Omar Ould Hamaha
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Omar Ould Hamaha (or Oumar Ould Hamaha, Hakka; 5 July 1963 – March 8, 2014) was an
Ould Hamaha was born in
In the mid-2000s, he joined
After France's intervention into Northern Mali in January 2013, Ould Hamaha, along with Mokhtar Belmokhtar, eluded capturing by French and
On 3 June 2013, the US State Department's Rewards for Justice program announced a $3 million bounty for information leading to Ould Hamaha's arrest. The State Department also announced a $5 million bounty for Belmokhtar's arrest.[9] In March 2014, Malian military sources reported that Ould Hamaha had been killed in a shootout with French forces in northeastern Mali.[10] A month later, a spokesman for Al-Mourabitoun denied Hamaha was killed.[11][12] Despite this denial of Hamaha's death, the Rewards for Justice program removed him from the list in May 2014.[13] AQIM officially confirmed Hamaha's death in February 2016.[14]
Ould Hamaha's nom de guerre was Hakka (French pronunciation of "AK", alluding to his skill at handling the AK-47 assault rifle). He was also known as the "red-bearded" or Barbe Rousse for his henna-dyed goatee beard. Besides Arabic, Ould Hamaha spoke French and Songhay.[5]
References
- ^ a b c d "Portrait". TelQuel (in French). 17 January 2013. Archived from the original on 24 February 2019. Retrieved 23 February 2019.
- ^ a b c Thurston, Alex (27 September 2012), Mali's Islamist Coalition Responds to External Intervention Discussions, Sahel Blog, retrieved 16 January 2014
- ^ Zen, Jacob (21 December 2012), AQIM Leaders Mokhtar Belmokhtar and Abdelmalek Droukdel Split, UNHCR, retrieved 16 January 2014
- ^ a b Wanted: Information Leading to the Location of Oumar Ould Hamaha, Rewards for Justice, US Department of State, 3 June 2013, archived from the original on 11 February 2014, retrieved 16 January 2014
- ^ a b c Thiolay, Boris (3–9 October 2012), "Le djihad du "Barbu rouge"", L'Express (in French), pp. 40–41
- ^ Callimachi, Rukmini (31 December 2012), Al-Qaida Carves out Own Country in Mali, ABC News, retrieved 11 January 2012
- ^ Lebovich, Andrew (28 May 2013), Niger Attacks and the Sahel's Shifting Jihad, al-Wasat, retrieved 16 January 2014
- ^ Lebovich, Andrew (23 August 2013), Of Mergers, MUJAO, and Mokhtar Belmokhtar, al-Wasat, retrieved 16 January 2014
- ^ US Announces Bounty for African Group Leaders, Al-Jazeera, 4 June 2013, retrieved 16 January 2014
- ^ Ahmed, Baba (14 March 2014). "UN mission: Mali jihadist spokesman Hamaha killed". Bigstory.ap.org. Archived from the original on 16 June 2018. Retrieved 12 June 2014.
- ^ "Mauritanie : Aqmi dément la mort d'un de ses chefs annoncée par Paris (porte-parole)". Maliactu.net. Archived from the original on 16 June 2018. Retrieved 12 June 2014.
- ^ "- وكالة نواكشوط للأنباء".
- ^ "Rewards for Justice - Most Wanted - All Regions". Archived from the original on 17 May 2014.
- ^ Weiss, Caleb (15 February 2016). "AQIM confirms death of former MUJAO spokesman". The Long War Journal. Retrieved 12 March 2023.