Abu Luqman
Syrian terrorist (1973–2018)
Ali Moussa Al-Shawakh, (Arabic: علي موسى الشواخ; 1973 –17 April 2018) known by his kunya Abu Luqman (Arabic: أبو لقمان), Abu Ayyub al-Ansari (Arabic: أبو أيوب الأنصاري) or Ali al-Hamoud (Arabic: علي الحمود), was a Syrian man and the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant governor of Raqqa, Syria as of July 2015. He used to be governor of Aleppo province.
History
Abu Luqman was born in as-Sahl village in Raqqa province. He studied law at the University of Aleppo. He is from the Ajeel clan of Raqqa. It is claimed he used to have a Sufi orientation because he followed Mahmud al-Aghasi (known as Abu Qaqa) who was the leader of Ghuraba al-Sham.
He was freed from Sednaya Prison, Damascus in the summer of 2011 by President Bashar al-Assad, at the outset of the uprising against the Syrian government.
ISIL activity
According to Ibrahim Muslem, a human-rights activist quoted by The Wall Street Journal, "Abu Luqman decides who gets the oil". At Mr. Luqman's discretion, smugglers paid for fuel and loaded it into tanker trucks.
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