Abdelkahar Belhadj (1987-25 July 2011) was an al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) commanhder and the son of Islamic Salvation Front leader Ali Belhadj.
Biography[]
Abdelkahar Belhadj was born in 1987 in Algeria, the son of Ali Belhadj, an Islamist politician in Algeria of Mauritanian descent. At the age of four, he spoke at an FIS rally and called for holy war during the Algerian Civil War, and he grew up as a radical Islamist. Belhadj got involved with al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb and was believed to be a senior AQIM leader. On 25 July 2011, he was killed by police in eastern Algeria as he accompanied two suicide bombers to their targets in Algiers, intending to be the third suicide bomber in a crowded place in central Algiers.