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Ali Masih

Ali Masih (18 June 1972 – 1 October 2008) was an Iraqi insurgent leader during the Iraq War.

Biography[]

Ali Masih was born on 18 June 1972 in Baghdad, Iraq to a Sunni Muslim family of Arabs. He joined the Mujahideen Shura Council during the Iraq War to resist the United States-led occupation, and in 2006 he fought against the US Marine Corps during Operation Shining Star in Baghdad. He was one of the commanders of the insurgents during the operation, and he survived the fighting with the Americans. Masih was later killed on 1 October 2008 in a CIA drone strike.

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