MAYSAR ALI MUSA ABDALLAH AL-JUBURI

QDi.337
Maysar Ali Musa Abdallah al-Juburi
Date on which the narrative summary became available on the Committee's website: 
23 September 2014
Reason for listing: 

Maysar Ali Musa Abdallah al-Juburi was listed on 23 September 2014 pursuant to paragraphs 2 and 4 of resolution 2161 (2014) as being associated with Al-Qaida for “participating in the financing, planning, facilitating, preparing, or perpetrating of acts or activities by, in conjunction with, under the name of, on behalf of, or in support of” and “otherwise supporting acts or activities of” Al-Nusrah Front for the People of the Levant (QDe.137).

Additional information: 

Maysar Ali Musa Abdallah al-Juburi was the sharia amir of Al-Nusrah Front for the People of the Levant (QDe.137) as of early 2014. Earlier in 2013, Al-Juburi travelled to an Al-Nusrah Front training camp in northern Syria to provide religious lectures for fighters being trained at the camp. Al-Juburi was a member of Al-Nusrah Front’s shura council as of mid-2013. As of late December 2013, Al-Juburi continued to serve as a senior official in Al-Nusrah Front.

Al-Juburi moved from Mosul, Iraq, to Syria in late 2011 to exploit Syria's more permissive security environment with the objectives of transferring Al-Qaida’s (QDe.004) ideology to Syria and forming likeminded terrorist groups. As of mid-2012, Al-Juburi became the main religious and military commander for Al-Nusrah Front in eastern Syria and also operated a training camp for the network.