Abu Musab al-Suri
| Mustafa Setmariam Nasar | |
|---|---|
| Born | October 1958 (age 58) Aleppo, Syria |
| Other names |
kunya: Abu Musab al-Suri, Umar Abd al-Hakim, |
| Occupation | none |
| Religion | Islam |
| Denomination | Sunni |
| Movement | Salafi |
| Children | 4 |
Abu Musab al-Suri, born Mustafa bin Abd al-Qadir Setmariam Nasar (Arabic: مصطفى بن عبد القادر ست مريم نصار), is a suspected al-Qaeda member and writer. He 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, and (as a witness) in connection with the 2004 Madrid train bombings. He is considered by many as 'the most articulate exponent of the modern jihad and its most sophisticated strategies'.
Nasar was captured by Pakistani security forces in 2005 and was rendered to Syria, where he was a wanted man. As of April 2014 he was being held in a Syrian prison.
His full name is Mustafa bin Abd al-Qadir al-Rifa'i (Arabic: مصطفى بن عبد القادر الرفاعي); he is a decedent of Ahmed al-Rifa'i who is the founder of the Rifa'i Sufi order, his paternal great grandmother was Set Mariam, (Arabic: ست مريم, which means Lady Mariam). His mother is the daughter of Mohammed Nasar who is an Egyptian came to Syria with Ibrahim Pasha Campaigns against the Ottoman Empire.
Nasar has red hair, green eyes, and a white complexion. He was born and grew up in Aleppo in Syria, and attended four years of university studies there at the University of Aleppo's Department of mechanical engineering. In 1980, he joined the Combatant Vanguard organisation, a radical offshoot of the Syrian Muslim Brotherhood, which was at the forefront in the Islamist uprising in Syria against Hafez Assad's government. Nasar was forced to flee Syria at the end of 1980. He then joined the Syrian Muslim Brotherhood organisation in exile, receiving training at their bases and safe houses in Iraq and Jordan. He is reported to have participated in the uprising of Hama in 1982. He emigrated to France and later to Spain in the mid-1980s.
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