Talk:Mustafa Setmariam Nasar

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I removed the following sentence:

He is believed to be in Iraq or Pakistan.

That sentence was included on or before July 13th, 2005. Later, information about his capture by Pakistani counterterrorism police was added. That makes the other information outdated. Johan Lont 11:55, 2 March 2006 (UTC)

Not really - we don't know what country he is detained in. Those two are possiblities - among a number of others. Rmhermen 00:25, 3 May 2006 (UTC)

Merging

There was a Wiki piece "Mustafa Setmarian Nasar" (mispelled); I'm merging the two. It'll be a series of minor edits, not one big one, to avoid conflict between simultaneous editors.

LDH 23:02, 28 February 2007 (UTC)

Alleged publication of an article in Inspire

I updated this section to reflect that further articles of Abu Musab al Suri have been published in issues of Inspire magazine. Also these articles were all serialised excerpts from his book, The Global Islamic Resistance Call, which appeared in the book Architect of Global Jihad: The Life of Al Qaeda Strategist Abu Mus'ab Al-Suri by Brynjar Lia.

Alleged publication of an article in Inspire

I updated this section to reflect that further articles of Abu Musab al Suri have been published in issues of Inspire magazine. Also these articles were all serialised excerpts from his book, The Global Islamic Resistance Call, which appeared in the book Architect of Global Jihad: The Life of Al Qaeda Strategist Abu Mus'ab Al-Suri by Brynjar Lia. Pmolloy291 (talk) 03:56, 11 February 2012 (UTC)

Needs updating

This article has several problems which should be easily repairable. The New Yorker article, and Peter Bergen's book aren't even cited, and both give much information that is pretty standard elsewhere off WP. Both say al-Suri teamed up with bin Laden in 1996, not 1992 as it says here; the chronology is all screwed up. Some other problems, too. nobs (talk) 07:40, 19 January 2015 (UTC)

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Salafi?

Hello Template:U, I will start by pointing out that you should not be reverting a revert, as that constitutes edit warring on Wikipedia. After cursorily perusing the link you provided in your edit summary, it still seems to me that Mustafa Setmariam Nasar was Salafist in his beliefs. Sure, he appears to be critiquing the movement, but is it stated anywhere that he wasn't in fact, a Salafist himself? Revirvlkodlaku (talk) 04:06, 25 April 2022 (UTC)

Is there anything on his current whereabouts?

the Fall of Assad lead to the release of thousands of prisoners, presumebly if he wasnt excecuted, Nasar as well? i took a brief google and couldnt find any info on him after the fall of damascus AssanEcho (talk) 22:04, 28 April 2025 (UTC)

Came here to ask the same thing. Realistically, if he wasn't killed, he would have been found by now. I've updated the lead paragraph to indicate that he disappeared circa 2005. I believe this is the right approach from a Wikipedia perspective because it's the precedent set by the page about possibly the most similar person, Musa al-Sadr. For context, he was also a highly influential political Islamic figure, last seen in the hands of a totalitarian regime (Gaddafi's Libya) known for secretly executing opponents, and nothing has been heard about him since the fall of Gaddafi. Maximum Paperclips (talk) 14:56, 22 May 2025 (UTC)

@Maximum Paperclips, according to the article, he has been imprisoned in Syria, which is not the same as having disappeared, so I don't think it should be stated that way. Revirvlkodlaku (talk) 14:59, 22 May 2025 (UTC)

I see - so given the Sadr precedent, what would be the criteria for officially labelling him as disappeared? I think the cases are very similar, especially since the rebels searched thoroughly for prisoners, and it's now clear that the Assad regime extrajudicially killed at least tens of thousands of prisoners. So it's highly unlikely he's still alive. But I could understand if we had a policy for this kind of thing, e.g. he has to go a given number of years without being seen, or theoretically reach a given age. Do we know what criteria were applied in the case of Sadr's page? Maximum Paperclips (talk) 15:06, 22 May 2025 (UTC)

@Maximum Paperclips, that's a good question. I don't know what criteria were used, and I'm not sure that we should necessarily be using the Sadr page as a precedent. I think it would be a good idea to get a few more opinions on this, unless someone is aware of an actual policy on this topic. Revirvlkodlaku (talk) 02:40, 23 May 2025 (UTC)