Abu Omar al-Saif
Abu Omar al-Saif (
Arab fighters in Chechnya, allegedly with close ties to al-Qaeda. His full name was Muhammad bin Abdullah bin Saif al-Buainain (محمد بن عبد الله بن سيف البوعينين). He sometimes also used the name, or was addressed as, al-Jaber. He was born in 1968 or 1969 in Saudi Arabia, and was killed in Dagestan in December 2005.[1][2]
Biography
Al-Saif seems to have been the trustee of Arab financiers, receiving money from them through some institution in Dagestan (likely the Makhachkala office of Benevolence International Foundation, a KSA-based Islamic charity, now banned[3]) and distributing it to the Islamic insurgent forces across southern Russia. His predecessor in this role was Ibn al-Khattab,[1] who was also a Saudi and was also killed in Dagestan.
Abu Omar al-Saif was known to a small extent as an ideologue and spiritual leader. In the Chechen government of
idolatrous,[4][5] and the conflict in the Caucasus which he believed could only be solved through armed Islamic Jihad.[6]
References
- ^ Asharq al-Awsatquoting the Kavkaz website, 11 December 2005
- ^ Abu Omar reportedly killed, Jamestown Foundation, 15 December 2005
- ^ UN list of affiliates of al-Qaeda and the Taliban Archived 2006-07-28 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ A letter from Shaykn Abu Omar al-Saif to the Iraqi Mujahideen Concerning the Upcoming Elections Archived October 21, 2006, at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "A Speech by Abu Omar al-Seif Addressing the Mujahideen in Iraq". Archived from the original on 2005-11-02. Retrieved 2007-08-24.
- ^ Reports: Senior Saudi Al-Qaida Member Sets Off Suicide Blast in Dagestan Archived June 20, 2006, at the Wayback Machine