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Profile: Abu Hafs al-Masri
It has claimed responsibility for several deadly attacks in Iraq since the fall of Baghdad last April.
A company or band of people; a body of troops; any body of persons acting together for a purpose, e.g., fire brigade.
The brigades were named after the training commander of al-Qaida network and were founded after his death in 2001.
Personal background
Abu Hafs was an Egyptian national, who was nicknamed al-Masri meaning ‘the Egyptian’ in Arabic.
He was a core member of the Islamic Jihad group, which successfully carried out the assassination of the Egyptian president Anwar al-Sadat on 6 October 1981.
He joined Osama bin Ladin in the early 1980s when the two were fighting the Soviets in Afghanistan.
He participated in the establishment of al-Qaida (the base) organisation. As a former Egyptian police officer, Abu Hafs al-Masri took charge of the organisation’s security.
Abu Hafs during his daughter’s |
He assumed control of the training camps after the former commander Abu Ubaida al-Banshiri was drowned in Victoria