Abu Suleiman al-Naser
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Abu Suleiman al-Naser is the leader of the al-Qaeda
Al-Qaeda
Al-Qaeda is a global broad-based militant Islamist terrorist organization founded by Osama bin Laden sometime between August 1988 and late 1989. It operates as a network comprising both a multinational, stateless army and a radical Sunni Muslim movement calling for global Jihad...

 affiliate in Iraq
Iraq
Iraq ; officially the Republic of Iraq is a country in Western Asia spanning most of the northwestern end of the Zagros mountain range, the eastern part of the Syrian Desert and the northern part of the Arabian Desert....

 and “war minister” of the Islamic State of Iraq
Islamic State of Iraq
The Islamic State of Iraq , is an umbrella organization of a number Iraqi insurgency groups established on October 15 2006.The group is composed of and supported by a variety of insurgency groups, including its predecessor, the Mujahideen Shura Council, Al-Qaeda, Jeish al-Fatiheen, Jund al-Sahaba,...

 (ISI). Little is known about Abu Suleiman. He succeeded Abu Ayyub al-Masri
Abu Ayyub al-Masri
Abu Ayyub al-Masri , also known as Abu Hamza al-Muhajir and other aliases , was an active combattant of al-Qaeda and at least a senior aide to former leader of Al-Qaeda in Iraq, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi. When Zarqawi was killed in a U.S. airstrike on 7 June 2006, U.S...

, the leader of al-Qaeda in Iraq who was killed along with ISI leader Abu Omar al-Baghdadi in a joint operation by US and Iraqi forces in Tikrit
Tikrit
Tikrit is a town in Iraq, located 140 km northwest of Baghdad on the Tigris river . The town, with an estimated population in 2002 of about 260,000 is the administrative center of the Salah ad Din Governorate.-Ancient times:...

 in April 2010. The new war minister signed with the name Al-Nasser Lideen Allah Abu Suleiman, a nom de guerre that translates Defender of God’s Religion, Father of Suleiman.

Iraqi security forces claimed to have killed Al-Nasser Lideen Allah Abu Suleiman, also known as Noman Salman. He was presumed shot dead in February 2011 in the town of Hīt
Hīt
Hīt is an Iraqi city in Al-Anbar province. Hīt lies northwest of Ramadi, the provincial capital.On the Euphrates River, Hīt is a small walled town built on two mounds on the site of the ancient city of Is; bitumen wells in the vicinity have been utilized for at least 3,000 years and were used in...

, west of Baghdad
Baghdad
Baghdad is the capital of Iraq, as well as the coterminous Baghdad Governorate. The population of Baghdad in 2011 is approximately 7,216,040...

. "He fled in a car laden with explosives, which blew up as they opened fire."

Suleiman also seems to be related to the Partisans of Islamic Jihad and Ansar al-Jihad al-Alami
Ansar al-Jihad al-Alami
Ansar al-Jihad al-Alami |Anṣār]] al-Jihād al-‘Alāmī, "helpers of the global jihad") is a group that came to international attention in the immediate aftermath of the 2011 Norway attacks, when it was reported that they had claimed responsibility for them....

 where he reportedly issued a statement on May 3, 2011 after the death of Osama bin Laden
Death of Osama bin Laden
Osama bin Laden, then head of the Islamist militant group al-Qaeda, was killed in Pakistan on May 2, 2011, shortly after 1 a.m. local time by a United States special forces military unit....

"to all jihadists around the globe to mobilize and prepare to wage jihad operations against the Zionist-crusader alliance"
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