Abu Ghadiya

Abu Ghadiya (Arabic: أبو غادية‎), born Badran Turki Hishan al-Mazidi (Arabic: بدران تركي هيشان المزيدي‎) sometime between 1977-1979 in Mosul, was a Sunni militant active with al-Qaeda in Iraq (AQI). He was primarily involved in the logistics of AQI's effort in Iraq and assisted in smuggling weapons, money and fighters across the Syria-Iraq border. He was targeted and killed in a cross-border raid conducted by the U.S. military on October 26, 2008.