Ali Jaleel Explained

Ali Jaleel رَحِمَهُ ٱللَّٰهُ
Birth Date:1979
Birth Place:Malé, Maldives
Death Date:May 27, 2009 (aged 30)
Death Place:Lahore, Pakistan
Other Names:Musab Sayyid
Known For:Jihad

Ali Jaleel رَحِمَهُ ٱللَّٰهُ (2009–1979) was a citizen of the Maldives who is reported to have died as a suicide bomber.[1] [2] [3] He is reported to have attacked the Inter-Service Intelligence Directorate headquarters in Lahore, Pakistan on 27 May 2009.[4]

Pakistani accounts from the time of the attack say the three attackers who were killed, were unidentified.[5] Subsequently, a martyr video, and an interview established Ali Jaleel was one of the bombers.[6]

See main article: 2009 Lahore bombing.

Ali Jaleel, and two other Maldivian citizens were captured in 2006, on suspicion they were attempting to travel to Pakistan for underground military training.[7] He was convicted of preaching without a license in December 2006.[6] He was sentenced to two years house arrest on December 26, 2006.

According to Haveeru Daily, he violated his house arrest and was sentenced to four months of banishment on February 8, 2008.

References

  1. News: Roul . Animesh . February 12, 2010 . Jihad and Islamism in the Maldive Islands . September 30, 2024 . Jamestown Foundation.
  2. Web site: How Extremism Began in Maldives . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20100724050940/http://jswaheed.com/issues_historyofislam.html . July 24, 2010 . Jeffrey Salim Waheed.
  3. News: Chandrasekharan . S. . December 5, 2009 . MALDIVES: Coming to Grips with Religious Extremism . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20100211205129/http://southasiaanalysis.org/%5Cpapers36%5Cpaper3536.html . February 11, 2010 . South Asia Analysis . On 8 November 2008, the Al Qaeda showed a video clip (available in YouTube- even some Maldivian media carried it) of a Maldivian national who reportedly killed himself in a suicide attack. The person - Ali Jaleel aged 30 of male said that he would wage jihad and die as a martyr..
  4. Web site: February 12, 2010 . Footage of a Maldivian national Ali Jaleel who committed a suicide attack on Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) headquarters . September 30, 2024 . Jamestown Foundation.
  5. News: Chaudhry . Asif . May 28, 2009 . Terrorists attack Lahore ISI office . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20100107164653/http://www.nation.com.pk/pakistan-news-newspaper-daily-english-online/Politics/28-May-2009/Terrorists-attack-Lahore-ISI-office . January 7, 2010 . September 30, 2024 . The Nation (Pakistan).
  6. News: November 6, 2009 . Video interview of Maldivian jihadist available on internet . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20110304122623/http://www.haveeru.com.mv/english/details/28385 . March 4, 2011 . February 14, 2011 . . A member of Jaleel’s family said that they had heard rumours about his death but that the video had “further confirmed” it. The family member said that Jaleel’s family did not want to say too much on the matter..
  7. News: Swami . Praveen . April 4, 2009 . Nine Maldives jihadists held in Pakistan . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20090409180945/http://www.thehindu.com/2009/04/04/stories/2009040452281100.htm . April 9, 2009 . February 2, 2010 . . And, in 2006, Male residents Ali Jaleel, Fatimah Nasreen, and Aishath Raushan were arrested for preparing to go to Pakistan to receive jihad training..

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