Abdulhaseeb Al-Lugri: Founder of Daesh Dawaween in Afghanistan
Late on the night of April 27, 2017, several
helicopters carrying American and Afghan Special Forces personnel took off from
a military base in Nangarhar, Afghanistan, heading to the headquarters of the
Daesh leader Abdulhassib Al-Lugri. As soon as the forces arrived at the landing
point, an intense fire of elements assigned to the protection of the so-called
Wali Khorasan.
The clashes lasted for a while, then the
shooting stopped and the silence stopped. After a few minutes, the helicopters
flew back to the military base after the mission was completed, and Lugri was
killed.
About a week later, Afghan President Ashraf
Ghani announced the killing of Abdulhaseb al-Lugri, the second leader of the
Afghan branch of the Daesh organization, in a joint operation between Afghan
and US special forces.
History of terrorism
Before his death, al-Lugri, whose real name
was Hayatullah bin Muhammad Shah Khan, was the most dangerous terrorist in
Afghanistan, having spent many years working with the Taliban and Daesh in the
Afghan-Pakistani border.
He was born in Pakistan during the Soviet
occupation of Afghanistan. He lived in Karam Agnasi, Pakistan for about 8
years, where he studied in the schools in the region before moving to Peshawar
and specialized in modern sciences.
After a period of time, al-Lugri decided to
return to his home country. He settled inside the village of Mohammed Akbar,
belonging to the Directorate of Azra in Lugr. He participated in a number of
activities inside the region in cooperation with the terrorist cells in the
area. Afghan forces tried to arrest him before he managed to escape from the
region and move to the Kenner Directorate of Afghanistan.
With the Taliban and Khorasan’s Daesh
After being settled in Knar, al-Lugari joined
the Afghan Taliban movement and participated in the organization of the
so-called “Sharia courses” supervised by the movement in those areas, before he
was appointed as the Emir of the Sharia courses.
In 2015, Daesh spokesman Abu Muhammad
al-Adnani announced that the organization extended to Khorasan after the
acceptance of the leader of the organizationAbu Bakr al-Baghdadi the allegiance
of terrorist groups inside Afghanistan led by Hafez Saeed Khan, the first
leader of Daesh there.
A few months later, Lugri joined the new
organization and was given the responsibility of supervising education, as well
as another center in charge of fund-raising and weapons seized by the
organization. He was also elected to the Shura Council in Afghanistan, before
he takes over the post of deputy to Wali Khorasan.
In August 2016, US forces succeeded in killing
Hafez Saeed Khan, the leader of Daesh Khorasan at the time. The terrorist
organization decided to choose Abdul Haseeb al-Logari to replace Khan.
