Mustafa Abu l-Yazid
Mustafa Ahmad Muhammad Uthman Abu l-Yazid ( Arabic مصطفى أحمد محمد عثمان أبو اليزيد, DMG Muṣṭafā Aḥmad Muḥammad ʿUṯmān Abū l-Yazīd ; often reproduced as Abu al-Yazid ) also Sheik Saeed also Saeed al-Masri (سعيد المصري, DMG Saʿīd al-maṣrī ; * December 1955 in Egypt ; † May 22, 2010 near Miranshah in Waziristan ) was an Egyptian terrorist and high-ranking leader of the Al-Qaeda organization .
Life
Yazid was imprisoned for three years with Aiman al -Zawahiri in Egypt for involvement in the assassination attempt on President Anwar al-Sadat in 1981 . After his release he joined the Arab fighters in Afghanistan and from there followed Osama bin Laden to Sudan after Operation Desert Storm in 1991 . Abu l-Yazid was considered a close confidante of bin Laden and later also of the Taliban leader Mullah Omar . He was a founding member of Al-Qaeda and became the group's chief financial officer when he returned to Afghanistan in 1996. In this capacity he is said to have contributed to the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 in New York , although he disagreed with bin Laden on the attacks.
Abu l-Yazid was officially presented on the website of a jihadist organization on May 26, 2007 as the leader of Al-Qaeda operations in Afghanistan and in the years that followed he broadcast numerous video messages on behalf of the network. In June 2009 he gave an interview to a reporter for the Al Jazeera television station , in which he announced, among other things, that Al-Qaeda would also use Pakistani nuclear weapons against the US if they could be controlled. Almost three years after his appointment, Abu l-Yazid was killed along with his wife, three daughters, a grandchild and other people in a drone attack by the US armed forces. A short time later, his Egyptian compatriot Sheikh Fateh al-Masri was appointed his successor .
Web links
- American Strike Is Said to Kill a Top Qaeda Leader . New York Times, May 31, 2010
Individual evidence
- ^ Al-Qaeda's New Leadership . Washington Post, 2006
- ^ Al Qaeda says would use Pakistani nuclear weapons . Reuters, June 22, 2010
- ↑ Transcript of the Al Jazeera interview ( Memento from October 4, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
- ^ Death of Mustafa Abu al-Yazid 'setback' for al-Qaeda . BBC News, June 1, 2010
- ↑ NBC News (Eng.)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Abu l-Yazid, Mustafa |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Sheik Saeed; al-Masri, Saeed |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Egyptian terrorist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 1955 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Egypt |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 22, 2010 |
| Place of death | at Miranshah , Waziristan |