Iyad Ag Ghaly
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Iyad Ag Ghaly | |
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Native name | إياد أغ غالي |
Nickname(s) | The MPLA Al-Qaeda |
Service/ | Jama'at Nasr al-Islam wal Muslimin |
Battles/wars | Tuareg rebellion (1990–1995) |
Iyad Ag Ghaly (
Born in 1954 into a noble family of the
Battles and wars
Role in 1990 rebellion
On the night of 28 June 1990, Ag Ghaly directed attacks by the
By 1995, Radio France Internationale referred to Ag Ghaly as the "undisputed leader" of the Tuareg rebel movement.[6] After the 1996 ceasefire, Ag Ghaly normalised relations with the Malian government.[12] In 2003, he was instrumental in negotiating the release of 14 German tourist hostages from Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, then called "the Algerian Salafi Group for Call and Combat". In a leaked US diplomatic cable, the author described Ag Ghaly as a "proverbial bad penny" who always turned up when a Western government had to give money to Tuaregs.[6]
Ag Ghaly was appointed as a member of Mali's diplomatic staff in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, by President Amadou Toumani Touré in 2008.[13] Once "a great fan of cigarettes, booze, and partying",[14] interested in music and poetry, with connections to the Tuareg band Tinariwen, he was proselytised to strict Islam by the Tablighi Jamaat missionary movement.[15] In Saudi Arabia he experienced a "religious re-birth", growing a large beard and meeting with unnamed jihadists.[14] The latter action caused him to be recalled to Bamako.[13]
2012 rebellion
In late 2011, Ag Ghaly attempted to assume the leadership of the Tuareg group Kel Adagh, but failed.[14]
Unable to take a leadership role with the
On 3 April, Ag Ghaly gave a radio interview in Timbuktu announcing that
References
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وقال إياد غالي المكنى أبو الفضل (and Iyad Ag Ghaly, bearing the kunya Abū al-Faḍl, said...)
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- ^ "عاجل.. الإعلان عن اندماج الحركات الجهادية بمالي في تنظيم واحد | وكالة نواكشوط للأنباء". Archived from the original on 2018-03-30. Retrieved 2020-06-07.
External links
- Christopher Wise: "The Jihad of Iyad Ag Ghali" (English Language lecture, Green College, UBC Jan 2019)