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Mostafa swiftly rose up the ranks of the group, serving as an explosives expert, propaganda expert, military instructor, and interpreter for the organization. By 2009, he has been a senior leader in al-Shabaab, and is believed to be the highest-ranking U.S. citizen in a foreign terrorist
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Mostafa was born on December 28, 1981, in
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1237:2008 Islamabad Danish embassy bombing
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902:Ibrahim Sulayman Muhammad al-Rubaysh
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527:Ali Sayyid Muhamed Mustafa al-Bakri
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399:Spagat, Elliot (2 December 2019).
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135:Jehad Mostafa as a youth (undated)
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882:Adnan Gulshair el Shukrijumah
547:Mohammed Showqi Al-Islambouli
522:Abu Ubaidah Youssef al-Annabi
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622:Qaed Salim Sinan al-Harethi
552:Abdukadir Mohamed Abdukadir
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717:Fahid Mohammed Ally Msalam
642:Muhsin Musa Matwalli Atwah
221:FBI Most Wanted Terrorists
163:Involvement with terrorism
121:FBI Most Wanted Terrorists
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1058:Mustafa Setmariam Nasar
1023:Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri
987:Abdullah Ahmed Abdullah
782:Fazul Abdullah Mohammed
677:Abu Sulayman Al-Jazairi
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1414:Egyptian Islamic Jihad
1161:Abu Omar al-Turkistani
1143:Abu Mohammad al-Julani
1028:Khalid Sheikh Mohammed
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627:Mustafa Mohamed Fadhil
318:"Jehad Serwan Mostafa"
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1131:Mahfouz Ould al-Walid
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1137:Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi
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787:Atiyah Abd al-Rahman
647:Abu Musab al-Zarqawi
173:Islamic Courts Union
101:Jehad Serwan Mostafa
23:Jehad Serwan Mostafa
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1078:Younis al-Mauritani
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992:Abu Muhsin al-Masri
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827:Abu-Zaid al Kuwaiti
702:Abu Zubair al-Masri
667:Abu Talha al-Sudani
350:Rewards for Justice
225:Rewards for Justice
141:Waukesha, Wisconsin
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1328:Second Chechen War
1282:2016 Bamako attack
1217:2002 Bali bombings
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947:Abu Khayr al-Masri
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662:Abu Yaqub al-Masri
567:Abu Humam al-Shami
542:Abu Walid al-Masri
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