Mustafa Setmariam Nasar

Who is Mustafa Setmariam Nasar?

Mustafa bin Abd al-Qadir Sitt Maryam Nasar 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 considered by many as 'the most articulate exponent of the modern jihad and its most sophisticated strategies'.

Nasar was reportedly captured in the Pakistani city of Quetta in late October 2005, although exactly where and when is disputed. He was captured by Pakistani security forces and handed over to American custody a month or so later. He was not among the 14 high-profile al-Qaida suspects transferred to the Guantanamo Bay detention camp in late 2006, and it appears that Nasar was rendered to Syria, where he was a wanted man. He is also wanted in Spain for the 1985 El Descanso bombing, which killed eighteen people, and in connection with the 2004 Madrid train bombings.