Abu Zaid

Ahmad Nasser Eid Abdullah Al-Fajri Al-Azimi, also Abu Zaid Al-Kuwaiti, Abu Omar Al-Kuwaiti and Abu Dzeit ( – February 16, 2005) was a Kuwaiti Salafist Jihad fighter and suspected al-Qaeda agent operating first in Afghanistan and later in Chechnya and the wider Caucasus area.cite web
url=http://www.globalterroralert.com/pdf/0205/chechnya0205.pdf
title=Death of Al-Qaida Emissary Abu Omar al-Kuwaiti (.pdf)
accessdate=January 5
accessyear=2007
date=February 23 2005
author=Evan Kohlmann] cite web
url=http://www.jamestown.org/docs/Al-Shishani-14Sep06.pdf
title=The Rise and Fall of Arab Fighters in Chechnya (.pdf)
accessdate=January 5cc
accessyear=2007
author=Murad Batal Al-Shishani]

Abu Zaid worked as a Kuwaiti actor in children TV programs, until he turned to religion and started working as an Imam at the Safwan Bin Omayah Mosque of Kuwait City, though he was soon sacked for illegally collecting donations from the mosque goers. In 1998 he first went to Afghanistan where he was reportedly trained at the al-Qaeda al-Farooq training camp, and then in October 1999 on to Chechnya.cite news
url=http://www.cacianalyst.org/view_article.php?articleid=3325
title=Is the Salafi-Jihadist way still an obstacle to Russia in Chechnya?
publisher=Central Asia Analyst
author=Murad Batal al-Shishani
accessdate=2007-01-05
date=Wednesday May 18, 2005] On February 16, 2005, Abu Zaid blew himself up after having been surrounded by Russian special forces in his safehouse in Ingushetia. He was suspected of numerous terror attacks, including organizing the Beslan school hostage crisis. [ [http://news.monstersandcritics.com/europe/news/article_1235797.php Russian parliament report on Beslan backs security forces actions] , Dec 22, 2006]

Abu Zaid was married to a Chechen wife, with whom he had two surviving sons.

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