Hamoud al-Aqla al-Shu'aybi (also Hamoud al-Oqala al-Shuebi, Humud b. ‘Uqala’ al-Shu‘aybi, ar, حمود العقلاء الشعيبي) (died late 2001) was a Saudi-born

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.Jihadi terrorism, from Iraq to Kuwait
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'', February 24, 2005 He has been seen as a radical element since at least 1994 when he was quoted by

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in his Open Letter to Bin Baz on the Invalidity of his Fatwa on Peace with the Jews, and several weeks after the

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. Al-Shuebi authored a book ''The Preferred View on the Ruling of Asking the Infidels for Help'', that is said (by ) to have been "seminal in convincing a generation they should stand against—and hate—the encroachments of the West."Joas Wagemakers, “Transformation of a Radical Concept: al-wala’ wa-l-bara’ in the Ideology of Abu Muhammad al-Maqdisi,” in Global Salafism: Islam’s New Religious Movement, ed. Roel Meijer (New York: Columbia University Press, 2009), 101. He supported the

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attacks and issued a Fatwa praising the

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shortly after their destruction of the Buddha sculptures in Bamiyan for creating "the only country in the world in which there are no man-made laws". Worthington, Andy, The Guantanamo Files: The Stories of the 774 Detainees in America's Illegal Prison,

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accused many Guantanamo detainee of obeying his

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and used it to torture them without any evidence.

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of Khalid Malluh Shayi Al Jilba Al Qahtani ''

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Al-Shuebi School

Some students of al-Oqala al-Shuebi make up what has been called the "al-Shuebi school", based out of the very conservative city of

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, capital of

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Province in Saudi Arabia. The most important of his students are

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, Hamoud al-Khaldi, and Sulaiman Al-Elwan. As of 2010, the four had been in prison since 2003, following the May 2003 suicide bombings of residential compounds in

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that killed 34 people, and which they reportedly supported."Sheikh Nasser Ibn Hamad al-Fahd withdraws several fatwas ..."
, ''Ain al-Yaqeen'', November 28, 2003 The school helped to legitimize the jihadi movement's fight against the Saudi state and aided in the recruitment of new supporters when the movement began to emerge in Saudi Arabia in late-1999 and early-2000.

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