Saleh Al-Qaraawi

Saleh Al-Qaraawi (in Arabic صالح القرعاوي) is a Saudi militant Jihadist.

Al-Qaraawi fought in the Iraqi Insurgency alongside Al Qaeda in Iraq leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi. He was a founder of the militant Abdullah Azzam Brigades in 2009, which has carried out a number of attacks in the Middle East. He was identified as the leader of Al Qaeda in Saudi Arabia by Saudi Arabian security officials in a February 3, 2009 list of their 85 most wanted.

In December 2011, the US State Department listed him as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist Al-Qaraawi was arrested on June 9, 2012 after returning to Saudi Arabia from Pakistan where he had been wounded in a drone strike.