Mustafa Setmariam Nasar
Mustafa Setmariam Nasar | |
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| Personal life | |
| Born | 26 October 1958 Aleppo, Syria |
| Other names | kunya: Abu Musab al-Suri Umar Abd al-Hakim |
| Occupation | Writer |
| Religious life | |
| Religion | Islam |
| Denomination | Sunni |
| Movement | Salafi |
| Children | 4 |
Abu Musab al-Suri (Arabic: أبو مصعب السوري, romanized: Abū Muṣ‘ab as-Sūrī), born Mustafa bin Abd al-Qadir Setmariam Nasar (Arabic: مصطفى بن عبد القادر ست مريم نصار; 26 October 1958), is a suspected Al-Qaeda member and writer best known for his 1,600-page book The Global Islamic Resistance Call (Da'wat al-muqawamah al-islamiyyah al-'alamiyyah). He is considered by many as 'the most articulate exponent of the modern jihad and its most sophisticated strategist'.
Nasar has held Spanish citizenship since the late 1980s, following marriage to a Spanish woman. He is wanted in Spain for the 1985 El Descanso bombing, which killed eighteen people in a restaurant in Madrid, and (as a witness) in connection with the 2004 Madrid train bombings.
Nasar was captured by Pakistani security forces in 2005 and was rendered to Syria, where he was also a wanted man. As of April 2014, he was being held in a Syrian prison.