Neaman Salman Mansour al-Zaidi ( ar, نيمان سلمان منصور الزيدي), known as Abu Suleiman al-Naser ( ar, أبو سليمان الناصر), was the military commander or "War Minister" of the militant group
Islamic State of Iraq
The Islamic State of Iraq (ISI; ar, دولة العراق الإسلامية '), commonly referred to as al-Qaeda in Iraq ( ar, القاعدة في العراق '), is a militant Salafist jihadist group that aimed to establish an Islamic stat ...
(ISI) during the
Iraq War
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Little is known about Abu Suleiman. He reportedly to have trained at a foreign fighter camp in
Rawa, Iraq, which was raided by US forces in 2003 and imprisoned at
Camp Bucca
Camp Bucca ( ar, سجن بوكا, Sijn Būkā) was a forward operating base that housed a theater internment facility maintained by the United States military in the vicinity of Umm Qasr, Iraq. After being taken over by the U.S. military (800th ...
. He succeeded
Abu Ayyub al-Masri
Abu Ayyub al-Masri ( ; , ', translation: "Father of Ayyub the Egyptian"; 1967 – 18 April 2010), also known as Abu Hamza al-Muhajir as Minister of War for the Islamic State of Iraq (ISI) in April 2010, after al-Masri and ISI leader
Abu Omar al-Baghdadi
Hamid Dawud Mohamed Khalil al-Zawi ( ar, حَمِيدُ دَاوُدَ مُحَمَّدُ خَلِيلِ ٱلزَّاوِيِّ, Ḥamīd Dāwud Muḥammad Ḵalīl az-Zāwī; 1959 – 18 April 2010), known as Abu Hamza al-Baghdadi and Abu Omar ...
were killed in an operation by US and Iraqi forces in
Tikrit
Tikrit ( ar, تِكْرِيت ''Tikrīt'' , Syriac: ܬܲܓܪܝܼܬܼ ''Tagrīṯ'') is a city in Iraq, located northwest of Baghdad and southeast of Mosul on the Tigris River. It is the administrative center of the Saladin Governorate. , it h ...
. Abu Suleiman's appointment was announced in a statement in which he used the
nom de guerre ''Al-Nasser Lideen Allah Abu Suleiman'' ( ar, الناصر لدين الله أبو سليمان), meaning "Defender of God’s Religion, Father of Suleiman". He is reported to have been a detainee at
Camp Bucca
Camp Bucca ( ar, سجن بوكا, Sijn Būkā) was a forward operating base that housed a theater internment facility maintained by the United States military in the vicinity of Umm Qasr, Iraq. After being taken over by the U.S. military (800th ...
prison, and served as the ISI's leader in
Anbar Province under the nom de guerre ''Abu Ibrahim al-Ansari''.
Iraqi security forces claimed to have killed Abu Suleiman in February 2011, in the city of
Hīt
Hīt, also spelled ''Heet'' ( ar, هيت), ancient name ''Is'', is an Iraqi city in Al-Anbar province. Hīt lies northwest of Ramadi, the provincial capital.
Straddling the Euphrates River, the city of Hīt was originally a small walled town sur ...
, west of
Baghdad
Baghdad (; ar, بَغْدَاد , ) is the capital of Iraq and the second-largest city in the Arab world after Cairo. It is located on the Tigris near the ruins of the ancient city of Babylon and the Sassanid Persian capital of Ctesiphon. I ...
.
However, ISI denied that al-Naser was killed a month later. Despite this, ISI spokesman
Abu Mohammed al-Adnani
Taha Sobhi Falaha ( ar, طٰهٰ صُبْحِيِّ فَلَاحَةٍ, Ṭāhā Ṣobḥī Falāḥa; 1977 – 30 August 2016), known as Abu Muhammad al-Adnani al-Shami ( ar, أَبُو مُحَمَّدٍ ٱلْعَدْنَانِيُّ ٱلشَ ...
confirmed al-Naser's death in August 2011. ISI also released a statement confirming al-Naser's death in August 2011.
A report by
Al Jazeera's ''Center for Studies'', and an analysis of ISIL's leadership structure by a purported insider, also confirmed that Abu Suleiman had in fact been killed in 2011, and that following his death, the position of "War Minister" was replaced by a military council composed of former regime military officers under the leadership of
Haji Bakr
Samir Abd Muhammad al-Khlifawi, better known by the pseudonym Haji Bakr and sometimes his '' kunya'' Abu Bakr al-Iraqi, was a senior leader of the militant group Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), heading its Military Council and leadi ...
.
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Iraqi prisoners and detainees
Leaders of Islamic terror groups