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The Guardian
August 19, 2017
More than 20 years later, a Syrian called Mustafa Setmariam Nasar, better known as Abu Musab al-Suri, posted a sprawling set of writings on an extremist Islamist website, laying out a new strategy. His maxim was “principles, not organisations” and he envisaged individual attackers and cells, guided byÃâà...
The Economist
June 15, 2017
Mr Kepel puts the turning point at around 2005: the year when Abu Musab al-Suri (real name: Mustafa Setmariam Nasar) published a 1,600-page tract entitled “The Call for Global Islamic Resistance”. YouTube was launched that same year, giving jihadists a direct, vivid means of publicising their grislyÃâà...
New Statesman
June 12, 2017
Naji's view was robustly opposed by another theorist, Abu Musab al-Suri (a nom de guerre for Mustafa Setmariam Nasar, a Syrian strategist within al-Qaeda). He argued that the American response to 9/11 was too severe and that the group would never be able to regain the freedom it had enjoyed underÃâà...
New York Times
February 16, 2015
As early as December 2004, the Syrian-born, Spanish-naturalized thinker Mustafa Setmariam Nasar (nom de guerre: Abu Musab al-Suri), a former public relations man for Osama bin Laden, diagnosed the limitations of Al Qaeda's approach and prophesied its downfall. He developed a new model forÃâà...
Telegraph.co.uk
February 4, 2012
Al-Suri, also known as Mustafa Setmariam Nasar, was al-Qaeda's operations chief in Europe and has been accused of planning the London bombings, in which four British-born terrorists detonated three bombs on the Underground and another on a bus, killing 52 people and injuring more than 700 othersÃâà...
London Review of Books
March 19, 2008
In his Secret History of al-Qaida, Abdel Bari Atwan of al-Quds al-Arabi recalls entering bin Laden's dimly lit cave and being 'absolutely astonished to recognise . . . a Syrian writer I knew quite well from London, Omar Abdel Hakim, also known as Mustafa Setmariam Nasar and whose nom de guerre is “AbuÃâà...
CNN International
March 11, 2006
Mustafa Setmariam Nasar was born in Syria in October, 1958. As a young man, he was part of a failed uprising by the Muslim Brotherhood against that country's dictator, Hafez al-Assad. After Assad brutally crushed that putative revolt, Setmariam set off for Afghanistan and the jihad against the Soviets,Ãâà...
