Saïd Arif (Arabic: سعيد عارف), also known by several ''noms de guerre,'' According to French court documents, Arif lived in Berlin under the pseudonym Jesus Manuel De Jesus Pacheco.}} (12 May 1965 However, he was also reported to be aged 49 on his death in late May 2015. If he were born on 12 May 1965, he would then have recently turned 50.}}–May 2015) was an Algerian jihadist. He associated with Al-Qaeda in Afghanistan, Georgia and Syria and was allegedly linked to terrorist cells in France and Germany. Following a prison term in France, he fled house arrest to Syria, became a leader of an armed group fighting forces loyal to Bashar al-Assad, and was killed by a U.S. drone strike in May 2015.
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