
Tarik Jadaoun (born 1988), also known as Abu Hamza Belgiki and Abu Qurayza, was a Belgian member of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS). He was errouneously reported to have been killed alongside Redouane Hagaoui in their apartment in Verviers by Belgian police on 15 January 2015; in actuality, he fought in the Iraqi Civil War until he was captured in August 2018.
Biography[]

Jadaoun in Iraq
Tarik Jadaoun was born in Belgium to a family of Moroccan descent, and he became a radical Islamist. Targeted via internet by the Islamic State, he proclaimed his allegiance to ISIS and was said to have joined Redouane Hagaoui and Abdelhamid Abaaoud in a plot to attack stores selling the survivors' issue of Charlie Hebdo and take part in an attack on Belgian police officers. Jadaoun and Hagaoui were reportedly killed on 15 January 2015 when Belgian police attacked their apartment in Verviers in an intense gunfight.
Back from the dead?[]

Jadaoun in Iraqi custody
However, Jadaoun turned out to have been alive, and that he had been fighting in the Iraqi Civil War; the reports of his death were false, and it was unknown if he had even been involved with the terrorist plot in Belgium. He plotted attacks on the West from Iraq, and he stayed in regular contact with the Islamic State organization in Libya; Jadaoun swore that, if he ever returned to be Belgium, he would be armed, and he would carry out a terrorist attack himself in either Belgium or France. Jadaoun was captured while hiding without weapons or documents in the al-Farooq neighborhood of Mosul, Iraq in August 2017, two weeks after the former Islamic State capital was liberated by the Iraqi Army. On 22 May 2018, he was sentenced to death by the Iraqi government for IS membership.