Abdul Rahman Ghaleb

Abdul Rahman Ghaleb, known as Abu Sayed, was a Pakistani Islamic militant who led the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant – Khorasan Province. History He was born in the 1980s in Bajaur Agency, part of the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. In the 1990s he joined Tehreek-e-Nafaz-e-Shariat-e-Mohammadi and later fought alongside the Taliban in Afghanistan. After the fall of the Taliban government in 2001, he returned to Bajaur for Islamic studies and was promoted to be a qadi for TSNM. He was close to Mawlawi Faqir Mohammed, a TNSM leader, and joined the Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan alongside him in 2007. By 2011, Abdul Rahman was the deputy to the TTP leader in Bajaur. He was falsely reported dead after a 2012 airstrike killed the TTP chief in Bajaur, Jamal Syed ("Dadullah").