[1] According to The Wall Street Journal, al-Hasidi spent five years in an Afghan training camp.
In March 2011, as reported by the Italian newspaper Il Sole 24 Ore, al-Hasidi stated that he had fought against "the foreign invasion" of Afghanistan.
[3][4] In the same interview, al-Hasidi said that his fighters had ties with the militant Islamist al-Qaeda organisation.
[3][4] During the Libyan civil war, al-Hasidi commanded the Abu Salim Martyrs Brigade[1] which consisted of 300 recruits from Derna, Libya.
This biographical article about a person notable in connection with Islam is a stub.