected to be a leader of the group, were members of the group or affiliated with it, the group also pioneered the Inghimasi tactic used in the attack, and its fighters have largely employed the tactic on the battlefield. The group maintained close ties to Ansar al-Sharia in Tunisia through networks in Libya and has established multiple training camps across Libya and has recruited Tunisians to these camps, which were located around Sirte and Tripoli. During beginning of the i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |