Abdulhadi al-Iraqi

Iraqi al Qaeda member

Nashwan Abdulrazaq Abdulbaqi al Tamir (Arabic: نشوان عبدالرزاق عبدالباقي التامر; born 1961), better known as Abd al Hadi al Iraqi (عبد الهادي العراقي) is an Iraqi member of Al Qaeda who is now in United States custody at Guantanamo Bay detention camp in Cuba.

Al Iraqi was born in Mosul to a Sunni Arab family in 1961. He served in the Iraqi Army, and fought for Iraq, during the Iran Iraq War. Then he travelled to Afghanistan to fight the Soviet invasion. The most recent U. S. State Department wanted poster That person was also described as a training camp commander. However, despite these coincidences, the two suspects are now known to be distinct people. Despite the report that Abd al Hadi spoke several regional languages, several of the charges against Abdul Zahir stem from him serving as a translator for Abdul Hadi. A captured letter dated June 13, 2002, and thought to be from Saif al Adel, mentions an Abd al Hadi al Iraqi who is relatively senior in al Qaeda and is at large (probably in Afghanistan) at the time of that writing. The US DoD statement says that Abdul Hadi "during 2002–04, was in charge of cross border attacks in Afghanistan" and that before his capture, he "was trying to return to his native country, Iraq, to manage al Qai`da's affairs and possibly focus on operations outside Iraq against Western targets".

On April 27, 2007, it was reported that he was detained at Guantanamo Bay. He was previously held by the CIA. According to BBC News, US sources told them that al Iraqi was arrested "late last year", meaning in 2006. On September 6, 2006, US President George W. Bush officially confirmed that the CIA maintained a secret network of overseas interrogation camps when he announced that fourteen "high value detainees", including al Iraqi, had been transferred to Guantanamo, from those secret camps. Although judges Peter Brownback and Keith J. Allred had ruled two months earlier that only "illegal enemy combatants" could face military commissions, the Department of Defense waived the qualifier and said that all fourteen men could now face charges before Guantanamo military commissions.

al Iraqi suffers from a spinal condition.