Hamoud al Aqla al Shuebi

Hamoud al-Aqla al-Shuebi (Arabic: حمود العقلاء الشعيبي‎‎ see below for different transliterations) (died late 2001^[1]) was a Saudi-born Islamic cleric.^[2]

He has been seen as a radical element^[3] since at least 1994 when he was quoted by Osama bin Laden in his Open Letter to Bin Baz on the Invalidity of his Fatwa on Peace with the Jews, and several weeks after the Invasion of Afghanistan.^[4]

He was particularly famous for comments in support of the 9/11 attacks and for a Fatwa praising the Taliban shortly after their destruction of the Buddha sculptures in Bamiyan^[5] for creating "the only country in the world in which there are no man-made laws".^[6] CIA accused many innocent Guantanamo detainee of obeying his fatwa and used it to torture them without any evidence .^{[1][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19]}

Transliterations of name

The different transliterations Joint Task Force Guantanamo counter-terrorism analysts used for his name included: Amoud Shouib Ouqula, Ha Al-Uqla, Hamid al Uqqla, Hammoud al Agla of Quaseem, Hammoud al Oqalah, Hamood al Aqla, Hamood al Okla, Hamoud Al Okla, Hamoud Al Shi'Ibi, Hamoud Al Ukla Aqula, Hamoud Al Uqla Al Shuebi, Hamoud Alaugla, Hamoud Aluoqla, Hamoud al Aqla, Hamoud al Uqla, Hamoud al Uqqla, Hamud Al-Uqqla, Hamud al Ukla, Hamud al-Uqqla, Hamud bin Uqla, Hamud bin ‘Uqla al-Shu‘aybi, Hamud bin ‘Uqla al-Shu‘aybi, Humud al Uqla, Sheik Ha Al-Uqla, Sheik Hamood al Okla, Sheikh Hamood Al Ugla, Sheik Hamoud, Sheik Hamoud Alaugla, Sheikh Hamud Al-Uqqla Sheik al Uqla, Sheik Bin Augla, Sheik Mahmoud al Oukla.

"al-Shuebi School" legacy

Some students of al-Oqala al-Shu’aybi, make up what has been called the “al-Shu’aybi (al-Shuebi) school”, based out of the very conservative city of Buraydah, capital of al-Qasim Province in Saudi Arabia. The most important of his students are Nasir al-Fahd, Ali al-Khudair, Hamoud al-Khaldi, and Sulaiman Al-Elwan.^[5] As of 2010, the four had been in prison since 2003, following the May 2003 suicide bombings of residential compounds in Riyadh that killed 34 people, and which they reportedly supported.^[5][20] The school helped legitimized the jihadi movement’s fight against the Saudi state and aided in the recruitment of new supporters when the movement began to emerge in Saudi Arabia in late-1999 and early-2000.^[5]

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