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Abdullah Anas, an Algerian scholar,Williams, Paul L., "Al Qaeda: Brotherhood of Terror", 2002 was the
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of Boudjema Bounoua, who helped
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fight the
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and Afghan government forces in the northern provinces from 1983 to 1992. Shephard, Michelle, "Guantanamo's Child", 2008 Anas met
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in 1984 and described him as "not a man of fighting, not a man of
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, just a man of charity work aid".


Biography

In 1988, Anas spoke to
Abdullah Azzam Abdullah Yusuf Azzam () was a Palestinian-Jordanian Islamist jihadist and theologian. Belonging to the Salafi movement within Sunni Islam, he and his family fled from what had been the Jordanian-annexed West Bank after the 1967 Six-Day War a ...
about the need to ensure Muslim help reached northern Afghanistan, and not just that of Western
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s. He later married the daughter of Azzam, of whom bin Laden is suspected of assassinating. On January 14, 2001, he was interviewed by ''
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'' reporter Stephen Engleberg, who asked him to describe
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, to which he replied that "He's not very sophisticated politically and organizationally. But he's an activist with a great imagination. He ate very little. He slept very little. Very generous, he'd give you his clothes." Following the
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in 2001, Anas gave reports critical of bin Laden, reflecting the pair's falling-out after Anas insisted that the dream of a global jihad was unattainable. Miller, Judith, ''
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'',
Bin Laden: Child of Privilege Who Champions Holy War
, September 14, 2001
He was interviewed for the
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'', which aired in 2004. He has been granted
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to live in
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Jihad: The Men and the Ideas Behind al Qaeda
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Books

* Anas, Abdullah. ''To The Mountains: My Life in Jihad, from Algeria to Afghanistan'' with Tam Hussein (co-author); Hurst Publ., April 2019. .


References

Living people Algerian scholars Year of birth missing (living people) {{Algeria-mil-bio-stub