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'''Abdel Wahab Mohamed Qaid''' ({{Lang-ar|عبدالوهاب محمد قايد}}), alias '''Abu Idris al-Libi''' is a Libyan politician and former militia leader. Since 2012, he has been a member of the Libyan Parliament ([[General National Congress]])<ref name="MET2012">{{Cite web |title=الحضور الجهادي في ليبيا (Jihadist presence in Libya) |author=Aaron J. Xylenes |date=September 14, 2012 |work=ME Transparent |url=http://www.metransparent.com/spip.php?page=article&id_article=19965&lang=ar |language=Arabic }}</ref> and the head of the [[National Border Guard]] for southern [[Libya]].<ref name="CBS News">{{Cite news |title=What's behind violent anti-U.S. protests in Muslim nations? |author=Tucker Reals |date=September 13, 2012 |agency=[[CBS News]] |url=http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503543_162-57512280-503543/whats-behind-violent-anti-u.s-protests-in-muslim-nations/ }}</ref>
'''Abdel Wahab Mohamed Qaid''' ({{Lang-ar|عبدالوهاب محمد قايد}}), alias '''Abu Idris al-Libi''' is a Libyan politician and former militia leader. Since 2012, he has been a member of the Libyan Parliament ([[General National Congress]])<ref name="MET2012">{{Cite web |title=الحضور الجهادي في ليبيا (Jihadist presence in Libya) |author=Aaron J. Xylenes |date=September 14, 2012 |work=ME Transparent |url=http://www.metransparent.com/spip.php?page=article&id_article=19965&lang=ar |language=Arabic }}</ref> and the head of the [[National Border Guard]] for southern [[Libya]].<ref name="CBS News">{{Cite news |title=What's behind violent anti-U.S. protests in Muslim nations? |author=Tucker Reals |date=September 13, 2012 |agency=[[CBS News]] |url=http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503543_162-57512280-503543/whats-behind-violent-anti-u.s-protests-in-muslim-nations/ }}</ref>


