Saif al-Islam al-Masri

Saif al-Islam al-Masri (Arabic: سيف الإسلام المصري) is the name of a certain member of al-Qaeda. The name is probably, but not certainly, a nom de guerre; Saif al-Islam means Sword of Islam and al-Masri means the Egyptian, but either or both could be a real name. Little is publicly known about this person, but his name has come up in reports and testimony on a variety of major terrorist attacks and related paramilitary and financial activities. According to those sources, Saif al-Islam

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  1. ^ a b c Al-Qaida: Dead or captured, NBC News, last updated in 2005
  2. ^ In the Caucasus, a Foreign Element Threatens, CDI archive of a Los Angeles Times article of 29 November 2002
  3. ^ a b Treasury Designates Benevolence International Foundation and Related Entities as Financiers of Terrorism Archived 2007-03-11 at the Wayback Machine, United States Department of the Treasury
  4. ^ Behind the Moscow-theater attack by Mark Riebling and R.P. Eddy, National Review, 24 October 2002
  5. ^ Saif al Islam el Masry at GlobalSecurity.org; cites forensic and other sources
  6. ^ Bin Laden's "Brothers" by Thomas Joscelyn, Weekly Standard, 27 September 2006; quoting Ali Mohamed's testimony