For instance, to al Qaida in Paaah-KEE-stan, this man was called "al-Somali" due to his country of origin; but in his birth country I seriously doubt that that was his surname.
It's one of the problems of tracking all this stuff online - first there are legitimate innocent misspellings, but then are so many variations.
I once set up google email news alerts for Doctor Ayman al-Zawahiri, and I had to set up over half a dozen because his nameS - plural, have so many possible spellings.
Spelling the names correctly is certainly challenging; pronouncing them correctly is entirely another matter. How the military and law agencies keep the names straight is beyond me.