Abdulhadi al-Iraqi
Iraqi al-Qaeda member
Nashwan Abdulrazaq Abdulbaqi al-Tamir (Arabic: نشوان عبدالرزاق عبدالباقي التامر; born 1961), better known as Abd al-Hadi al-Iraqi (Arabic: عبد الهادي العراقي) is an Iraqi member of Al-Qaeda who is now in United States custody at Guantanamo Bay detention camp in Cuba.
Early life
Al-Iraqi was born in Mosul to a Sunni Arab family in 1961. He speaks Arabic as his first language, and later learned Urdu, Pashto, Kurdish, and Persian. He served in the Iraqi Army and fought in the Iran–Iraq War. He later travelled to Afghanistan to fight the Soviet invasion.
Alleged terrorism activities
According to information about him provided by the Pentagon, Hadi was a key paramilitary commander in Afghanistan during the late 1990s before taking charge of cross-border attacks against the US and coalition troops from 2002 to 2004. He was accused of commanding attacks on Afghanistan coalition forces and involvement in plots to assassinate Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf. Following the American invasion in 2001, he clashed with Ahmed Khadr arguing that front line battle would prove more useful than guerilla tactics around Shagai, Pakistan.
Al-Iraqi was alleged to have managed the Ashara guest house, in Kabul's diplomatic district, from where he was alleged to command Al-Qaeda's army, and to have served as al-Qaeda's accountant.
He had been wanted in Iraq since at least February 2005.
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