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Abu Salim Taha : Fatah al-Islam Spokesman

Abu Salim Taha is the nom de guerre of the high-ranking spokesman for the Fatah al-Islam terrorist group that was based in the Nahr al-Bared Palestinian refugee camp outside Tripoli, Lebanon.

In the photo (Inset, left), Abu Salim Taha is shown siting next to Shaker al-Abssi, the head of the Fatah al-Islam terrorist group.

Al-Hamadi Abdullah al-Dussari is Taha's real name, according to the Saudi newspaper Al Watan. He is a Saudi national.

On Saturday morning, September 15, 2007, the Lebanese government announced that the country’s army captured Salim Abu Taha and three more of the radical Islamist group’s members outside the Beddawi Palestinian camp northeast of Tripoli

Despite an earlier report from the Lebanese newspaper, al Akhbar that Taha was believed to have been shot dead when the Army finally took over the Nahr el-Bared camp on September 2, 2007, there was no verification of this.

• Lebanese authorities
• North braces for next round at Narh al-Bared, Lebanese Daily Star,, May 25, 2007
• Clerics Mediate as army tightens grip on Har al-Bared, Lebanese Daily Star, May 29, 2007
• AP Interview: Islamic militant vows fight to death in Lebanon refugee camp”, Associated Press, May 23, 2007