Abdul Hadi al-Iraqi

Abdul Hadi al Iraqi (Arabic عبد الهادي العراقي Abd al -Hadi al - Iraqi, DMG ʿ Abdu l - al - ʿ Iraqi Hādī; * 1961 in Mosul ) aka Nashwan Abdulrazzaq Abdulbaqi ( نشوان عبد الرزاق عبد الباقي Naschwan Abd ar- Razzaq Abd al - Baqi, DMG Našwān ʿ Abdu r- Razzaq ʿ Abdu l - Baqi ) is a senior member of al - Qaeda. He currently sits in U.S. custody in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

Biography

Abdul Hadi is an ethnic Kurd. He speaks several languages, including Arabic, Urdu, Kurdish, Persian and Pashto as well as various Pakistani languages.

According to some sources he was in the former Iraqi army, a senior major. Other sources disagree. The only certainty is that Abdul Hadi joined the Afghan mujahideen during the Soviet Invtervention in Afghanistan to fight against the Soviet army.

After the Northern Alliance came increasingly in Afghanistan by supporting the Americans to power and the Taliban were overthrown, Abdul Hadi moved back to the Pakistani / Afghan border region. He was a warrant sought by the U.S. State Department.

Abdul Hadi was done personally by Osama bin Laden selected as global deputy of al - Qaeda. Prior Abdul Hadi was the former head of the internal operation of al - Qaeda. He has been associated with numerous terrorist attacks in Afghanistan and the Pakistani border region, Peshawar. He had the reputation of being a skilled and experienced commander of al -Qaida, and commanded numerous terrorist training camp in Afghanistan. According to the U.S. military Abdul Hadi was in close contact with Osama bin Laden and even received indirect instructions from al - Qaeda leader.

According to Newsweek ( magazine ) Abdul Hadi traveled in February 2005 from Pakistan in the autonomous region of Kurdistan. In the northern region of Iraq Abdul Hadi is a kind of mediator between Osama bin Laden and Abu Musab al have had -Zarqawi. On 27 April 2007, Abdul Hadi was arrested and interrogated by CIA agents several times, then he was brought to Cuba to Guantanamo Bay.