He was described as one of the most senior members of the [[Libyan Islamic Fighting Group]] that fought against the rule of [[Muammar Gaddafi]].<ref name="HRW">{{Cite book |title=Delivered Into Enemy Hands – US-Led Abuse and Rendition of Opponents to Gaddafi’s Libya |isbn=1-56432-940-2 |pages=26 |publisher=[[Human Rights Watch]] |date=September 6, 2012 |url=https://www.hrw.org/reports/2012/09/05/delivered-enemy-hands }}</ref><ref>{{Citation |url=http://www.npr.org/2011/04/04/135110129/foreign-policy-putting-the-rebel-rumors-to-rest |first=Najla |last=Abdurrahman |title=Foreign Policy: Putting The Rebel Rumors To Rest |publisher=NPR |date=4 April 2011}}</ref> He was one of the last members of LIFG to be released from prison (on February 16, 2011) as part of the reconciliation program headed by the leader's son [[Saif al-Islam Gaddafi]].<ref name="MEMRI">{{Cite web |title=Libya Releases Remaining LIFG Members – Including 'Adb Al-Wahhab Muhammad Qaid, Brother Of Al-Qaeda Commander Abu Yahya Al-Libi |publisher=[[Middle East Media Research Institute]] |date=February 2011 |url=http://www.thememriblog.org/blog_personal/en/34891.htm }}</ref><ref name="CagePrisoners">{{Cite web |script-title=ar:ليبيا تُفرج عن قادة "المقاتلة"... واشتباكات في بنغازي عشية "يوم الغضب" |date=February 17, 2011 |work=[[CagePrisoners]] |url=http://www.cageprisoners.com/arabic-content/news/item/1199-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AD%D9%8A%D8%A7%D8%A9 |language=Arabic }}</ref><ref name="MET2011">{{Cite news |title=ليبيا تفرج اليوم عن 110 من المتشددين الاسلاميين (Libya frees today about 110 Islamic militants) |date=February 16, 2011 |newspaper=ME Transparent |agency=Reuters |url=http://www.shaffaf.net/spip.php?page=article&id_article=12923&lang=ar |language=Arabic }}</ref> He is the elder brother of [[Abu Yahya al-Libi]], former number 2 in [[al-Qaeda]], who was killed in a US drone strike in June 2012.<ref name="CBS News" /><ref name="HRW" /><ref name="MEMRI" /><ref>{{Cite web |title=Today I Interviewed Abu Yahya al-Libi’s Older Brother, Abd al-Wahhab Muhammad Qaid (Abu Idris) |author=[[Jarret Brachman]] |date=March 25, 2010 |url=http://jarretbrachman.net/?p=610 }}</ref>
He was described as one of the most senior members of the [[Libyan Islamic Fighting Group]] that fought against the rule of [[Muammar Gaddafi]].<ref name="HRW">{{Cite book |title=Delivered Into Enemy Hands – US-Led Abuse and Rendition of Opponents to Gaddafi’s Libya |isbn=1-56432-940-2 |pages=26 |publisher=[[Human Rights Watch]] |date=September 6, 2012 |url=https://www.hrw.org/reports/2012/09/05/delivered-enemy-hands }}</ref><ref>{{Citation |url=http://www.npr.org/2011/04/04/135110129/foreign-policy-putting-the-rebel-rumors-to-rest |first=Najla |last=Abdurrahman |title=Foreign Policy: Putting The Rebel Rumors To Rest |publisher=NPR |date=4 April 2011}}</ref> He was one of the last members of LIFG to be released from prison (on February 16, 2011) as part of the reconciliation program headed by the leader's son [[Saif al-Islam Gaddafi]].<ref name="MEMRI">{{Cite web |title=Libya Releases Remaining LIFG Members – Including 'Adb Al-Wahhab Muhammad Qaid, Brother Of Al-Qaeda Commander Abu Yahya Al-Libi |publisher=[[Middle East Media Research Institute]] |date=February 2011 |url=http://www.thememriblog.org/blog_personal/en/34891.htm }}</ref><ref name="CagePrisoners">{{Cite web|script-title=ar:ليبيا تُفرج عن قادة "المقاتلة"... واشتباكات في بنغازي عشية "يوم الغضب" |date=February 17, 2011 |work=[[CagePrisoners]] |url=http://www.cageprisoners.com/arabic-content/news/item/1199-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AD%D9%8A%D8%A7%D8%A9 |language=Arabic |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120904221957/https://www.cageprisoners.com/arabic-content/news/item/1199-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AD%D9%8A%D8%A7%D8%A9 |archivedate=September 4, 2012 }}</ref><ref name="MET2011">{{Cite news |title=ليبيا تفرج اليوم عن 110 من المتشددين الاسلاميين (Libya frees today about 110 Islamic militants) |date=February 16, 2011 |newspaper=ME Transparent |agency=Reuters |url=http://www.shaffaf.net/spip.php?page=article&id_article=12923&lang=ar |language=Arabic }}</ref> He is the elder brother of [[Abu Yahya al-Libi]], former number 2 in [[al-Qaeda]], who was killed in a US drone strike in June 2012.<ref name="CBS News" /><ref name="HRW" /><ref name="MEMRI" /><ref>{{Cite web |title=Today I Interviewed Abu Yahya al-Libi’s Older Brother, Abd al-Wahhab Muhammad Qaid (Abu Idris) |author=[[Jarret Brachman]] |date=March 25, 2010 |url=http://jarretbrachman.net/?p=610 }}</ref>


