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Al-Libi
Al 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: * Abdullah Said al Libi, al Qaeda's operations planner for Pakistan, killed by a drone in 2009 * Abu Faraj al-Libbi (Mustafa Faraj Muhammad Muhammad Masud al-Jadid al-Uzaybi), alleged al Qaeda leader, held at Guantanamo * Abu Laith al-Libi (Ali Ammar Ashur al-Rufayi,), senior figure in al Qaeda, reportedly killed in a drone strike in 2008 * Abu Yahya al-Libi (Mohamed Hassan Qaid), leading official of al Qaeda, escaped from detention in Bagram, killed by a drone in 2012 * 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 * Ibn al-Shaykh al-Libi (Ali Mohamed Abdul Aziz al-Fakheri), who provided the source of US claims used to support the 2003 Iraq war, died by suicide in pris ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abu Yahya Al-Libi
Abu Yahya al-Libi ( ar, أبو يحيى الليبي, ; 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), s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ibn Al-Shaykh Al-Libi
Ibn al-Shaykh al-Libi (; ALFB transliteration: ''Ḁbnʋ ălŞɑỉƈ alLibi''; 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. He was reported to have tuberculosis. On May 19, 2009, the government reported that h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abu Anas Al-Liby
Nazih Abdul-Hamed Nabih al-Ruqai'i, ar, نزيه عبد الحميد نبيه الرقيعي Libyan Arabic, Libyan pronunciation: known by the alias Abu Anas al-Libi ( ; ar, ابو أنس الليبي Libyan Arabic, Libyan pronunciation: ; 30 March 1964; or 14 May 1964 – 2 January 2015), was a Libyan under indictmentCopy of indictment USA v. Usama bin Laden et al., Center for Nonproliferation Studies, Monterey Institute of International Studies in the United States for his part in the 1998 United States embassy bombings. He worked as a computer specialist for al-Qaeda. He was an ethnic Libyan, born in Tripoli, Libya, Tripoli. His aliases in the indictment are Nazih al Raghie and Anas al Sebai. In the FBI and United States State Department wanted posters, anoth ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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.Press release about Abu Faraj and 13 other suspects, He was arrested by 's |
Abu Laith Al-Libi
Ali Ammar Ashur al-Raqiai, known as Abu Laith al-Libi ( ar, أبو الليث الليبي, January 1, 1967 – January 29, 2008, Mir Ali), was a senior leader of the al-Qaeda movement 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 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abdullah Said Al Libi
Abdullah Said al-Libi is 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 officers that he was their double agent within al Qaeda, only to detonate a suicide bomb, killing several of them. His suicide bombing is said to have been in retaliation for the killing of al Libi, Abu Saleh al Somali and Baitullah Mehsud Baitullah Mehsud ( Pashto/ ur, ; – 5 August 2009) was one of f ... [...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'', ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abu Habib Al-Libi
Hasan al-Salahayn Salih al-Sha'ari, known as Abu Habib al-Libi, is a Libyan man who has been a senior Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, 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 Multi-National Force – Iraq, 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 s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Salem Abdul Salem Ghereby
Salem Abdul Salem Ghereby (March 1, 1961 – April 12, 2023) was a citizen of Libya who was held in extrajudicial detention in the United States' Guantanamo Bay detention camps, in Cuba, from May 5, 2002, until April 4, 2016. Joint Task Force Guantanamo counter-terrorism analysts reports that he was born on March 1, 1961, in Zletan, Libya. Personal life According to historian Andy Worthington, the author of ''The Guantanamo Files'', Gherebi had settled in Pakistan after fleeing Muammar Gaddafi's repressive regime in Libya. He was married to a Pakistani woman, and had fathered several children. He had worked as a teacher, teaching science at a primary school. Official status reviews Originally the Bush Presidency asserted that captives apprehended in the ''" war on terror"'' were not covered by the Geneva Conventions, and could be held indefinitely, without charge, and without an open and transparent review of the justifications for their detention. In 2004, the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nom-de-guerre
A pseudonym (; ) or alias () is a fictitious name that a person or group assumes for a particular purpose, which differs from their original or true name (orthonym). This also differs from a new name that entirely or legally replaces an individual's own. Many pseudonym holders use pseudonyms because they wish to remain anonymous, but anonymity is difficult to achieve and often fraught with legal issues. Scope Pseudonyms include stage names, user names, ring names, pen names, aliases, superhero or villain identities and code names, gamer identifications, and regnal names of emperors, popes, and other monarchs. In some cases, it may also include nicknames. Historically, they have sometimes taken the form of anagrams, Graecisms, and Latinisations. Pseudonyms should not be confused with new names that replace old ones and become the individual's full-time name. Pseudonyms are "part-time" names, used only in certain contexts – to provide a more clear-cut separation between one's ... [...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 Tantou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
