{"id":64047,"date":"2020-10-25T15:56:36","date_gmt":"2020-10-25T15:56:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/navytimes\/uncategorized\/2020\/10\/25\/afghan-forces-claim-to-kill-al-qaida-propagandist-wanted-by-fbi\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T12:07:47","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T12:07:47","slug":"afghan-forces-claim-to-kill-al-qaida-propagandist-wanted-by-fbi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/navytimes\/flashpoints\/2020\/10\/25\/afghan-forces-claim-to-kill-al-qaida-propagandist-wanted-by-fbi\/","title":{"rendered":"Afghan forces claim to kill al-Qaida propagandist wanted by FBI"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">KABUL, Afghanistan \u2014 Afghanistan claimed Sunday it killed a top al-Qaida propagandist on an FBI most-wanted list during an operation in the country\u2019s east, showing the militant group\u2019s continued presence there as U.S. forces work to withdraw from America\u2019s longest-running war amid continued bloodshed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The reported death of Husam Abd al-Rauf, also known by the nom de guerre Abu Muhsin al-Masri, follows <a href=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/news\/your-military\/2020\/10\/18\/taliban-to-suspend-attacks-in-helmand-after-us-pledges-to-halt-strikes\/\" target=_blank>weeks of violence<\/a>, including a suicide bombing by the Islamic State group Saturday at an education center near Kabul that killed 24 people. Meanwhile, the Afghan government continues to fight Taliban militants even as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/news\/your-military\/2020\/10\/18\/after-more-than-40-years-of-conflict-afghans-say-preventing-next-war-as-vital-as-ending-this-one\/\" target=_blank>peace talks in Qatar<\/a> between the two sides take place for the first time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The violence and al-Rauf\u2019s reported killing threaten the face-to-face peace talks and risk plunging this nation beset by decades of war into further instability. They also complicate America\u2019s efforts to withdraw, 19 years after it led an invasion targeting the Taliban for hosting al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden after the Sept. 11 attacks.<\/p>\n\n\n\t<aside class=\"smg-interstitial-link wp-block-smg-interstitial-link\">\n\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/militarytimes\/news\/your-military\/2020\/10\/21\/top-us-general-in-afghanistan-says-hes-holding-back-to-give-taliban-peace-deal-a-chance\/\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__inner\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__media\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"219\" src=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Scott-miller-tooled-out.jpg.jpg?w=300\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__image wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" \/>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__content\">\n\t\t\t\t<span class=\"smg-interstitial-link__kicker\">Related<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t<h3 class=\"smg-interstitial-link__title\">Top US general in Afghanistan says he\u2019s holding back to give Taliban peace deal a chance<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"smg-interstitial-link__excerpt\">Army Gen. Scott Miller told the BBC that the U.S. is showing restraint in order to support the Taliban peace process.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/a>\n\t<\/aside>\n\t\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Details over the raid that led to al-Rauf\u2019s alleged death remained murky hours after Afghanistan\u2019s intelligence service, the National Directorate of Security, claimed on Twitter to have killed him in Ghazni province. It said one of its members was also killed in the operation. The agency released a photograph late Sunday afternoon it described as al-Rauf\u2019s corpse, which resembled FBI images of the militant leader.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Al-Qaida did not immediately acknowledge al-Rauf\u2019s reported death. The FBI declined to comment. The U.S. military\u2019s Central Command and NATO did not respond to requests for comment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Afghan raid happened last week in Kunsaf, a village in Ghazni province\u2019s Andar district some 150 kilometers (90 miles) southwest of Kabul, two government officials said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Amanullah Kamrani, the deputy head of Ghazni\u2019s provincial council, told The Associated Press that Afghan special forces led by the intelligence agency raided Kunsaf, which he described as being under Taliban control. On the village\u2019s outskirts, they stormed an isolated home and killed seven suspected militants in a firefight, including al-Rauf, Kamrani said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Neither Kamrani nor the intelligence agency offered details on how authorities identified al-Rauf, nor how they came to suspect he was in the village.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Wahidullah Jumazada, a spokesman for the provincial governor in Ghazni, said Afghan forces killed six suspected militants in the raid, without acknowledging al-Rauf had been killed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Kamrani alleged, without providing evidence, that the Taliban had been offering shelter and protection to al-Rauf. The Taliban told the AP on Sunday they are investigating the incident.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If the Taliban had provided protection for al-Rauf, that would violate the terms of its Feb. 29 deal with the U.S. that jump-started <a href=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/news\/2020\/09\/13\/warring-afghans-meet-to-find-peace-after-decades-of-war\/\" target=_blank>the Afghan peace talks<\/a>. That deal saw the Taliban agree \u201cnot to cooperate with groups or individuals threatening the security of the United States and its allies,\u201d which includes al-Qaida.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Afghan presidential palace issued a statement Sunday saying al-Rauf had been killed and warning it \u201cproved that the threat of terrorism and the Taliban\u2019s links to terrorist networks are still in place.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe Taliban should prove to the people, the government of Afghanistan and the international community that they are ending their links with terrorist groups, including al-Qaida,\u201d the statement said. They \u201cshould stop the war and violence and facilitate a dignified and sustainable peace in the country.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Federal prosecutors in the Southern District of New York filed a warrant for al-Rauf\u2019s arrest in December 2018, accusing him of providing support to a foreign terrorist organization and being part of a conspiracy to kill U.S. citizens. The FBI put him on the bureau\u2019s \u201cMost Wanted Terrorists\u201d list, which now includes 27 others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The red-headed al-Rauf, believed to be born in 1958, is an Egyptian national. An al-Qaida-issued biography said he joined the mujaheddin fighters who battled the Soviet Union in 1986.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He has served for years as al-Qaida\u2019s media chief, offering audio statements and written articles backing the militant group. After years of remaining silent following the acknowledgement of Taliban founder Mullah Mohammad Omar\u2019s death, al-Rauf reemerged in 2018 in an audio statement in which he mocked President Donald Trump and those who preceded him the White House.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI name him \u2018Donald T-Rambo\u2019 who tries to copy the famous American fictional character \u2018Rambo,\u2019 who, with only a Kalashnikov, was able to liberate the entire Afghanistan from the Soviet Union,\u201d al-Rauf said, according to the SITE Intelligence Group.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Afghan presidential palace described al-Rauf as \u201cal-Qaida\u2019s leader for the Indian subcontinent.\u201d The National Directorate of Security referred to al-Rauf as having a close relationship with both bin Laden and Ayman al-Zawahiri, an Egyptian now leading al-Qaida. It said he lived for years in hideouts in both Afghanistan and neighboring Pakistan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Meanwhile Sunday, authorities raised the death toll in Saturday\u2019s suicide attack on an education center near Kabul. The suicide bomber, who was stopped by guards from entering the center, killed 24 and wounded 57 \u2014 many of them young students.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Islamic State group\u2019s local affiliate claimed credit for the attack in a heavily Shiite neighborhood of western Kabul\u2019s Dasht-e-Barchi neighborhood, saying one of its fighters used a suicide bomb vest in the assault. The Sunni extremists of the Islamic State group view Shiites as heretics and have repeatedly targeted them in attacks in Afghanistan, even after losing the territory of their so-called caliphate once spanning parts of Iraq and Syria.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Mourners later gathered on a dusty hillside to bury the youths killed by the bombing. An Afghan flag whipped in the wind above their heads as they prayed for, buried and quietly remembered those lost.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThey had no guns on hand,\u201d said one mourner named Azizullah, who like many Afghans uses one name. \u201cThey wanted to study and have a bright future for themselves and the country.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><i>Gambrell reported from Dubai, United Arab Emirates. 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