Abu Atiya

Abu Atiya (Arabic: أبو عطية) (also rendered in Latin script as, inter alia Abu 'Atiya, Abou Attiya and Abu Attiyah) was the nom de guerre of a Jordanian alleged jihadist whose true name has been reported variously as Adnan Muhammad Sadiq, sometimes in whole, and sometimes followed by Abu Najila, and as Adnan Sadiq Muhammad Abu Injila.

Abu Atiya associated with Musab al-Zarqawi, leader of Jama'at al-Tawhid wal-Jihad. In 2003, as part of his case for the forthcoming invasion of Iraq, U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell accused Abu Atiya of being a key organiser in an alleged plot to conduct lethal attacks in Europe using the nerve agent ricin.

He is not to be confused with the target of Operation Larchwood 4, who was captured by the British SAS in Iraq in 2006. The target was a different associate of Al-Zarqawi, but journalist Mark Urban decided to refer to the man as Abu Atiya in an account of the operation.

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