He spoke on condition he be identified by his nom de guerre to avoid reprisals.
It was common for those who joined the jihad to take a nom de guerre.
In sunshiny Yemen, Abu Jandal (a nom de guerre) drives a taxi and holds forth to fascinated young men.
Why did she issue a taped message, under the nom de guerre Tania, announcing she had joined the SLA?
Al Shabab leader Ibrahim Haji Jama trained with al Qaeda in Afghanistan (his nom de guerre in Somalia is al-Afghani).
It was at that time that he acquired the nom de guerre "The Snake" because of his success in evading capture.
When Abu Rakaan (a nom de guerre) walks the streets of Azaz, passers-by greet him with respect, though he is only 27.
Saloth Sar, as the onetime school-teacher was known before he assumed his infamous nom de guerre, was born into a landowning family around 1925.
In 1967, unbeknownst to her family, Rousseff took the nom de guerre Estela and joined a radical faction of the Brazilian Socialist Party that preached revolt but settled for robberies and car-bombings.
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Rasoul is now known as Mullah Abdullah Zakir, a nom de guerre that Pentagon and intelligence officials say is used by a Taliban leader who is in charge of operations against U.S. and Afghan forces in southern Afghanistan.
These letters convey to the Palestinian Economic Council for Development and Reconstruction (PECDAR) - the ostensibly independent agency charged with the scrupulously apolitical distribution of humanitarian assistance - astounding directives from Mr. Arafat (under the nom de guerre Abu Amar).
"With their money, the Qataris and a bunch of other countries are exploiting the Syrian revolution, each for their own gains, " said Abu Ziad, speaking on condition he be identified by his nom de guerre for fear of reprisals from the Syrian regime.
The war veterans' leader is sometimes referred to as Hitler, the nom-de-guerre he is said to have adopted during the war of liberation that ended with Zimbabwean independence 20 years ago.
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