Saleh al-Oufi or Saleh Muhammad 'Awadullah al-'Alawi al-'Oufi (Arabic: صالح محمد عوض الله العلوي العوفي) (died 18 August 2005), was a member of al-Qaeda in Saudi Arabia and became the leader of that group when Abdel Aziz al-Muqrin was killed in June 2004.
[2] He was a sergeant in the Prison detachment of the National Service, but was discharged in 1989 for his overt support of anti-government forces.
[2] In 1993, he traveled to Afghanistan; and fought in Bosnia and Chechnya, where he sustained a head wound and returned to Saudi Arabia for medical treatment.
[2] During his 14 months as leader of AQAP, Al-Oufi wrote a few pieces for the al-Qaida online magazines Sawt al-Jihad and Mu'askar al-Battar, particularly about Iraq.
A car bombing in Qatar, which killed one and wounded dozens, came two days after an instigation by al-Oufi (on a terrorist web forum) to attack "crusader" targets in the Gulf nations.