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Abu Usama al-Ansari (Iraq)
A former illegal arms smuggler during the regime of Saddam Hussein who
reformed himself and became a mujahid after the U.S. invasion in 2003.
According to the mujaheddin, Abu Usama “was inspired by the Shaykh and
mujahid, Abu Anas al-Shami [a.k.a. Omar Yousef Jumah]... who spent a period
of time residing at Abu Usama’s house, urging people to join the fight. Abu
Usama used to teach his brothers many of the lessons and sayings of Abu
Anas.”
Abu Asil al-Jazairi (Algeria)
A former senior official in the comparatively moderate Muslim Brotherhood
movement who was “eventually guided toward the righteous path” and used
his “administrative and organizational experience” to help al-Qa’ida instead.
According to the mujaheddin, Abu Asil “was assigned the responsibility of
overseeing the borders [of Iraq]. In other words, he was responsible for all the
Arab brothers that came to fight in the jihad... He loved
to quote from Shaykh
Abu Musab al-Zarqawi’s statements... and did this so frequently that he
practically knew all of his speeches verbatim
by heart.”
Abu Ibrahim al-Tunisi (Tunisia)
A veteran Tunisian mujaheddin commander who “spent most of his life fighting
on the frontlines and practicing jihad in Afghanistan, Europe [presumably
Bosnia-Herzegovina], and Iraq. He was responsible for Shaykh Usama Bin
Laden’s guesthouses in Afghanistan... [and later] arrived in Rawa [Iraq], the city
of martyrs, where he spent some time and assumed the role of commander of
[al-Qa’ida’s] security branch.”
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