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Mahfouz Ould al-Walid (Arabic: محفوظ ولد الوليد), kunya Abu Hafs al-Mauritani, is a Mauritanian Islamic scholar and poet previously associated with al-Qaeda. A veteran of the Soviet war in Afghanistan, he ran a religious school called the Institute of Islamic Studies in Kandahar, Afghanistan, from the late 1990s until the American invasion of Afghanistan in 2001. Al-Walid was on the shura council of al-Qaeda and was the head of the sharia committee.〔 Along with Mustafa Hamid, Abdullah Ahmed Abdullah, Saeed al-Masri and Saif al-Adel, al-Walid opposed the September 11 attacks two months prior to their execution.〔 Under interrogation, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed said that al-Walid had opposed any large-scale attack against the United States and wrote Bin Laden a stern letter warning against any such action, quoting the Quran.〔 Al-Walid fled from Afghanistan to Iran after the American invasion and was held there under house arrest from 2003 until April 2012. At that time, Iran extradited him to Mauritania, where he was held in prison until his release on July 7, 2012. He was released after renouncing his ties to al-Qaeda and condemning the September 11 attacks.〔 ==Life== The publisher of the magazine ''Al-Talib'' (''The Student''), al-Walid wrote poetry that attracted the attention of Osama bin Laden, and was invited to give spiritual lectures to mujahideen at Afghan training camps.〔 Some time in late 2000 or early 2001, bin Laden was videotaped reciting al-Walid's poem "Thoughts Over al-Aqsa Intifadah".〔IntelCenter, "Know Thy Enemy", DVD Series, volume 28〕 It was later suggested that he had traveled to Iraq in early 1998 in an attempt to meet with Saddam Hussein, but was turned away as the leader did not want to create problems for his country.〔Senate Intelligence Committee, 109th Congress, "Senate Report of Pre-war Intelligence on Iraq", p. 73-75〕 Later in 1998, the United States learned al-Walid was staying in Room 13 at the Dana Hotel in Khartoum, and President Bill Clinton sought to have him killed or preferably renditioned to a friendly country for interrogation. When a plan was finally made to capture him using another country's officials, he had already left Sudan.〔 Al-Walid called by his kunya, Abu Hafs.〕 In 1998, Germany began monitoring Mohamedou Ould Slahi's accounts, and it was noticed that al-Walid had asked him to spare some money twice, resulting in a DM8,000 transfer in December and one other situation in which he sent him money.〔 In January 1999, al-Walid telephoned Slahi using a monitored satellite phone he borrowed from Bin Laden.〔Department of Defense, "Administrative Review Board Hearing for Mohamedou Ould Slahi", p. 184-216〕 He was initially labeled as being the same person as Slahi by the Office of Foreign Assets Control, who amended their list in June 2007 to distinguish the two people. It was later suggested they were brothers-in-law, cousins or cousins-in-law.〔 The confusion seemed to stem from the fact that al-Walid's wife and Slahi's wife were sisters. In mid-2000, al-Walid was approached by Ahmed al-Nami and Mushabib al-Hamlan who asked him about becoming suicide operatives.〔9-11 Commission Final Report, July 22, 2004〕 Ayman al-Zawahiri has credited al-Walid's book ''Islamic Action Between the Motives of Unit and the Advocates of Conflict'' as being one of the driving forces behind convincing al-Qaeda to merge with Egyptian Islamic Jihad in June 2001.〔 On April 11, 2011, Mauritania armed forces announced they had successfully extradited al-Walid from Iran and placed him under arrest. Al-Walid's family confirmed the report of his capture and announced they it was better for him to be in Mauritanian custody rather than Iranian. 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「Mahfouz Ould al-Walid」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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