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Abu Hazim al-Shair

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	Importance	High
	Means of Death	Hostile fire from Saudi security forces¹
	Date of Death	March 15, 2004¹
	Location of Death	Riyadh, Saudi Arabia¹
	Affiliation	Al-Qaeda²
	Role	Terrorist Operations Planner²
	Supervisor	Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri²
	Full Given Name	Khalid Ali bin Ali al-Hajj
	Nationality	Yemeni¹
	Alias(es)	Khalid Ali Al-Haj¹, The Poet, Khalid al Haj
	Alternate Spelling(s)	Abu Hazim al-Sha'ir
	Gender	Male
	History	Attended training camp in postwar Afghanistan (1990-2001)²

Narrative and Notes

	Reliable	Took over for al-Nashiri as al-Qaeda's Persian Gulf operations chief after his capture. He trained in al-Qaeda's camps in Afghanistan in 1999 and served as Osama bin Laden's bodyguard. He traveled widely to southeast Asia and the Arabian Peninsula. He was listed on Saudi Arabia's most-wanted terrorist suspects list published Dec. 6, 2003. He was killed with an associate after they opened fire on a Saudi checkpoint in Riyadh.^1,2

Sources
¹ Press Release, Royal Embassy of Saudi Arabia, March 16, 2004.
² Lumpkin, John 'U.S. hunts new al-Qaeda leaders.' The Associated Press: Oct. 2, 2003.
Photos (left to right): Royal Embassy of Saudi Arabia; Royal Embassy of Saudi Arabia; Royal Embassy of Saudi Arabia

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