Abd al-Malik Muhammad Yusuf Uthman Abd al Salam

Abd al-Malik Muhammad Yusuf Uthman Abd Al Salam (also known as Umar al-Qatari and Umar Al-Tayyer; ) is a jihadist of Palestinian Jordanian origin, who also holds a Qatari national ID. He is a U.S. and UN designated terrorist due to his financial, material, and technological support of Al-Qaeda and the Al Nusra Front.

Background Abd Al Salam was born on July 13, 1989. He is the son of Abu Abdul 'Aziz al-Qatari.

Abu Abdul 'Aziz al-Qatari is a senior-ranking al Qaeda militant and founder of the Syrian Islamist militant group Jund al Aqsa. He has appeared on numerous sanctions lists all over the world for his role in terrorism and terrorism financing.

Abd has been tied to Muhsin al Fadhli, a key leader of the al Qa'eda linked Khorsan group in Syria. He has also been responsible for facilitating donor funding with Iran-based al Qaeda leaders by delivering receipts that confirmed that al Qaeda received foreign donor funding. In 2011, he delivered thousands of dollars to al Fadhli in Iran.

In 2011, he participated in an attack against U.S. forces in Afghanistan. In 2012, he traveled throughout the Gulf, the Levant, Iran, and Southeast Asia as he recruited members and provided logistical support for al Qaeda. He also attended an al Qaeda training camp in 2012, located in Wazirstan that directly linked him to providing operational support for al Qaeda. Despite his arrest, he maintained communication and connected detainees in Lebanon to extremist fighters in Syria and Lebanon. Al Nusra attempted to organize his release from prison in 2013 by brokering an exchange with al Qaeda’s Lebanese hostages.