Abu Ayyub al-Masri

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Abu Ayyub al-Masri ( Arabic أبو أيوب المصري Abū Ayyūb al-Masrī , DMG Abū Aiyūb al-Maṣrī , alias Abu Hamza al-Muhadschir  /أبو حمزة المهاجر / Abū Ḥamza al-Muhāǧir ; * approx. 1967 in Egypt ; † April 18, 2010 at Tikrit ) was an Egyptian Islamic fundamentalist with al-Jihad background, member of al-Qaida in Iraq , since June 12, 2006 its leader and thus successor to Abu Musab al -Zarqawi .

Al-Masri was trained in Afghanistan from 1990 to 2001 and was entrusted with the construction of bombs. He probably came to Iraq in 2002. He established al-Qaeda’s first cell in Baghdad. He was wanted by international forces in Iraq with a reward of $ 5,000,000.

Al-Masri was also referred to as Abu Hamza al-Muhajir by al-Qaeda. The name on an Islamist website read: "The advisory body of the mujahedeen of Iraqi al-Qaeda has agreed that Sheikh Abu Hamza al-Muhajir should be the successor of Sheikh Abu Musab al-Zarqawi as the commander of the al-Qaeda organization" ( Quote: Spiegel Online ). Muhajir is Arabic and means something like immigrant and originally refers to refugees who fled to the prophet Mohammed in Medina . It is not known whether al-Masri was really able to assert himself as the leader. Zarqawi's possible successor could also have been the official deputy Abu Abd al-Rahman al-Iraqi or the head of the so-called advisory body dominated by al-Qaida , Abu Abdullah ar-Raschid al-Baghdadi .

Ever since he became a leading figure in al-Qaeda in 2006, there have been repeated rumors about his whereabouts and his death. On October 5, 2006, he was declared dead for the first time by the Iraqi government, but this was later denied by the US military. In February 2007, al-Masri is said to have been injured in fighting between Iraqi troops and units of the al-Qaeda terrorist network, whose deputy Abu Abdullah al-Madschamiai was killed, according to state television and radio station al-Jazeera . On May 1, 2007, Iraqi sources once again reported al-Masri's death after fighting in northern Baghdad. Again, the report was not confirmed by US representatives. A report from the Iraqi Interior Ministry that he had been captured in Mosul on May 8, 2008 was revoked shortly afterwards. According to the Iraqi government, al-Masri was killed in April 2010 in a joint operation by the Iraqi intelligence service and the US army in the northern Iraqi region of Tharthar. Iraq's Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki said the US Army had established the identity using a DNA test. The US military confirmed his death. Also, Abu Omar al-Baghdadi , another high-ranking al-Qaeda member, had come to the military action killed.

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Footnotes

  1. ↑ Iraqi Security Forces kill top 2 AQI leaders ( Memento from November 2, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ↑ focus.de: Conflicts - Two Al-Qaeda leaders killed in Iraq (accessed April 20, 2010).
  3. ↑ CNN : US denies al Qaeda leader in Iraq slain , October 5, 2006
  4. ↑ www.zeit.de
  5. ↑ http://www.n-tv.de/797104.html n-tv: Chief of the Iraqi El-Qaeda Al-Masri dead? May 1, 2007
  6. ↑ Iraq anuncia la detención del líder local de Al Qaeda
  7. ↑ dpa / WON: Terrorism: Iraqi secret service kills al-Qaida leaders. In: welt.de . April 19, 2010, accessed October 7, 2018 .
  8. ↑ Al Qaeda leader killed. In: derStandard.at. April 19, 2010, accessed December 12, 2017 .
  9. ↑ http://edition.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/meast/04/19/iraq.militants.killed/index.html?hpt=T2
personal data
SURNAME al-Masri, Abu Ayyub
ALTERNATIVE NAMES أبو أيوب المصري (Arabic); Abū Ayyūb al-Masrī (transcription); Abū Ayyūb al-Maṣrī (DMG transcription); Abu Hamza al-Muhajir
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Egyptian member of al-Qaeda in Iraq
DATE OF BIRTH around 1967
PLACE OF BIRTH Egypt
DATE OF DEATH April 18, 2010
Place of death at Tikrit