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}} Ilyas Kashmiri, also referred to as Maulana Ilyas Kashmiri and Muhammad Ilyas Kashmiri (10 February 1964 – 3 June 2011〔), was a senior al-Qaeda operative and leader of the Harkat-ul-Jihad al-Islami (HUJI) He was also connected with the Soviet-Afghan war, the Kashmir conflict and attacks against India, Pakistan and the United States. In August 2010, the US and the United Nations designated him a terrorist.〔〔 NBC News reported that United States officials had mentioned him as a possible successor to Osama bin Laden as head of al-Qaeda. ==Military career and militant activities== Kashmiri hailed from the Mirpur District〔 of Pakistan. Kashmiri was reported by some media sources as having served in the Pakistan Army's elite Special Services Group (SSG),〔 however he denied this in an interview with journalist Syed Saleem Shahzad.〔 Kashmiri also spent a year studying communications at the Allam Iqbal University.〔 In the Soviet war in Afghanistan, he trained the Afghan mujahideen in mine warfare in Miranshah on behalf of Pakistan.〔 During the fighting he lost an eye and an index finger.〔 He continued his militant activities in Kashmir after the war as a member of Harkat-ul-Jihad-al-Islami (HuJI), though disagreements with leader Qari Saifullah Akhtar several years after initially joining in 1991 led Kashmiri to establish his own new unit within HuJI known as the 313 Brigade.〔 During the mid-1990s, Kashmiri and Nasrullah Mansoor Langrial were near Poonch when they were seized by the Indian Army and sent to prison, where he would spend the next two years before escaping and returning to Pakistan.〔 Upon his return Kashmiri continued to conduct operations against India, once reportedly being rewarded personally with Rs 100,000 (about US$1,164.24) by then Army Chief General Pervez Musharraf for presenting the severed head of an Indian Army Soldier to him.〔〔According to ''The Indian Express'', the man beheaded was Bhausaheb Maruti Talekar (aged 24) of the 17 Maratha Light Infantry posted in the Nowshera sector when attacked on 27 February 2000. A memorial is to be built in Talekar's memory in Kolgaon, where his parents live. 〕 Pictures of Kashmiri with the head of the soldier in his hands were published in some Pakistani newspapers.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Ilyas Kashmiri」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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