Mohamed Mahmoud (Arabic: محمد محمود; 18 June 1985 – 28 November 2018), known as Abu Usama al-Gharib (Arabic: أبو أسامة الغريب), was an Austrian Islamic militant and a senior leader in the Islamic State.
In Austria, by late 2006, he became a leader in the Global Islamic Media Front, working alongside his former wife to translate videos and texts from Arabic into German.
[2] In 2007, authorities became suspicious when he started to buy ingredients for a possible suicide belt and the Media Front published a video threatening to carry out attacks in Germany and Austria if they did not withdraw their troops from Afghanistan.
In April 2008, al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb called for his release from jail in Austria, in exchange for freeing two Austrian captives.
On April 26, 2012, Hesse Interior Minister Boris Rhein expelled him from Germany, asking him to leave within one month.
In March 2013, a video appeared on the Internet, in which Mahmoud burned his Austrian passport and threatened terror attacks.
[3] and in August 2015, he appeared in an Islamic State video alongside Abu Omar al-Almani.