Osama Krayem, known as Naim or Naim al Hamed, is a Swedish-Syrian convicted terrorist and mass murderer.
20 Facts About Osama Krayem
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Osama Krayem was involved in the 2015 Paris bombings and the 2016 Brussels bombings.
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On July 25,2023 Krayem was found guilty of terrorist murder in the 2016 attacks.
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Osama Krayem had been seen with the Metro bomber who blew himself up at Maelbeek.
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Osama Krayem was present at the burning alive of the Jordanian pilot Muath al-Kasasbeh of which Barack Obama described as "vicious".
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Osama Krayem was born in 1992 in Malmo, Sweden to Palestinian immigrants from Syria and grew up in Rosengard, Malmo Municipality.
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Osama Krayem is thought to have radicalized in his early twenties, frequently watching videos by Anwar al-Awlaki, an American and Yemeni imam and Islamic lecturer and alleged senior recruiter and motivator involved in planning terrorist operations for the Islamist militant group Al-Qaeda.
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Osama Krayem reportedly tried to recruit other Arab Swedish youth to join the fight in Syria.
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Osama Krayem left Sweden sometime in 2014 to join the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant in Syria to fight alongside the anti-Assad Islamic militant group.
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Osama Krayem was said to be one of the first Muslim Swedes to have left the country to join ISIS.
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Osama Krayem later returned to Europe using a false passport travelling the migrant route from Syria to Turkey to Leros, Greece where he presented himself on 20 September 2015 as Naim Al Hamed.
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In October 2015, Osama Krayem allegedly met Salah Abdeslam in Ulm, Germany to discuss possible cooperation in terrorist attacks.
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On 19 April 2016, Osama Krayem was linked to the November 2015 Paris attacks, as it was determined that his DNA was present in the apartments used by the assailants.
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Osama Krayem is believed to be the man seen on CCTV at the Brussels City 2 shopping centre, where he bought the rucksacks later used for the 22 March 2016 terror attack in Brussels Airport in Zaventem.
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Osama Krayem's DNA was found in the Schaerbeek apartment used by the Zaventem airport bombers.
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Osama Krayem is believed to have been the second man alongside bomber Khalid El Bakraoui at the Petillon metro station.
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On July 25,2023, Osama Krayem was found guilty of terrorist murder in the 2016 attacks in Belgium.
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In January 2025, Swedish authorities announced that Osama Krayem, currently serving a lifetime sentence in Belgium for his involvement in the 2016 Brussels bombings, was to be tried at a criminal court in Sweden for his involvement in the killing of al-Kasasbeh.
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Osama Krayem is expected to be transferred to Sweden for the trial.
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Osama Krayem is to be charged with acts of terrorism and various war crimes.