Hassan Mustafa Osama Nasr
Hassan Mustafa Osama Nasr | |
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Surveillance photo of Hassan Mustafa Osama Nasr. | |
| Personal life | |
| Born | 18 March 1963 Egypt |
| Other names | Abu Omar |
| Religious life | |
| Religion | Sunni Islam (Salafism) |
| Senior posting | |
| Post | Imam |
Hassan Mustafa Osama Nasr (Arabic: حسن مصطفى أسامة نصر Ḥassan Muṣṭafā Usāmah Naṣr; born 18 March 1963), also known as Abu Omar, is an Egyptian cleric. In 2003, he was living in Milan, Italy, from where he was kidnapped and tortured in Egypt. This "Abu Omar case" prompted a series of investigations in Italy, culminating in the criminal convictions (in absentia) of 22 CIA operatives, a U.S. Air Force colonel, and two Italian accomplices, as well as Nasr, himself.