Bady was referred to as a link between drug traffickers in the Polisario Front and Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM), while also having connections with the Algerian DRS.

[3] Bady was alleged to have also kidnapped and resold European tourists in the Sahara before joining AQIM, but this couldn't be confirmed by Mauritanian authorities at the time.

[1][5] Yoro Ould Daha, a former official of MOJWA who defected to the Arab Movement of Azawad (MAA), stated Bady was personally involved in the kidnapping of Gilberto Rodrigues Leal in 2012 in Gao.

[9] While the reasons for the defection are unknown, Mohamed Ould Ramadane, a spokesperson for the MAA, stated that Katiba Salahaddin left after the UN designated MOJWA as a terrorist group, and that they wanted to avoid international condemnation.

[11] He then claimed responsibility for the December 14, 2013, 2013 Kidal attack that killed two Senegalese peacekeepers, and then the firing of nine rockets towards the MINUSMA camp in Aguelhok in August 2014.