After the [[2011 Libyan Civil War|Libyan Civil War]] of 2011 that led to the deposition of Gaddafi, he was elected to the [[General National Congress]] as an independent, representing a constituency in Southern Libya. After the parliament was constituted, he founded the al-Wafa Bloc (full name: ''al-Wafa li dimaa Al-Shuhadaa'', "Remaining Faithful to the Blood of the Martyrs"), made up of former anti-Gaddafi militia fighters. He advocates a rigorous exclusion of representatives of the disempowered Gaddafi regime from public offices ("Political Exclusion Law").<ref>{{Citation |url=http://www.brookings.edu/research/opinions/2013/02/18-libya-political-exclusion-sharqieh |first=Ibrahim |last=Sharqieh |title=An Ill-Advised Purge in Libya |publisher=The Brookings Institution |date=18 February 2013}}</ref><ref>{{Citation |first=Karim |last=Mezran |title=Overcoming Political Polarization in Libya |publisher=Atlantic Council |url=http://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/menasource/overcoming-political-polarization-in-libya |date=5 March 2013}}</ref> He chairs the parliamentary Committee for National Security. Qaid was considered a main contender for the office of President of the General National Congress after the first President [[Mohammed Magariaf]] retired from this office due to the exclusion law in May 2013.<ref>{{Citation |first=Jamie |last=Dettmer |title=Brother of Al Qaeda commander killed in drone strike a major candidate for presidency of Libya’s parliament |work=FoxNews.com |date=1 June 2013 |url=http://www.foxnews.com/world/2013/06/01/brother-deceased-al-qaeda-commander-major-candidate-for-presidency-libyas/}}</ref><ref>{{Citation |first=Sami |last=Zaptia |title=Three early nominees for GNC leadership emerge |newspaper=Libya Herald |date=1 June 2013 |url=http://www.libyaherald.com/2013/06/01/three-early-nominees-for-gnc-leadership-emerge/}}</ref> Unlike all other groups, the al-Wafa Bloc opposed a women's quota in the [[Libyan Constitutional Assembly election, 2014|Constitutional Assembly elected in February 2014]].<ref>{{Citation |author=Libyan Women’s Platform for Peace |title=On the Struggle for an Inclusive Constitutional Assembly |newspaper=Libya Herald |url=http://www.libyaherald.com/2013/07/13/update-on-the-struggle-for-an-inclusive-constitutional-assembly/ |date=13 July 2013}}</ref> In October 2013, Russian media reported that Bassem al-Hashemi Sol, spokesman of a "Libyan Tribal association", accused Qaid of being a high-ranking al-Qaeda member.<ref>{{Citation |first1=Munsef |last1=Matni |first2=Ibrahim |last2=Naovaf |title="Gaddafi supporters are tortured in Libyan jails" – tribe union’s spokesman |publisher=The Voice of Russia |url=http://voiceofrussia.com/2013_10_17/Qaddafi-supporters-are-tortured-in-Libyan-jails-tribe-union-s-spokesman-5510/ |date=17 October 2013}}</ref>
After the [[2011 Libyan Civil War|Libyan Civil War]] of 2011 that led to the deposition of Gaddafi, he was elected to the [[General National Congress]] as an independent, representing a constituency in Southern Libya. After the parliament was constituted, he founded the al-Wafa Bloc (full name: ''al-Wafa li dimaa Al-Shuhadaa'', "Remaining Faithful to the Blood of the Martyrs"), made up of former anti-Gaddafi militia fighters. He advocates a rigorous exclusion of representatives of the disempowered Gaddafi regime from public offices ("Political Exclusion Law").<ref>{{Citation |url=http://www.brookings.edu/research/opinions/2013/02/18-libya-political-exclusion-sharqieh |first=Ibrahim |last=Sharqieh |title=An Ill-Advised Purge in Libya |publisher=The Brookings Institution |date=18 February 2013}}</ref><ref>{{Citation |first=Karim |last=Mezran |title=Overcoming Political Polarization in Libya |publisher=Atlantic Council |url=http://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/menasource/overcoming-political-polarization-in-libya |date=5 March 2013}}</ref> He chairs the parliamentary Committee for National Security. Qaid was considered a main contender for the office of President of the General National Congress after the first President [[Mohammed Magariaf]] retired from this office due to the exclusion law in May 2013.<ref>{{Citation |first=Jamie |last=Dettmer |title=Brother of Al Qaeda commander killed in drone strike a major candidate for presidency of Libya’s parliament |work=FoxNews.com |date=1 June 2013 |url=http://www.foxnews.com/world/2013/06/01/brother-deceased-al-qaeda-commander-major-candidate-for-presidency-libyas/}}</ref><ref>{{Citation |first=Sami |last=Zaptia |title=Three early nominees for GNC leadership emerge |newspaper=Libya Herald |date=1 June 2013 |url=http://www.libyaherald.com/2013/06/01/three-early-nominees-for-gnc-leadership-emerge/}}</ref> Unlike all other groups, the al-Wafa Bloc opposed a women's quota in the [[Libyan Constitutional Assembly election, 2014|Constitutional Assembly elected in February 2014]].<ref>{{Citation |author=Libyan Women’s Platform for Peace |title=On the Struggle for an Inclusive Constitutional Assembly |newspaper=Libya Herald |url=http://www.libyaherald.com/2013/07/13/update-on-the-struggle-for-an-inclusive-constitutional-assembly/ |date=13 July 2013}}</ref> In October 2013, Russian media reported that Bassem al-Hashemi Sol, spokesman of a "Libyan Tribal association", accused Qaid of being a high-ranking al-Qaeda member.<ref>{{Citation |first1=Munsef |last1=Matni |first2=Ibrahim |last2=Naovaf |title="Gaddafi supporters are tortured in Libyan jails" – tribe union’s spokesman |publisher=The Voice of Russia |url=http://voiceofrussia.com/2013_10_17/Qaddafi-supporters-are-tortured-in-Libyan-jails-tribe-union-s-spokesman-5510/ |date=17 October 2013}}</ref>

