Abdul Hadi al-Iraqi

Nashwan Abdulbaqi
Senior al-Qaeda member
Born	1961 (age 55–56) Mosul, Iraq
Detained at	Guantanamo
Alternate name	Abdul Hadi al Iraqi
ISN	10026
Charge(s)	CHARGE I: VIOLATION OF 10 U.S.C. § 950t(6), DENYING QUARTER
Status	Was previously held in the CIA's black sites

Abdul Hadi al Iraqi (Arabic: عبد الهادي العراقي‎‎) is the nom de guerre of Nashwan Abdulrazaq Abdulbaqi ( نشوان عبد الرزاق عبد الباقي ), an alleged senior member of al-Qaeda who is now in US custody at Guantanamo Bay detention camp in Cuba. Hadi, from the Kurdish ethnic group, was the only non-Arab among al-Qaeda's leadership circle.

An ethnic Kurd, al-Iraqi was born in northern Mosul in 1961. He speaks Arabic, Urdu, Kurdish, the Waziri tribal dialect of Pashtu and a courtly form of Persian. He served in the Iraqi Army and was promoted to a Major. Then he travelled to Afghanistan to repel the Soviet invasion.

According to information about him provided by the Pentagon, Mr Hadi was a key paramilitary commander in Afghanistan during the late 1990s, before taking charge of cross-border attacks against US and coalition troops from 2002 to 2004. He was accused of commanding attacks on coalition forces in Afghanistan, and of involvement in plots to assassinate Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf. Following the American invasion in 2001, he clashed with Ahmed Khadr arguing that front line battle would prove more useful than guerilla tactics around Shagai, Pakistan.