article_snippet: According to a 2014 al-Nusra video, Abu Hammam al Shami joined the terror group after years of training in Afghanistan and Iraq.
article_snippet: Al Shami was featured in a March 2014 video released by al-Nusra Front, in which Al Shami discussed Al Shami failed attempt to mediate between Al Shami militants and ISIS after rising tensions between the groups.
article_snippet: a March 2014 video released by al-Nusra Front, in which he discussed his failed attempt to mediate between his militants and ISIS after rising tensions between the groups included a biography by the group of al Shami, which was translated by the Long War Journal.
article_snippet: a March 2014 video released by al-Nusra Front, in which he discussed his failed attempt to mediate between his militants and ISIS after rising tensions between the groups said that in the late 1990s, Al Shami traveled to Afghanistan, where Al Shami was trained in a camp run by Abu Musab al Suri, a veteran Syrian jihadi strategist.
article_snippet: Al Shami then trained in al Qaeda camps, where Al Shami met one of the 9/11 hijackers and personally swore allegiance to Osama bin Laden.
article_snippet: By the time of the 9/11 attacks, Al Shami had started to train recruits in Afghanistan and was named as the head of the Syrian jihadist contingent within al Qaeda.
article_snippet: After the fall of the Taliban, Al Shami fled Afghanistan with senior Egyptian al Qaeda operative Sayf al Adel, Al Shami said in a March 2014 video released by al-Nusra Front, in which he discussed his failed attempt to mediate between his militants and ISIS after rising tensions between the groups.
article_snippet: Al Shami began operating in Iraq, where Al Shami began working with al Qaeda in Iraq founder Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, conducting training for Al Shami during the Iraqi insurgency, a March 2014 video released by al-Nusra Front, in which he discussed his failed attempt to mediate between his militants and ISIS after rising tensions between the groups stated.
article_snippet: In 2005, Al Shami returned to Afghanistan for a short period, at the request of senior Egyptian al Qaeda leadership.
article_snippet: When Al Shami got to the Afghanistan-Pakistan region, one of Osama bin Laden top deputies, Attiyah Abd al Rahman, tasked Al Shami with leading senior Egyptian al Qaeda efforts in Syria, but Al Shami was arrested as Al Shami traveled through Lebanon, according to a March 2014 video released by al-Nusra Front, in which he discussed his failed attempt to mediate between his militants and ISIS after rising tensions between the groups, and was detained for five years.
article_snippet: After being released, Al Shami found Al Shami way to Syria, where Al Shami joined al-Nusra, Al Shami said.