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Abdel Wahab Mohamed Qaid
Member of the General National Congress of Libya
Assumed office
8 August 2012
Personal details
Born1967 or '68
Political partyLibyan Islamic Fighting Group (–2012)
Umma Party[1] (2012–present)
Alma materAl-Arab Medical University, Benghazi
WebsiteFacebook page

Abdel Wahab Mohamed Qaid (Arabic: عبدالوهاب محمد قايد), alias Abu Idris al-Libi is a Libyan politician and former militia leader. Since 2012, he has been a member of the Libyan Parliament (General National Congress)[1] and the head of the National Border Guard for southern Libya.[2]

He was described as one of the most senior members of the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group that fought against the rule of Muammar Gaddafi.[3][4] He was one of the last members of LIFG to be released from prison (on February 16, 2011) as part of the reconciliation program headed by the leader's son Saif al-Islam Gaddafi.[5][6][7] He is the elder brother of Abu Yahya al-Libi, former number 2 in al-Qaeda, who was killed in a US drone strike in June 2012.[2][3][5][8]

After the Libyan Civil War of 2011 that led to the deposition of Gaddafi, he was elected to the General National Congress as an independent, representing a constituency in Southern Libya. After the parliament was constituted, he founded the al-Wafa Bloc (full name: al-Wafa li dimaa Al-Shuhadaa, "Remaining Faithful to the Blood of the Martyrs"), made up of former anti-Gaddafi militia fighters. He advocates a rigorous exclusion of representatives of the disempowered Gaddafi regime from public offices ("Political Exclusion Law").[9][10] He chairs the parliamentary Committee for National Security. Qaid was considered a main contender for the office of President of the General National Congress after the first President Mohammed Magariaf retired from this office due to the exclusion law in May 2013.[11][12] Unlike all other groups, the al-Wafa Bloc opposed a women's quota in the Constitutional Assembly elected in February 2014.[13] In October 2013, Russian media reported that Bassem al-Hashemi Sol, spokesman of a "Libyan Tribal association", accused Qaid of being a high-ranking al-Qaeda member.[14]

Further reading

  • Kirkpatrick, David D. (6 October 2012), "Political Islam and the Fate of Two Libyan Brothers", The New York Times

References

  1. ^ a b Aaron J. Xylenes (September 14, 2012). "الحضور الجهادي في ليبيا (Jihadist presence in Libya)". ME Transparent (in Arabic).
  2. ^ a b Tucker Reals (September 13, 2012). "What's behind violent anti-U.S. protests in Muslim nations?". CBS News.
  3. ^ a b Delivered Into Enemy Hands – US-Led Abuse and Rendition of Opponents to Gaddafi’s Libya. Human Rights Watch. September 6, 2012. p. 26. ISBN 1-56432-940-2.
  4. ^ Abdurrahman, Najla (4 April 2011), Foreign Policy: Putting The Rebel Rumors To Rest, NPR
  5. ^ a b "Libya Releases Remaining LIFG Members – Including 'Adb Al-Wahhab Muhammad Qaid, Brother Of Al-Qaeda Commander Abu Yahya Al-Libi". Middle East Media Research Institute. February 2011.
  6. ^ ليبيا تُفرج عن قادة "المقاتلة"... واشتباكات في بنغازي عشية "يوم الغضب". CagePrisoners (in Arabic). February 17, 2011. Archived from the original on September 4, 2012. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
  7. ^ "ليبيا تفرج اليوم عن 110 من المتشددين الاسلاميين (Libya frees today about 110 Islamic militants)". ME Transparent (in Arabic). Reuters. February 16, 2011.
  8. ^ Jarret Brachman (March 25, 2010). "Today I Interviewed Abu Yahya al-Libi's Older Brother, Abd al-Wahhab Muhammad Qaid (Abu Idris)".
  9. ^ Sharqieh, Ibrahim (18 February 2013), An Ill-Advised Purge in Libya, The Brookings Institution
  10. ^ Mezran, Karim (5 March 2013), Overcoming Political Polarization in Libya, Atlantic Council
  11. ^ Dettmer, Jamie (1 June 2013), "Brother of Al Qaeda commander killed in drone strike a major candidate for presidency of Libya's parliament", FoxNews.com
  12. ^ Zaptia, Sami (1 June 2013), "Three early nominees for GNC leadership emerge", Libya Herald
  13. ^ Libyan Women’s Platform for Peace (13 July 2013), "On the Struggle for an Inclusive Constitutional Assembly", Libya Herald
  14. ^ Matni, Munsef; Naovaf, Ibrahim (17 October 2013), "Gaddafi supporters are tortured in Libyan jails" – tribe union’s spokesman, The Voice of Russia
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