Abdullah Anas, an Algerian scholar,[1] was the nom de guerre[2] of Boudjema Bounoua, who helped Afghanistan mujahideen fight the Soviet and Afghan government forces in the northern provinces from 1983 to 1992.
[4] In 1988, Anas spoke to Abdullah Azzam about the need to ensure Muslim help reached northern Afghanistan, and not just that of Western NGOs.
[3] On January 14, 2001, he was interviewed by The New York Times reporter Stephen Engleberg, who asked him to describe Osama bin Laden, to which he replied that "He's not very sophisticated politically and organizationally.
"[1] Following the United States invasion of Afghanistan in 2001, Anas gave reports critical of bin Laden, reflecting the pair's falling-out after Anas insisted that the dream of a global jihad was unattainable.
[5] He was interviewed for the Adam Curtis documentary The Power of Nightmares, which aired in 2004.