Saif al-Islam al-Masri
Saif al-Islam al-Masri () is the name of a certain member of al-Qaeda. The name is probably, but not certainly, a nom de guerre; "Saif al-Islam" means "Sword of Islam" and al-Masri means "the Egyptian", but either or both could be a real name. Little is publicly known about this person, but his name has come up in reports and testimony on a variety of major terrorist attacks and related paramilitary and financial activities. According to those sources, Saif al-Islam
*was one of fifteen men—all Arabs—captured in the Pankisi Gorge in a joint operation by Georgian and American Special Forces, in early October 2002
*was until then a member of al-Qaeda's "majlis al-shura" and its military committee
*was handed over to the Americans
*ran the Jihad Wal training camp near Khost, Afghanistan in 1992
*had been an officer of the Chechnya branch of the terrorist charity Benevolence International Foundation
*fought against American forces in Somalia
*instructed Ali Mohamed to get training from Hezbollah in south Lebanon.
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Chechnya
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Benevolence International Foundation
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Somalia
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Ali Mohamed
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Hezbollah
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Saif al-Islam al-Masri
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2002-10-01T00:00:00Z^^http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#dateTime
October 2002
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1992-01-01T00:00:00Z^^http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#dateTime
1992
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