Nasser al-Bahri

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Nasser Ahmed Nasser Abdullah al-Bahri ( 29 April 1972 – 26 December 2015), also known by his kunya or nom de guerre as Abu Jandal – "father of death" or "the killer", was a member of al-Qaeda in Afghanistan from 1996 to 2000. According to his memoir, he pledged allegiance to Osama bin Laden in 1998. He was in al-Qaeda for six years as one of bin Laden's twelve bodyguards, A citizen of Yemen born in Saudi Arabia, al-Bahri was radicalized in his teens by dissident Saudi ulamas and participated in clandestine political activities which were funded in part by human trafficking. Determined to become a jihadist, he first went to Bosnia and then, briefly, to Somalia before arriving in Afghanistan in 1996 in the hope of joining al-Qaeda, which he soon did. After four years, al-Bahri became "disillusioned", largely because bin Laden consolidated al-Qaeda's relationship with the Taliban by giving his bayʿah to its leader, Mullah Omar, but also because he had married and become a father. After his...

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